At least four Opposition leaders on Tuesday claimed to have received messages from Apple warning them of "State-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise" their iPhones and posted the purported screenshots on their X handles.
Bug bounty hunters or independent ethical hackers are certified cybersecurity professionals or security researchers who crawl the web, scanning the systems for gaps through which hackers can sneak in and alert the companies, says Shivani Shinde.
Rebekah Brooks, the former top executive of News International and a close aide of Rupert Murdoch, and her husband were bailed on Wednesday, along with four other persons charged with perverting the course of justice in connection with the phone hacking scandal.
The United States State Department took the unprecedented step to shut down its entire unclassified email system over the weekend after its computer network was hacked.
Russia stands accused by the US of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide, which the Kremlin strongly denies.
More than 1000 government websites belonging to various ministries and departments have been hacked in the last three years. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh on Tuesday said as per information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, a total of 303, 308, 371 and 48 government websites belonging to various ministries and departments were hacked up to March 2013.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal's personal website has been hacked and defaced by groups alleging Internet censorship and curbs on free speech.
The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global and regional geopolitical canvas is dynamic, the NSS document should be deliberated at length before formulation and should be reviewed periodically, recommends Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
The plot went awry and the parents survived. However, Karthik Bakale and the family's close relatives were hacked to death in the early hours of April 19.
ISRO Chairman Dr A S Kiran Kumar said there was no information loss following the alleged hacking of the website of the space organisation's commercial arm Antrix Corporation Ltd.
There are times when a customer books a cab and is charged for the ride, but the driver doesn't show up. It is one of the many hacks that cab drivers use.
Here's a 5 day course on ethical hacking if you want to learn how to test, scan, hack, and secure your own PC.
A Hindu tailor was hacked to death by machete-wielding Islamic State militants in his shop on Saturday in central Bangladesh.
The email ID of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) handling the messages from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to the media was hacked on Wednesday, prompting the PMO to issue an advisory that the fake email coming with the subject line "my terrible situation" may be ignored.
Nazimuddin Samad, a masters student of the state-run Jagannath University's law department, was killed by suspected Islamist militants in Old Dhaka's Sutrapur area on Wednesday night.
The British police on Tuesday arrested another journalist under an operation related to the phone-hacking controversy at the now defunct 'News of the World'.
The Indian Mujahideen module, which sent the terror mail claiming responsibility for the Varanasi blast, had hacked into the broadband Internet connection of a Navi Mumbai resident.Police sources said that the Wireless Fidelity that was used to send the five-page email was traced to a house in sector 17, Vashi in Navi Mumbai.The house owner's insecure WiFI was hacked into, the sources said, adding the logger of the router has been disabled.
A BSP functionary said it was a "planned murder" and claimed there was an "intelligence failure." Therefore, the central agency should probe the case.
Due to multiple requests received from the hacker's IP address, genuine entrants were unable to access the Reserve Bank of India website -- www.rbi.org.in.
The Twitter handle of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, one of the most popular Indian politicians on the networking site, was hacked on Tuesday and some wacky tweets were sent from it to a Pakistani journalist.
Pictures from the actress's iCloud account were shared by a hacker on various websites on Sunday, August 31.
It is very easy to hack your information as WhatsApp doesn't secure your data.
In a security breach, ISIS militants have reportedly hacked tens of thousands of Twitter accounts.
The information privacy company is offering services to specifically protect against reputational damage, account jacking and ID theft, the Daily Mail reported.
United Kingdom police has widened its probe into the phone hacking scandal to the most prestigious of Rupert Murdoch's UK papers, The Times, a top Labour MP said on Thursday.
Britain secretly obtained vast amounts of communications data from Pakistan to identify terrorists by hacking into routers in the country made by an American firm, according to whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Manchester-based Charantoor Kultar Singh, 22, was arrested by officers from the North West Hub of the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) on April 30 over the suspected hacking.
A phone hacking incident which led to the arrest of four persons in Philippines has left investigators worried. This is because it has been now found out that the phones were being hacked to fund terror operations. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
A phone hacking incident which led to the arrest of four persons in Philippines has left investigators worried. This is because it has been now found out that the phones were being hacked to fund terror operations. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
A Bangladeshi blogger was on Monday hacked to death by suspected Islamists, a month after a prominent writer was killed in a similar attack in the national capital.
Patna Police arrested Manoj Singh (name changed) for hacking the Orkut account of a student of Patna Women's College.
It is extremely important to keep your eyes open and ensure you are not a victim
WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America's premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance.
There was more bad news for Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain with the revelation that the now defunct tabloid News of the World hacked the phone of the mother of another murder victim Sarah Payne.
58-year-old doctor Sanaur Rahman was riding home on his motorbike when he was attacked by machete-wielding militants in Kushtia town.
Argentina's Lionel Messi is used to being hacked down by desperate defenders but his statue in Buenos Aires has suffered even rougher treatment for the second time this year.
According to police, during the probe of the case of a Hyderabad-based young CA student hacking into the IT account of Ambani, it has emerged that the business tycoon's account was also fraudulently accessed from Noida.
Rakotonirainy said it was vital for car makers, government and road safety experts to turn their attention to this global security threat.
Scientists have developed a novel method that allowed them to successfully hack into Gmail with up to 92 per cent accuracy.
While the CPI-M delegation watched a demonstration on the various security checks involved with the machines, the NCP team interacted with Commission's technical committee of experts.
