February 2014
Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo

Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo

This is bad news for the Mt.Gox users that, after the site goes offline , a new update is that,  the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange market has gone bankrupt. Mt.Gox have filled for bankruptcy protection at the Tokyo District Court. As per the source, company's lawyer says company outstanding debts was 6.5 billion yen ($63.6 million). Mark Karpeles issued a statement on the site homepage saying he is working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution to our re…
Google Introduced Education Tool Oppia for Teaching Others

Google Introduced Education Tool Oppia for Teaching Others

Google launched another interesting helpful educational tool name  " Oppia " , which can help users to create and customize their own online internet activities for learning and teaching, like webinars or a classroom. Currently, the project is an open-source project, and all its code and API are available for free at Google Code . This is not the first time that Google has made a handful of stuff that is also for free, but earlier also Google has launched a Web designing tool fo…
Facebook Kills Messenger for Windows and Firefox

Facebook Kills Messenger for Windows and Firefox

Today Facebook announced the killing of its messenger service on Windows platform. On the desktop messenger apps Facebook have a prompting notification saying the app is shutting down next week on 3rd March. “We’re sorry, but we can no longer support Facebook Messenger for Windows, and it will stop working on March 3, 2014,” message reads on top of the app.    “We really appreciate you using Messenger to reach your friends, and we want to make sure you know that you can keep chatting and v…
A learning experience from Forbes hacking

A learning experience from Forbes hacking

The world’s best information-sharing website Forbes.com is now on the list of successfully infiltrated websites by list Syrian Electronic Army – The #SEA. They are successfully able to get access to Forbes’ email and publishing systems, download email addresses and hashed passwords of millions of users, and post article rights. As we can see such a big name is now on the list of hacked websites, then how small businesses can survive over on internet. It is very shocking for all of us how …
New keylogger vulnerability discovered in IOS

New keylogger vulnerability discovered in IOS

IPhone, and iPad device exposes a new vulnerability that tracks users’ every action with background monitoring. According to FireEye security research, the exploit targets IOS multitasking abilities and catches user inputs. Security researchers at FireEye created a proof =of-concept monitoring app for non-jailbroken IOS 7 device. FireEye has discovered an access that avoids Apple’s application review process efficiently and could exploit non- jailbroken IOS 7 successfully. Below is an imag…
Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline - May Bitcoin Hacked

Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline - May Bitcoin Hacked

Once again one of the world best Bitcoin exchange "Mt. Gox is having a problem on its service. As last month Mt. Gox have temporary shutdown all the transaction of Bitcoin due to some technical reason, now its seems that the whole service is down and website went offline. The rumor is saying that Mt. Gox have been insolvent. Before the website goes down, Mt.Gox, some of the users reported that, Mt.Gox have disabled all the trading on its sites. On of the user of Mt.Gox have posted a …
SanDisk Introduced 128 GB MicroSD card - MWC 2014

SanDisk Introduced 128 GB MicroSD card - MWC 2014

This is another big things introduce in the Mobile World Congress that, San Disk - a leading manufacturer of flash memory cards for imaging, computing, mobile, and gaming devices, have introduced a new of their products - a 128 GB of Micro SD card, whose  capacity double that of today’s cards. Now you will not have to slums with the 64 GB Micro SD cards. This might be strange to some of you all, but thats happens at MWC 2014 . San Disk had made the 128 GB in a small chip. Its unclear th…
Nokia’s Android Dual-Sim Smartphones Launched: Nokia X, Nokia X+ & Nokia XL :- MWC 2014

Nokia’s Android Dual-Sim Smartphones Launched: Nokia X, Nokia X+ & Nokia XL :- MWC 2014

So finally waits is over. At MWC 2014 Nokia officially launched its new Nokia X Android smartphone. The much-rumored was talking about it and here it arrived.  Nokia named it the Nokia X family, an Android-based phone of +Nokia India . This family refers to the other two smartphones that Nokia introduces at MWC 2014 Event . There are totally three smartphones in the X series , which are named the Nokia X , X+ , and XL . All these smartphones are based on Android Phones . Although it is ba…
MWC 2014: LG G Pro 2 and G2 mini officially Announced

