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To Monitor The Arctic DARPA willing to give $4million for an Unmanned Surveillance System. Ice melting in the Arctic has been the leading issue in strategic plans of almost all government leaders in Northern Hemisphere states. However, the remoteness of this area makes it a difficult entity to be explored or spied on. Thus, the […]
WhatsApp banned by Brazilian Judge—Wants the app to contribute in Police Investigations. Luiz de Moura Correia, the Judge from the state of Piauí, has put a ban on the popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil. He took this decision to force the owners of this app to cooperate with the State Police in their […]
Whopping $3 Million Bounty offered by FBI for Evgeniy Bogachev. The FBI and the U.S. State Department announced the highest ever bounty of $3 million on Tuesday for info leading to the capture or conviction of alleged Russian Hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. This amount is the highest offered by U.S authorities in any cyber case. A […]
Shocking acceleration in the use of Cyberweapons between Iran and the U.S against each other has been revealed in a newly released National Security Agency document. This document was prepared for the then director of the NSA Gen. Keith B. Alexander in April 2013. As per the illustration in this document, Iran and the US […]
With the recent reports making media headlines about how the NSA and GCHQ have compromised millions of SIM keys manufactured by Gemalto, a Dutch company, one needs to be aware of the security measures that could be adopted to keep their smartphones reasonably protected safe if not unassailable. There are technologies to assist in phone […]
The US surveillance agency, National Security Agency (NSA) along with its British counterpart the Government Communications (GCHQ) has compromised one of the largest SIM card manufacturer’s system to steal millions of encryption keys since 2010, according to a report published in The Intercept. Encryption keys are used to activate and encrypt communications between a user’s […]
The online hacktivist AnonGhost is back in action. This time by defacing the official website of an Army and Navy Academy, a Carlsbad, California based private military boarding school. The attack was conducted under the banner of #OpChapelHill that explains the reason for targeting website of this boarding school was to protest against the killings of three American Muslims […]
Officials from Cybercrime Circle of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have revealed that two of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s ten most-wanted cyber criminals have been arrested by their department on FBI’s request. The suspects Noor Azizuddin and Farhanul Arshad were arrested from their house in Federal B Area in a pre-dawn raid by FIA. […]
The US National Security Agency (NSA) hid undetectable spying software within the hard drives of computers, be it of any make, says a Moscow-based cyber security researcher and software maker. Several personal computers (more than tens of thousands) in more than 30 countries were infected with one or more of the spying programs, said Kaspersky […]
Egypt and Gaza-based hackers seem to have united against the Israeli government, military network and research infrastructure since the traces of two ongoing malware attacks lead to Gaza- reveals Trend Micro report. Trend Micro’s report didn’t specifically name the targeted or affected websites and Israel’s National Cyber Authority spokesperson states that the government hasn’t received […]
On 14th February, 2015, when people were busy celebrating Valentines day; the ISIS hackers were busy targeting UAE’s oldest Arabic language newspaper Al Ittihad. The ISIS hackers successfully hacked and defaced Al Ittihad website with logo of their own including a black flag with Arabic text and three militants dressed in soldiers’ attire holding rifles. The Abu Dhabi based editor-in-chief […]
In an isolated incident in late 2013, an ATM at Kiev started dispensing cash randomly without any human interaction; much to the surprise and pleasure of customers present there swiftly collected the cash. An investigation by Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity firm, confirmed that it was not the bank’s problem; rather the bank’s internal computers […]
The online Hacktivist group Anonymous has announced to expose the “elite” class pedophiles involved in or covering-up the child sex abuse, including the senior Westminster figures. The operation to expose child abusers has been conducted under the banner of ‘Operation Death Eaters’. A video posted by Anonymous on YouTube claims the group has already identified officials in the government and high power positions […]
Everything formidable is often associated with its negative half and the same can be said of the internet. The origins of functional internet can be traced back to the 1990’s, the exact period of the origins of the early form of malware. Malware was then just a few lines of code in software that would […]
The official Twitter account of world renowned American based Newsweek Magazine was hacked by Cyber Caliphate, a pro-ISIS hacker who previously had hacked Malaysian Airlines Website and other U.S military social media accounts. On Tuesday, the verified @Newsweek Twitter account with 2.51M had its profile picture and banner changed to a masked man with words like “CyberCaliphate” and “Je su ISIS.” The […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has claimed that it took down about 800 Twitter accounts and 12 Facebook pages belonging or somehow supporting the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The operation was conducted under the banner of #OpISIS but originally announced after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Anonymous had announced that it would […]
The official website of Malaysian Airlines has been hacked and defaced by Cyber Caliphate, the ISIS supporting hacking group. Visitors on the Malaysian Airlines website malaysiaairlines.com currently can see deface page along with a message rather than the original site content related to flight booking schedule. The hackers also changed the website’s description to ISIS will Prevail […]
HealthCare.gov’s camaraderie with Marketers Revealed – Apparently the US federal Website has been sharing Patient Data with Marketers. The United States’ federal website HealthCare.gov reportedly has been leaking the personal data of its consumers to advertising and marketing purveyors. This website is responsible for making registrations and selecting consumers for health insurance under the Affordable Care […]
The Famous Syrian Hacker Dr.SHA6H known for his anti-Bashar Al Assad views has struck again. This time the hackers has hacked and defaced the official Ohio City website of City of Perrysburg, Ohio today early morning. He left a deface page along with a message on the hacked Perrysburg city website with his usual deface page with a message bashing the governments of […]
The Glorious Leader game which lets you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been hacked, according to its developers. The game was first announced in May 2014 and moved to Kickstarter�just last month in the hopes of getting the funding it needed to finish it. The creators, Moneyhorse Games, pulled it a week […]
Leading Democratic Congressman, Dutch Ruppersberger, is calling for the revival of CISPA, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The Maryland Congressman and top-level Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee made this statement following recent cyber-attacks including the one on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the FBI openly blames on North Korea. Read More: FBI formally blames North Korea for […]