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Website of Bangladesh Military Academy Hacked

The official website of the Bangladesh Military Academy (bma.mil.bd) has been breached and defaced. Interestingly, the site has been hacked by two separate collectives.  HackRead reports that an Algerian hacker known as ghost-dz has defaced the site, adding a defacement webpage to “bma.mil.bd/gh.html.&rdq...

9 May 2013
05:05 GMT

70 Killed, 600 Injured in Bangladesh As Garment Factory Building Collapses on Top of Them

At least 70 people have been killed and many others have been injured during the crash of a building in Bangladesh, reports are saying. According to Gawker, officials could have prevented the deaths of the workers and visitors in the facility, had they listened to the workers’ concerns. The same publication lists n...

24 April 2013
09:21 GMT

Indian Hackers Deface 15 Bangladeshi Government Websites

A total of 15 websites of the Bangladeshi government have been breached by Indian hackers Yamraaj and “404 !-!@!2$!-!@.” The list of affected sites includes a subdomain of National Web Portal of Bangladesh (infokosh.bangladesh.gov.bd), the Department of Prisons (prison.gov.bd), the Bangladesh National Co...

23 April 2013
09:52 GMT

A2I Website of Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office Hacked

A couple of Indian hackers, Yamraaj and “404 !-!@!2$!-!@,” have defaced the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office’s Access to Information Programme subdomain (a2i.pmo.gov.bd). The affected site is dedicated to providing information and services aimed at improving the social and economic welfare o...

22 April 2013
04:14 GMT

Anonymous Hackers Breach Major Bangladeshi Newspaper “The Daily Star”

Anonymous hackers have breached the website of The Daily Star, one of the most important English publications in Bangladesh.  The Daily Star reports that the breach occurred on February 12 at around 4:30 (local time). The company rushed to restore the website, but one hour later it was hacked again. The hackti...

14 February 2013
10:29 GMT

10 Bangladesh Government Websites Defaced by Mauritania Hacker Team

Hacktivists of the Mauritania Hacker Team have breached and defaced a number of 10 websites belonging to various Bangladeshi government organizations and ministries. According to HackRead, the list of targets includes the Ministry of Social Welfare, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Ministry of Disaster Man...

24 January 2013
03:49 GMT

SQL Injection, XSS Vulnerabilities Found on the Site of Islami Bank Bangladesh

The websites of financial institutions are not always as secure as they should be. A perfect example is the public site of Islami Bank Bangladesh – the pioneer of Islamic banking in Bangladesh – which has been found to contain SQL Injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The security ho...

7 January 2013
04:32 GMT

Bangladeshi Hackers Fight Back, Hack Pakistani Government Sites

Earlier today, we learned that the members of the Pakistan Cyber Army hacked and defaced a total of 26 Bangladeshi government sites. In response to these attacks, Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers took aim at several high-profile sites from Pakistan. They’ve defaced the sites of the Finance Department of Batagram, t...

10 December 2012
04:00 GMT

26 Bangladesh Government Websites Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army

A number of 26 Bangladeshi government websites have been defaced by members of the Pakistan Cyber Army. For a while, the cyber war – or cyber skirmish, as some like to call it – between Pakistan and Bangladesh appeared to have faded, but the feud is far from being over. According to bdnews24.com, the lis...

10 December 2012
02:43 GMT

Bangladesh Army Website Breached by Indian Hacker

An Indian hacker that goes by the name of Godzilla claims to have breached a server operated by Bangladesh’s Army, on which the army.mil.bd website is hosted. To demonstrate his findings, the hacker has published some server and internal network configuration details on Pastebin. “Stop supporting terro...

10 November 2012
05:24 GMT

Bengal Tiger Is Beaten to Death by Angry Villagers in Bangladesh

Only yesterday, a royal Bengal tiger in Bangladesh was beaten to death by a group of angry villagers, who used sticks and boat oars in order to kill the feline. Apparently, the tiger was guilty of having wandered into a village in search of food, UNB Connect says. As was to be expected, the people here did not w...

