July 2013
White House Employees' Email accounts Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

White House Employees' Email accounts Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) a popular hacking group once again targeted the major organisations online accounts. After hacking the numerous twitter accounts of major organisation they, once again started attacks. Recently they have breached the security of the Viber and True Caller sites, hackers have targeted the mails accounts of White house Employees. According to the reports of the nextgov , it is being said that SEA hackers have compromised three mails of the white house employees.…
Kali Linux 1.0.4 Released And Featured With New Tools

Kali Linux 1.0.4 Released And Featured With New Tools

One of the world most popular distributions  of Linux "Back Track" is being featured with more new awesome tools. Back Track version 6 i.e "Kali Linux" that is released 3 months before have already got the hardest and impressive tools integrated, which much like by the security researcher and pentester.  Kali Linux 1.0.4, a more mature, secure, and enterprise-ready version of BackTrack Linux, has been announced by Offensive Security. It's recognized as the best penet…
Free Calling App Viber Website Got Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Free Calling App Viber Website Got Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

One of the most free calling app "Viber" have got hacked defaced one of there sub-domain  http://support.viber.com/ . This hack was done by the popular hacker's group known as "Syrian Electronic Army". Once again SEA is on the news of the security, and have breached the security of the Viber website. Hackers claimed that they are not able to hack the all the database of the Viber, but have breached and took the backup of the partial database . On the deface page…
Ubuntu Forum Got Hacked- Millions of Login Credentials stolen.

Ubuntu Forum Got Hacked- Millions of Login Credentials stolen.

One of the Open Source operating system Ubuntu's official forum have got hacked today. Firm have officially announced that Ubuntu official Forum have been breached and millions of the data got stolen. A hacker with the handle @sputn1k_ have breached the security of the site. Company confirmed that hacker have compromised the database contains all user's username, password and email addresses. They also mentioned that "The passwords are not stored in plain text. However, if yo…
Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Indian Users By There Phishing Scams

Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Indian Users By There Phishing Scams

There are tonnes of scam that are newly found on daily basis. Mostly screamers target Facebook by the various means of technique, as like phishing, dropping malicious link on users mail, and malicious Facebook apps. This time cyber criminals have came up with old technique but with a new idea, for getting there victims. Cyber criminals mainly targeting Indian users over the internet by a cleaver phishing technique. According to Symantec , the Facebook phishing site promises free cell phone a…
Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The True Caller Database

Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The True Caller Database

Once again Syrian Electronic Army back on the news. After hacking the major organisation twitter accounts there was no news for hacking from SEA. But now the hackers of SEA have breached the security of the the world’s largest collaborative phone directory "True Caller" As on there twitter accounts they wrote “Sorry @Truecaller, we needed your database, thank you for it,” the hackers wrote on Twitter.  As per the post of EHN , it is being stated that hackers have breached the T…
Android May Get Banned In India Says Government

Android May Get Banned In India Says Government

As per the report of DNA and PTI, it says that Google's operating system, "Android" may gets banned in India, as it is found that apps that are developed reportedly hosts many adult applications that are considered unsuitable for viewing by children. These adult content apps freely available on applications supported by Android phones. As per Telecom Minister, "Kapil Sibal" asked for suggestions from the media to deal with the issue. “I want you people to sugges…
Rapid 7 Launches Free Risk Assessment Tool - RiskRater

Rapid 7 Launches Free Risk Assessment Tool - RiskRater

IT security firm Rapid7 once again stepping forward for Security of the users. Rapid 7 Launches Free Risk Assessment Tool name as “RiskRater”. RiskRater is a free online tool that allows security professionals to assess mobile, endpoint and user-based risk management programs. RiskRater user will asked a series of question and based on the answer given by the users score will be calculated between 1 to 10. Rapid7 Senior software Engineer, " Roy Hodgman ", says on the post th…
Android Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Turn Legitimate Apps Into Malware

Android Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Turn Legitimate Apps Into Malware

Once again security researcher have done a awesome thing with Android, and again disclosed the critical vulnerability on Android operating system. Chinese researchers have identified another vulnerability that could be leveraged to modify Android apps without altering their cryptographic signatures. On the blog post , researcher have said that, this vulnerability is different from the one identified by Bluebox Security, but its both effects are the same. Pau Oliva Fora, the one who wrote …
Netherlands and Belgium Domain Name Registrars Hacked

Netherlands and Belgium Domain Name Registrars Hacked

The Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) has shut down several of its websites and allow temporarily limit access to the domain name registration system due to a security breach of its system. As per the post published on its official site, pieces of malware were identified on Tuesday, July 9, on several websites. To prevent form being more damage, firm immediately took some of the necessary steps for counter measures. The DRS web application was shut do…
The National Cyber Security Policy-2013 of India

The National Cyber Security Policy-2013 of India

On Tuesday, Indian government released the National Cyber Security Policy-2013. This policy will help to create the balance ecosystem in the country for Cyber Network environment. The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) will be coordinating all matters related to cyber security in the country with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC) is responsible with enhancing the protection and resilience of Ind…
 Malaysia High Profile Site got hacked

Malaysia High Profile Site got hacked

Once again a well know hacker "TiGER-M@TE" from Bangladesh have hacked the high profiled sites of Malaysia. Few months ago same hacker have hacked the some high profiled sites of Malawi , by the technique of DNS poisoning. This time also hacker used the same technique and defaced the high profiled domain. The domain that was got hacked and defaced are Microsoft, Dell, Skype, Kaspersky, MSN and Bing. As we can see that all the site except Google have got hacked. On the deface pag…