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Nokia House Defaced by Indian Hacker

Nokia House (nokiahouse.com), a website that offers reviews, software, wallpapers, screensavers and themes for Nokia phones was hacked and defaced by a hacker called Ashell, a member of the Indishell crew, reports VoiceOfGreyHat. “Finally …Hacker u Nokia House. It take good time to find your weakness. B...

12 December 2011
11:07 GMT

Presidency of Guyana and Anonymous Websites Defaced by Tha Disastar

The official website belonging to the President of Guyana (op.gov.gy) was hacked and defaced by a cyberattacker known as Tha Disastar, member of The Hackers Army, informs VoiceOfGreyHat. “To the ignorant observer Israel may appear modern, vigorous and democratic largely thanks to the outrageous bias in Western...

12 December 2011
09:00 GMT

Cyber Pirates Hack 99 US and Indian Websites to Make NATO Stop Attacks

The Pakistani hacker collective known as Pak Cyber Pirates breached the defense mechanisms deployed by 99 US and Indian websites in an attempt to attract the attention of NATO officials. All the defaced websites host an image of a Pakistani flag and signs of the alleged atrocities committed by NATO in their countr...

10 December 2011
06:49 GMT

UNICEF Website Defaced by Brwsk007 Hacker

The website of UNICEF Ireland (unicef.ie) was breached and defaced by a hacker who calls himself Brwsk007, reports CyberWarNews. Brwsk007 claims that not only was the main page defaced, but he also obtained access to their databases. “Your site is Unsecure. We Accessed to your database and all files. We defa...

9 December 2011
06:44 GMT

Websites of Libyan Domain Registry and Largest ISP Defaced

A hacker has managed to deface the websites of the NIC.LY registry and the country's main Internet service provider, Libya Telecom & Technology (LTT).People who tried to access the nic.ly and ltt.ly websites over the weekend were greeted by a page showing the flag of the Lybian opposition fighters and a message ...

22 August 2011
05:22 GMT

Anonymous Defaces Syrian Ministry of Defence Website

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

Anonymous Defaces NIC Website in Support of Indian Anti-Corruption Movement

The notorious Anonymous hacktivist collective has defaced the website of India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) in support of the anti-corruption movement led by political activist Baba Ramdev.The attack was part of Operation India, a new Anonymous operation launched after a violent government crackdown on an...

8 June 2011
05:53 GMT

Sony Music Brazil Website Defaced

The website of Sony Music Brazil has been defaced by a hacker in what continues to be a long series of security breaches involving Sony's web properties.The compromise happened sometime on Saturday night and the rogue front page remained up for over twelve hours.It's not clear if any sensitive data was comp...

6 June 2011
12:31 GMT

Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Voice of America

A group of Iranian hacktivists calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army (Ir.CA) have defaced the Voice of America website, as well as 93 other domains, yesterday.The rogue landing page on www.voanews.com and all the other websites displayed the Ir.CA logo, which contains the Iranian flag, and a political message rea...

22 February 2011
02:59 GMT

Hacker Defaces University of Sydney Website and Mocks Admin

The University of Sydney (USyd) called in outside Web security experts after a hacker compromised its website several times and mocked the admin for its poor security.The website was last defaced Friday night with a message claiming that Jie Gao, the university's UNIX systems administrator, is incapable of secur...

18 January 2011
03:25 GMT

Anonymous Defaces Website of Fine Gael Irish Party

The Fine Gael Irish political party has emailed nearly 2,000 users to notify them that their data was exposed after its website got hacked by members of Anonymous this weekend.The hack happened Sunday evening with the attackers replacing the front page with the Anonymous logo and a message reading:"Nothing is safe, y...

10 January 2011
10:39 GMT

Hacker Defaces Kenyan Police Website in Mark Zuckerberg's Honor

In a rather unusual incident, a hacker managed to deface the website of the Kenyan police and dedicated the attack to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Kenyapolice.go.ke normally contains information about and provided by Kenya's primary national law enforcement body.However, earlier today visitors of the site...

4 January 2011
10:20 GMT

Anonymous Takes Out Zimbabwean Official Sites

Members of the Anonymous group of hacktivists have attacked several official Zimbabwean websites in response to a lawsuit filed against one of the country's leading newspaper for publishing the contents of a leaked US diplomatic cable.On December 8, WikiLeaks published a 2008 cable from the US embassy in Harare,...

3 January 2011
13:23 GMT

Turkish Hackers Deface Cypriot Websites After Basketball Riot

According to local police reports, around twenty websites belonging to Cypriot companies were defaced after APOEL Nicosia fans attacked a Turkish basketball team following a recent match.The violent incidents transpired on December 21 following the FIBA Eurochallenge basketball game between APOEL Nicosia (Republic of...

