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South Korean authorities have found a evidence of low-risk computer "malware" infecting the  one of the system of nuclear plant control systems. As the malware was of low-risk, hence no critical or harmful virus were found on the reactor control.  There's no evidence that the malware copied itself over onto the system, and there's also no indication that the program would have had harmful effects if it had made it onto the systems. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co Ltd s…

Kim Dotcom, founder of the file sharing site Mega.nz have announced something great and awesome thing today. As Kim on twitter mention that his company is soon going to launch the browser based chat service. Initailly on the tweet, Dotcom have called this new service as MegaChat, but may this will not be the final name of the service. Kim Dotcom have mentioned  on the tweet that the service will be encrypted, browser-based, and offer “high-speed” file transfers: Mega will soon release…

After the unexpected announcement of the Windows 10, without the announcement of version 9, Microsoft have another unexpected big thing for its users. Soon Microsoft is going to kill its 20 years old browser Internet Explorer.  As Microsoft latest version of the windows i.e Windows 10 which is going to release till middle of 2015 will may not have Internet Explorer. According to the ZDNet  report , Microsoft is going to change the whole look and function of its browsers (introducing totall…

Google's new bot prevention reCaptcha is not much secure as companies described on its launch. A security company Shield Square wrote that Google algorithm is not much good and is easy for bots to bypass the spam free security product "reCaptcha". Early this month on 3rd, Google have announced its new bot-detecting Captcha form called No Captcha reCaptchas. This is awesome and great technique that was introduced in place of old Captcha which was text and number based.  …

It seems that coming year 2015 will be the great year for Indian internet users as Google may makes a history over Indian Internet. According to the initials reports its is indicating that Google is going to introduce its fasted 1 GBps internet speed "Google Fiber" service in India. There is a discussion on this matter between the IT Ministry and Google Fiber team to bring this amazing optical fiber based broadband services in India. Google Fiber is Google’s own broadband serv…

If you are currently on PlayStation or Xbox and having issue with the service then don't get worried as you are not alone facing issue with the playing stations service. Users from the world wide have reported that they are having the service interruption with Xbox and Play Stations.  As a week ago also, PlayStation was offline because of cyber attacks done by the hackers group called Lizard Squad . And today's also hackers group have taken the responsibility for the service inte…

After so much of things happen with Sony Pictures finally company have release its movie "The Interview". Movie is available for rental on a variety of digital platforms including Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft's Xbox Video and a separate Sony website ( SeeTheInterview.com ) beginning Wednesday. Earlier after the hackers, Guardian of Peice (GOP) warned Sony have pulled out the release of the movie but later on companies decided to release it some of the selected the…

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As the whole month is going with the talk of Sony Hack, and this was very devastating breach. Sony have face tonnes of data lose and also pull back the release of its movie "The Interview". The hack investigator FBI have official announced, North Korea is behind the Sony Pictures hack. Yesterday, North Korea was reported to be offline and total state was back to the Stone age. Report says that there was a cyber attack over North Korea which makes it completely offline. Accordin…

After the recent hack in Sony pictures's servers by Hacker Group called Gurdians or Peace Sony Pictures is reportedly attacking DDOS against file sharing sites, pastebin and torrent sites. On 24th November Sony Pictures windows based Pcs got hacked by a green skull and days later few unreleased movies started to show up in the file sharing sites. The hacker group collected about 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures Servers including movies, musics and private information. In the …

After FBI blame North Korea for the Sony hack , yet another updates for Sony Pictures. As group of hackers - identifies them as "Guardian of Piece" have warned Sony not to release "The Interview" movie publicly, file sharing giant BitTorrent have came with the intriguing offer to Sony Pictures. As Sony have pull out the release of upcoming movie "The Interview" which  prompted the hack. CNN reported that Sony executives received an email from the hackers grou…

Today, Federal Bureau of Investigation formally pointed the finger at North Korea for the Sony hack . After the weeks of investigation finally authority have point out the attacker behind the Sony Pictures hack. With the devastating attack  that Sony Pictures had faced earlier last month, brings Sony under the knee in front of hackers group, who called themselves Guardian of Piece (GOP). The recent updates says that Sony have pull out the release of "The Interview" in response …

The famous Pakistani hackers team " Team Madleets " have back with their hack. This time group have hacked the official blog of Payza. Hackers going with the online alias MindCracker and H3ll D have defaced the site. The news of the hack was announced via a twitter tweets. Payza is the online payment platform lets you send and receive money, shop, make online payments or get paid from almost anywhere in the world. Hackers left the blog page defaced with the screenshot image sh…

In the early morning,  pro hackers group " Syrian Electronic Army " have once again targeted western online media site. This time SEA hackers group have hacked the International Business Times website and removed a story titled “The Syrian Army Is Shrinking, And Assad Is Running Out Of Soldiers.” Hackers have deleted the IBT post which contains the wrong information about the Syria (hackers claim) and posted the another post with the titled  Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army …

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced that its system was compromised by a phishing attack. Some of the staff of ICANN fell victim to a spear phishing attack.  The phishing mail was designed to look like it came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to members of its staff. Email credentials of several ICANN staff members were obtained.   ICANN said that the attackers had gained administrative access to some of ICANN’s systems, including its Centralized…

