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National Crime Agency, a London based law enforcement agency, has arrested as many as 56 individuals over the last week for various cybercrimes. Among the arrested lot was a 23-year-old male for breaching the satellite communications systems of the US Department of Defense on 15 June 2014. The hacker had leaked “non-confidential contact information” of […]
Have you received TEXT messages about Gift from Amazon? Beware it might be malware. Have you recently received a text message on your phone that says, “Hey [ABC], I am sending you $200 Amazon Gift Card You can Claim it here”? It asks you to redeem your Amazon gift card by installing an APK file […]
A well-known figure known as the radio voice of Anonymous, LoraxLive, Adam Bennet who had also been arrested last year when he was found guilty of computer crimes, will eventually come to find out on March 11 about what exactly he had been charged with. It had been expected that this will take place this […]
The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state […]
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 […]
On Tuesday 3rd March, the official website of Colorado’s Larimer County Sheriff Office website (LCSO) was hacked by pro-Palestinian AnonGhost hacking group. Today, Thursday, March 5, the LCSO’s website has been hacked again by same group making it a site getting hacked twice in one week. According to Sheriff’s spokesman David Moore, the site was “defaced in a similar manner” […]
The official website of Colorado’s Larimer County Sheriff’s Office ( LCSO) was hacked early Tuesday morning by famous hacking group AnonGhost. Officials running the website acknowledged the hack when visitors started complaining on Larimer County Sheriff’s Office’s official Facebook page. Hackers left a message along with a deface page on the targeted Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, bashing the governments of the world for not […]
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 […]
Unsuspected Blu-Ray Players Vulnerabilities Present Open passage to Cybercriminals. A team of security researchers at NCC Group analyzed different Blu-ray players and found numerous exploitable vulnerabilities in them. Security researchers created a disc for running platform-specific fake executable prior to playing the required media content and they were able to exploit the vulnerabilities of the […]
Uber, a private international transport company headquartered at San Francisco, announced on Friday that the company had suffered a massive data breach in 2014. In a statement released on Friday, the company admitted that their website was accessed by an unauthorized third party and sensitive data of about 50,000 drivers were stolen. The one-time breach […]
Story of a Facebook message that’s Actually a Phishing Scam – Opening ‘Wat are u Doing in This Video’ isn’t what You supposed to Do Now this can be termed as the new wave of phishing scams on Facebook. A message has been circulating via Facebook’s personal messaging system, which appears to be sent by a […]
Parents nowadays must be receiving an email alert that claims “a child predator has moved to your neighborhood.” As per the content of this email, parents are informed that a child predator has moved into their neighborhood recently. The recipient is asked to click on a link to receive more information about the predator. The […]
An Australian Anonymus hacker indicted for Australian intelligence websites’ revenge hacking – The accused has connections to the infamous Anonymous Online Collective The News: Anonymous Indonesian said to be involved in attacking numerous private Australian businesses and intelligence’ websites in 2014. In a recent advancement into this matter it has been learnt that an alleged Melbourne-based member of […]
The official website of world’s largest PC maker was hacked earlier Wednesday allegedly by Lizard Squad. Hackers left a deface page containing slideshow images of a teen along with “Breaking Free” from High School musical as page’s background. This is probably the worst time for Lenovo to have their site hacked amid SuperFish Malware scandal where the company […]
Isis supporter compromised Chile’s Ministry of Defense website on Monday night and left a message “Hacked” on its homepage, www.ssdefensa.cl, along with the username “Saddam Hussein.” The hacker’s message said, “Sorry Admin Because Your Site Security is Low WE aRe ISIS,” in English, whereas in Spanish the message read, “Somos ISIS, no me olviden” (We […]
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, the same Lizard Squad who shutdown PSN and Xbox Live last Christmas making the holidays one living hell for games. Now the Lizard Squad hacked and defaced the official domain of Google Vietnam yesterday. After an investigation it was revealed that DNS infrastructure of Google name servers (ns1.google.com, — ns2.google.com) to CloudFlare (173.245.59.108, 173.245.58.166). The OpenDNS reported that […]
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 […]
Researcher dedicated to debunking hoaxes and exposing scams, have discovered a phishing scam doing rounds on the Facebook. It comes as a “Copyright Violation” message, supposedly from the Facebook Support Team and asks the users to click on a link to verify the page. It warns that failure to verify within 48 hours may result […]
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. […]
Hackers have breached the billing and payment pages of BigFish Games and stolen sensitive information, according to the company’s notification letter published on 11 February 2015. BigFish Games, founded in 2002, is ranked 1,589 in the United States and 2,817 globally, according to Alexa. The hackers intercepted the customer payment information and might have stolen […]
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 […]