London: The website and Twitter feed of British newspaper the Financial Times were hacked on Friday, apparently by the "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of online activists who say they support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The group posted links on the newspaper's Twitter feed to a YouTube video, uploaded on Wednesday, which purports to show members of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Syrian rebel group executing blindfolded and kneeling members of the Syrian army.
The video could not be independently verified. Hacking attacks on verified Twitter accounts of media organisations have triggered urgent calls for the micro-blogging website to increase account security, particularly for news outlets.
"Various FT blogs and social media accounts have been compromised by hackers and we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible," a statement from the FT press office said. The paper is owned by Pearson Plc....
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08:29 PM, May 17, 2013
New York: A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack. "It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday. On the creative side of the heist, a small team of highly skilled hackers penetrated bank systems, erased withdrawal...
11:30 AM, May 11, 2013
New York: In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, US prosecutors said on Thursday. The US Justice Department accused eight men of allegedly forming the New York-based cell of the organisation, and said seven of them have been arrested. The eighth,...
02:36 PM, May 10, 2013
Seoul: Hackers have apparently disrupted North Korea's government-run Twitter account. The disruption comes at a time of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The North's Uriminzokkiri's Twitter account on Thursday displayed four tweets saying "hacked." A fifth tweet said "Tango Down" and was followed by a link to Uriminzokkiri's Flickr page. Both sites were running on Thursday but carrying content that differed sharply from content typically posted by the regime...
03:40 PM, Apr 04, 2013
The computers of highly-sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have reportedly been hacked. The hacking is suspected to have been carried out by Chinese hackers and there are fears that some sensitive information could have been compromised. ...
05:47 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. ...
11:05 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A threat of Hyderabad-like blasts to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru was posted on the website of Bihar Tourism department after it was attacked by hackers Saturday morning. Bihar Tourism minister Sunil Kumar Pintu said the website www.bihartourism.gov.in remained hacked from morning till 2:30 pm. ...
06:18 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Apple was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees. ...
08:11 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Facebook didn't identify a suspected origin of its hacking incident, but provided a few details about how it apparently happened. ...
11:35 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Bit9 said it had failed to properly install its own software throughout its network. ...
02:08 PM, Feb 09, 2013
China's Foreign Ministry has denied hacking foreign websites in a strongly worded statement. The statement came after reports that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt had labelled China as "the most sophisticated and prolific" hacker of foreign companies in his upcoming book. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords were compromised. ...
06:59 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the US Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data. ...
11:03 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Experts believe hackers have found a flaw in Java's coding that creates an opening for criminal activity and other high-tech mischief. ...
04:11 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Security experts say machines running on Mac OS X, Linux or Windows all appear to be vulnerable hacker attacks using the Java security flaw. ...
07:01 AM, Jan 11, 2013
New Delhi: State-owned telecom firm BSNL's Website was hacked on Friday by a group that demanded withdrawal of section 66 A of the IT Act. The Website 'www.bsnl.co.in' was quickly restored. The group Anonymous India said that it hacked the website in support of activists Aseem Trivedi and Alok Dixit, who are on a hunger strike to protest Section 66A of the IT Act. "Our website has been hacked and...
01:28 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Google Pakistan homepage has been apparently hacked by Turkish hackers. If you go to google.com.pk, you will find a black page with something written in Turkish. The translation of the text, written on the website, is: "eboz. My homies in a friend always there for me. Have not shot by me with every breath." The hackers replaced the Google logo and search bar with an image of...
03:17 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Jerusalem: More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime. Typically, there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day...
01:40 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Moscow: Skype has resolved a security bug that made it possible for hackers to steal accounts, the popular internet phone service said. "We... have made updates to the password reset process today so that it is now working properly," Skype said in its blog post Wednesday. "We are reaching out to a small number of users who may have been impacted to assist as necessary." Skype's vulnerability allowed a hacker...
12:20 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Boston: Apple is removing old versions of Oracle's Java software from Internet browsers on the computers of its customers when they install the latest update to its Mac operating system. Apple, which has previously included Java with installations of Mac OS X, announced the move on its support site. It said that customers need to obtain Java directly from Oracle if they want to access web content written the widely...
12:54 PM, Oct 20, 2012
