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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 […]
Women Stalked by Security Guards via CCTV – “Sleaze File” contains images of pretty women Five security guards of a high-profile shopping complex in Australia followed attractive women roaming around in the mall using surveillance cameras. Guards zoomed-in on them and also captured invasive images of the female customers. These images were later stored in a […]
The US surveillance agency, National Security Agency (NSA) along with its British counterpart the Government Communications (GCHQ) has compromised one of the largest SIM card manufacturer’s system to steal millions of encryption keys since 2010, according to a report published in The Intercept. Encryption keys are used to activate and encrypt communications between a user’s […]
It is somewhat a proven fact that Computer & Internet have brought a new era of productivity into the human life in a number of aspects. That being said, the same computers and internet connectivity options seem to become one of the notable reasons for distraction – especially when it comes to companies that provide […]
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 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. […]
Visa, famed payment processing company, will be rolling out its new software with location-tracking capabilities this summer. It will allow banks to automatically know the cardholder’s current location through the location-tracking function present in almost all smartphones. This may sound like the bank becoming your “big brother” however, it will be immensely helpful for cardholders […]
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 […]
If by any chance, you have been into a local police department for filing a public request in order to know about how cell-site simulators function in your community, there are high chances that the FBI is already aware of it. And the FBI will try to conceal such information. These devices that have come […]
Email titled “My New Photo ;)” actually Contain Malware – A .Zip file has an attachment Supposedly containing the promised image. Summary: Hackers, in their latest spree, are spreading fake emails with a much alluring subject “My New Photo ;),” which in reality contains a malware. There is a .Zip file harbouring the photo in a […]
According to a study by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs, users around the world are being spied upon by extremely sophisticated mobile malware and reportedly, around 16million mobile devices are infected. This means confidential information and data plans are being stolen without our knowledge. The study revealed that in 2014, the rate of malware infectivity in […]
A project had been announced by the U.S government’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last year which was to create a search engine that is powerful enough to dig deep in the web and bring out those websites that are not indexed by Google and other commercial search engines. The search engine that will […]
Search-Lab Ltd. discovered a serious security vulnerability in the On Screen Phone protocol used by LG Smart Phones. A malicious attacker is able to bypass the authentication phase of the network communication, and thus establish a connection to the On Screen Phone application without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Once connected, the attacker could have […]
DEA Maintaining Massive database of the country’s drivers and vehicles’ number plates – Database is used by DEA to track car owners. In the recent past reports about the United States Drugs Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) huge database of the country’s every driver and number plate under the alibi of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have already […]
Hackers pieced together zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash and Internet Explorer 9+ to attack financial services and defense contractor employees visiting Forbes.com, according to security firm researchers, Invincea and iSIGHT Partners. In November 2014, the site’s Thought of the Day (ToTD) page, which is displayed briefly upon visiting the site, was compromised. On first visit to […]
A security researcher has revealed from a research of various data breaches, a collection of 10 million usernames and passwords. The leaked database dumps that had the 10 million usernames and passwords were already available to the public online. But a popular security consultant, Mark Burnett – the person involved in the collecting and researching […]
The developers at Offensive Security are back with yet another great version of Debian-derived Linux distribution Kali Linux version 1.10. Kali Linux 1.1.0 was released two days ago with additional features with a mix of unprecedented hardware support and rock solid stability. It runs of a 3.18 kernel, specially developed for wireless infection attacks. Here is a complete […]
Samsung decision to process voice commands in its latest Smart TV through cloud server has sparked a new debate on data retention, according to the daily The Register. According to the term and conditions of the new Smart TV, it is clear that everything said in the presence of the TV range gets transmitted to […]
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 person who developed the free email encryption software Gnu Privacy Guard in 1997, which was used by famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and so many other journalists, security officials and dissidents worldwide, is going broke. Yes you read it right! He needs money to keep this amazing project alive. The software was developed by […]