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Short Bytes: According to the latest revelations made by the American law enforcement agencies, ISIS terrorists are failing hard at hacking the America energy grid. They are launching repetitive failed attacks on the network with their poor hacking skills. The Islamic State, or the ISIS, is trying hard to hack the American electrical power companies’ networks, […]
Short Bytes: Continuing our “steps to effective security” series, we are here with a true story that tells about the basic security precautions we forget to take and risk our digital lives. Read this article and stay informed. In the previous articles, I described the ways to protect yourself from hackers and how to detect […]
Short Bytes: In the third article of the “Steps to Effective Security” series, I’ll tell you 10 steps to defeat hacking attacks and what to do after you’ve been hacked. Read more to know them. In my Steps to Effective Security series, previously I’ve written articles to tell you how to check if you’ve been hacked and […]
Short Bytes: Was your data compromised in the latest data breaches? How to know if you’ve been hacked? Here are the answers. The online world is becoming scarier each day and the possibility of getting hacked gets increased each time you sign into your online accounts. It’s possible that you haven’t been hacked yet, but you […]
Short Bytes: Hackers have released potentially damaging 15GB worth of private data after attacking Patreon, a crowdfunding website for artists. On an account of another hack, this time targeted towards the Patreon donation site on Wednesday, hackers have reportedly released 15 GB worth of data. The latest cyber security breach involves pilfering of the passwords, […]
Uber’s tentative and troublesome entry into the Chinese market has been compounded by news that Hacked Uber Accounts of Uber Riders are being used to carry out rides in China. Fraudulent use of hacked accounts adds to the regulatory issues as well as Taxi Trade opposition Uber is facing in China. Recently Uber had to […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has found an easy way to hack self-driving cars using a laser and a Raspberry Pi. By fooling the laser ranging (lidar) systems, hackers could make echoes of the fake car and put them at any location they want to fool the vehicle. The technology companies are moving fast in […]
Image: blog.kaspersky.com Short Bytes: Researchers have found that hackers have stolen more than 250,000 valid Apple accounts using an iOS malware named KeyRaider. However, this threat only affects the jailbroken devices. Here is a news that might worry you if you recently jailbroke your iPhone. The research team at Palo Alto networks and WeipTech have unveiled a […]
Image: Twitter Short Bytes: The Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest superstar, has been hacked and some adult sites have been added as ‘following’. A tweet from Mr. Bachchan’s official Twitter handler @SrBachhan says: “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t […]
Short Bytes: A researcher has recently demonstrated an easy Amazon Dash Button hack. By following some simple steps, you can use this tiny device, used to order stuff from Amazon, to do almost anything. Watch the hacking video ahead and know more about it. Amazon’s Dash Button is a tiny WiFi-enabled device that you can […]
The United States is now blaming the Russian hackers for hacking computers at the Pentagon. The United States military officials believe Russian hackers are behind the recent security snooping of the Pentagon’s unclassified emailing server that was being used by the Joint Chief personnel. The cyber-attack affected the emailing accounts of about 4,000 military officials, […]
The website of Indian Space Agency ISRO’s commercial wing Antrix Corporation was hacked on Sunday. This attack comes two days after ISRO launched five British satellites in its heaviest ever commercial launch. Website of Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of ISRO, antrix.gov.in directed to a web page that posted information about sports merchandise. Notorious Chinese hackers […]
Did you notice the pro-ISIS hackers are targeting high-profile websites without any restriction? Yesterday, we exclusively reported how the State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia, NATO website was hacked by The Islamic State hackers. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the subdomain of Illinois-based Argonne National Laboratory website, owned and funded by the U.S. […]
Numerous tweaks in security features have been made by Facebook over the past few years. This has been done to ensure that your account remains secure from being hacked. However, it is apparent that individual users aren’t much interested in using these features, which makes all the efforts of the social network useless. Moreover, Facebook accounts […]
In an exclusive report, we are updating that the official verified Facebook fan page of famous rock band Linkin Park (LP) with 62,616,278 fans (https://www.facebook.com/linkinPark?fref=nf) has been hacked by unknown hackers and spamming vulgar images with links. It seems as if the page was hacked a couple of hours ago where hacker started posting links […]
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) has confirmed yesterday on its blog that it experienced one of the biggest criminal cyberattacks ever and has requested its users to change their passwords. “Changing passwords is a best practice and will help enhance security for eBay users,” said the blog. The hackers compromised a small number of employee log-in […]
The AOL website has confirmed a security breach that could have compromised AOL users’ sensitive personal information such as email passwords, postal addresses, and answers to security questions on Monday. AOL is investigating the breach, which initially started once they noticed a significant increase in amount of spam, as spoof emails, from the AOL mail […]
The official website of Egyptian Ministry of Information has been hacked and defaced by hackers from a group going with the handle of Libyan Cyber Army. Egyptian ministry website was hacked few hours ago and left with a deface page, displaying Libyan flag on it. The reason for targeting the Egyptian Ministry of Information was not mentioned anywhere. However […]
A Syrian hacker going with the handle of Dr.SHA6H has hacked and defaced the official blog of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) designated for New Zealand. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on hacked UNICEF blog, questioning governments of the world why they are not interfering in the ongoing civil war in the Arab […]
A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of H4x0r10ux m1nd has hacked and defaced the official website of Bangalore City Police India, yesterday. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on the hacked police website, bashing the admin for poor security and criticizing the government of India for killing innocent people in Kashmir. The […]
The official website belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kuwait was hacked and defaced on 26th March, 2014 by unknown hackers but reading the message on site shows they are Anti Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. Hackers left a deface page along with a message, asking Kuwaiti government and other Middle Eastern countries […]