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A group of Internet activists claimed that they had intruded the data of American bankers successfully. Later on the U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed the news. The hackers said to have come across e-mail addresses and phone numbers of members. The U.S. Federal Reserve admits having been a victim of hacking. A spokeswoman for the central bank conceded [...]
Computer experts have put on a warning on the internet on the occasion of the “Safer Internet Day” (February 5) and have urged users to pay extra caution. Nowadays a lot of spams and malware are present on the internet which affects the regular working of the PC’s, tablets and laptops. The drive-by downloads, considered [...]
Its has been almost two weeks since the launch of MEGA and now, the site has come up with a vulnerability reward program. Kim Dotcom today announced the bug reward program, offering price money to anyone who breaks through the MEGA’s encryption. MEGA is awarding amounts up to $13,660 per bug, depending upon the potential impact of that bug. It is an attempt to [...]
Sony has been penalized with £250,000 ($396,100) by British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Compromised user privacy was cited as the reason behind penalty. The security measures of the PlayStation network were not sufficient to secure the personal data of players including their name, online ID, password, e-mail address, postal address and date of birth along with PSN. Sony has shut down the PlayStation network for [...]
Online hacktivist group Anonymous has defaced the website of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and left a tribute message to the late activist, Aaron Swartz. Aaron, an activist of free trade networks and Reddit co-founder committed suicide on last Friday. The 26 year old was arrested in July 2012 for hacking the server of MIT and stealing nearly [...]
Experts have warned that Russian hackers are planning to launch a series of cyber attacks on U.S. financial institutes and its not just a warning, its a credible threat. According to a report by McAfee, the attacks which are about to happen under the name ‘Project Blitzkrieg’ will result in the loss of million dollars. The [...]
On December 10th, a group calling itself “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” in a Pastebin note said that they would launch another phase of attack against the websites of several U.S. Banks. In this widespread phase, the U.S. banks experienced the unusual amount of traffic on Tuesday that was continued till Thursday. PNC posted on Facebook, “PNC [...]
Researchers from London-based analytics firm, Spider.io discovered a security flaw in Internet Explorer that allows the remote tracking of the mouse pointer and attackers can exploit it to see what victim is viewing online. The vulnerability affects all versions of Internet Explorer including IE10. According to agency, the vulnerability is particularly troubling because it compromises [...]
