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Cops scan social media to help access your ‘threat rating’: Reuters

Recent events have steered the national focus onto aggressive law enforcement and the public is not at ease with the situation. Physical and aggressive police behavior has people wondering what else is in store for them. Well, they didn’t have long to wonder as new information is emerging regarding a different type of aggressive policing. […]

UK Dept of Education Sub-Domain Hacked by Pro-Palestinian Hackers.

A pro-Palestinian hacker going with the handle of ‘AlFeRoX’ hacked and defaced the sub-domain of United Kingdom’s Department of Education in support of a free Palestine. The targeted domain belongs to the social media page of the department of Education (facebook.education.gov.uk) that was left with a deface page along with a message againstIsrael and the USA. The deface […]

Anonymous Shuts Down City of Cleveland Website

The hacktivist group Anonymous has taken down the official website of City of Cleveland – Ohio, against the shooting and killing of a 12-year-old boy going with the name of Temir Rice. In a YouTube video message, Anonymous had warned the Cleveland police department to conducted an investigation, reveal the identity of officer who shot […]

NATO assists Jordan to fight-off ISIS cyberattacks

NATO is assisting its member nations and partners to fend off cyberthreats. One such effort, NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS), was launched on 1 October 2014 to support Jordan in its war against ISIS or ISIL. The NATO has set up a team of cyber experts to help Jordan defend its key infrastructure points […]

Russian Hackers Allegedly Hacked White House Computers

Unclassified White House computers are latest in the list of security breaches this year and the prime suspects for the breach are Russian hackers, who on government’s direction are working to carry out attacks on world’s most sensitive systems belonging to NATO, the Ukrainian government and U.S. defense contractors, according to reports. Although, the attack didn’t led […]

NASA and National Park Websites Taken Down Following Government Shutdown

The official websites of NASA (http://www.nasa.gov) and National Park ()have been shutdown until further notice by the United Stated Government. It is not some kind of cyber attack but a step taken as a result of Government Shutdown. NASA website has been redirected to http://notice.usa.gov, showing a message of shutdown until further notice. The message […]

400 Chinese Government websites defaced by Code Cracker of PCA

A hacker who goes by the handle of Code Cracker from Pakistan Cyber Army has defaced 400+ Chinese government sub domains. The hacker breached into the official website of Xuchang City People’s Procuratorate and moved further on and took over all the sub-domains of Xuchang City.  Code Cracker left his group’s deface page on all the […]

Anonymous Hackers expose Israeli government SCADA Logins and Password

Israel is once again under a hack attack as Anonymous hackers hacked into government’s Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition system [SCADA’s] website exposing employee logins to several government websites. Hackers have uploaded working logins and password of SCADA’s employee on different social media websites, possibly the most troubling thing for the Israeli government is to […]