Posts Tagged ‘security’
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Anonymous hackers fight for Canadian girl who was raped, died after suicide attempt
Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, committed suicide after four boys allegedly sexually assaulted her and then distributed photos of the assault. She was taken off life support and died in hospital on Sunday in the port city of Halifax in ea...
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Twitter hacked – 250,000 user data stolen
Around 250,000 twitter accounts were breached as per a mail sent out by Twitter. The mail was sent as a warning mail to users telling them that their accounts may have been compromised in the last week. Investigation revealed t...
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India’s own operating system (OS) developed by DRDO likely to be ready in three years
Cyber security has turned out to be a major concern in Indian cyber space. To tackle this issue the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with other premier institutes is developing India’s own operat...
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Security breach forces NASA to encrypt all of its laptops
After losing another laptop containing sensitive information from its facilities, NASA wants to have all of its laptops encrypted within a month’s time. This is not the first incident of its kind, the latest incident had ...
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Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months
Popular security firm, BitDefender did a small test on Microsoft’s newly launched OS – Windows 8 and found that Window 8 is prone to infection by some 15 per cent of the 100 malware families most used by cyber crimi...
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Anonymous hackers deface Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) website
The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two major political parties in India and today hackers from India Anonymous hacker group have defaced the official websites of BJP. The defaced domains are www.bjp.org and www.bjp.org.in...
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Iran’s nuclear facilities under “massive cyber attack”
The state television on Thursday said that Iran has detected a planned “massive cyber attack” against its nuclear facilities. As per Iran’s Intelligence Ministe...
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Anonymous Hackers Takes Down Websites Of Congress and Indian Supreme Court
Notorious hacker group “Anonymous” has brought down the websites of the Indian Supreme Court and the Congress party. The so called “Operation India” is in...
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Over 55,000 Twitter usernames and passwords leaked
There is a bad news for Twitter users, an anonymous hackers leaked more than 55,000 hacked twitter accounts username and password through Pastebin. However the bright side is tha...
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The State of IT Security ( Infographic )
Did you know that 97% of all data breaches (and there were 174 milllion records compromised last year), are avoidable through simple or intermediate precautionary controls? Check...
