Fireforx has accused Gamma international for using its name in one of the online products by the name of Finfisher. Finfisher is surveillance software used by the government to trap data. This software is installed without any prior information to the user. This software is shown as a firefox update to the user and user gets into the trap, but, this update is only shown to the target users only. Due to this ...

A group of hackers going with the handle of Dragon Force Malaysia has hacked and defaced the official website of Canon Electronics (www.canon-ebm.com.hk) Hong Kong, which deals specially with Canon Electronic Business Machine products. Hackers left a deface page along with a deface message on the hacked Canon Electronics website but the reason for hacking the site was not mentioned anywhere. “DragonForce Ow ...

The hardcore anti-Israeli hacker from Tunisia going with the handle of CapoO_TunisiAnoO is back, this time after a long gap, the hacker has hacked and defaced 33 Israeli websites. Hacker left a deface page along with a simple message and anti-Israeli song on all of the hacked websites, according to the message “FallaGa-Hacker <= = You Have Been Hacked by CapoO_TunisiAnoO.” CapoO_TunisiAnoO is a hacker wh ...

The official website of Tiffin School for Boys (www.tiffin.kingston.sch.uk) was hacked and redirected to a porn website.  School authorities were in shock when their site was redirected to an explicit site  with a video of a man and a woman having sex in a loop. Situated at Queen Elizabeth Road, the school website was attacked last week on Monday in which the site was completely taken over and redirected by ...

A security researcher has raveled some fantastic results over the percentage of vulnerable networks and devices around the world. His technique as a hacker was pretty straightforward and was a big time a matter of concern for all the people around the world. Let’s then see what the researcher found through his researches and how was he able produce such results. A map showing the locations of the botnet's h ...

Researcher from MWR labs won a prestigious prize $100,000, couple of days back at Vancouver researchers hacked Google chrome and showed at the Pwn2Own hacking competition. According to the hackers, it is possible to hack into any system via vulnerability on Google chrome. Whenever, a web surfer visits a malicious page on chorme it was possible to execute code which can allow the page creator to get into the ...

Seculert, an Israeli based company that detects viruses and other Advanced persistent threats (APT), has claimed to detect  two different spear-phishing attacks which were using a fake Mandiant report to spy on Chinese and Japanese journalists.  TheRegister reports that researchers are positive about the origin of these attacks is none other then China.  "We resolved it and found it was reporting to an IP a ...

The hackers from online hackavist group Anonymous India collectively took down the official websites of The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) IIPM.in and IIPM.edu, two days ago. The sites came under attack after a DOT order which forced Internet service providers (ISPs) all over the country to block over 73 websites containing articles that were critical of IIPM and its director Arindam Cha ...

The famous hackivist group Z Company hacking Crew aka ZHC has hacked and defaced the official website of Asia's and specifically Pakistani's biggest news media network site GEO TV along with four of its sub-domains few minutes ago for #OpKashmir.   The crew left their deface page along with a deface message on all 5 hacked websites against Pakistani media, India and curfew in Indian administrated Kashm ...

Bit9, a company that provides high profile network security and software solution to the United States government and many other firms all over the country was compromised, as a result the unknown hackers installed a malware on the security provider's website which was found targeting its daily users and costumers into hacking attempts.  The company bit9.com that provides security solutions, specializes in ...