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Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected. The US Congress has just recovered after a three-day-long DDoS attack that has crippled its online portal congress.gov, along with adjacent sites such as the US Library of Congress (loc.gov), and the US Copyright Office (coypright.gov). The attack started on Sunday evening, July 17, and had initially targeted […]
Three Bangladeshi hackers (going with the handles of Ne0-h4ck3r, TiGER-M@TE and F0RTYS3V3N) hacked and defaced Google, Google Images, YouTube and Yahoo Malaysia domains on Wednesday. Hackers left a deface page along with a message on all three hacked domains, but the reason for targeting these domains wasn’t mentioned anywhere. This is the second time in a day […]
In a report published by TechChurch, unknown hackers have attacked a Bitcoin brokerage company Bitinstant, breaching into its server and taking control of its DNS- server and stealing $12,000 worth of Bitcoins. Hackers used simple social social engineering techniques to take over company’s email servers and DNS domains. In the next step, the hackers log into another, VirWox (another Bitcoin […]