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According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, Germany, Thailand, Lithuania, Bangladesh, and the United States. Last week, the Russian technology and search engine giant Yandex revealed that it suffered the world’s largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. Now, in what seems to be a continuation […]
A spokesperson from the Labour Party in the United Kingdom has confirmed that the party’s digital platforms suffered a massive DDoS attack due to which its security systems were blocked. The attack occurred only a few weeks before the General Elections due on December 12, 2019, however, it is also claimed that none of the […]
The order establishes serious penalties for organizations or individuals planning this type of intervention U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order yesterday that establishes a federal action plan in the event of foreign interference in an American election, including sanctions that may be imposed on organizations and individuals in the foreign, as reported by specialists […]
Microsoft has released a startling report exposing the way Russian military intelligence and its hackers planned to target the US Senate and conservative think tanks. The software giant not only identified but also seized those websites that were recently created for the sole purpose of tricking people. The report reveals that these misleading websites were […]
At the largest hacking conference in the world, Defcon 2018, there have been many surprising discoveries. However, the news that has shocked the United States is the hacking and modifications of election results by young kids. The 26th Defcon conference is being held in Las Vegas. Reportedly, the 11-year-old Emmert Brewer managed to modify election […]
In late 2015, a security researcher found voter registration records of 191 million US voters on the Internet. Months later, hackers were found selling those records on several dark web marketplaces. Now, the IT security firm Kromtech has revealed that its researchers discovered a MongoDB database (a popular database management system) containing over 19 million California voters records. […]
IT security researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered an unprotected database exposed online due to misconfiguration of CouchDB containing nearly 600,000 records belonging to Alaskan voters. “The exposed data is a larger voter file called Voterbase compiled by TargetSmart, a leader in national voting databases that contains the contact and voting information of more than 191 million voters […]
A marketing firm that was employed by the Republican National Committee accidentally exposed data belonging to 200 million US citizens. That is around 62% of the entire population of the US. The exposed data includes information like home addresses, political views, phone numbers and even birthdays. All of it is available publicly – The said data was […]
A group of hackers from Morocco allegedly tried to hack the US voting systems. In an attempt, they hacked four school districts from Florida. According to reports, several hacking attempts were said to be made on the US voting system and culprits were mostly believed to be from Russia. However, it seems that another group […]
Recently, the American National Security agency (NSA) claimed that the elections held a few days ago in France, had been compromised and hacked by Russian cyber criminals revealing up to nine gigabytes of emails from Emmanuel Macron’s online campaign. The NSA: NSA Director, Michael Rogers seems to have come under the limelight as it is he who […]
No matter how hard you try, nowadays it is literally impossible to explain what computer hacking entails only because the scope of hacking has become so vast and far-reaching. This is why whenever we read or see in news reports about computer hacks, we only get to see images of keyboards or monitors showing a […]
Maybe some Americans were serious when they threatened they would move to Canada if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump became successful in his often polarizing campaign for the White House. Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for […]
Anonymous hacked Sarah Silverman’s Twitter account against her comments about “Bernie or Bust” supports calling them ridiculous! The online hacktivist Anonymous hacked the official Twitter account of Sarah Silverman, a famous American actress, stand-up comedian, producer and writer on 27th July in retaliation for her comment in which she called “Bernie or Bust” supporters ridiculous during Democratic National Convention on Monday. […]
2016 Iowa Caucus Website Hacked by ‘Anonymous Conservative’ over Palin-Trump Endorsement Anonymous Conservative is the name of a group that has managed to hack the 2016 Iowa Caucus website on Monday. The group posted its manifesto and an official announcement on the Iowa Caucus website’s front page too. The announcement read: “The recent endorsement of Donald […]
An online blog falsely claiming to represent Anonymous has announced its support for presidential candidate Mr. Bernie Sanders — In reply Anonymous hacktivists have denied any support for any presidential candidate. AnonHQ blog claims to be the official voice of the online hacktivist group Anonymous however the reality is far from the truth — The blog has […]
Yesterday, we reported how “ Anonymous Honduras ” hacked and defaced high profile Honduras government websites including Interpol and State Police websites against electoral fraud in country’s vice presidential election. Today, the same Anonymous Honduras has targeted more high profile government portals, ministries and institutes against electoral fraud in country’s vice presidential election. In today’s hack, Anonymous hacked and defaced websites […]