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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 […]
The CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum informed on January 21 that the very popular and well-known mobile application has a web client that can be used from Google Chrome which will enable users to retrieve all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. Banking Trojan delivered in Brazil via Fake WhatsApp for web: Attackers […]
Image: Phandroid Generally the mischievous applications on the Android store Google Play don’t last long due to Google’s security measures or complaints of users. But, a recent report from the antivirus firm Avast tells about the discovery of a new malware on Google Play store in a recent batch of apps. Avast has caught […]
It has been found by researchers that a hacking operation has been conducted targeting military intelligence so as to collect it for Pro-Assad parties in the Syrian conflict. FireEye, a security firm, released on Monday a report (PDF) telling in detail about the threat group which finally stole a cache of sensitive data which contained […]
Adobe Flash Player has again seen a zero-day exploit that has appeared in the field due to a critical vulnerability that enables drive-by-download attacks. The U.S seems to be teeming with a malvertising-based attack having its foundations on the exploit. It is Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for the Windows and the Mac […]
Home monitoring devices are the hot topic recently no matter it is crowd funding website, geeky technology website, or technology news website you are watching. Among all the recently popped out cool things, SpotCam caught our attention for its unique offer – continuous cloud full time recording for free. This may seem to be normal […]
Senate Bill 13 targets Anonymous and its Guy Fawkes masks, according to members of Anonymous, a hacker collective. The bill by Sen. Don Barrington, R-Lawton bans the use of masks and other facial coverings in public places. Thus, two Anonymous members were stopped from putting on the group’s signature masks in the Oklahoma City on Monday. […]
Facebook appears to be infected with a porn-based malware that has affected about 110,000 Facebook users in just two days. The malware, disguised as a Flash update, comes as a link to a porn video on one of your friend’s post. Clicking on it takes you to a website that may or may not be […]
Uploading Photos on WhatsApp Web Risky as Privacy Lapses Discovered: WhatsApp Web: WhatsApp Web is a new service launched by WhatsApp. It allows users to sync their mobile and desktop devices with the messaging app. In its blogpost dated 21st January, 2015, WhatsApp announced the new web client and noted that WhatsApp Web “mirrors conversations […]
Pirate Bay’s Trimmed down Version Creates Rift between the Staff – Staff Members adamant on bringing back the site’s full version. The Dispute: Pirate Bay is returning, which could have been big news had a rift between the site’s management and staff was not created. Reportedly, the website will resume operation from this weekend but the […]
Security vendor Qualys announced on Tuesday that a flaw in the popular component of many Linux distributions which would ultimately allow hackers to control a system remotely through just sending an email that contains malware. This vulnerability, named “Ghost”, is in the GNU C Library called glibc. This is a C library that basically defines […]
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 […]
For all Macs that have been running the OS X Yosemite, Apple has now released a new update which is the OS X 10.10.2 bringing quite a big number of fixes as well as a patch for the Thunderstrike vulnerability. The fixes that Apple has announced include several recent issues such as: * The Wi-Fi […]
The Facebook outage yesterday, which lasted for about one hour, was an internal technical glitch, said Facebook in a statement on its website. “This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems,” said the statement. Facebook and its photo site Instagram […]
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 […]
On Friday, several foreign-based virtual private network (VPN) providers reported a disruption in their services to Chinese users. Providers such as StrongVPN and Golden Frog noted that Chinese users faced difficulties in accessing some of their sites. The list of inaccessible sites kept changing each day. VPNs facilitate the connection between a computer, a smartphone […]
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 […]
After threatening to hack jihadist websites, the group vows a clean-up of dark web in the wake of Westminster Child Abuse Anonymous internet collective, a group well-known for attacking corporate and government websites, is again in news and this time it is planning to expose international Pedophile networks. Anonymous’ project is partly prompted by the contentions […]
The City of Ford Lauderdale boosted its cyber security network with a heavy investment of $430,000 to bring in more improvements after it encountered a hacking attack by a cyber –activist group called Anonymous last month for its homeless laws. On the contrary, the city official said that the investment was not specifically in response […]
“123456” remains and retains the top position in the most popular or rather “worst password” list, says SplashData News, which compiles millions of stolen passwords that are made public and then arranges them in decreasing order of occurrences. The report noted that simple numerical passwords still remain common like last year and the first time […]
Outlook email users of China faced an outage over the weekend, possibly a victim of man-in-the-middle attack, according to media reports. Chinese users could not access the Outlook email, a free email service from the Microsoft, on Jan 17. Only IMAP and SMTP protocols on desktop and mobile were affected while the web interface remained […]