7 November 2012
03:15 GMT

54 Israeli Sites Defaced by Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers

The members of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers collective have breached and defaced a number of 54 Israeli websites. The attacks, carried out on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, have been dedicated to the people of Palestine. “Eid Mubarak to the people of Palestine. It is Eid day here in ...

30 October 2012
06:59 GMT

5,000 Sites Defaced by Bangladesh Cyber Army to Protest Against Indian Border Force

A total of 5,385 websites have been defaced by the members of the Bangladesh Cyber Army as a form of protest against the brutal ways of the Indian Border Security Force. A large majority of the affected sites appear to belong to Indian businesses, but the hackers told Softpedia that some of them were managed by Indi...

13 October 2012
04:46 GMT

Bangladesh Hackers Deface Antivirus and Anonymous Websites

The members of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH) group continue to show their support for the Prophet Mohammed by breaching various websites. Their latest victims are Shield Antivirus (shieldantivirus.com), an Anonymous hacker collective, and a site apparently belonging to Tissot. The Shield Antivirus site has...

27 September 2012
05:49 GMT

Bangladesh Cyber Army “Officially” Declares War Against Pakistan

The “cyberwar” between Pakistani and Bangladeshi hackers has been ongoing for a few years now and none of the sides seems willing to put an end to it. Now, hacktivists from the Bangladesh Cyber Army claim to have “officially” declared war on Pakistan. “As Pakistan Cyber Army hacked some...

26 September 2012
05:06 GMT

US Department of Agriculture Sites Hacked in Protest Against Mohammed Movie

Hackers from the Bangladesh Cyber Army are protesting against the Innocence of Muslims video by breaching three subdomains owned by the United States Department of Agriculture. “We are BANGLADESH CYBER ARMY, the first and largest hacking group of Bangladesh! Recently, a movie was released where the Prophet of ...

21 September 2012
04:42 GMT

Mexican Hosting Company Breached, 1,169 Sites Defaced by Bangladeshi Hackers

A hacker called Rexoman of the Bangladeshi Cyber Army has managed to breach a server owned by Mexican hosting company Krystal Host. By gaining access to the server, the attacker was able to deface a number of 1,169 websites hosted on it. A Pastebin document published by the hacker reveals not only the entire list of...

17 September 2012
05:42 GMT

Protest: Bangladeshi Hackers Deface 13 Sites Hosted on US Server

A number of 13 websites hosted on a server from the United States have been defaced by Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH) as a form of protest against the controversial Innocence of Muslims video. Yesterday, the hackers threatened to attack the US in response to the blasphemous video and it seems that they’re ...

14 September 2012
08:52 GMT

Bangladeshi Hackers Threaten US for Blasphemous Mohammed Video

The controversial  “Innocence of Muslims” video  – which ridicules the Muslim prophet Mohammed – has sparked a lot of anger among the citizens of many Islamic countries. Afghanistan has already temporarily blocked YouTube in order to prevent the violent acts that may come in ...

13 September 2012
09:01 GMT

Bank of Swiss Hacked by Bangladeshi Hackers, Protest Against Israel

The website of a banking services provider called Bank of Swiss (bankofswissltm.com) has been breached by a hacker called Rotating Rotar, of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH). As a result of the breach, the details of three user accounts have been made public. The leaked data consists of access codes, passwords...

11 September 2012
07:41 GMT

Bangladeshi to Indian Hackers: Don’t Hack Our Websites Again

Hackers from the 3xp1r3 Cyber Army are once again threatening Indian hackers, urging them to stop attacking websites from Bangladesh. “Dear, Indian Hackers We are like storm which is brewing & our shadow like thunder in the distance. No one knows that how capable we are. So, don't do anything more than yo...

27 August 2012
04:55 GMT

Myanmar Hackers Fight Back, 92 Bangladeshi Government Sites Taken Down

A hacktivists collective from Myanmar (Burma) has taken down a number of 92 Bangladeshi government websites in response to the attacks carried out yesterday by the Bangladeshi Cyber Army. “Stop lying that you don’t know about ‘Rohingya’, and accept your own people at your land, don't ...