MWC 2014: LG G Pro 2 and G2 mini officially Announced

This is great news for all the mobile lover that, from today Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC 2014) is been live, so this week it will be week of Mobile Phones, as many of the Mobile company's is going to unveiled there new products on the MWC 2014. In this meet only, Samsung can announce its biggest unpack of the year, and Nokia can announced its first prototype Android phone a.k.a "Normandy". Additionally other companies will also make the several debut of its products. So b…
EC Council website hacked - Full Details over the Hack

EC Council website hacked - Full Details over the Hack

This is another big security issue for the organisation that provides a world class certification of Ethical Hacking, " EC council ". EC Council is the same organisation that provides the multiple security expert certification along with Ethical Hacker , which is acceptable world wide. And today the same organisation have failed to secure there own website. Today, a hacker name as " Eugene Belford " (A character from the movie "Hackers" ) have hacked and …
Back Track announced of its Closing

Back Track announced of its Closing

This is another bad news for the all the hackers and the Security Pentester that one of the popular and favorite Linux distro and pentesting operating system is going to end its era. The project funded by the  +Offensive Security   and with the helpful hand of the other famous researcher, hackers, Programmers and Codders. On the official site of Back Track (www.backtrack-linux.org) community have post the message stating the following BackTrack Linux is no longer being maintained. P…
Opera offers free mobile internet if you view adverts

Opera offers free mobile internet if you view adverts

One of the popular browser maker Opera have announced a nice features for all its users. Opera is now making its users to earn free internet for watching its ads. After it introduced Sponsored Web Pass , a new version of its pay-as-you-go Web Pass service that effectively gives phone owners free mobile Internet in exchange for watching sponsored messages/advertisement. Company's stats that they are having the 350 million users worldwide of opera. On the advertising offer, they adde…
Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone

Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone

Google today announced  Project Tango , an android-based Prototype 5 phone with a developer kit featured with advanced 3D sensors via Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team. The firm is planning to send about 200 developer kits to software developers on 14th March, for creating a new experience with hardware. Project topics include “indoor navigation/mapping, single/multiplayer games that use physical space, and new algorithms for processing sensor data.” Those developers who beli…
Facebook Acquires Whatsapp for $16 Billion

Facebook Acquires Whatsapp for $16 Billion

Yesterday, another popular mobile chat service "Whatsapp" have been acquired by world biggest social network Facebook. The announcement was made on the blog post of Facebook, and deals of acquisition was worth of $16 billion. The deals includes $4 billion in cash and $12 Billion in Facebook shares. At the time of Acquisition Whatsapp have recorded up an impressive 450 million of active monthly users and which is rapidly growing by 1 Million of new registered account on daily…
Lenovo, Toshiba Will NOT Offer Warranty On Online Purchased Products

Lenovo, Toshiba Will NOT Offer Warranty On Online Purchased Products

As like Netgear and Nikon last year, who have already announced to refused to provide warranty over its products purchased from online ecommerce sites. It seems they are not the only ones who seem to be doing it. Even Lenovo has also announced the same thing to its customer. Lenovo announced that ecommerce sites like Snapdeal, Flipcart and Amazon are not there official distributor, and the products sold out from these stores will not have any Warranty coverage, reported by BGR . Le…
Microsoft Officail Announced SkyDrive as a OneDrive

Microsoft Officail Announced SkyDrive as a OneDrive

As we have reported last month that, Microsoft is renaming its Skydrive to OneDrive, and today Microsoft finally announced its the change in the brand name of its product. Users of SkyDrive will not have any kind of the problem while accessing there files, Users can simply logged-in to OneDrive and access there existence files. At the same time, Microsoft is using its legal requirement to change the name as an opportunity to push its marketing message as well as add some new features. …
District Education Office, Surat website Hacked and defaced

District Education Office, Surat website Hacked and defaced

Its again and again hacks are coming up from the hackers of both countries, India and Pakistan. As it like, hackers are playing with the each other countries security. After the earlier hack of national Portal of India from Pakistan side, and just after that comes the hack of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority website from Indian hackers, now again another government portal has been hacked by the well know Pakistani hacker group, "Pakistan Haxors Crew". Hackers with the online han…
Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority hacked by Indian Cyber Rakshak

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority hacked by Indian Cyber Rakshak

