Apple device IDs were stolen from Florida-based digital publishing firm
September 12th, 2012 - 4:15 am ICT by BNO News
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) -- Identification numbers for more than one million Apple products that were posted online by hackers last week had been stolen from a Florida-based digital publishing firm, not ... Read more...
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Obama urges Congress to pass cybersecurity bill
July 20th, 2012 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 20 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has urged the Congress to pass a cybersecurity bill to boost digital defence against cyber attacks.On Friday, writing in The Wall ... Read more...
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Obama denies allegations over White House leaks
June 9th, 2012 - 7:32 am ICT by IANS
Washington, June 9 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has strongly denied the charges by political rivals that the White House purposely leaked classified information for political gains in the ... Read more...
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Israeli military admits to cyber-warfare
June 4th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Jerusalem, June 4 (IANS) The Israeli military is using cyber-warfare to curb attacks on the country's cyber space and to counter enemies on the net, the authorities say.In a ... Read more...
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US, Russia close to cyber conflict preventing agreement
April 28th, 2012 - 2:29 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 28 (IANS) The US and Russia are finalising an agreement to use their secure nuclear communication system for preventing possible misperceptions in cyberspace to escalate into full hostilities, ... Read more...
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US charges hackers in high-profile cyber attack
March 7th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
New York, March 7 (IANS) Six hackers have been charged of computer crimes affecting over one million victims, the US Attorney's Office in New York said in a statement Tuesday.The ... Read more...
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Hacker group Anonymous could cause power outage in US
February 22nd, 2012 - 9:03 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) Hacker group Anonymous within the next year or two could bring about a limited power outage in the US through a cyber attack, a top official ... Read more...
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Cyber attack on website of petitioner against Facebook, others
February 7th, 2012 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The website of a petitioner and Islamic scholar who dragged Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others to court over allegedly objectionable content has been defaced ... Read more...
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Syrian hackers target Russian embassy website
January 31st, 2012 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Syrian cyber-guerrillas had hacked into the Russian embassy website in India to protest against Moscow's policy in the violence-hit country, but the portal has been ... Read more...
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US expels top Venezuelan diplomat
January 9th, 2012 - 8:15 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The US has declared Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata and given her until Tuesday to leave the country, a State Department spokesman ... Read more...
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Cyber attacks could disrupt rail services
December 30th, 2011 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Advances in switching technologies have exposed rail networks to the simplest form of cyber attacks that could be launched by inexperienced teen hackers.
Knowing how to ... Read more...
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New device to catalyse faster data processing
December 23rd, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) A new optical device, tiny enough to fit millions on a computer chip, could catalyse faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.
The "passive optical diode" ... Read more...
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US suspects Russian hackers of attacking water system
November 19th, 2011 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Nov 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Hackers apparently located in Russia attacked a water system in the US state of Illinois last week and damaged one of its pumps, the ... Read more...
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Security expert rules out cyber warfare
October 19th, 2011 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 19 (IANS) Cyber war - long considered by many defence experts to be a significant threat - may never happen, a security expert says.Thomas Rid, expert in war ... Read more...
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Hackers again target Sony, compromise more than 93,000 accounts
October 13th, 2011 - 12:38 am ICT by BNO News
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) -- A large number of hacking incidents on PlayStation Network (PSN), Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) services have forced Sony to freeze more than 93,000 ... Read more...
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Hacker puts sex message on British MP’s phone
September 25th, 2011 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 25 (IANS) A hacker penetrated a British woman MP's voicemail and left a sexually offensive message that asked callers whether they had recently indulged in a sex act, ... Read more...
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Hackers target Mexican government websites
September 17th, 2011 - 12:02 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Sep 17 (IANS/EFE) A group of hackers launched a massive attack on the web pages of several Mexican government agencies in order to block user access, officials said.The ... Read more...
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Lady Gaga’s website hacked
July 17th, 2011 - 2:16 am ICT by IANS
London, July 17 (IANS) Pop star Lady Gaga called in police after her website was hacked, resulting in the theft of thousands of names and email addresses.Mirror.co.uk reports that ... Read more...
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Netflix outage frustrates subscribers
June 21st, 2011 - 8:24 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) On Sunday night, Netflix’s services were disrupted leaving millions of subscribers frustrated. It was after hours that some of the service came back online. The company ... Read more...
