Not one month has passed since Al Arabyia’s English Facebook page was overtaken by hackers and it seems that the media company has fallen victim to cybercriminals once again. According to the organization, the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Al Arabiya News Channel were breached by unknown hackers who started... |
25 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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We’ve seen numerous reports from security solutions firm regarding the campaigns that target Syrians. Trend Micro experts provide another example of a malicious plot, this time leveraging a so-called Skype Encription application. Advertised as a product made by IT Security Lab to encrypt communications, in rea... |
20 April 2012
08:05 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned Syrian activists to be on the lookout for malicious elements that target their Facebook and YouTube login credentials. Now the organization warns them about pieces of malware that spread the remote administration tool known as DarkComet.
Trend Micro experts de... |
6 April 2012
04:25 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns Syrian internauts, especially those who oppose the current Syrian government, to be on the lookout for shady Facebook posts that lead to a phishing site that’s designed to steal their login credentials.
Since the Syrian government allowed the country’s Inter... |
30 March 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Hackers part of the Syrian Electronic Army managed to gain control over the official English Facebook profile of Al Arabiya, one of the Arab world’s leading news channels.
According to Al Arabyia, the company managed to regain control over the account, but not before the hackers posted fake news regarding a di... |
27 March 2012
08:56 GMT |
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Last month CNN reported that supporters of the Syrian regime developed a computer virus to spy on those who opposed the government. Trend Micro experts analyzed the DarkComet Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and revealed the way it's utilized along with its spreading mechanism.
Apparently, the malware spreads via the... |
6 March 2012
10:06 GMT |
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The official website of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations was breached and defaced by a hacker known as Dr.HaCkEr.
Cyber War News provided the message left by the hackers after defacing the AboutImages section of the Regional Office for the Near East subdomain (neareast).
In their m... |
1 March 2012
10:10 GMT |
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The famous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN continues to hack websites that belong to governments they consider corrupt and violent. Their latest hack’s purpose was to support the Syrian people in their fight against the local government and, as a result, they leaked tons of banking information. “Last fe... |
9 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Ever since Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, started to retaliate against the citizens’ protest in a violent manner, Anonymous hacktivists from all over the world began showing their involvement.
Their latest target is the site of the Ministry of Public Administration, from which they managed to obtain ... |
6 February 2012
09:17 GMT |
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The Syrian government has moved to ban Apple’s iPhone because of its use as a social platform to share images and videos documenting the violence unfolding in the country.Obviously, protesters are fighting the effort and Abdulfattah 'John' Jandali is chiming in to show his solidarity with the Syrian S... |
5 December 2011
05:39 GMT |
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In response to Anonymous defacing the Syrian Ministry of Defence website late last week, a group of hackers broke into Anon Plus and left a message on its home page.Anonymous hacktivists hijacked mod.gov.sy over the weekend to leave an encouragement message for Syrian pro-democracy protesters and call on the country&... |
9 August 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Anonymous has broken into the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and left an encouragement message for the pro-democracy protesters on its home page.People who accessed the mod.gov.sy website over the weekend saw an image depicting the Iranian flag together with the Anonymous logo and a message in English and ... |
8 August 2011
04:02 GMT |
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The Syrian government is trying to identify activists who use social media to coordinate protests by orchestrating nation-wide man-in-the-middle attacks.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has received several reports from Syrian users who spotted SSL errors when trying to access Facebook over HTTPS.The er... |
6 May 2011
07:01 GMT |
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
06:43 GMT |
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We all know Facebook is extremely popular when it comes to the number of Internet users accessing its webpage. Alexa placed Facebook on position number 7, while compete.com estimates the social networking service has almost 30 million visitors per month. Impressive, isn't it? Certainly yes, but this popularity ... |
10 December 2007
06:12 GMT |
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