Attacks from the Ransomware is not a new things and earlier also we have noted many Ransomware attacks cyber cyber criminals. Mostly cyber criminals targets US, UK and Japan users with its malicious activity. However, the holidays is going on and this is good time for the cyber criminals to get their victim, as on holiday users surfs  internet for shopping and other things. Symantec security team have found another variants of Ransomware in the wild that was designed to target users who …

It another security updates for the WordPress CMS users that a widespread malware attack campaign that has already compromised more than 100,000 websites worldwide and still counting.  Security service providing service Sucuri, which have earlier also reported many critical security vulnerability on WordPress have once again reported that Google has    blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru and thus malware dubbed as ‘ SoakSoak Malware ’. …

Popular online media publication "Arstechnica" have got hacked , yesterday. There was no news about the hack as the hack was for few minutes, But Arstechnica, itself have confirmed and reported that one of the Ars web sever had been hacked.  The unknown hacker have firstly hacked into the Ars web server and spent the next hours attempting to get from web server to a more central machine . After a successful exploitation and gaining access to the central server hacker have deface…

Sony Pictures sent a letter to several media outlets Sunday demanding they delete troves of emails delivered by hackers that resulted in an immense information dump which exposed the private dealings of the studio.. The New York Times and other online media have got the letter from David Boies, an attorney hired by Sony asking to take down the published information from the hacked emails. He mentioned that the information published from the hacked emails is termed as Stolen data.  The…

In the response of the seizure of the popular torrents site "ThePiratesBay" , Anonymous hacktivist group have hacked the Swedish government email accounts. Moreover hacktivist group have also claimed to hacked  into the government email accounts of Israel, India, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. On the twitter hacker group have tweeted about the hack along with the pastebin links which contains the leaked emails accounts with the plain password. At the end of the pastebin hackers …

Another popular hacker group "Anon Ghost" continues there hack with the website defacement. From last 6 to 8 months hackers group has been seen active and hacked numbers of websites including some high profiled organisation sites also. Today  morning hackers group have hacked and defaced one of the sub-domain of the Sourceforge.net ( http://crchr.sourceforge.net ) . On the deface page hackers have wrote the following message along with the flash video playing on background. Gre…

If you are also thinking that adding "Dislike button" on Facebook is not a good idea then may you are probably true. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg   was planning to introduced to have a  Dislike button in Facebook but later on he dropped the idea and stick only with "Like" option. "I don't think there needs to be a voting mechanism about whether posts are good or bad," said Zuckerberg during a second public Q&A . "I don't think that's socia…

Last month security breach of Sony Pictures was getting worse for the company, where its all office computers were made offline and hackers also leaked a large amount of Sony's important information. Now the same type of attack has also been reported. This time cyber hackers have targeted the Casino operators Las Vegas Sands Corp. Reports say that Iran hackers are behind the attack and hackers have used a highly destructive malware in the hack attempt. The malware was just 150 line c…

The security experts  team Rapid7 , who are the developers of one of the popular security testing framework " Melasploit " have announced something unexpected. Rapid7 community have made an announcement to kill the most popular and powerful utilities of Metasploit Framework i.e. msfpayload and msfencode . On the blogpost Wei Chein, member of Metasploit's development teams have made the decision of deprecating msfpayload and msfencode on th behalf of developer community. "…

Its going to be a years that Yahoo had announced its bug bounty programs, and the bounty programs had really helped the firm/organisation and the researcher too. Regarding the security scope Yahoo always gives prior importance, and also to its users privacy. Recently Yahoo had announced end-to-end encryption to its mail service (Ymail), added SSL by default  and also implements encryption between data centers. A Canadian security  researcher, Jordan Milne had found a Cross Domain Policy …

Three months back YouTube  had announced that the video sharing site will be  available offline in India, and here is the commitment done. After adding the Material Design features, Google have made another latest announcement for YouTube's Android App. YouTube has launched the YouTube Offline service in three place, India, Indonesia and Filipino. The features allows users to download videos to their Android or iOS device for later consumption without internet connectivity.  Google st…

The security breached faced by the Sony Pictures couple of weeks ago is getting more nasty as we think. The hackers group named Guardians of Peace (GoP), who had taken the responsibility of the hack had continuously leaked the confidential data and information related to the Company. And now gain they have added one more leak on the series of Sony leak list. This time hackers have came with the huge leak of sensitive, confidential documents revealing celebrity contact details and upco…

If you like to download stuff from internet and specially from popular torrent site ThePiratesBay then you might have face problem with Pirates bay. The reasons behind this is that Swedish Police reportedly raided premises in Stockholm containing the service’s servers. This raid took the PiratesBay totally offline. According to Torrentfreak, Swedish authorities confirmed that local police completed a raid in Stockholm this morning. Paul Pintér, police national coordinator for IP enforceme…

Researchers from Security Explorations report that they have found multiple serious vulnerabilities in the Java environment of the Google App Engine, part of the Google Cloud Platform, which can lead to bypass critical security sandbox protection. Google App Engine is Google’s PaaS (Platform as a Service) Cloud computing Platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. GAE offers to run custom-built programs using a wide variety of popular languages an…