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Short Bytes: “Parisa Tabriz-The Security Princess” is Google’s guardian who protects the tech giant from the ‘black hat’ attackers. She is Google’s biggest weapon against the outside hackers. There is no such thing as unhackable. We know it, you know, and the hackers know it too. All we can do is take measures for our safety […]
Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to put millions of home networking devices at risk for compromise. The latest was revealed in early August, but prompted an advisory yesterday from the DHS-sponsored CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It’s called Filet-o-Firewall and it combines a number vulnerabilities […]
Police suspect two suicides are related to the release of information stolen from the relationship-cheating website. Amid reports that the Ashley Madison security breach may have led to suicides and extortion plots, Toronto police and the affair-arranging website are upping the ante to catch the hackers responsible for the embarrassing leak of users’ information. To […]
Short Bytes: The New York Times has come up with a quiz that will tell you if your personal information has been compromised during the recent cyber attacks and leaks of major companies. Hack has become the new ‘viral’ today. Google is filled from news reports to ‘How To’ hacks. Every month there are revelations […]
A hacker from United States has managed to devise method to Hijack or take control of Consumer drones. This will enable the hacker to control the flights of these drones and use them for personal use. A hacker with the name Samy Kamkar has pointed out certain security holes in AR.Drone which has been manufactured […]
The famous online Turkish hacktivists from RedHack have hacked and defaced the official website of Justice and Development Party (AKP) which is Turkish ruling party at the moment, led by current Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. https://twitter.com/RedHack_EN/status/406163458556973056 The hack is conducted against the recent arrest of 14 Turkish youth Taylan Kulaçoğlu, accused of being […]
An Indonesian hacker going with the handle of Jje Incovers has hacked and defaced a sub-domain of New York State Government information portal. The defaced domain belongs to Hudson River Valley Greenway (hudsongreenway.state.ny.us) which is now displying a .txt deface page uploaded by the hacker with a simple note. However, the reason for targeting Hudson River Valley was not mentioned […]
The online hacktivists from Lulz Security Peru have hacked and defaced the official website of Peruvian President and Peruvian National Police. The website of Peruvian President was hacked on 17th November while Peruvian National Police site was hacked yesterday 19th November 2013. Lulz Security Peru left two different deface pages along with messages on both hacked websites in Spanish language. Hackers […]
A Singaporean hacker James Raj, 35, part of online hacktivist group Anonymous has been charged with hacking into the government owned council website and posting official Anonymous logo on the homepage, amid new Internet laws implemented by the government. The hacker was arrested and charged with hacking the official website of the Ang Mo Kio town council – […]
The Moroccan based online hacktivist going with the handle of AnonGhost has hacked and defaced 65 Israeli websites under the banner of his ongoing operation #OpTrollIsrael. Hacker left his deface page along with a message on all hacked sites that warns Israel for 20th November 2013, when AnonGhost plans to attack Israeli cyber space. The […]