Just an hour ago we have reported that, Pakistani hacker have hacked the National Portal of India , which really raise the question on the security issue of the country. This is one of the worst day for the India, which shows the security level of the country. On the other hand, another hackers group from India " Indian Cyber Rakshak " have also breached the security of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority website. Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority is a Public sector …
National Portal of India hacked by Pakistani hacker

National Portal of India hacked by Pakistani hacker

It is another big question for the Indian Cyber Security and Indian NIC administrator, that just a minutes ago hackers group from Pakistan "ZHC" have hacked Official Portal of the Government of India i.e "National Portal of India" (india.gov.in). Hackers have managed to gain access to the National Portal of India and had added a message written post on the site directory. (http://india.gov.in/content/zhc-was-here) On the message hackers says, Owns Ind…
Two Sub-domains of BSNL hacked and defaced

Two Sub-domains of BSNL hacked and defaced

This is not the first time that Indian Telecom giants ( BSNL ) site have been hacked and defaced. Today, just a minutes ago, Pakistani hacker with the online  handle ,  "P4K-M4D-HUNT3R-Z" have hacked and defaced two sub-domains of BSNL. The sub-domains belongs to the "Value Added Service" and another belongs to the "BSNL International Roaming".  As like other deface site from  Pakistani hacker , which contains the message belongs to free Kashmir, this one …
Two students arrested for hacking, Rs 8 lakh fraud

Two students arrested for hacking, Rs 8 lakh fraud

Once again another Two IT student have been caught by the Indian Authorities for hacking. After carrying out the investigation for two and a half months, Indian Cyber Crime Department have arrested two IT perusing student from Shimla (India). They have been charged for Data Infosys e-processing system and fraudulently recharging BSNL's pre-paid mobile phones worth Rs 8 lakh. Student who's name are Kulshrestha Varma and Hardik Sud, are the student of APG University's IT …
Dropbox is now unblocked in China

Dropbox is now unblocked in China

So here is the black out for China is over, as today once of the best cloud file hosting service Dropbox have been unblocked in China. This is the first time after the launch at 2010 that Dropbox is available in China. Its been not cleared Why and for how long the service will be available, as we haven't got any kind of announcement or a statement from Dropbox.. It may be found that Dropbox business is surge in China also. But may Dropbox will not get that much response in China as…
Google Acquires SlickLogin, The Sound-Based Password

Google Acquires SlickLogin, The Sound-Based Password

This is another great steps from Google, that Google have acquires " SlickLogin " , a startup that lets users use a sound emitted by their smartphone for Login to users accounts. The acquisition is confirmed by a notice on the company’s site , where they say that they’ll be joining Google in their efforts to “make the Internet safer for everyone”. Ori & Eran, from SlickLogin team says on there site regarding the acquisition, Today we`re announcing that the SlickLogin team is…
Kickstarter Hacked, Change Your Passwords Now

Kickstarter Hacked, Change Your Passwords Now

Earlier on Wednesday, another crowd funding company "Kickstarter" have to faced with the data breached . Today on the blog post, kickstarter have confirmed the breached of its system. They have notified the issue to the law enforcement that hackers have gained access to the private customer information. Company have apologized for the incident and notify its users to immediately change there passwords of the accounts and ensure that any other accounts that use the same passw…
Hacker Claims to removed Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook  Cover Photo

Hacker Claims to removed Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Cover Photo

Mark Zuckerberg Hacked This is another big story that comes out today that, Egyptian Hacker with the nickname ' Dr.FarFar ', claimed that he has hacked Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Profile and removed the Cover Photo using a private exploit, reported by THN . In the meantime after checking the Mark Zuckerberg profile, we can see that Zuck Timeline Cover Photo is removed. THN have reported that they have got a mail which states that hackers have used his private exploit and…
Lebanese Parliament Government Website Hacked and Defaced

Lebanese Parliament Government Website Hacked and Defaced

The official website of Lebanese Parliament government (www.lp.gov.lb) have been hacked and defaced by the Syria hackers today. A hacker going with the online handle Sn!per HoMs, W!nZ and V!ct0r security,  have took the credit for the hack, as posted on the deface page. Hackers have wrote a message on Arabic language at deface page, whose translation says the following In the name of God the Merciful .. hello dear Lebanese people .. Yes, today we have been able to reach the bottom …