Hackers – The Cyber Crime News Watch
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HACKERS – The cyber criminality is rising with the tide of new computers getting connected to the Internet. Many of the stories intercepted in this category fall under the ‘you wouldn’t believe it’ label.
Amazing but true stories on the search terms ‘hackers’, ‘China hackers’ and ‘Cyber Crime’ are here intercepted chronologically. Headlines and excerpts at your convenience.
HACKERS – headlines daily
 RT | Hackers break into Azerbaijan Eurovision websites Reuters Hackers attack four websites * Amnesty calls for freedom of expression By Lada Evgrashina and Margarita Antidze BAKU, May 17 (Reuters) - A group of hackers calling themselves Cyberwarriors for Freedom attacked the official websites of the Eurovision ... Hackers set sites on Eurovision Hackers attacked web-sites of Eurovision song contest Eurovision 2012 official websites hacked |
Hackers target Indian sites again to protest blocking of Vimeo, others NDTV New Delhi: The websites of the Congress party, the Department of Telecommunications and Reliance Big Entertainment were brought down on Friday by hacker group OpIndia, which claims to be partnering with international hacking group Anonymous. |
Android Hackers Hone Their Skills in Russia PCWorld While criminals today are writing consumer-focused apps, it's only a matter of time before the hackers go after corporate data, particularly if the number of people accessing employers' networks with personal devices continue to grow, experts say. |
 Shiny Shiny | HACKERS BEWARE: UK man who hacked Facebook account given 12 month prison sentence Shiny Shiny By beccacaddy on May 17, 2012 Comments (0) A UK man has been sentenced to twelve months in prison after hacking into someone else's private Facebook account. Although details about the case are rather sketchy, we can't help but wonder what this means ... |
 AFP | Multiple Human Rights, Foreign Policy Sites Hacked Krebs on Security Hackers have hit a number of prominent foreign policy and human rights group Web sites, configuring them to serve spyware by exploiting newly patched flaws in widely used software from Adobe and Oracle. The latest reports of this apparent cyberspy ... Amnesty International Hackers Learned From Flashback Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites Drive-by espionage attacks target Java, Flash flaws |
Frostproof Care Center email hacked News Chief Someone had hacked the email account for the Frostproof Care Center and attempted to scam all of the nonprofit's contacts. "As far as I know, no one sent any money," he said. In addition to that, he said, the hackers cleared out the contacts list and ... |
 New York Times (blog) | Hackers Breach Sites of Foreign Policy and Human Rights Groups New York Times (blog) By NICOLE PERLROTH | May 15, 2012, 5:05 pm Comment In recent weeks, hackers have breached Web sites belonging to several foreign policy and human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, ... Hackers target human rights websites Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites Hackers Hit Multiple Human Rights, Foreign Policy Sites |
 Help Net Security | Hackers behind Flashback click fraud campaign haven't been paid Techworld.com By Gregg Keizer | Computerworld US | Published: 10:55, 18 May 2012 The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said today. New analysis of the Flashback ... Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust |
Online hacker group Anonymous hacks SC & Congress websites in protest of ... Economic Times Mumbai: Online hacker group Anonymous targeted websites of the Supreme Court of India and the All India Congress Committee on Thursday to protest internet censorship. Anonymous launched Operation India with a tweet that said, "Namaste #India, ... |
 Mobiledia | Websites of SC, Congress hacked, both deny attack Hindustan Times On a day the government said in the Rajya Sabha it would build consensus on rules for controlling internet content, an international hacking group reportedly breached the websites of the ruling Congress and the Supreme Court of India. website was ... Why Hackers Hit India Hackers attack Congress, SC sites Indian ISPs block websites; hackers retaliate |
CHINA Hackers – headlines daily
Android Hackers Hone Their Skills in Russia PCWorld Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. Sophos and Symantec on Wednesday released their latest Android malware discoveries written in ... |
Basketball website BTV hacked ABS CBN News MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino-owned basketball website fell victim to suspected Chinese hackers amid the dispute between the Philippines and China over Scarborough shoal. The Basketball TV (BTV) website was defaced on Friday afternoon. Basketball TV website hacked |
SUPPORT: China Simulates As Well As Anyone Strategy Page While some were bought from Russia, China has managed to rapidly acquire the technology and expertise to design and manufacture its own. Given the amount of Western technical data stolen by Chinese hackers in the last decade, China is believed to have ... |
UK is hacking hotspot Manchester Evening News The rise saw the country climb eight places up the hackers' table. Not all the hacking attempts were successful. The US and China remain first and second respectively, while the biggest growth in hacking attempts were seen in Russia and the Netherlands ... |
Chinese Internet Stocks Posting Mixed Results SYS-CON Media (press release) NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/18/12 -- China's internet stocks have posted mixed results recently as government restrictions, high costs, and a shift to mobile devices have made it difficult for companies to tap into the nation's vast online ... |
