Tag: hacking

Hackers hit global telcos in espionage campaign

TEL AVIV: Hackers have broken into the systems of more than a dozen global telecoms companies and taken large amounts of personal and corporate...

Pakistan among victims of hacking attacks by MuddyWater

The government bodies, military entities, telecommunications companies and educational institutions in Pakistan are falling prey to the campaign of spear phishing documents – an act...

LA woman charged for hacking Selena Gomez’s email

LOS ANGELES: A 21-year-old woman who prosecutors say hacked into the email accounts of pop star and actress Selena Gomez and posted photos she...

NADRA briefs apex court on internet voting

ISLAMABAD: On the apex court’s directive, the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Friday gave a detailed briefing on the procedure of internet voting. However,...

Lebanese security agency linked in major hacking campaign: Report

LONDON: A major hacking operation tied to one of the most powerful security and intelligence agencies in Lebanon has been exposed after careless spies...

Google to offer $1000 to anyone who hacks Snapchat, Tinder

Google is offering security experts a bounty to identify Android app flaws as the Alphabet unit seeks to wipe out bugs from its Google...

Russian hackers stole US cyber secrets from NSA: media reports

WASHINGTON: Russian government-backed hackers stole highly classified US cyber secrets in 2015 from the National Security Agency (NSA) after a contractor put information on...

Yahoo says all three billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft

Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the...

Canadian pleads not guilty to charges of high-profile Yahoo hack

TORONTO: In his first US court appearance on Wednesday, Canadian Karim Baratov pleaded not guilty to charges that he helped Russian agents in a high-profile...

Amid hacking row, pressure builds on Trump to soften pro-Russia rhetoric

President-elect Donald Trump is finding himself caught between his desire to improve relations with Russia and fellow Republicans who are pushing for a harsher...

Two men arrested in US for hacking email of CIA chief

Two men suspected of belonging to a network that hacked the emails of top American officials including CIA chief John Brennan were arrested Thursday...

India says submarine document leak ‘a case of hacking’

India’s defence minister said documents relating to the French Scorpene submarine being built in the country appeared to have been hacked after an Australian...

Newsweek magazine says hacking disrupts its Pakistan website

Newsweek Pakistan said on Thursday that its website had been disrupted by computer hackers. “Our website is offline due to a hacking incident. We are...

Malaysia Airline website hacked by group claiming support for IS

The browser tab for the website said “ISIS will prevail”.

Facebook says it was a target of sophisticated hacking

Facebook Inc said on Friday hackers had infiltrated some of its employees' laptops in recent weeks, making the world's No.1 social network the latest...

British phone-hacking trial set for Sept 2013

Ex-News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson heard Wednesday they will go on trial for phone-hacking in September 2013, leaving the...

British prosecutors charge PM’s ex-aide with phone-hacking

British prosecutors Tuesday charged Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson and former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with phone hacking as the scandal...