Cyber Kendra

Just a few minutes back, the official web-portal of Pakistan Nation (pakistan.com) has been hacked . It is not clear who had hacked the site but this is not the hack for deface. Hacker have not defaced the site, but he/she have added a message on the site, with the troll image of Pakistan politician. Hackers have added a post/ page with the title - ' MESSAGE OF THE GULLU-E-AZAM' ( http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/gop/message.html ) on the site. The message contains the troll or cartoon …

Last week Syria's stock exchange website were inaccessable and reason behind the site is offline is hackers have DDoS it. A hacker group called Project Viridium have claimed that they have took down the website of Syria's stock exchange and hackers also claims that they have access to the database of stock exchange. Hackers says that they will leak the exchange's database unless president Bashar al-Assad takes military action against the Islamic State. On the twitter post gro…

Mozilla Security team have made a announcement that about 97,000 users emails address and encrypted password of Bugzilla users were accidentally disclosed. On the blogpost , Mark Cote Assistant Project Lead, Bugzilla, have made the confirmation about the data disclosure of 97,000 Bugzilla users. Bugzilla is a bug-tracking software system widely used by many organizations, and Mozilla team also use it for its bug tracking system. With the explanation to the scenario Cote says- “One of…

Accidentally Australian Federal Police (AFP) had made a nasty mistake as they have exposed some of the confidential information about their investigation to the public for several years because the organization failed to edit the documents before publishing online. The reports which are provided by the AFP to the Senate, which were later on made published on the Parliamentary sites contains the details about criminal investigations and communication interception operations. All these data…

An Indian hacker going with the online handle Sahoo , have hacked and defaced the website of two popular university, Stanford University site and  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) website . In this hack hacker have defaced two domains of Stanford University, one is official domain and another is sub-domain of the university, and a sub-domains of MIT. SaHoo told us via email that he is not affiliated with any hacker group and the hack is not for any fame, he just wanted to remin…

One of the popular hacking forum "Hackforums.net" has been hacked and defaced by the Egyptian hacker with the online handle  Eg-R1z. Till yet it is not been cleared yet how hacker have managed to hack the forum and which type of vulnerability hacker has been exploited. Till yet we don't have much information about the hack, but with the deface message from says that hacker is warning to the HackForums admin about the security. On the deface page  hackers wrote - &…

Yesterday something strange happens with Google image search, users from world wide reported that Google image search is only showing repeated images of a car accident, alongside intermittent pictures of NBA star Kevin Durant. The news was first reported by Times Magazine , which says many of the users got a picture of Russian car crashing on the Google image search. While searching for any anything on Google Image search, as example "Puppy" the search result showed images of car…

Yet another Snowden leaked documents reveals more secrets of the U.S National Surveillance Agency , and this one is quite unexpected. According to The Intercept post, the National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records of users. These records includes the phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, that NSA have recorded. These data were di…

A group of hackers deployed a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sunday on Sony services, partially disrupting access to its networks for plenty of gamers. The DDoS attack was done with 263.35 Gbps of junk traffic. John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), tweeted yesterday that Sony was under a massive DDoS attack, saying that games were impacted and that the bad traffic was being filtered with the help of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Initially ma…

Now this really makes Google employees to work over time in the Google office as the stats revealed the unexpected things. The trend proves that the music and movie industries are increasingly concerned about getting Google to play the role of “Internet police.” The main point which makes really shocking that, Google is getting 1 million request each for content remove. The reports from TorrentFreak says that Google has processed for the very first time, over 1 million requests per day, a…

From last couple of month Anonymity tool Tor is getting many vulnerability reports and there are many government organisation, who is trying to break the security of Tor network. From starting only NSA is looking for the security loopholes on Tor Network and now Russia have also announced a reward for the hackers who breaks the Tor Network for them. But you will not believe with the new information that comes from the BBC , as Andrew Lewman, Executive Director for the Tor Project, said tha…

In the last report we have posted that Windows 9 could be available for free and in the launch of Windows 9 there are many rumors going on. As earlier Zdnet have reported that the preview version of the latest version of the Windows is going to be announced in next month or early in October. And now another report from TheVerge stats that software maker is going to announced the preview version of Windows 9. Company gave the codename "Threshold" to the upcoming version of the Wi…

It is believed that the group of hackers who are behind the year's biggest data breach of Target and other retails shops have now hacked into the 51 UPS Stores across United States. According to the report published by the company on Wednesday, stats that people who have used their debit or credit cards at UPS Stores between Jan. 20, 2014 and Aug. 11, 2014 may have gotten their data stolen.  UPS mention that out of 4,470 stores 51 stores had malware installed after receiving a governm…

On Monday, 18 August, it was revealed by US hospital operator Community Health Systems that they have suffered from data breaches . In this breach, hackers have stolen the personal data of the hospital's employees and of patients too that includes patient names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers. The company says the data was stolen in attacks that occurred between April and June 2014 and the hackers gained access to data from anybody who were referred f…