 Inquirer.net (blog) | Suspected Chinese hackers attack PHL newspaper website GMA News Suspected Chinese hackers hit another Philippine website Friday night, as the standoff between the Philippines and China in the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal continued. The hackers defaced the website of the Philippine Star, with an image supposedly of ... Chinese hackers target Philstar website Philstar website hacked End Hacking War – Palace |
 Council on Foreign Relations (blog) | China-Philippines Hacking War: A Missed Opportunity for Beijing? Council on Foreign Relations (blog) As with previous territorial disputes in East Asia these days (see China-Vietnam, China-Japan, and Korea-Japan), the political, diplomatic, and military maneuvering has a cyber component. On April 20, Chinese hackers attacked the website of the ... Hackers join May 11 protests against China Trillanes: Philippines can't fight China On eve of PHL anti-China protests, Chinese news agency posts images of flag ... |
 Mindanao Examiner | Hacking: Blame Game By Erick San Juan (Makati City) Mindanao Examiner The University of the Philippines website was also defaced last April 20,2012 reportedly by Chinese hackers who said that the Scarborough Shoal belongs to them.(Sun Star May 5,2012) Last week, the government's Philippine News Agency website was hacked ... DOST takes lead vs hackers Toothpicks now available China vs. Philippines: What will US do? |
 National Defense Magazine (blog) | Fears Grow That Terrorists Could Co-Opt Anonymous Hacking Group National Defense Magazine (blog) That leaves it open for infiltration by hackers affiliated with nations such as China, Russia or Iran. They could surreptitiously use or manipulate the organization to carry out attacks on their behalf, said Lewis Shepherd, director of the Microsoft ... |
Mobiledia | Why Hackers Hit India Mobiledia By Kendra Srivastava Anonymous hackers darkened several Indian government websites, retaliating against the country's censorship practices in its continued crusade for a free Internet. The Supreme Court of India and All India Congress Committee ... |
CYBER Crime – headlines daily
Cybercrime golden age over in two years? ZDNet Australia The golden age of cybercrime could come to a close as soon as 2014, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky — as long as the world changes how it coordinates on creating laws to govern the internet. Speaking to ZDNet Australia and ... AusCERT 2012: Kaspersky says cyber-attacks could “take us back to the pre ... Eugene Kaspersky issues URGENT cyber warfare warning Kaspersky defends Aussie data retention plan |
 CBS Local | Cyber Crime Conference Helping Authorities Solve Crime In Digital Age CBS Local “[Lab work] may give me GPS coordinates, Facebook logs or internet history searches,” Hill said. To help other agencies tap into the growing and useful technology, Microsoft and the Anoka County Attorney's Office are holding a two-day Cyber Crime and ... |
9 Scary Ways Criminals Use Facebook to Scam and Rob You DailyFinance Unfortunately, a byproduct of its success is that millions of Americans are far more at risk of falling victim to a number of cyber crimes. To be sure, cyber crime is nothing new, but the social media revolution has made such crimes much easier to ... Nine Major Ways Criminals Use Facebook |
 NDTV | India, allies to combat cybercrime Deccan Herald Russia and China, however, have been campaigning for a new treaty to deal with cyber crimes. National Security Advisor (NSA) Shiv Shankar Menon on Wednesday said that the government was in the final stages of preparing the national cyber security ... IDSA Report emphasises on Indigenous Manpower, Technologies, Equipment to ... 'Link cyber terrorism to India's overall counter-terror capabilities' Govt creating comprehensive cyber security policy: NSA |
 Postnoon | Cyber-Crime Under Spotlight AllAfrica.com This first conference for the institute is expected to initiate discussions around the privacy, regulatory framework especially those that address cyber crimes. The conference is also designed to include break-away track sessions, panel, ... Keeping India safe in cyberspace |
 Calcutta Telegraph | Cyber cops on capital café raids Calcutta Telegraph Ranchi, May 17: Internet cafés in Ranchi lack safety mechanisms to thwart cyber crime and ATMs are an open invitation to criminals, an ongoing inspection drive by a team of Cyber Defence and Research Centre has revealed. Officials of the cyber centre ... Cyber Defence Research Centre starts operation in state |
 Naked Security | Cyber-thieves increasingly aiming at cellphones East Valley Tribune Complaints of cybercrime topped 314000 in 2011 — up 3.4 percent from the prior year, according to a report issued Thursday by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership of the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the US Department ... Reports of cybercrime increase slightly in 2011 Cybercrimes (via cell phones) up in 2011 FBI finds scammers impersonating the FBI now one of worst online threats |
Leading Industry Analyst for Financial Services Cybercrime Prevention Joins ... MarketWatch (press release) BOSTON, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Trusteer, the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that former TowerGroup senior research director and online banking expert George Tubin has been appointed senior ... |
'Digital forensics required to combat rise in ME cyber crime' Oman Daily Observer By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — AccessData Group, the pioneer of digital investigations and litigation support, is set to generate regional awareness about digital forensics and incident response technologies through its participation in a key cyber ... |
 IT PRO | UK firms confess cyber crime fears IT PRO Report from Detica suggests UK plc is feeling the pressure from computer hackers and activists. By Caroline Donnelly, 17 May 2012 at 13:28 The recent run of high-profile cyber attacks on private and public sector firms has left many UK companies living ... |
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