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So once again here is the good news for the bug hunter and security researcher. One more firm has been added on the list of the Bug Bounty Program. As Google, Facebook, Microsoft gives a bounty reward to the hacker who finds the way to breach the company's system or effects the users data. GitHub, has also launched a bug bounty program. Researcher who finds the responsibly disclose vulnerability will get a reward of $5,000. Minimum reward is $100 for any vulnerability report. With the …

This is a alert to all the Yahoo mail users that recently yahoo have suffered by the data breach. Today Yahoo have confirmed that it has identified a “coordinated effort” by some person or group to gain “unauthorized access” to yahoo users accounts. Company didn't confirmed about the number of accounts being stolen but prompted to reset password to all the users. Yahoo added, username and password of its email customer have been stolen and are used to access multiple accounts. Yah…

Korea's communication regulator have penalized Google about 210 million ($196,000) for collecting personal data and getting unauthorized access to public WiFi for the Street View projects. This issue was of 2010 back and Korean have came up now for a fine. Google have admitted that Street View team had collected a data from unauthorised access to unsecured Wifi networks at the time of moving around the world taking photos for Street View. The unauthorized collection of data was l…

Former National Security Agency contractor Mr. Edward Snowden has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, saying his disclosures of secret U.S. documents have contributed to making the world more peaceful. Baard Vegard Solhjell, a former environment minister, and Snorre Valen said on Wednesday the public debate and policy changes "in the wake of Snowden's whistleblowing has contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order." Mr Snowden, who had worked as a contra…

This is again a breaking updates over NSA . As per the source it is being saying that German Government and German Federal Intelligence Service are facing legal action because that are being found in the involvement for helping U.S National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program. As per Constanze Kurz , a German Computer Scientist, legal notice will be sent on Monday to the authorities for being involvement and for supporting NSA. Several persona and organisation have made the clai…

Google team have finally confirmed that Google is selling Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Google have made this announcement on the Official Google blog. Google CEO + Larry Page  said that the decision to sell would not only help Lenovo in the smartphone race, but also let his company focus on driving innovation within the Android ecosystem Google have acquired Motorola in 2012, in just a thought to supercharge Android ecosystem. The deal of $2.91 billion is just a fraction of t…

Yesterday, Official site of Angry bird has been hacked by the hackers. A popular hackers group " Syrian Electronic Army " have tweeted that friend of their have hacked and defaced the site of the Angry bird. For this they have made a mirror of the hack on zone-h. As per the Deface mirror , its says that the notifier of hack was "Anti-NSA". It seems that the hack was just to protest being with collaboration with NSA. Last day, Angry Bird developer 'Rovio' h…

As we have reported earlier that, Bangladesh hackers have hacked many of the Indian sites which includes the official site BCCI, and number of Cricket fans sites. Now it seems that Indian hacker are now getting on action. Just now we have got a notify that a Indian hackers group "I-Hos" have hacked and deface the official site of the supreme court of Bangladesh (http://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/scweb/).  On the deface page hackers wrote the warning message to the Bangladesh …

If you are addicted with playing mobile games, there here is a bad news for you all. Specially popular Android games like Angry Bird, Subway suffer may leak your all personal data to American National Security Agency(NSA) and British Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ). Yes, as per the latest document leaked by the former U.S Government contractor " Edward Snowden " stats that NSA and GCHQ are using popular mobile games to grab the users information. These game can…

Two hackers named as " H4$N4!N H4XOR " and " HUNTER KHAN " who are from Pakistan hacker group have hacked the official site of Indian Railways. This is not the first time that the Railway site has been hacked. Earlier on August 2013, also site has been hacked, but by different Pakistan hackers group . Hackers have not defaced the home page of the site, rather they have uploaded there deface page on the sub directory of the site URL (http://er.indianrailways.gov.i…

Yesterday on the eve of Republic Day of India, where all Indian are celebrating Republic day, some of the hackers are hacking into the Indian server. As earlier we reported that BCCI official site has been hacked and deface by Bangladesh hacker, on the same time another Pakistani hackers group name as ' Maximizers'  have hacked and deface more then 2000 sites. The hacked sites includes the site of Central Bank Of India and State bank of Patyala also. It seems that hackers h…

