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The official verified Twitter account of WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro (@WWECesaro) was hacked earlier Tuesday by unknown hacker wishing cancer to the company’s Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon. The account with 559K followers has been restored and tweets against McMahon have been deleted. Below is a screenshot users were able to save before it was deleted by Twitter authorities. […]
On 14th February, 2015, when people were busy celebrating Valentines day; the ISIS hackers were busy targeting UAE’s oldest Arabic language newspaper Al Ittihad. The ISIS hackers successfully hacked and defaced Al Ittihad website with logo of their own including a black flag with Arabic text and three militants dressed in soldiers’ attire holding rifles. The Abu Dhabi based editor-in-chief […]
According to a report by security firm Kaspersky Labs, numerous banks of Russia, the Unites States, Japan and Europe have been the victim of a malware attack since 2013, which has now turned out to become one of the largest bank thefts in history. The concerned report will be made public on Monday by the […]
Remote Control Virus was used by the Hacker to Penetrate into Computer Systems and issue death threats to users. On Wednesday, the 32 year-old Yusuke Katayama, a Japanese hacker, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for using his computer skills to compromise the computer systems of innocent people and issuing death threats. Katayama is […]
The official Twitter account of world renowned American based Newsweek Magazine was hacked by Cyber Caliphate, a pro-ISIS hacker who previously had hacked Malaysian Airlines Website and other U.S military social media accounts. On Tuesday, the verified @Newsweek Twitter account with 2.51M had its profile picture and banner changed to a masked man with words like “CyberCaliphate” and “Je su ISIS.” The […]
What is the news? A security researcher has released 10 million usernames and passwords in public domain. Mark Burnett has collected this data from various data breaches for his research purpose over the past ten years. He has also written an entire article justifying the release and fearing the prosecution as a consequence of this […]
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014, a Kurdish hacker going with the handle of Anonymous Kurdistan & Muhmad Emad hacked two Turkish government websites belonging to the Afyonkarahisar Provincial Disaster and Emergency Management (Afyonkarahisar is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province), asking the Turkish government to stop supporting the ISIS terrorist group. The hacker left […]
One of the most popular online gaming profile trackers Raptr has been hacked and its users are pressed to change their user account passwords at the earliest opportunity. An interesting fact about this attack is that the label is similar to those recently carried out against other popular online gaming platforms Xbox Live and PlayStation […]
There are many websites which don’t support the “remember the password and username” feature of websites. They are mainly online transaction websites which override the auto-fill feature of the website. Generally after saving the password and username in your personal PC, you expect the browser to save you from the tussle of filling the details […]
The mobile device BlackPhone, which was marketed as a super secure phone, has just had to run a patch to fix a vulnerability which allowed hackers to compromise the devices. The malicious code was able to attack the devices through no more than the Silent Text application. The BlackPhone device is actually a target for […]
Someone hacked official Twitter, Instagram accounts of Singer Taylor Swift few hours ago. It is still unclear who was behind the hack but tweeting to over 51 million fans, the hacker said they should follow @Lizzard the “leader” of Lizard Squad (Same group who was behind Sony Hack). After taking over her account, hackers claimed they have […]
Topface Faces Hackers’ Wrath – Reportedly about 20million usernames of the popular Russian Dating Site hacked. Approximately 20million user IDs and email addresses of visitors on Topface, a Russian online dating website, got hacked and are being offered for sale on another website. The apparent hack attack was detected by the renowned fraud-detection-software-maker company Easy Solutions […]
Bitcoin news website CoinFire and its Twitter account were under attack recently, according to the company’s executive editor. The editor, Mike, confirmed two days ago on Reddit that their domain was stolen and they were trying to get it back. “Well, looks like the XPY supporters got what they wanted. They logged in to our […]
Download Cain and Abel here: http://www.oxid.it/cain.html*Note that if you virus scan it, it will appear as a virus (this is because it contains software that is virus-like/related – after all, it is a hacking tool). Don’t worry, its a trusted tool, and virus free. This means you may have to turn off antiviruses on oyur […]
The Famous Syrian Hacker Dr.SHA6H known for his anti-Bashar Al Assad views has struck again. This time the hackers has hacked and defaced the official Ohio City website of City of Perrysburg, Ohio today early morning. He left a deface page along with a message on the hacked Perrysburg city website with his usual deface page with a message bashing the governments of […]
Countless American and United airlines’ User Accounts Stolen by Hackers – Dozens of free trips booked as hackers retrieve user ids and passwords via third party source. How would you feel if someone hacks into your personal user account and books a ticket using your money or steals your earned mileage? Of course you would sue […]
VULNERABLE FIRMWARE MAKES ASUS ROUTERS SUBJECT TO ATTACK. Wireless router models running the Asuswrt firmware are vulnerable to attacks where hackers can completely compromise the devices if the attack is launched from within the local networks of the routers. Infosvr, the service running on the routers, is used by the Asus Wireless Router Device Discovery […]
The Glorious Leader game which lets you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been hacked, according to its developers. The game was first announced in May 2014 and moved to Kickstarter�just last month in the hopes of getting the funding it needed to finish it. The creators, Moneyhorse Games, pulled it a week […]
FBI Director James Comey publicly said that the North Korean hackers who recently attackedSony Entertainment Pictures got sloppy since they actually used IP addresses that could be traced to North Korea. This statement which implicates the North Korean nation is the one of the most direct links the FBI has made in relation to the […]
The gamers at Electronic Arts are finding purchases they didn’t make on their accounts. This news comes in right after the Lizard Squad hackers attacked and brought to a stop the PSN and Xbox live services while the H4lt squad leaked the Xbox One SDK online, allowing the development of Homebrew Apps to be run on […]
A bad news for Bitcoin fans and supporters. Some unknown hackers have target one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.net and, as a result, $5M worth of bitcoin have been stolen. The United Kingdom and Slovenia-based Bitstamp exchange has taken their website offline in order to secure the remaining Bitcoin and making sure the hackers can not access […]