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Singapore Prime Minister: We Will Track Anonymous Down, In return Anonymous Hacks His Official Website

The official website of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (http://www.pmo.gov.sg/) was hacked and defaced by Anonymous Singapore after receiving a warning directly from PM’s officer two days ago. The story starts from a Youtube video released by the Anonymous Singapore on November 5th, urging the citizen of Singapore to protest against the government and bashing the PM […]

Official Website of Maharashtra Police Academy, India Defaced by Pak Cyber Pyrates

A Pakistani hacker going with the handle of Gujjar (PCP) from Pak Cyber Pyrates had hacked and defaced the official website of Maharashtra Police Academy, India (http://mpanashik.gov.in/) on 2nd November 2013. Hacker left his group’s deface page along with a message, bashing the site’s administrator for its poor security. The message left on the site was […]

Official Washington DC Tourism Domain Hacked by Iranian Hacker

An Iranian hacker going with the handle of HellBoy had hacked and defaced a sub-domain of an official Tourism website of Washington DC ( http://lincolnball.washington.org/) on July 25th 2013, which is hacked till today  October 31st 2013. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on the hacked on sub-domain, bashing the administrator for poor site […]

Turk Hack Team Celebrates Turkish Republic Day by Hacking 450+ Websites

TurkHackTeam from Turkey, collectively has hacked and defaced 450+ random websites in order to celebrate republic day of Turkey on October 29. Hackers left a deface page with Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK’s image and a greeting message on Turkey’s republic day. The deface message was expressed in following words: Since then, every year on October 29 is celebrated as […]

#OpThrowBack: Official Interpol Indonesia Website Taken Down by Anonymous

The official website of Interpol Indonesia (http://www.interpol.go.id/) has been taken down by Fu7ion who calls himself a supporter and part of online hacktivist group Anonymous. Fu7ion says that he has taken Interpol Indonesia website under the banner of an online operation ”#OpThrowBack”. The operation was launched by Anonymous hackers yesterday against FBI, NSA, Verizon, Microsoft and […]

African Petroleum Producers’ Association Website Hacked by Fallaga Team Tunisia

A Tunisian hacker going with the handle of TN_X2X from Fallaga Team Tunisia has hacked and defaced the official website of African Petroleum Producers’ Association based in Lagos, Nigeria. The hack is a high profile where hacker left his deface page along with a message on the website, leaving an Islamic prayer. The deface message […]

#OpIsrael Reloaded:102 Israeli Websites Hacked by Indonesian Hacker SultanHaikal

A well known Indonesian hacker going with the handle of SultanHaikal has hacked and defaced 102 Israeli websites for #OpIsrael yesterday. Hacker left his team’s deface page along with a message on all hacked websites, expressing his anti-Israeli views, the deface message was expressed in following words: Hacked by SultanHaikal, Hello Israel I am come back […]

62 Vietnamese Government Websites Hacked by TeaM MosTa

A group of hackers going with the handle of TeaM MosTa has hacked and defaced 62 Vietnamese government websites in support of Palestine few hours ago. It doesn’t make any sense to attack government of Vietnam for freedom of Palestine but all sites are left with deface pages along with anti-Israeli messages and images.  “F**K Israel, Hacked By […]

Hacker Maps Internet by Enslaving Thousands of Vulnerable Machines

A security researcher has raveled some fantastic results over the percentage of vulnerable networks and devices around the world. His technique as a hacker was pretty straightforward and was a big time a matter of concern for all the people around the world. Let’s then see what the researcher found through his researches and how was he […]

Supreme Court of Nepal Website Hacked by The Hackers Army

A Pakistani based hacker going with the handle of THADisasteR from The Hackers Army has hacked into the official website of Nepal’s supreme court (supremecourt.gov.np) along with two of its sub-domains (dcourt.gov.np) and (acourt.gov.np).  The hacker who contacted me via email told that the hack was just a test of skills and a warning for site […]

UK Civilian Beats 2,000 Rivals in US Military Cyber-Challenge

A 26 year old U.K. software developer got big honors in a cyber challenge organized by the U.S. department of defense. In the challenge was U.K civilian, Chris Doman from Essex came second to a team from North Grumman. Doman was ranked as top non-pro civilian among 2000 other candidates. The challenge which was named […]

Cyber Crime Affects 14 people Per Second, says ITA CEO

This year is probably one of the best years for the cyber criminals. The criminals went through the defenses of many renowned sites and systems this year. Though, in the beginning government do not seek this as one of the concerned issue but with the time as more and more cases belonging to cyber crimes […]

Council on Foreign Relations Hacked by Chinese Hackers

In a report published by right-wing Washington Free Beacon,  an advanced malware attack against one of America’s most powerful decision making  foreign policy groups was conducted last week, in which the website of  Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its servers were infected. The cyber experts are now investigating the attack have reveled that the attack is one of its kind […]

Top 10 Online Scams of 2012 and Prediction for 2013

Online scamming has these days have become more then simple crimes these days. Criminals see them as a business more than a crime committed by them. 2012 saw a tremendous increase in the scams carried by the criminals, not only the scams got increased but they also got sophisticated too. Ordinary people faced huge losses […]

Murders Could be the next form of cyber crime

As cyber crimes is getting sophisticated with each passing day, the experts now have now predicted a new dimension in the world of cyber crimes. This time around they have predicted the most worst form of criminal act i.e. A murder through the internet. However, they don’t see happening soon but in a year or so it may be […]

A Tale of New Mysterious Cyber Crime

With each passing day, cyber crimes are getting more and more sophisticated and difficult to deal with. Net surfers around the world are in serious confusion at the moment, especially, after the release of this new mysterious cyber crime that we will tell you about in this article. The crime came into the light after […]

Kenyan Phone to have Unique IP Address to Combat Cyber Crimes

Africa has faced a number of cyber crimes this years. Zimbabwe Uganda and South Africa has faced massive losses this year. This is proven by a stat which list all about the cyber crimes in Africa : “In the first quarter of this year, 8,903 cyber security incidents were reported in Africa and of those, […]

Pakistan On The Verge Of Serious Cyber Threat Yet No Rules

A country which is probably the 7th best amongst world’s top defense countries doesn’t have any legalized cyber crime laws in the country can you image that ? Probably not. Where, nearly all the countries in the world are struggling hard to combat cyber crimes, even, developing countries such Nigeria is also taking strict measures […]

Anonymous Libero hacked 22 Israeli & Venezuelan Government Site for #OpIsrael

A hacker from Argentina who goes by the handle of Libero has hacked and defaced 22 Israeli websites and an official website of Venezuela’s Municipality of Girardot for #OpIsrael. The hack was announced by the hacker on his Twitter account, which shows the deface page on all the sites hacked by him in support of Palestine. The deface page on Israeli […]

7 Million Smartphone Users Vulnerable to Hackers

As we previously pointed out on HackRead that smartphones are probably the biggest form of hacking for the cyber hackers this year, another news from Malaysia have arose regarding the hacking scenarios through smartphone. The Malaysian cyber crime has reported that people nationwide has faced huge losses of money this year from the hands of cyber hackers. […]

Former US Spy Chief: Get Ready for ‘Cyber 9/11

Mc Connell (the former director of US national security agency) has broke a shocking news for Americans that US could be facing a massive cyber attack in some time which could be equally harmful to 9/11 incident. According to Connell, the attack could down all the significant U.S. sites at once and an economic downturn […]