This is another good news for the Windows phone lover that, world most popular game is being reached to your pocket. After the announcement for the iOS and Android device, now Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has arrived for the Windows phone users also. Developer Rockstar have originally launched the game for Play Station 2 in 2004, and now developer have modded it for the touch screen mobiles. Game is available at the Windows app store just for $6.99 . Game requires at least 1GB RAM a…

Six months earlier, UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB  filed a case for using its name "SkyDrive" against Microsoft. And now After the decision of the English High Court, Microsoft lost the case, and now Microsoft changed its cloud service ' SkyDrive ' brand name to ' OneDrive '. “One place for all of your photos and videos. One place for all of your documents. One place that is seamlessly connected across all the devices you use. You want OneDrive for everything in yo…

As yesterday, All Indian are celebrating the Republic day, on the other hand Bangladesh hackers are hacking the Indian Domains site. A hacker name as "Ashik Iqbal Chy" have hacked Official website of The Board Of Control For Cricket In India ( BCCI ). Hackers have posted the image of Bangladesh Cricket team on its deface page. Along with the BCCI site, hackers have hacked and defaced more Indian educational site too. The hacked sites are of Rawal Institution Of Engineering &a…

Recently a Brazilian hacker have found a Remote Command execution vulnerability on Facebook which allows the full controls of the server, for which Facebook rewarded a highest bounty of $33,500 to him. Now again another Security Expert and Penetration tester " Ebrahim  Hegazy"   have discovered another Remote Command Execution Vulnerability on Yahoo. The vulnerability exists on the Chinese sub-domain of Yahoo site, i.e. http://tw.user.mall.yahoo.com/rating/list?sid=$Vulnerab…

First of all Happy Republic Day to all are Indian Readers from Cyber Kendra. As this is 65th Republic Day of India, and we know that everyone is happy and felling proud too. With the same and with always Google also wish Republic Day with its new and awesome Doodle. As like earlier, this time also Google have posted the Republic Day wishing Doodle on its home page. This time Google have presented a Parade theme for the Doodle. As Doodle looks like a group of army guys standing in a …

This is not new thing but its new for Indian people, and for Indian hackers also that, FBI is may be tracing you all. As per we know Countries authorities are capable for the investigation of the crime case, but yesterday we got something different to see. 33 years old hackers " Amit Vikram tiwari " have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation authorities from Mumbai, India. Amit was the son of the Indian Army colonel and a engineering dropout. Amit provides a servic…

Earlier late 2013, Snapchat have faced a major data breach in which 4.6 million username and password were leaked. After the breach company have launched a new security measure to prevent spam. The security update was made for the iOS and Android devices . On this new security update, company have added a captche system. When a new users sign up for the first time, a form will shows a nice image pictures on which users have to pick the image which have Snapchat Ghost. But within 24…

Many of the users around the world have to faced problem by the outage of leading search engine, Google services. Users around the world points out that they are unable to access to there Gmail accounts, and also with some other Google services too. Users find the message stating "Service Temporary Not Available" while browsing the Gmail and other Google services. Earlier Google team have not specify any kind of announcement regarding the issue on its Apps dashboard. Beside G…

After the continuous hack on the Microsoft media accounts, now Syrian Electronic Army's hackers have got the new victim of there latest hack . Yesterday hackers of SEA, have hacked another online media's accounts. The latest victim of SEA was CNN's. Hackers have hacked online accounts of CNN's, which includes the accounts of    CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN's Security Clearance. Blogs for …

AOL has acquired Gravity , a startup that can highlight content and adverts for users based on their personal preferences, for $90.7 million. An initial $82 million will be spent to finalize the deal, followed by an extra $7.7 million over the next two years. Gravity is able to create an “interest graph” which analyzes your interests, preferences and habits. The company can then use this to help content creators, such as news outlets or video-sharing platforms, to recommend new content th…

Two day earlier we have reported that, South Korea largest telecom SK Telecom, is soon going to announce the blazing speed to 300 Mbps to the mobile users, by which a users can download a movies of 800MB in just 40 seconds. In this SK Telecome will announce Advance LTE technology for the faster internet connection. As on today's days, 3G and 4G is the latest technology for the inter users. A part from this the announcement of the Advance LTE technology is not finished by the South…

