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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, […]
Can you believe there are several online forums who actually claim to provide hackers in case you want to get someone’s Website, Facebook, Gmail, WhatsApp, Netflix etc hacked? The grand and Mysterious “World Wide Web” can be a dilemma for the naive, searching for the desired items may open a Pandora box of forbidden gifts. It is no […]
Do you know the difference between a “hacker” and a “cyber criminal”? Many of us often use these two terms without knowing the real meaning. Here I am going to share a video of one of the most dangerous hackers of all time. These hackers are infamous for their hacking skills and expertise. If you […]
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. […]
American President Barack Obama’s emails were accessed by Russian hackers last October in a White House security breach, according to the NYT report. The emails that were read during this computer system breach were of unclassified nature. Earlier this month, officials admitted that White House security system was hacked by Russian hackers. According to the […]
Researchers at the RSA conference explained about a newly found vulnerability that allows attackers to crash just about any iOS device. San Francisco: Researchers from Skycure security firm revealed vulnerability “No iOS Zone” yesterday at the RSA security conference. This vulnerability allows cybercriminals crash just about any iOS device that comes within a WiFi hotspot […]
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 […]
U.S. officials have blamed Russian hackers for hacking an “unclassified computer” at White House and keeping an eye on Obama’s communications and daily schedule. Hackers used a phishing-style attack to take over a State Department computer, which allowed them to gain access to the system inside White House. Despite having access to the system, the Russian hackers were not able […]
A group of hackers going with the handle of Indonesian Cyber Freedom has hacked and defaced a sub-domain of the United Nations website, just few hours ago. The targeted sub-domain belongs to GEF Small Grants Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Hackers left a deface page along with a message on the hacked UNDP domain. The […]
The United States President Barack Obama announced a new sanctions program yesterday to counterattack the foreign hackers. President Obama’s sanctions program will target the hackers who are a threat to the national security, American foreign policy, and economic stability. Till now, these foreign hackers have been outside the reach of the States government. “This executive […]
In March this year, Kaspersky Lab, an international software security group based in Russia and with business operations in more than 200 countries worldwide has recently been put in the spotlight for an accusation closely associating them with Russian intelligence agencies and thereby posing a threat to their very own US clients. Of course, Kaspersky […]
On March 21st, a group of pro-ISIS hackers from Morocco, going with the handle of Team System DZ hacked into the server of Wisconsin’s Richland County, defacing several high-profile websites including the country’s Sheriffs department website. Other targeted sites include City of Richland Center Municipality, Parks Commission, Ambulance Service, Richland County Fair & Recycling, Land Conservation department and Richland county Fitness center. Hackers […]
Beware all you retailers, a new Trojan program dubbed as PoSeidon targets point-of-sale or PoS terminals and can potentially steal payment card data for abusing it later. According to Cisco Security Solutions research team, this new malware can perform memory scraping, which means it can scan RAM of all the compromised terminals to locate encrypted […]
According to the UK authorities, 56 hackers have been arrested across England, Wales and Scotland with accusations of carrying out anti-cybercrime operations. UK’s National Crime Agency arrested these 56 hackers as a part of their “strike week” to curb the cyber crime menace. These arrests were made as a result of 25 operations and the […]
The latest round of phishing scam is associated with YouTube. A mail asking one to update YouTube account information is actually a scam coming from hackers trying to access your YouTube account. One should not reply or click on the links that do not appear legitimate; rather it should be forwarded to a support team […]
Short Bytes: People are often confused between two terms: hackers and cyber criminals. In this article, I’m sharing a video that tells you the difference between these two. Cyber crime occurs when breaking into the private worlds of people, these bad hackers start to misuse the information for their own benefit and loss of others. […]
An Israeli man, suspected to have hacked into the computers of pop stars including Madonna and selling their unreleased songs online, has been arrested. It was suspected by the Israeli police that the man has stolen works of several unnamed international stars. It was confirmed by a private investigator related to the case that Madonna […]
Syfy is teaming up with Relativity Television to produce a reality TV biz about hackers, according to media reports. The show will take the viewers �deep inside the shadowy and dangerous world of high-tech hackers for the very first time.� The Realtivity Television also produced MTV�s reality show series Catfish, a cyber-danger series based on […]
A computer is never truly secure , but with the help of tools/software we can make it difficult for today’s hacker. The whole idea behind this is to make it extremely hard to track you down and of course the sake of your privacy. This tutorial is about 2 types of protection. Offline protection Online […]
Facebook phishing. Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing […]
While surfing Facebook, you must have seen a blue badge indicating verified pages and profiles of famous people such as celebrities, journalists and politicians etc, but looking at verified pages of Anonymous hacktivists was something totally unexpected. Yes! there are two pages on Facebook belonging to the Anonymous hacktivists with verified page status and millions of likes. We saw […]