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Recently, Muslim hackers breached Israeli cyberspace and comprised www.israeldefense.com. Following this attack, hundreds of Israeli citizen and journalists have been receiving threatening text sms warning them of grave consequences and possible retaliation if Israel continues in occupying Gaza. Time of Israel has been tracing...
Hacktivism has been finding momentum these days. Hackers are actively targeting high profile websites and social networking accounts to propagate their ideologies. Ecuador President Rafael Correa's twitter account was hacked last day and the hacker posted messages and linked that criticized his government and its policies. One...
type='html'>These days Black Hat Hacking is at rise in Cyber World , Hacker's Concentrating on Defacing and Harming the admin data , Many High Profile sites hacked day by day .Same thing happen by Pakistani Hackers , A Group of Pakistani hackers Known as ...
Watch out Journalists! Some journalists are after you. C-net article by Don Reisinger , " Watch out, journalists: Hackers are after you claims many of the journalist-turned hackers are spying on other journalists to steal reports and classified information of their media outlet. Report is followed Google research which claimed that...
Facebook plans to launch a fleet of drones to out-compete the technology giant Google. In the fast growing world of IT, survival of companies depends upon the number of followers and customers. In a bid to increase Facebook users, the CEO Mark Zuker berg has announced in a blog post that the company has planned to launch drones which...
Full Disclosure, an open online forum for sharing 0days, exploits and vulnerabilities, is coming back after a temporary suspension. It now comes back online with a new vision and under a new owner. Full Disclosure (aka F-D) had been a famous online security research forum since 2002 when it was taken down by its owner John Cartwright on 19...
type='html'> South Korean defense ministry has accused North Korea of breaking into its military servers. Defense Ministery official told AFP that an infected notebook belonging to a defense Ministery journalist was used last Thursday to break into its military network but attack was detected before it could gain access to confidential...
Hack the TV. Philip's Smart TVs open to serious vulnerabilities . It was common for a website, a computer or a mobile to be hacked before. But now its also possible to hack an Internet connection enabled Philip's smart tv. Luigi Auriemma, a researcher with Malta-based ReVuln suggested how the latest Philip smart TVs, that have a feature...
type='html'> NSA had over 300 reports on German Chancellor. Claims a German newspaper A German Weekly, Der Spiegel, reported on Saturday that it has a documented proof, citing Snowden, that US security agency, NSA, amassed more than 300 reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. On its website, Der Spiegel, wrote that Merkel...
Google's Domain Name Service DNS has been intercepted by majority of Internet Service Providers ISPs in Turkey. Google’s Public DNS resolution service lets people use the search giant’s DNS servers as alternative to other DNS providers, often ISPs, for security and freedom from censorship. According to Google’s Steven...
Recently, University of Wisconsin has been notifying its students that its server had been compromised by an unknown hacker. The university believes the hacker has stolen the critical information of over 15000 of its students. The data potentially exposed includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and Social Security...
type='html'>Yahoo's planning to launch an online video platform in the upcoming months. It intends to fill that online video platform with same faces and professionally made clips but the thing is HOW ? They'll be doing by poaching some of the biggest stars of Youtube , according to Recode. Yahoo is offering them large guaranteed rates...
Could a perfectly innocent looking device like router, TV set-top box or security cameras can mine Bitcoins? YES! Hackers will not going to spare the Smart Internet-enabled devices.A Linux worm named Linux.Darlloz, earlier used to target Internet of Things (IoT) devices, i.e. Home Routers, Set-top boxes, Security Cameras, printers and...
As we have reported you earlier that Microsoft is pulling out their Windows XP support after April 8 2014. Since a vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently runs on Windows XP, but if they’ll continue sticking to it after the deadline, then they’ll be exposed to all kinds of security threats, as Microsoft will no longer provide...
Twitter, the biggest Social Media platform used for vital communication is now banned in Turkey from the last few days, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to root out the social media service during an election rally this week with the help of a court order.“Twitter and so on, we will root them out. The international...