After Google, which is the only company providing 1Gbps internet speed, now  another is going to add  in the list of providing 1Gbps internet connection. On Wednesday, AT&T have announced that now the company will also provide the 1Gbps internet connection in Cupertino, the home of tech giant Apple, and will get the ultra high speed. In the announcement AT&T says that Silicon Valley will the first city to get the 1Gbps broadband connection. As AT&T is already offering    th…

There was continuously rumors going on from last couple of months about the new "Samsung Galaxy Mega 2". And here once again, another leak from GSM arena shows the speculations of Galaxy mega 2. The latest leaks points out that Galaxy Mega 2 will have quad-core processor of 1.5 GHz and with the 8 megapixel rear camera. New leaked from GSM Arena specs is different from that of earlier rumors, so we also take it another rumor until the official announcement by Samsung. According…

Everyone knows about the Fiverr.com, which is one of the most popular online market place where people sell their service for $5. There are million of users that using Fiverr but do you know that a single security flaw put all millions of users at risk. Yeah.. the same have happened, as a security researcher Mohamed Abdelbaset from Egypt have discovered a critical security flaw , CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability on Fiverr.com, which leads to hijack any of the fiverr account…

Windows 9 is probably the hottest topic for the Microsoft community these days, even though the Redmond-based software giant is working on updates for many other products. As like earlier everyone is interested and looking for the new reveals from Microsoft. According to the Net Application statistic currently 90 percent of the desktop PCs worldwide is using Windows. So there are huge Widows users who are looking for the new version of the Windows.Till yet Microsoft have not says a singl…

Disqus, one of the popular comment and discussion service, that is used by more than 70 million websites on the Internet has fixed some of the critical security flaw including a CSRF bug. The vulnerabilities affects all versions of the plugin up to 2.75. There were three vulnerabilities that has been patched in version 2.76 of Disqus plugin and among that CSRF flaw was the critical bug. CSRF vulnerability was in the manage.php module of the plugin. CSRF flaws are quite common in web appli…

Google have announced its customized version of its Android operating system "Android One" specially for low-end hardware phones at last Google I/O in June. And here is the good for all Indian user that Google with its three hardware partners Micromax,  Karbonn, and Spice will going to launch its Android One phones in September. All these Google hardware partner will use this Android One OS in their phones without modifying it, it gives the touch similar to the Google Nexus. But …

As last week Google have introduced a new Latin character on Gmail , and now once again Google have announced another change in order to keep the spam content out. With the adding of Latin characters, spammers or scammers trying to send misleading or harmful messages by abusing the feature. On the blog post Google explain, how Scammers can exploit the fact as- ဝ , ૦ , and ο look nearly identical to the letter o , and by mixing and matching them, they can hoodwink unsuspecting victims.…

Adobe team have just released the security updates of there several products which includes updates for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. On this update, Adobe release the seven security fix for the Flash player and one for other each. Company says that Windows users are affected with this vulnerability and they recommends there users to updates as soon as possible as is being exploited in the wild. The lone vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader for Windows could allow an attacker to …

One of the popular ecommerce site eBay went offline  for large numbers of users through out the Europe. Many users from the Europe side have report the downtime issue in social networks. It seems that even now also eBay has not recovered well and still inaccessible to many of the users in several European nations. You can check the status of the downtime in the site Downdetector. The graph shows the details of 24 hours and it is clear that from last night eBay goes down and today between …

Blackphone , which is special made with the concerns for  users privacy and claimed to be the most secure phone and also called as NSA-Proof has just got rooted within 5 minutes at the ongoing BlackHat Security conference. Researcher with the twitter handle @TeamAndIRC have tweeted the claim report for rooting the Blackphone. Researcher have rooted the phone in a simple way that he didn't need to unlock the device bootloader also. The hacker even mocked Blackphone’s team by saying t…

May Russian citizens are losing all the freedom over internet, as after the several censorship over social network and also trying to taking control over the citizen for using internet, now another issue have been came out. One of the most popular software that almost every user have into there system "Java", showing the censor message to the Russian users. Many of the users in Russia reporting that the attempts to install Java are being redirected to a error page which says th…

There are many jailbreaking community that provides there different ways to jailbreak Apple device. And here one more Pangu team have  released the latest version of the iphone jailbreaking tool, which can jailbroke the iPhone 5S that is running on iOS 7.1.2. Currently Pangu is the only tool that is available to jailbroke the iPhone 5S which is running in iOS 7.1.2. With the new release of the iOS 8 there may be little chance to jailbroke the iOS device, as Apple team is continuous work…

This is not the new thing that cyber criminals are targeting Facebook users continuously and with the popularity of Facebook and getting the tonnes of users in place makes it prior target of hackers. Earlier also many time hackers and scammers have targeted Facebook users via there new cheats and scams. And now once again they are back. China based internet firm Cheetah Mobile CM Security Researcher lab has detected a new security threat that targets Facebook users to spread malic…

With the recent largest data breach puts the another question on online security. Data breach can be from both side i.e. User and Service providers. If there is a security loopholes in the service providers (Company) infrastructure then this is a calling to the hackers and if user have the simple and same password of several accounts then also its the same. Here some internet security tips  by which users can make their online accounts security strong and secure. 1. Use of Complex passwor…