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South District Police has arrested a gang of miscreants and arrested two people accused of hacking accounts for international clients' and to make a clone of your bank or credit cards of different banks. The third defendant is untraceable. A gang of three youths, who are experts at hacking into client data reported. The trio has recorded on the accounts of customers in Nigeria, police said. Duo - Dharmesh (24) and Sheikh Rashid (24) - were arrested from Saket in South Delhi, January 25 after an official complaint investigations and foreign Axis Bank has caused a huge loss for the bank using the cloned cards in the names of the various customers. Sheikh had earlier been arrested by Mumbai police in 2010 for his contribution to a farce anyway. It 'been in prison for three months. When released on bail, he met Ahmed and Dharmesh, have been born and a plan to trick people to clone cards. Dharmesh acquainted with one of Alim Sheikh is located in Andheri west and learned the art...

LONDON: Former British cabinet minister confirmed that his work phone was cut 28 times - and now seek a court order to see if it happened again later that week. Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics minister, is the oldest politician so far to be sure that his phone message was kidnapped and has joined a long list of celebrities who have hired lawyers to find out who ordered the hacking is a civil court. The news emerged at the end of a tumultuous week in which Scotland Yard was forced to reopen its investigation into the hacking of the New World, after the News Corporation-owned tabloid even provided "important information" in another editor, Ian Edmondson, who was fired this week. Advertising: The story continues below And on Thursday, a former age and the Herald Sun journalist, Bruce Guthrie - will be charged in London on a former editor of Murdoch - has warned the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, the editorial safeguards against against News International, in 'con...

The FBI announced today that they have executed over 40 search warrants in connection with the UK Metropolitan Police against Wikileaks DDoS'ing participants of "enemies." Unlike police met, the FBI did not reveal many details about who may have executed the arrest warrants against, or more precisely what they sought. It is likely that the intention to seize equipment used in the attacks compared with the papers relating to the planning and execution of attacks. FBI press release indicates that the attackers created tools to attack Mastercard, Visa and others. I think most of the attackers used an "off the shelf" DDoS tool called Loic is not linked to "Anonymous". Loic was developed by Alexander M. Batishchev which by definition makes no anonymous ... This suggests that the creation of a multitool that is why they are running the command of the strike a chill in me. It would be like going after Stanley Tools for the manufacture of the hijacker...

Pak hacker support in Pakistan re-damaged sites in India, this time at the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Mumbai. Cyber outlaws feel "ZCompany Hacking Crew", was hit late on Thursday and turned the entire home page in a message board propaganda in India and Israel, just hours before the AIFF officials contacted the Canadian company that hosts the site and blocked the offending content. "Our site was hacked today and tonight we got in touch with the Canadian company that hosts our site. They have already blocked the site and we hope to restore the Friday," AIFF general secretary Kushal Das TOI. "We try to find the people behind it (the crisis) and hope to get a report on culprits morning," said Das. This is the second attack on the AIFF site for one month after a hacker site mutilated in December Pakistani week late after a group called the Army in Pakistan Cyber hacked the website of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). "This time t...

Hot on the heels of similarly politically-motivated attacks against websites belonging to the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe, hackers are bombarding official websites in Egypt with a DDoS attack. The hackers' current target is believed to be the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, although at the time of writing it was still accessible. A press release shared via Facebook by the loosely-knit "Anonymous" group uses stark language to make their demands of the Egyptian government: "Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country. When you ignore this message, not only will we attack your government websites, Anonymous will also make sure that the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people." The internet attacks are against a backdrop of anti-government protests in Egypt, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations. "Anonymou...

Google was not kidding when he said he would fight against illegal file sharing, and now he died autocomplete when it comes to investigation of piracy. If they were not sure that the digital world has decided this year to piracy, it would be quite clear now. First, Nintendo announces "the golden age of piracy" has come and gone, and now Google is turning off the auto-complete when it comes to trying something with the illegal downloading, so good BitTorrenters the oath to fight anywhere. Using BitTorrent, Rapidshare, uTorrent, megaupload, and the stream is now entirely on his own, without a fill-in-the-blank your browser. Google warns users had come, said he wanted "to avoid the conditions that are closely related to piracy to appear automatically. But what about sites like Pirate Bay and Vuze? Of course, these P2P sites is well known, and merciless to allow illegal file sharing, but also offer legal downloads. Since BitTorrent's VP of product marketing and Simo...

Maybe it was Mark Zuckerberg fan site hack that led upgrade security of Facebook, but for some reason, users now have access HTTPS. Facebook will leave the office during the next few weeks, which means that user activity is now encrypted when it hits a Web server. This is mainly useful when you connect via a wireless network There are many ways for hackers to track your movements on the social network, including the popular Four sheep plug-in for Firefox. Use an HTTPS connection does not guarantee you safe from prying eyes, but it adds an additional obstacle to overcome. Including one for users: Facebook warns that HTTPS will cause the page load a limp. In a blog post, Facebook says that even if it is a general improvement, labor is not privacy. "Some of the features of Facebook, including many third party applications are not supported in HTTPS." Therefore, any purchase of game or information shared in the popular games is Facebook still gaining. Social network to enc...

A new report by Akamai Technologies shows that the hackers seem to be increasingly using the Telnet protocol for remote access servers to attack the company in mobile networks. Akamai, which specializes in traffic management and web content, publishes quarterly reports on trends in Internet traffic. The latest report covers the third quarter of 2010 shows that 10 percent of attacks came from the mobile networks are directed to port 23, Telnet uses. This marks a peak which is unusual for the aging protocol. Telnet is a remote access tool used to connect to remote servers, but it was gradually replaced by SSH, also known as Secure Shell. Directors are generally advised to disable Telnet If the protocol is used to prevent attacks against it, but some forget. Despite these attacks come from mobile networks, Akamai said it seems that mobile devices were the source. "As stated previously, we believe that the observed attack traffic originating from mobile networks known is like...

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in prison and fines of £ 5,000. According to the website of the Metropolitan Police, reduce arrests from an ongoing study of the recent DDoS attacks which took place after the fallout from the arrest of Assange Wikileaks "Chief Julian. Different companies have refused to cough and the site Wikileaks is constantly blocked from its cable outlet in the United States ranked. In response sent a group of "hactivists" that anonymous calls, repeated attacks by opponents Wikileaks, including the likes of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon, to varying success. Anonymous claims to be an organization without a leader, there is no hierarchy. Authorities around the world have st...