When it comes to Information Security, there's a great way to learn, train and keep sharp your skills. This can be done using gamification mechanics to speed up the learning curve and improve retention rate. Capture The Flag competitions use gamification mechanics and represent one of the best ways to learn security hands on. The Infosec...
The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has become more sophisticated and complex and therefore has become one of favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend the services of any host connected to the Internet and till now nearly every big site had been a victim of this attack, from WordPress to online game websites.According...
Previous articles on The Hacker News have highlighted that How Internet of Things (IoT) opens your home to cyber threats. Recently the security researchers from vulnerability research firm ReVuln published a video demonstration shows that Philips Smart TV is prone to cyber attacks by hackers.According to the researchers, some versions...
The Android operating system has hardened its security with application Sandboxing features to ensure that no application can access sensitive information held by another without proper privileges. Android applications communicate with each other through Intents and these intents can be abused by hackers to provide a channel for a malicious...
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former Microsoft employee has been arrested in Seattle. The company
accused him of leaking Windows 8 to a French tech blogger.Russian
national Alex Kibkalo, an ex-Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia,
is currently facing criminal charges after passing trade secrets to an
unnamed blogger.
Alex Kibkalo, when a software architect...
Three people were charged with getting involved in an worldwide cyber crime ring,which attempted to steal over $15 million by hacking into American customer accounts at 14 banking institutions along with the Department of Protection payroll service. These folks happen to be indicted through the U . s . States.Two Ukrainians, Oleksiy Sharapka,...
type='html'>Both black and gray markets are increasingly becoming more generous to hackers than different IT Companies and social networking sites. WhoGotHacked has researched the matter thoroughly and after examining bug bounty amounts offered by some famous IT Companies and comparing them with the money offered by Black Markets...
type='html'> Google was accused of spying by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, a journalist, who accused the technology giant of breaking into his email account to know who was sending Arrington the emails of Google's internal affairs. However Google denies the charge calling it "serious and unimaginable". In a statement...
type='html'> Hackers are increasingly targeting online recruiting companies for unkown purpose. Hackers are using a malware called Gameover Zues to attack users applying for online job portals. F-Secure researchers reported the campaign Gameover may be aimed at comprising HR departments which use Monster. These HR departments...
Nullcon are some conferences in India which are made for hackers and security guys, i was pretty exited to know about them as they are going to took place on the 6th - 7th of February of 2010. The con is pretty respected as many of the known security officials are joining inn the con. Some of the Speakers at the con are Veysel Ozer,...
MacAfee inc have just released there monthly report on the most Spammed people in the world and this month was special as it is the 1st month of the new year 2010. There are many others also included in the report published yesterday and you care right the most obvious subjects for spammers are none other then the president of United States...
Well its kinda like the days are over of PS3 to be called secure because of a true fact that, the hacker behind some of the iPhone jail breaking and iPod too is behind the Playstation 3 Hardware and is nearly finished with the exploit. On 22nd of this month the so known hacker George Hotz aka Geohot have claimed that he have successfully...
Google Just announced they are now moving to the Stable connection of https rather then the traditional connection of http. Gmail previously have also announced that they are making the Mails on https security but now Google is changing the whole connection to https. The Reason are straight the Google is pretty much haded with the Chinese...
Hack in the box and popularly known as HITB have released the new Ezine's for their magazine. The new ezine contains some of the major updates and to provide security researchers a new Outlet for the reading digests. Set with the release on the New Year 2010, the new ezine covers some of the most popular and some of the interesting news for...
Tinkode is an awesome hacker who have hacked many websites previous with his qualities in sql injections and Xss abilities and have defaced many big websites.But this time Tinkode website is also down. Tinkode some days before hacked and defaced the website of UN Army website named http://onestop.army.mil with the vulnerability of Blind Sql...