28 December 2010
02:49 GMT

Pakistan Plans to Get Interpol Involved in Gov Website Defacements Case

The Pakistani government launched an investigation into hacking attacks that left several of its websites defaced recently and plans to contact the Interpol if the perpetrators are from abroad.On November 26, a group identifying itself as the Indian Cyber Army (ICA), compromised 36 Pakistani government websites, incl...

9 December 2010
09:50 GMT

Indian and Pakistani Hackers Continue Hostilities

Pakistani Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority's website became the latest victim of a feud between Indian and Pakistani hackers, who after one round of mass defacements on both sides of the border, are not ready to lay down their weapons.The attacks started two weeks ago on November 26, with a group called the Indi...

7 December 2010
11:19 GMT

Indian and Pakistani Hackers Battle It Out with Website Defacements

Pakistani hackers have defaced over 250 Indian websites this past weekend, including that of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in retaliation to a similar mass attack from a group called the “Indian Cyber Army.”The incident occurred during the night of December 3 and affected the websites of as m...

6 December 2010
02:27 GMT

Vulnerability Research Vendor's Domain Hijacked

The domain name of vulnerability research company Secunia was redirected earlier today to an unrelated Web page showing a message in Turkish, after its DNS records were altered.Secunia is one of the world's leading vulnerability intelligence and management vendors. Based in Denmark, the company tracks, rates and...

25 November 2010
04:42 GMT

Taiwanese Hackers Deface Asian Taekwondo Union Website

Enraged over the disqualifying of a Taiwanese athlete during the 2010 Asian Games, hackers defaced the website of the Asian Taekwondo Union to post an offensive messages.On November 17, just seconds before the end of the match between Taiwan's Yang Shu-Chun and Vietnam's Vu Thi Hau in the first round of the...

22 November 2010
04:58 GMT

Several Banks Have Their Websites Defaced

The websites of at least four Wisconsin banks were defaced this weekend. The hackers claim they were compromised after gaining superuser privileges on the hosting server.The announcement was posted on a hacking forum yesterday and read “Me and my friend have just defaced 4 bank websites and now defacing more.&r...

12 July 2010
05:39 GMT

Romanian Nationalists Hit Several Italian Media Outlets

The group of Romanian hacktivists calling themselves Romanian National Security (RNS) have attacked and defaced multiple websites belonging to the biggest Italian public television company Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), as well as leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Corriere della Sera. The message left behind...

30 April 2010
10:24 GMT

Mass Defacement Hits Congressional Websites

Over thirty websites of various Representatives and House Committees fell victim to mass defacement yesterday. The incident occurred shortly after President Obama gave his State of the Union address.The attack seems to be politically motivated as it contained an offensive anti-Obama message. "[expletive] Obama!! Red ...

28 January 2010
10:45 GMT

Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes Website Defaced

The website of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes was defaced yesterday and hackers mocked the institution through a message on the first page. Furthermore, the attackers claim to have downloaded the database and emails stored on the server.The National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is ...

8 January 2010
09:40 GMT

EU Presidency Website Defaced

Unidentified hackers have defaced the website of the European Union Presidency assumed by Spain at the beginning of this month. The picture of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's Prime Minister, was replaced with one depicting Mr. Bean, a world-renowned comedy character.The Presidency of the Council of the Eur...

5 January 2010
09:53 GMT

Iranian Hacktivists Hijack Twitter

Attackers identifying themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army" succeeded in hijacking Twitter's DNS records late on Thursday. The twitter.com domain and several other subdomains were pointed to a Web page displaying a political message taunting the United States.The attack happened under the cover of night, at aro...

18 December 2009
10:10 GMT

Web Host Hack Results in Mass Defacement

Customers of an UK-based web host called Daily Internet Services, had their websites defaced by hackers, who replaced their index pages with an image featuring Tux, the Linux penguin mascot. The company has restored the affected pages from back-ups and is currently investigating the attack.Daily Internet Services iss...

28 November 2009
06:36 GMT

Two U.S. Army Servers Compromised by Turkish Hackers

The Department of Defense is currently investigating security breaches on two Web servers belonging to the U.S. Army. The websites hosted on the servers were defaced by an anti-U.S. Turkish hacking collective called m0sted. According to leaked investigation reports obtained by InformationWeek, the latest incident oc...

1 June 2009
06:35 GMT

Web Defacement Archive Defaced

In an ironic twist of fate, Zone-h.org, which serves as an archive of website defacements, has been itself defaced. The hackers left a message claiming boredom made them do it and posted a video with an Arabic diaper commercial featuring dancing babies.Website defacements follow the same concept as the graffiti messa...

14 February 2009
06:45 GMT

The Website of German Interior Minister Hacked

Local media in Germany is reporting (translate) that hackers have defaced the website of the German Interior Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. On the first page, the website was promoting a link to a site protesting against the new biometric passports and telecommunications data retention legislation. The new data r...

12 February 2009
05:43 GMT


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