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NATO.int Taken Down by Anonymous Team

Hackers part of the Anonymous Team, or ATeam, have taken down the official website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO.int). “You were originally set up to fight against the oppression by those that were censoring people that did not agree with them. Years later you have now resorted to the same m...

21 May 2012
04:24 GMT

Site of NATO Croatia Hacked and Defaced by TeaMp0isoN

The official NATO Croatia site (nato.mvp.hr), hosted on the main website of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, was hacked and defaced by two of the members of TeaMp0isoN, TriCk and Phantom. Here’s what the hackers wrote on the defaced site: Dividing up a country when a genuine uprising is taking p...

3 April 2012
03:21 GMT

Anonymous Hacks Afghan Election Commission to Avenge Killed Troops

The site of the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (iec.org.af) was breached by hackers operating under the AnonOps Romania banner. The site was targeted after the hackers saw an article in The Guardian, which revealed that three NATO soldiers were killed by Afghan security forces. “REASON: Due to ...

30 March 2012
08:48 GMT

Chinese Use Fake Facebook Profile to Collect Data on UK Officials

Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, is someone many officials would want to be friends with, if not in person at least on Facebook. This is exactly the thing some spies counted on when they used a fake Facebook account of Stavridis to gather intel on UK Ministry of Defence officials and...

12 March 2012
08:53 GMT

NATO Pays €58 Million ($75.8 Million) for Cyber Security

NATO’s infrastructure, which includes more than 22,000 civilian and military employees, will benefit from a protection worth €58 Million ($75.8 Million) as part of the new Computer Incident Response Capability, Full Operational Capability (NCIRC FOC) project. Seven companies from all over the world partic...

12 March 2012
05:13 GMT

Naval War: Arctic Circle Gets Gameplay Trailer

The developers at Turbotape Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have launched another trailer for their ship simulation title Naval War: Arctic Circle, showing off the effect that the detection of a Russian submarine can have when it happens outside of a major Norwegian port. The trailer is made up of in-game fo...

9 March 2012
04:24 GMT

Hackers Around the World: No Site Is Safe from This Pakistani Ghost

Life is not easy for Pakistani citizens, not to mention for hackers who want to make a difference in the world by protesting against violent governing regimes and injustices. However, the harsh conditions won’t make them give up and this week’s hacker featured in our Hackers around the world series pro...

3 March 2012
08:31 GMT

Wargame: European Escalation Gets Launch Trailer

The developers at Eugen Systems and publisher Focus Home Interactive have released the launch trailer for their strategy and tactics title Wargame: European Escalation, which is launched both via a retail PC package and using digital distribution service like Steam. The new trailer is just one minute and a half long...

23 February 2012
02:27 GMT

Romanian President Offers Hackers for NATO's 'Smart Defense'

Prior to the meeting that takes place today in Brussels with NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Romania’s President Traian Basescu revealed in a press conference that the Balkan country could have a great contribution to the cyber defense of member states. “Romania could be an importan...

30 January 2012
02:25 GMT

Hacker Finds SQL Injection Vulnerability in NATO Website

The last hacker that took part in our series called Hackers around the world, D35m0nd142, found another major website as being vulnerable. This time the flaw is present on the official international website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Unlike other operations in which the gray hat only published...

25 January 2012
13:21 GMT

UK, US Officials and NATO Advisers Exposed After Stratfor Hack

The latest information regarding the hacking operation Anonymous launched against Stratfor reveals that sensitive data belonging to US and British officials, some of which employed in highly sensitive areas, ended up in the hands of the cybercriminals. According to The Guardian, email addresses and encrypted passwo...

9 January 2012
07:14 GMT

NATO Commander Announced End to Libya War on Facebook

Some are quick to laud Facebook or Twitter for any contribution they may have had in big events, from revolutions to earthquakes. Of course, both are simply a communication medium, a platform, that enables but not causes these events.However, at least in some cases, these sites do merit their praises and their import...

22 October 2011
05:16 GMT

Anonymous Hits US Government Contractor ManTech

Anonymous has published around 400 MB of confidential documents involving ManTech, a large federal contractor which provides IT solutions to many government departments. The hacktivist collective announced plans to release the files yesterday and even posted some teaser samples to prove it means business. The f...

30 July 2011
04:00 GMT

Anonymous Is Still On NATO's Servers Downloading Data

An Anonymous member involved with the group's campaign against NATO claims the hacktivists still have access to the organization's computer network and continue to extract data Identified as Commander X, the hacker told CBS News in an email that the group will release all the information it gathers, but exp...

22 July 2011
12:27 GMT

Anonymous Claims to Act Responsibly by Not Publishing Sensitive NATO Files

The Anonymous hacktivist collective claims to be sitting on around 1 GB of stolen NATO files, but says that publishing them would be irresponsible.In order to prove that they don't kid around, the group has published a single NATO file marked as restricted which dates back to August 2007.However, the 36-page doc...

22 July 2011
04:12 GMT

NATO Electronic Bookshop Site Compromised

NATO has warned users of its e-Bookshop site that their data might have been stolen during a recent attack against carried out by unknown perpetrators."Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company."NATO’s e-Bookshop i...

24 June 2011
12:41 GMT

Anonymous Threat Mentioned in NATO Information Security Report

The notorious Anonymous hacktivist collective has been described as a possible threat in a recently published NATO report about information and national security.The report, drafted by NATO's General Rapporteur, Lord Jopling of the United Kingdom, has been submitted for approval to the Alliance's Committee ...

2 June 2011
13:56 GMT

Arma 3 Comes in Summer 2012, Offers More Simulation Options

Independent developer Bohemia Interactive, the original creators of the Operation Flashpoint series and of the Arma concept, have announced that they are working on Arma 3, the third installment in the military simulation series that aims to deliver a battle experience as close to real life as possible.The developers...

20 May 2011
05:49 GMT

SOCOM 4 Officially Delayed into 2011

Zipper Interactive, the development studio that Sony put in charge of creating SOCOM 4, has announced that the shooter, which was initially scheduled to arrive at some point during the fall in order to aid in the launch of the PlayStation Move motion tracking system, is now slate for an unspecified date in 2011.Jerem...

30 July 2010
03:51 GMT

Palestinian Supporters Hack NATO and U.S. Army Sites

The cyberwar between hackers supporting the Palestinian cause and their Israel sympathizing counter-parts continues. After compromising thousands of Israeli websites, the Jihad attackers have moved on to targeting high profile sites that belong to the U.S. military or NATO. Four websites belonging to the United Stat...

10 January 2009
04:10 GMT

NATO Adds Windows Vista to Its Arsenal

Even with Windows 7 headed fast for the market, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not waiting for the next iteration of the Windows client, and has armed itself with Windows Vista. According to Microsoft, parts of the NATO Unclassified Network are now accounting for Vista as one of the items in their arsenal,...

10 December 2008
09:51 GMT

USB Stick Containing Classified NATO Info Lost in Sweden

We've seen similar cases in the past, but this time, the problem sounds a little bit more serious than any time before. First of all, let me present the case: a USB memory stick containing classified NATO information has been found in a Swedish library, but nobody knows for sure the way it got lost. Obviously, t...

4 January 2008
16:06 GMT

World in Conflict Demo - Download Right Here, Right Now!

I'll bet that if you're into real-time strategy games you're anxiously waiting for World in Conflict to launch right? Well, we're not going to say that your waiting is over, but the least we can do is treat you to the game's demo, right? Happy are we? Very well then, HERE it is. Read below fo...

28 August 2007
08:55 GMT


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