Archive for category: Hacking News
Virgin Media suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its website at the hands of The Pirate Bay supporters yesterday. The Virgin Media website was taken down during the DDoS attack, which lasted one hour from 5pm last night. It is believed that the attack occurred as a protest against the internet service provider (ISP) blocking users’ access [...]
Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks out from his glass-walled workspace onto “Hacker Square,” an outdoor space where “H-A-C-K” is spelled out in concrete. All-night “hackathons” are held at Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus to hatch new products. Rather than discuss advertising revenue or market share in Facebook’s recent IPO filing, Zuckerberg waxed poetic about the idealism of “The Hacker [...]
A group of supposedly Filipino hackers defaced several Chinese websites on Sunday following the hacking of the University of the Philippines’ website days before. The Chinese government website gh.rc.gov.cn had the image of the Philippine map and flag with the text “You got f****d by the Philippines! Spratlys Island is OURS!” The hacking was done a day after the UP [...]
A student in New Hampshire has been disciplined after hacking into school computers to change his grades. The unnamed youth may also have taken the opportunity the change the grades of his schoolmates. His hi-tech antics have been compared to film character Ferris Bueller, who famously broke in to school computers to change the number of sick days he had [...]
If you tried to used your VISA credit or debit card around the City of Hazelwood on Sunday and it was declined there are two reason: you either didn’t have the correct amount of cash or line of credit; or your are one of many who experienced VISA’s outage. No, it wasn’t the company’s attempt at humor. A technical problem [...]
Members of the Team Nuts & Ap3x_nd_h4ck0 group are claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 secrets pornography websites. They started their campaign on March 2012 and found a cache of child-pornography websites while browsing a secret website, a guidebook to hundreds of underground websites invisible to search engines and regular internet users. # “my-sextoys.net” a Porn website Hacked By Indian Hackers Yash [...]
Anonymous-OS was made to give a better environment to hack websites. It is based on Ubuntu 11.10. This anonymous-OS has already register there project to Source-forge. You can download and create Live CD or boot able flash drive using UnetBootin. This operating system have cool features and helping tools to enhance your hacking skills . Lets take a look on [...]
About two dozen websites of Rajasthan govt. were hacked by pak hackers in last 2days, including portals of sensitive departments. According to official sources and IT experts, this has come about because of a poor security system and unawareness about the latest technology. Hackers have either stolen the data of these departments, including finance and mining, or deleted them. All sites were [...]
Round about 112 indian government websites, including those of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance, were hacked in the last three months, minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The website of state-owned telecom operator BSNL was attacked on December 4, by a Pakistani hacker group called [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Anonymous defended WikiLeaks when it was facing a funding cutoff, but the release of the Stratfor emails appears to be the first direct collaboration between the hackers and the anti-secrecy site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was coy about the source of the more than five million emails from the Texas-based private intelligence firm which his secret-spilling site [...]