NSA and GCHQ used Angry Birds and other smart phone Apps to retrieve users personal data.

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January 27, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Rachel Ritter

Official website of Ministry of Police Affairs of Nigeria hacked and defaced by hackers.

The website was hacked yesterday morning and is currently offline. In a message on the deface page hacker blamed the police officials and Government to be corrupt, Read More source: www.techworm.net

January 27, 2014 · 1 min · 31 words · Michael Gomez

Official website of The Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) hacked and defaced by Bangladeshi hackers.

Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle Ashik Iqbal Chy , member of BD GREY HAT HACKERS hacked and defaced Official website of The Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI).While the website (bcci.tv) was not defaced completely but the hacker was able to edit some of the Articles, which caused the Homepage slider to show the message Hacked by Ashik Iqbal Chy Read More source: www.techworm.net

January 27, 2014 · 1 min · 67 words · Michael Hogan

Pakistani hackers targets Indian cyber space again, More than 2000 websites hacked on Republic day of India.

Hacked websites were showing different defaces, Most of them conveying message to Indian Government over kashmir, few giving warning to the admin of the website to patch the security, and few others warning Indian hacker. Most of the websites were hacked by Pakistani hackers going with the handle StrikerRude, KashmirCyberArmy, PakCyber Expert, HUnter Gujar and the Operation was named as #OP26janIt could also be noted that Few of Indian celebrities including Poonam Pandeys websites were also hacked and defaced in the last few days by Pakistani hackers....

January 27, 2014 · 2 min · 286 words · Kelly Price

Moroccan Hackers defaces Colombian Government website.

Hacked website was showing a short message, Read More source: www.techworm.net

January 26, 2014 · 1 min · 11 words · Daniel Chandler

FBI, CBI, DCCO and MPS combine to bring down biggest hacking biz in India

The customers desirous to get unauthorized access, submitted e-mail accounts to these websites. The only problem CBI faces is the lame Indian laws regarding hacking. source: www.techworm.net

January 25, 2014 · 1 min · 27 words · Mariah Guerra

CNN is the latest victim of SEA, Twitter, Facebook Account and blog hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.

Just few minutes later Article was deleted by CNN, Official SEA member Th3Pr0 confirmed to the desk, that they were able to compromise HotSuite Accounts of CNN, and may be few emails too, which helped them to gain access to WordPress blog of CNN.CNN later confirmed the compromise by a tweet, and said they are working to remedy the issue,Some of our organizations social media accounts were compromised. We have secured those accounts and are working to remedy the issue....

January 24, 2014 · 2 min · 214 words · Eddie Barton

Gmail, Blogger And Google+ went down, bringing down Millions of website hosted on blogger down too for minutes.

For a while people all over the world was in a big panic that was it them alone, facing the problem or it was everyone.Though most of the people were mostly worried about Gmail and Google+ outage, none of them seemed to be worried about blogger. Read More source: www.techworm.net

January 24, 2014 · 1 min · 50 words · Wendy Reyes

Google kickstarts 2014 hackathon, Google Pwnium to offer $2.7 million to hackers

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January 24, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Annette Walker

WhatsApp for Windows a sure fire invitation to malware, hackers spreading malware through WhatsApp for Windows

WhatsApp is a very popular cross platform mobile messaging App. source: www.techworm.net

January 24, 2014 · 1 min · 12 words · Joseph Johnson

16 Million Accounts from Germany Compromised by hackers using Botnets.

The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI), Germany. have confirmed a recent data breach which effected More than 16 Million Accounts from Germany. source: www.techworm.net

January 23, 2014 · 1 min · 27 words · Megan Martinez

Hackers stole $2M by Planting Bluetooth enabled Card skimmers at Gas Stations.

The Bluetooth enabled card readers allowed them to record card payment details and pin, remotely from the gas station with no requirement of physically being connected to it.According to a statement from Manhattan District Attorney, hackers were able to steal more than $2M during March 2012 to March 2013. the stolen information was used to withdraw cash from about 70 different Bank accounts through ATMs at New York.The cash was then deposited in a bank account at New York so that rest of the ring could withdraw money at California and Nevada....

January 23, 2014 · 2 min · 225 words · Douglas Ward

Russia hacked hundreds of American, European and Asian Companies.

Cyber attacks by Moscow was carried out for spying over these companies to enhance economic growth rather than any political gains.According to the reports, Russias espionage campaign was directed primarily at energy and technology firms, some of which had lost valuable intellectual property. It said among the victims were, mostly European energy companies and defense contractors as well as manufacturing and construction firms.Security firm CrowdStrike that made the charges over Russia, have declined to reveal any further information on the name of the Companies being targeted and effected, citing confidentiality agreements related to its investigation....

January 23, 2014 · 1 min · 153 words · Sharon Nichols