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Hoshiarpur : In an incident that has left teachers in schools in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab face red, the official email address of the school board here has been pirated and pornographic material was distributed to 400 public schools in the district. "We are using this e-mail address to send notifications and important information to schools in Hoshiarpur. This is a case of cyber-attack as someone sent pornographic material to all schools after hacking the e-mail, Sukhwinder Kaur, Deputy District Education Director (WD), Hoshiarpur, told IANS. After the accident, the police made an appeal DEO. "It was really embarrassing that the majority of teachers in computer services at the school are women. These things are not tolerable, and we are all shocked by this incident. Upon receipt of this information, he immediately instructed schools not to open emails mails sent from this address, "said Kaur. Sources indicate that the attacker has sent between 15 and 20 em...

What is the future of political protest, as in a highly digitized world? We follow the real-time display via Wikileaks Cablegate. The day of the cables has been convicted for release in major newspapers worldwide, called a "political hack" cut the Wikileaks site with a distributed denial of service (DDoS). Later he wrote about Twitter that he went after the site for "attempting to give life to our troops and other assets." Wikileaks Swedish webhost moved the site owned by Amazon.com and Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) in Ireland. When Senator Joseph Lieberman contact the hosting site, Amazon, Amazon Wikileaks to stop the service, citing terms of use. Then the free-for-all began. The pirates were involved, this time on behalf of Wikileaks, directed to Amazon. When PayPal froze payments to Wikileaks, the anonymous group of hackers, who organized the attacks on Amazon, focusing on reducing the site to pay online. When MasterCard announced that it would cease opera...

Software that facilitates the attack by beginners online scammers and the future is big business anarchists, says Karlin Lillington The suites are equipped with new software with all the trappings of modern software now offers: cloud computing hosting, software as a service (SaaS) functions, outsourcing, digital certificates, licenses to prevent piracy, software modules, and provided services and support packages. But the difference between these programs - listed in the Internet Relay Chat rooms, instant chat (IRC) and private online forums - and what it could buy public providers is that they offer more software piracy increasingly sophisticated for simple - young hackers with little ability to write their own computer code. "Lessons learned from large companies legitimate software - such as development practices, techniques and anti-piracy, support and prices - are regularly repeated in the informal economy, in order to increase efficiency and profits, says the safety re...

Two attackers were more than 100,000 e-mail users Apple iPad, including politicians and famous journalists, federal prosecutors said Tuesday notifying the prosecution of men. AT & T has revealed a vulnerability of months ago, and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there was evidence that the two men have used the information obtained for criminal purposes. Authorities warned, however, that information can be dissolved in the hands of spammers and scammers. Daniel Spitler, a guard from the library 26-year-old from San Francisco and Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., is accused of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. Fishman characterizes men and their cohorts that participation in a "malicious upsmanship, as they sought to impress others and others in the online community. "We do not tolerate crimes committed for street cred," said Fishman. "Hacking is not a competitive sport, and security breaches is not a game....

Hackers have stolen two million tons of pollution rights in a raid five days this week in the carbon system of the EU, an EU source said Thursday. The amount of the stolen carbon credits in the online action, as a spokesman for the European Commission said was "maybe unified" represent only a fraction of the global industrial emissions permits gas greenhouse, but it is potentially worth several million euros. The magnitude of the theft, which involved five EU countries without a name, was revealed a day after Brussels has closed all 27 national records sales organization for a week, citing insufficient protection online. Credits just stolen from the Czech Republic amounted to € 7,000,000. Fourteen of the 27 states of the European Union must strengthen its security in line with the minimum standards, the spokesman said. The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the largest multinational greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world, but suffered re...