More than 199 Indian govt websites defaced in last 6 months !

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation CBI was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites wer...

Manchu Manoj Email ID Hacked !

Collection king Mohanbabu's son Manchu Manoj's email id was hacked last week. The star who came back from USA recently after treatment for his arm injury was in for a shock when his email id was hacked. Sources say the hacker even chat with Manoj's friends online. Manoj rectified the problem but...

Online security losing cyber battle !

THE internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia's easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based internet security watcher and...

3G technology will increase cyber crime !

Cyber Crime has now reached to hacking information from the mobile phones. The 3G technology recently launched by the mobile service providers is in much rage nowadays. The 3G technology allows a user to access internet on a good quality network on the cellphone. As such hackers will now target t...

Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) Website Hacked !

The Maldives National Defence Force MNDF has confirmed that its website was hacked last night by an unknown attacker. Major Abdul Raheem today confirmed that the MNDF was made aware of an attack this morning after checking its website. "Currently our website is down, and we are trying to fix it,"...

After The Hack: Tips For Working With Local Law Enforcement

SAN FRANCISCO–If you are in business long enough, you’re going to get hacked and you’re going to have to call the cops. Maybe you’ll need their help finding the perpetrators of a crime in which your business was victimized. Maybe employees will have conducted a crime involving IT, or maybe you’ll...

Chinese man flip-flops on hacking claims in McAfee Report !

A Chinese technician quoted by U.S. Internet security firm McAfee Inc. as informing that hackers from China had attacked a number of US oil and gas companies over the past years has denied claims attributed to him in the 19-page report released on Thursday. In a telephone interview to the Wall...

Ahmedabad Police register FIR in email hacking case !

The city crime branch hasregistered an FIR based on allegation by Rais Khan, a formeraide of social activist Teesta Setalwad, that his emailaccount was hacked. "An FIR has been registered in connection with thealleged hacking of email account of Khan," DCP crime branchHimanshu Shukla told PTI. Th...

Maruti CEO's email hacked, two Nigerians detained for hacking !

The Gurgaon badge accept bedfast two Nigerians for hacking into the email of auto above Maruti Suzuki's managing administrator and arch controlling administrator CEO Shinzo Nakanishi and sending affected job offers to aspirants. According to sources, the badge accept asked the suspects to accoute...

Russian hacker steals $10 million from a former Royal Bank of Scotland !

A 27-year old Russian hacker pleaded accusable to burglary $10 actor from a above Royal Bank of Scotland analysis aback in 2008, and he's apprehension a adjudication and sentencing at the end of this or at the alpha of the abutting week. The balloon is captivated in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and th...

Gang stole credit card details of US Citizens !

The cyber abomination badge arrested four youths, who had purchased cottony sarees account over Rs 17 lakh by application baseborn acclaim agenda capacity and agreement orders online. The youths, three of them engineers, had become accompany while alive in a arch alarm centre in the city. While o...

Uttar Pradesh ATS To Investigate The Hacking of Gramin Bank Website !

Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad will investigate piracy Ballia-Etawah Gramin Bank site would have been committed by a Pakistani organization, a police official said today. The survey was delivered to the ATS unit Varanasi as it was a case of cyber crime and there is a suspicion on the...

Why Takedowns Don't Reduce Online Crime

The last year has seen a string of takedowns of botnet command-and-control servers, malware drop zones, spam operations and other pieces of the crimeware infrastructure, each of which made a dent in one way or another. But the question of whether the takedowns have had any lasting effect on the...

Attack Knocks Mail and Guardian Web Site Offline

The Web site of The Mail & Guardian, a leading news outlet in South Africa, was off line on Wednesday after what the paper claims were “sustained attacks” by hackers, reportedly based in Russia. The paper pulled down its Web site, which had begun hosting malicious content and posted a message...

You Have $ 500? You Can Buy A Hack For The Site Of U.S. Army !

If you are a criminal looking for total control of the World Wide Web, used by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command CECOM, you can get it for just under $ 500 U.S. Or so we offer underground hackers in the forums. security provider Imperva found on the black market sales pitch on...

The World Now, "Third Age" Cyber Crime !

The year 2010 was a crime of great team and could prove to mark the beginning of a "third age" of computer crimes, security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos, said before the review of the latest threats Company year. The first period was marked by amateur hackers and virus creation on the PC, the...

PandaLabs Uncovers the Cyber-Crime Black Market

Inventory is growing and prices are dropping on the cyber crime black market, according to a new report from security firm Panda Labs. Stolen banking credentials, malicious programs and stolen credit cards are all for sale online in what Panda experts say is a flourishing criminal black market...

Cisco: More Threats To Apple, Mobile Devices In 2011

Data suggests that 2010 was a year of “more of the same” when it comes to computer threats, but 2011 likely won’t be, at least according to networking giant Cisco Systems, which released its Annual Security Report on Wednesday. Cisco’s annual report on the state of security reiterated findings fr...

Economic offences, cyber crime set to rise !!

Due to an increase in computer usage in private as well as the government sector, the police recorded a sharp rise in cyber crime last year. A desktop computer is a staple in most households, and use of laptops, net books and smart phones are a rage among everyone — from kids aged six to senior...

Anthony Scott Harrison suspended jail for capturing baking details from 2000 computers !

An Adelaide computer hacker has received a suspended jail term after infecting more than 2000 computers worldwide with a program to capture banking details. Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, used the internet to teach himself the necessary hacking and programming skills to launch his attack in 2009, bu...