20 June 2012
11:11 GMT

Bangladeshi Cyber Army Declares War on Myanmar, Attacks Websites

The Bangladeshi Cyber Army has declared a cyber-war on Myanmar, accusing the country of killing innocent Muslims and its hackers of breaching Bangladeshi websites. “We are Bangladesh Cyber Army. Recently, we have been seeing that the hackers of Myanmar are hacking our country's websites. Not only this, M...

19 June 2012
10:23 GMT

Popular Danish Pokemon Fan Site Defaced by 3xp1r3 Cyber Army

A Bangladeshi hacker part of the 3xp1r3 Cyber Army, rEd X, managed to gain access to the server that hosted the popular Pokemon fan site from Denmark, PokeTeam.dk. The hacker claims he only wanted to warn the website’s administrators of the vulnerabilities that exposed their assets to malicious operations. As...

8 May 2012
08:04 GMT

Hackers Around the World: _sYs_3xp1r3, Co-Founder of 3xp1r3 Cyber Army

If last week we visited Russia, this week we head down to Bangladesh where we meet one of the members of a hacking group that dedicates its existence to fighting for justice and against the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The last time we heard about this hacker’s crew, the 3xp1r3 Cyber Army, they defaced ...

5 May 2012
08:51 GMT

1,700 Websites Defaced by Bangladeshi 3xp1r3 Cyber Army

The “Bangladeshi Underground Hacking Team” known as 3xp1r3 Cyber Army have defaced more than 1,700 sites to protest against the Indian Border Security Force and their brutal ways. “Now you are talking about [expletive] and General Mass killing there!!! Why don't you just look at your self ? se...

24 April 2012
08:30 GMT

Bangladeshi Hackers Protest by Defacing 38 Sites

After gaining unauthorized access to a server that hosts commercial websites, the members of the Bangladeshi Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH) mass defaced 38 of them as a form of protest against India and the Bangladeshi government. Even though the group’s name hints that they are grey hats, their actions resemble ver...

14 March 2012
05:59 GMT

Government Sites Hacked in Response to India and Bangladesh Cyberwar

If up until now they only found vulnerabilities in major websites with the purpose of letting administrators know that their assets may be exposed to cybercriminal operations, members of TeamHav0k revealed their activist side and intervened in the cyber battle taking place between Indian and Bangladeshi hacktivists. ...

13 February 2012
03:28 GMT

Opera Mini Arrives in Bangladesh at Grameenphone

Norwegian software giant Opera has just announced a partnership with Grameenphone, the leading telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh, for the release of a specific version of the Opera Mini browser, optimized for the carrier's users. The Opera Mini mobile browser is the most popular such application...

5 April 2011
16:51 GMT

Facebook Censors Offending Images and Bangladesh Lifts Ban

Bangladesh has lifted its week-long ban on Facebook on Sunday. The ban came as a consequence of images, depictions of the Prophet Mohammed and caricatures of some of the country’s political leaders, that were deemed offensive by the authorities,. Facebook has agreed to remove the images Bangladesh took offense ...

7 June 2010
06:45 GMT

UN Ask for International Climate Change Support

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon argued the necessity of sustained international efforts towards averting global warming, especially now, when the state of the world economy is in a pretty rough shape and most governments are too concerned with their own problems to care about what's happening with t...

4 November 2008
03:59 GMT

Dowries Cause Poverty in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, one of the most densely-populated nations in the world, some 35 million people struggle to survive at the lowest limit of poverty. In most cases, money paid on dowries is the main cause for people's misery. Although this is not legally accepted, payments to future relatives are still a common prac...

31 October 2008
06:38 GMT

Huawei Extends the Largest Mobile Network in Bangladesh

Huawei, the China-based leading telecommunications network solution provider, announced that it had singed a new deal with Grameenphone, the largest mobile carrier in Bangladesh, allowing the operator to expand and improve its GSM network. Huawei's "all-IP core network solutions" is set to enable the Banglad...

6 June 2008
09:39 GMT


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