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System administrators would surely want to forget the year 2010, which saw a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks on Indian websites. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the defacement of websites with India specific domain ‘.in’ tripled in 2010. Around 8,864 websites with domain name ‘.in’ were defaced in 2010 (January to November period) as compared to around 3,000 in the same period in 2009 , CERT-In claims. In 2007, just 1,693 websites with ‘.in’ domain were defaced. According to analysts, the rise in these incidents is because of poor security mechanisms adopted by individuals and small traders, who have been hosting their websites by themselves. Apart from the defacing websites, cyber attacks are now emerging as a new threat to the national security. In December, the website of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was hacked by Pakistani hackers. In 2010, former National Security Adviser (NSA), Mr M.K. Narayanan, had said that Chinese hacke...

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC)   website hacked By PakBugs ! The official website of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) was found hacked this evening with pro-Pakistan slogans appearing on it. According to Congress sources here, the hackers entered the website www.kpcc.org.in and put on it slogans denouncing the party and the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi.    The content entered into the website by the hackers included a picture of Pakistan's founder leader MA Jinnah, KPCC sources said.   The KPCC would be lodging a complaint to the cyber cell of the police on the matter, sources said. Zone-h mirror :  http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/12838216

Popular Indian news portal www.indiablooms.com, the online version of the national news agency India Blooms News Service (IBNS), was hacked by the Pakistani hackers on Sunday afternoon. " Pakistani Hackers- Your site has been Hacked " said the redirected page of the site which was hacked around Indian time 330 pm. Later the site administrators restored the original index page, but the threat of another attempt looms large. The visitors of India Blooms were directed to the page of a menacing looking woman with a blue eye with some sentences at the bottom in green claiming the site has been hacked. " There was no security on your site, relax admin, nothing was deleted, is this what you call a security? " read the site, hosted by Servage, a hosting company based in Germany. Servage currently hosts 189837 websites. " Of later we face a regular attack from hackers, especially after the popularity of the site soared ," said S Dhar, one of the partners ...

U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, has asked all countries work together to jointly support track hackers who managed to paralyze the site Wikileaks ‘enemy’ Wikileaks. Reported by Yahoo News from the Smoking Gun website on Saturday (01.01.2011), FBI showed detailed written statement about the operation pro-Wikileaks tracking hackers. This operation will involve U.S. federal investigators in Europe, Canada and the U.S. alone. Along with the discovery of the evidence, the pro-Wikileaks hackers launched its action through the servers in those countries. Cyber attacks were launched from this month, along with the start of the launch of the CableGate documents on the site Wikileaks. This attack is only targeting sites that break with Wikileaks like PayPal, Visa and Mastercard. Mid-December, the FBI track the IP address of the hacker who is in Canada, and later the FBI also found a virtual server in Callifornia. At the same time, a separate investigation by German police show if attacks ...

Decoys have been present in each and every culture, to capture the unknown as well as the known defaulters. The honey, which was used in turning the heads of bears that we used to find in jungles, well the same honey, but in a revisited version is being implemented and used here and has already proven worthy of its existence. This type of honey lures in a different kind of bears. The bears those are present in the cyber jungle. Yes, we are talking of the black hat hackers which are hell bent on intruding your file systems and scratching out info. Read Complete Tutorial and Guide on Honeypots : Honeypot / Honeynet - Tracking the Hackers ! (Video Tutorial for setup & Usage) : Indian Cyber Army So, we are now going to discuss this very new and amazing feature, which only a few of the countries in world stand to have, including ours. Explaining with examples is always easy. Recently, a very famous Turkish hacker was busted using these techniques of Honeypot. The hacker was...

 The number of Britons targeted by cybercrime is expected to overtake conventional crime for the first time next year. Internet security experts claim that up to 19 million people will come under attack from hi-tech criminals, generally involved in identity theft. While at one time, the biggest threat was a burglary or someone smashing a car window to grab a radio, today’s Britons are facing up to the growing menace of internet crime which can be carried out from thousands of miles away. The success of “hacktivists” in targeting big businesses, such as the Visa and Mastercard credit card companies in the wake of the Wiki-Leaks furore, has highlighted concerns about cyber security. A survey of UK police officers specialising in hi-tech crime found that 79 percent have noticed a steep increase in cybercrime activity within the past six months. Identity theft and so-called malware attacks, in which spying software is inadvertently downloaded onto a home computer, are considered among ...

The faction of Anonymous that launched the anti-Scientology movement Chanology and has more recently been supporting Wikileaks through various information and direct action campaigns has launched an attack on the Tunisian government's web capabilities in retaliation for the censorship policies it has recently put in place. Their main site is down and will remain so for the near future; other actions are imminent. I have been given the following press release from the faction in question and have posted it below the fold; further updates will be added as they occur. Update I have replaced the original version with a better translation (it is available in several languages and I can provide those upon request). PRESS RELASE: "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all  records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became  truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the  future: who controls the present cont...

The US government - along with organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA - are hitting Torrent sites where it hurts.

 Indeed, due to a slew of recent domain seizures, affected websites are currently experiencing major dips in traffic. 

 However, Torrent-Finder is refusing to throw in the towel. The moment the website's .COM domain was seized by the government, it instantly lost search engine relevance because all links pointed to the old .COM domain, which was no longer functioning. As expected, the broken links not only affected surfers searching and navigating to the site, but the website's SEO ranking as well.

 This is because Google employs an algorithm along with other parameters to determine a site’s relevance to a certain term. 

For example, if a website such as NASA.com writes a number of articles about "supernovas," the more relevance it has when people search that particular term. Furthermore, if there are external sites linking to NASA's su...

Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading. As news spread amongst the loosely-knit group of Anonymous hackers who support WikiLeaks, websites belonging to the Zimbabwe government and Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and, in the case of the Finance Ministry, defacements. The Zimbabwe government's online portal at www.gta.gov.zw and the official ZANU-PF website continue to be offline, and the Finance Ministry's website now displays a message saying it is under maintenance....

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V@N!$H3R found venerability in 5 biggest Windows IT professionals community Websites ! V@N!$H3R is an Indian Hacker, who is member of Group " Ethical Pen3trators ". There motto is ' Securing Indian Cyber Space '. They Found venerability in 5 biggest Windows IT professionals community Websites and next step will be to inform their webmaster about these bugs. 1.) Windows IT Pro - The leading independent community for IT pros Venerable Link :   http://www.windowsitpro.com/home/search.aspx?query=%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cmarquee%3E%3Cfont+color%3Dred+size%3D5%3E--You+Have+been+Hacked+by+V@N!$H3R--%3C/marquee%3E%3C/font%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%3CIMG%20SRC=%22http://www.boncherry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/happy-new-year-2011-odometer_design.jpg%22%3C/body%3E%3C/html%3E 2.) Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows Venerable Link :   http://www.winsupersite.com/home/search.aspx?query=%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cmarquee%3E%3Cfont+color%3Dred+size%3D5%3E-...

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