Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, has intimated that it plans to launch a series of cyber attacks against nations funding or arming Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the most extreme faction of al-Qaeda, according to media reports. Jasper Hamill, a contributor to Forbes, claimed that sources within Anonymous have confirmed that…
Hacker Fined $8,000 for Government Cyber Attack!
The Straits Times reports that Delson Moo Hiang Kng, 43, was recently fined $8,000 for hacking into the website of the Istana, the offiical residence of the president of Singapore. Moo, who plead guilty to one of three charges of unauthorized access to the website’s server, is the first person…
The Linux and apps are under attack! New bug in Crypto library!
A new virus has been discovered in the GnuTLS cryptographic, which has brought the Linux and other many source packages into jeopardy. However, the security personnel have fixed this issue last week. The malware is sent from the infected servers to the devices when they have the encrypted HTTPS connections….
New Zealand’s computers under hackers attack
The New Zealand’s institutions are under attack as well even though they were enveloped with the greater security. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) installed the security gadget that is RJ 45 locking tab so that they could secure the 34 Tflops FitzRoy supercomputer, which was attacked…
Why a Chinese Hacker Left His Initials After the Cyber Attack?
The Chinese hackers are found accused of doing the cyber attacks on various US companies. The attacker Wang must be in hurry that is why he left many trails behind him by leaving the initials of his hacking group. Wang is known as the most vivacious hackers amongst the Chinese…
Australian Police & Air force website under attack!
The cyber gang of hackers after taking the Federal police website of Australia down can also attack the Reserve bank of Australia website along with the Royal Australian Air Force website. The spy agencies of Australia are also included in the list, which are ASIS and ASIO. The weakness came…
Cyber Attack on eBay users, time to restore passwords
Like many other corporations and online entities, eBay also became the victim of cyber attack this Wednesday. The hackers gained access to the database and looked into the personal information of the users. From February to March, the hacker got access to the database and the employees’ information was compromised….
Victims Responsible For The Government Site Attack Arrested
Two men have been arrested by the Australian Federal Police for a hacking campaign against local corporate and government sites. According to the agency, one of the hackers was also involved in the attack on the domain name registrar of Melbourne IT in 2012. A 40 years old man from…
Data of Dentists of Pennsylvania under cyber attack
The dental students of Lake Eric College of Osteopathic Medicine are in trouble, as their personal information that was present in the College’s database is out online. It happened due to the misconfiguration of Hubbard-Bert server. On 24th April 2014, this violation of data was uncovered by one of the…
Elderwood Attack Platform Linked To Various Zero-Day Attacks
Researchers at Symantec have confessed that the Elderwood attack platform is at the middle of tons of zero-day attacks. These attacks were launched by a hacker crew this year. Over the past few years, the Elderwood platform was linked to a number of zero day exploits. It was used to…