Security concern the major role on the company's infrastructure internally or externally. For this concern many of the firms have announced the bug bounty programs. Firms like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and others too have started a bounty program for the hackers and researcher to give reward of there work. Last year, Facebook have gave about $8,500 to the Indian researcher for reporting a bug on the Facebook, which was the highest reward paid by the Facebook as bounty. Bu…

We all know that there are many new thing which is evaluating every day. With the same stats one gadget hacker have made a awesome evolution. We all know that our optical mouse have a sensor beneath it, did you know that it also a contains a tiny low resolution camera? A gadget hacker and web developer " Franci Kapel " have brought a new things in front of us. He decided to rip a part of his Logitech mouse, and take is sensor to use it as a camera. This is a Low Resolution ca…

Yesterday, China suffered a major internet outage, which result to make the Two-Third (2/3) of the websites down. The issue was not know by the china's internet system administrative which caused the large numbers of website unreachable. During that period, all the users are redirected to the website of Dynamic Internet Technology, a company that offers VPN software to counteract China’s Internet censorship. Bill Xia, President of Dynamic Internet Technology says to South China M…

After the lots of things finally a good news for the Glasgow University. As Whistle blower Edward Snowden has agreed to stand for the post of student rector at Glasgow University in Scotland. As BBC lastly reported that, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was contacted by the group of students through his lawyer, and he agreed for the rector at University in Scotland follow with previous rectors Nelson Mandela’s former wife Winnie Mandela and Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanu…

Just now Facebook have made some tweak change over the Newsfeed algorithm, as the appearance of the status from users and pages. The newest version of the Newsfeed will show fewer text-based status updates from Pages, but will serve more text-based status updates from users. This is good news for the page administrator that, Facebook will be distributing more status updates from the page that are media or link based. This announcement have been just posted on the blog post , as Fac…

Pakistani hacker with the online handle " r00x " from popular hackers group Team Madleets , have once again hacked and defaced the domain registrar site  of Seychelles Islands. Hackers have defaced the home page NIC domain (nic.sc) of the Seychelles Islands. Seychelles Islands is the administer the system registry function and also acts as a local registrar of .SC domains. It provides the domain to the Government, Non-Profit Organisation, NGO's and  educational institut…

Everyone knows about the series of hacking on the Microsoft by Syrian Electronic Army. Firstly SEA hackers have hacked Skype twitter accounts and official blog, and after that hackers have continues there attack by hacking the accounts of   Xbox twitter , Microsoft news twitter , and official blog of  Microsoft. After hacking the above accounts a week ago, Syrian Electronic Army have once again backed with there hack by targeting Microsoft. Today hackers have hacked the Official bl…

Korea leading telecom operator SK Telecom is trying to make even faster in the option of Internet speed. Company trying to give the mobile internet speed upto 300 Mbps. SK Telecom have introduced the world's first LTE- Advanced service in June , and now its has announced that company is rolling out a lightning fast 300 megabits per second (Mbps) service before the end of 2014. As for regular LTE offers a speed of 75 Mbps and with LTE-Advanced technology the data speed will incre…

Recently a huge amount of data theft have been took place with Target , where about 110 million users data have been stolen by the hackers. But this is not only thing, after this another huge data theft case has came forward recently. Another data theft happened with the three credit cards firm of South Korea, on which about 20 million users data have been leaked out of 40 million population country. Personal and financial  data have been stolen by an employee, who worked as temporar…

Recently Google released its latest version of Google chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux, which have  great features on the latest version. After this Google also announced new released for Android and iOS.  The latest version will be available in few days at Google Play and Apple's Apps store. On the latest version, of both Android and iOS have received a data compression features. This means that, now Google will help you to save your pocket on data plans. If you haven't heard…

Before the last year holiday, One of the major cyber attack was took place with " Target ". This is much high and sophisticated hacking attempts done by cyber hackers, where about 110 millions of credit cards and Personal information was stolen. Last week, Target confirms the data breach , ans says that a malicious software was embedded in the point-of-sale (POS), which collects the data and credit card details from each point of counters. TheHackersnews, points that, the m…

Facebook today officially announced the Trending feature s, a new section on your News Feeds. This is one of the awesome features that Facebook was testing from last 2012. Trending features shows the popular post or topics that is getting popular or most number of people are talking about it. This features is same a twitter Trends, that gives the populate tweets or the keyword used by the users. It seems that, Facebook have made this announcement to combat with twitter, and help its us…