Getting a pink slip is a bad news for anybody. Some take it in the stride while others take to Twitter and Facebook to rant about it. Very few are likely to go to an extreme and cause loss to their ex-employer. Brian Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US is one such system admin who didn’t lightly to his employer sacking ...

ow would you react if your town or city is better known for something dark? Well, there is a town in Romania known just for its hackers. It is full of hackers and scammers so much so that it has become world famous as the global centre of cybercrimeRamnicu Valcea which is also known as “Hackerville” rose to prominence because almost ...

Security awareness training is the most underspent sector of the cybersecurity market, but it’s poised to become a multi-billion-dollar industry in 2017.That’s according to a report from Cybersecurity Ventures, which also said that the market will top $10 billion by 2027. According to Steve Morgan, founder and editor-in-chief at Cybersecurity Ventures, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations will consider security ...

At now, the FBI is trying to bring to justice about 123 people who are accused of various cyber crimes, in hope to put them to trial in the United States. Unit chief of the International cybercrime coordination cell, Steven Kelly spoke at the RSA Conference, IT News. According to a statement given by him, this number is from a ...

More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that’s almost undetectable, researchers warned. Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting banks, telecommunication companies, and government organizations in 40 countries, including the US, South America, Europe and Africa, with Fileless malware ...

NEW DELHI: More than 700 websites of central ministries/departments and of state governments were hacked between 2013 and 2016, Lok Sabha was told on Tuesday. As per information reported to and tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), which works under the IT ministry, as many as 199 websites of central ministries/departments and state governments were hacked in 2016, ...

Indian origin teenager hacker arrested for disrupting 911 service with DDoS attack: 18 year old Indian origin teen discovered an iOS vulnerability that could be exploited to manipulate devices, including trigger pop-ups, open email, and abuse phone features. He posted links of his exploits on his Twitter account, which has a follower base of 12000 people, all those who clicked ...

Massive ATM hack hits 3.2 Million Indian Debit cards: India is undergoing the biggest data breaches to date with as many as 3.2 Million debit card details reportedly stolen from multiple banks and financial platforms. The massive financial breach has hit India’s biggest banks including State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis, and customers ...

Indo-Pak cyber war continues: Patriotic Indian hackers continue to damage crucial Pakistani websites. They have been defacing Pakistani Govt. websites and launching Ransomware attacks. Pakistan has been responding and at least 50 IT companies in Hyderabad have come under cyber-attacks from Pakistan-based hackers over the past 10 days, the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) revealed. The Cyber Security Forum ...

Cyber strikes after surgical strikes: After India announced its Surgical strike in Pakistan, Pakistani hackers have responded by defacing several Indian websites. Some of the reports suggest as many as 7000 sites were defaced. Indian hackers responded by launching Ransomware attacks on several Pakistani networks. Indians have managed to render several Pakistani networks unusable. In many cases they are not ...