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Hackers attack Lockheed Martin site
May 29th, 2011 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 29 (IANS) Hackers attacked the site of Lockheed Martin, a top American military weapons developer, Saturday night, but officials said no sensitive information was stolen during the ... Read more...
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Sony announces $3.1 billion annual loss
May 27th, 2011 - 1:06 am ICT by BNO News
TOKYO, JAPAN (BNO NEWS) -- Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, on Thursday announced a $3.1 billion annual loss as of March 31. This was the third year in a row that the ... Read more...
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Iran claims being hit by second cyber attack
April 26th, 2011 - 5:45 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Iran's civil defence chief has said the country has been hit by a second cyber attack in the past eight months, the Mehr news agency ... Read more...
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Chinese ‘Red Army lab’ raises cyber attack fears
March 14th, 2011 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.14 (ANI): Chinese telecom company Huawei, is developing equipment, which will be used as part of Britain's BT Internet's 2.5 billion plans for super fast broadband. Huawei's close links to the ... Read more...
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40 South Korean websites hacked
March 4th, 2011 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
Seoul, March 4 (IANS) At least 40 South Korean websites, including that of the presidential office, were hacked Friday morning, a media report said.The cyber attack began at 10 a.m. ... Read more...
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Canadian federal department computers hit by suspected Chinese cyber attack
February 17th, 2011 - 6:58 pm ICT by ANI
Toronto, Feb.17 (ANI): Key Federal departments in Canada have detected an "unauthorized attempt" to access their computer networks, and investigations have revealed that the cyber attack originated from servers based in China.The ... Read more...
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Unprecedented cyber attack on Canada linked to China
February 17th, 2011 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Feb 17 (IANS) In an unprecedented cyber-attack on the Canadian government from China, hackers have reportedly breached highly classified government documents.The cyber attack on Canada comes a ... Read more...
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UK faces serious ‘online juhadist attacks’ : Security Minister
February 2nd, 2011 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 2 (ANI): British security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones has warned that the UK national infrastructure faces serious cyber threats from terrorists.The Telegraph quoted her as saying that the government ... Read more...
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US pushes bill for ‘Internet Kill Switch’
February 1st, 2011 - 9:08 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington DC, Feb 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) US politicians are trying to reintroduce a bill that will give the President an Internet “kill switch” to protect the country. The bill gives the President ... Read more...
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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to join national grid in April
January 29th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan 29 (ANI): Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant is to join the national power grid in early April.Salehi ... Read more...
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Iran’s nuclear plant to begin production in April
January 29th, 2011 - 9:04 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, Jan 29 (IANS) Iran's first nuclear reactor built in the southern city of Bushehr will be connected to the country's electricity generation network by April, Iranian nuclear authority has said.The plant ... Read more...
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Education department’s e-mail hacked, porn sent to schools
January 20th, 2011 - 9:03 pm ICT by IANS
By Parminder Singh Bariana
Hoshiarpur, Jan 20 (IANS) In an incident that left school teachers in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district red-faced, the official e-mail address of the education office here was hacked Thursday and ... Read more...
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German thinktank advised US to “sabotage” Iran’s nuke ambitions: Wikileaks
January 19th, 2011 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): US secret diplomatic cables released by the whistleblower website 'Wikileaks' have revealed that an influential German thinktank had advised the US to adopt a policy of "covert sabotage" ... Read more...
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Hacked N. Korean Twitter account shows Kim Jong-il and ‘heir’ are ’sworn enemies’
January 10th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
Pyongyang, Jan 10 (ANI): North Korea's Twitter account has reportedly been attacked by hackers, who posted tweets on the page against leader Kim Jong-il and heir apparent Kim Jong-un describing the duo ... Read more...
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Dutch police arrest second teenager in pro-WikiLeaks cyber attacks
December 12th, 2010 - 2:30 am ICT by BNO News
AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS) -- Dutch police on Saturday morning arrested a second teenager in relation to pro-WikiLeaks cyber attacks earlier this week, prosecutors said.The Netherlands' prosecutor's office said the Team High Tech ... Read more...
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Wikileaks sympathizers behind website, credit card info cyber attack: Palin
December 9th, 2010 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has claimed that Wikileaks supporters are behind the cyber attack of her website and credit card information.Hackers associated with the group "Operation ... Read more...
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