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The online hacktivist AnonGhost just hacked, defaced the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff’s department and publicly leaked its database containing login credentials of its employees. The attack on the Sheriff’s website was conducted under the banner of #OpUSA, an online operation where Palestine friendly hackers are targeting US based websites. AnonGhost left a deface page, […]
Anonymous hacktivist breached a government of Chile website and leaked login details of officials in support of student protests against the government’s education policy. The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of Chile’s National Municipal Information System and leaked login credentials of thousands of officials in support of students protesting against government education policy and against […]
A couple of months ago we reported how [linked url=”https://www.hackread.com/app-store-phishing-email-stealing-apple-user-credentials/”]an app store phishing email is stealing Apple user credentials[/linked]. Now a government of Vietnam domain belonging to its Tam Ky City was found redirecting visitors to another compromised domain asking them to login with their Apple IDs. The domain hosting the phishing page was anphutamky.gov.vn, redirecting users to a […]
If you are a hacker or an IT security researcher, United Airlines has announced its first ever Bug Bounty program for you guys. Yes, United Airlines is the first airline in the world to start a bug bounty program and pay rewards to those who will find security flaw/bugs on its apps, online portals, and websites. […]
The USA Freedom Act was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday and the bill, which is going to change the way NSA gathers nation’s cellular data, now will be forwarded to Senate. The United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of the USA Freedom Act with 338 votes favoring it and […]
On 11th May 2015, the President of Kenya (Uhuru Kenyatta) website was hacked where its homepage was replaced by hackers with one of their own — The group behind this hack is an Indonesian based Gantengers Crew. The famous Indonesian based hackers from Gantengers Crew hacked and defaced the official website of President of Kenya last Monday. […]
Federal Appeals Court rules that citizens shouldn’t have any “expectation of privacy” when a third-party firm has access to data as sensitive as cell phone records. The United States Court of Appeals in its recent session decided that police will not have to show a warrant in order to collect cell phone records from carriers. […]
Votr is an app that uses your postcode to organize tweets of the candidate and offers you to swipe just like the Tinder dating app. Now there is a digital-savvy way to scrutinise the candidate looking for your votes. Votr has been developed by Londoners Zak Cutner and Freddie Poser and uses your postcode to collate […]
Keeping Anonymous hackers out from news is simply impossible, the hacktivist movement is active 24 x 7 and you can always expect them to drop their cyber bomb on anyone at anytime — Just like today when WTO is under attack by Anonymous. One of the hacktivist leading Anonymous movement on Twitter just breached the World Trade organization’s […]
It has been almost 25 years, but the infamous video of ‘Rodney King being beaten up by L.A. police officers’ is still fresh in many memories. This year, a similar video captured through cellphone by a local man was uploaded to Facebook, it showed a fatal police shooting by L.A.P.D. the video went viral and […]
The South African Right2Know campaign has released its “Big Brother Exposed” report. The report revealed details about the way activists and community leaders are being “monitored, spied and harassed” by South African intelligence agencies. In Right2Know’s latest issue of “Big Brother” it was revealed that National Union of Metal workers (Numsa), has announced to lodge a […]
Twenty five international cyber criminals (who were involved hacking into banking systems and making of clone payment cards) are arrested by the Romanian authorities this week. The group made over US$15 million from these crimes. They are now detained by the Romanian authorities. The Group includes 52 members, including members from Romania and other nationalities. […]
According to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Mr. Jeh Johnson, the department will be opening a Cybersecurity related Satellite office in Silicon Valley. Jeh Johnson was addressing at the world’s largest cyber RSA security conference where he announced the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plan to open an office in the Silicon Valley. It’s also pushing back […]
Brazilian Ministry of Culture is planning to sue Facebook on blocking the picture of an Indian woman from 1909 just because her breasts were exposed. The ministry claims that Facebook is illegally exposing its censorship standards on Brazil. Brazil will sue Facebook for blocking picture of indigenous woman Reportedly, Brazilian Cultural Ministry isn’t happy with […]
If you are a cybersecurity specialist then U.S Military is ready to hire you. Lt. Gen Cordon announced that U.S Military is planning to create Cyber Branch 17, a new cybersecurity wing. The department is thinking of launching a new career option for civilians who can help the military to secure its servers against the increasing […]
Team System DZ is known for hacking high-profile websites – Their latest target was the University of Toronto and they successfully achieved their goals by leaving pro-ISIS messages on the university’s website. A group of Pro-ISIS hackers from Algeria (going with the handle of “Team System DZ”) hacked and defaced the official mobile website (mobile.utoronto.ca) of […]
DEA has been a client of the controversial Italian surveillance tech firm Hacking Team since 2012 — DEA has bought spyware capable of intercepting all sorts of communication. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) firstly placed an order in August 2012 and has bought the software called Remote Control System/RCS. This software can intercept telephone conversations, social […]
Anonymous GhostSec hacktivists have attacked the official support website of John McMahon (mcmahonforsheriff.com), who is a severing Sheriff in the San Bernardino County Police, California. Hackers have left several deface images and messages against the San Bernardino County Police for kicking and punching a man who led deputies on a pursuit in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles Thursday, April 9, 2015. […]
Facebook Privacy Debate: A CIA Funded Company Reportedly Scanning Chats but Facebook Rejects the Claim. A developer has claimed on Hacker News that a third-party agency is continuously scanning private chats on Facebook. The developer observed this feature while testing an application that was set up in a non-published area. As a result, unusual activity was […]
Turkish hacker shutdown Vatican City official website against Pope Francis’ remarks in which he used the word ‘genocide’ to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks. The website was taken down just an hour ago after which the Turkish attacker (going with the handle of @THTHerakles) announced that he will keep targeting the site until an apology is […]
Hackers took over the official Twitter account of Iran’s state Television ‘Al-Alam’ on Sunday, leaving material supportive of the Saudi-led air war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Al-Alam has blamed Saudi government for targeting the channel due to its critical coverage of Yemen war. After taking over Al-Alam’s twitter account (@alalam_news), hackers started posting false reports about […]