Mozilla Firefox Ahead Of Enabling DRM To Put A Stop On Piracy

The media content creators are concerned with the people who get the content without even paying a penny for it, violating the policies of various organizations. The upcoming versions of the firefox browser are equipped with Closed Source Digital Rights management from adobe. The company stated that " The major reason is to support commercial video streams". Now the companies won't need to rely upon third party plugins like silverlight to pass down copyright protected movies and videos to your browser. Now they will operate under DRM right into the web.

All other web-clients like Chrome, Internet Explorer etc. are supporting Encrypted Media Extensions in them. Mozilla has agreed to adopt DRM in HTML 5 to be in competition with other web clients.

Mozilla will enrich its browser with Application Programming Interface to deliver DRM protected content and in partnership with adobe- the firm will provide Content Decryption Module at user end.

What is DRM?

DRM is a mechanism to enforce hard restrictions to users' media through various conditions and controls are imposed on software and hardware.

It is only possible iff some parts of the computers are kept secret from users, in that case users' will not get enough freedom as Internet provides. 

The major goal of DRM is to create a framework that will cut-down the level of piracy that is beneficial for the creators of Media Content but harmful for user's freedom.

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Google Public DNS Servers Hijacked, traffic deflected for more than 22 minutes

Network observance and Routing Security company BGPMON, on Sunday reported that Google's DNS servers were hijacked for approximately 22 minutes. 

Tweet By BGPMON Regarding The Hijack

Tweet by company- "Google DNS 8.8.8.8/32 was hijacked for ~22min yesterday, affecting networks in Brazil & Venezuela"

Basically, DNS translates its stored domain names to their numerical IP addresses for locating devices around the globe. This attack was done by exploiting Boarder Gateway Protocol (BGP). Google's DNS servers handles queries of around 150 Billion users a day, so the 22 minute deflection meant a lot to Google services. The originators of this attack are still under cover and much more information is hidden behind the attack. 

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Ukrainian Government Suffers Cyber Attack, Websites Defaced

Hackers Group named "Kosova Hacker's Society" and "Pentagon Security Team" launched a specialized cyber attack over Ukrainian Government and affected more than ten websites of the same. They stamped the websites with their deface pages and several messages for the government. 

Defaced Website Showing The Message Left by The Hackers

Some of these websites still showing the deface pages while writing this article. They Left the following message on the page-

"Hello People of Ukraine!!! 

We are Kosova Hacker's Security - Pentagon Crew 

We are here to support your fight against the fascist regime that have been for several years conditioned your freedom and your way of living, we are with you in this fight for freedom, independence and justice, and that we all together, be able to win. 

We don't forget! 

We don't forgive! 

To the corrupt we have only one thing to say: Your time is out, you'll no longer oppress the people! For the next days we will target all corrupt in Ukraine. For the opposition, we are watching, and we hope you really being sincery in this fight. 

U K R A I N E IS NOT RUSSIA!!"

Another Defaced Website of Government of Ukraine

List of hacked sites :-

http://www.pir.gov.ua/

http://www.investkr.gov.ua/services

http://mfa.gov.ua/mediafiles/

http://www.court.gov.ua/userfiles/pentagon.txt

http://www.zaksoc.gov.ua/

http://www.dabksumy.gov.ua/

http://dairivne.gov.ua/

http://rivneoblzem.gov.ua/

http://www.sumyzemres.gov.ua

http://just.odessa.gov.ua/

http://www.zaksoc.gov.ua/

http://just.odessa.gov.ua/

http://vlada-yahotyn.gov.ua/

http://kurort.gov.ua/page/about

http://yagogolovarda.vlada-yahotyn.gov.ua/

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Project OUTERNET Aims To Drop Free Internet Across The World

                                      Information For The World From Outer Space

You all will be amazed to know the idea that is being implemented by a New York based non profit organization to deliver free Wi-fi internet access to everyone on the earth regardless the Geographical Location of the users. 

                         

The firm announced the project "Outernet" which will aimed to grant free internet to whole globe's population. The organization later added that about 40 percent of world's population will still not be able to get the access because of project's high cost. The Highlighted Lines from Project are:- Unrestricted, globally accessible, broadcast data. Quality content from all over the Internet.

Available to all of humanity. For free.

Source:- Outernet's Offical Site

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Facebook Discontinued Its Mail Service

Facebook is a growing Social Networking Site with Millions of users as its family. This morning, facebook rolled back its mail service from the site. Instead of this, your received emails are now getting delivered to your primary mail address from which you registered your facebook account.

They made this change because most of the people haven't been using their facebook email addresses plus they are focusing on improving the mobile messaging experience for their users. It may be the result of their takeover on whatsapp and making some changes to mobile messaging service. Check out our post on Whatsapp Acquisition for more information. 

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National Portal of India Hacked by ZHC

ZCompany Hacking Crew recently managed to gain access to National Portal of India. Hackers left a message on the page " Owns Indian National Portal. It has been 65 years since your invasion of our lands but the fire of freedom still burns in our hearts. ZHC"

Hacked Site:- India.gov.in

Screenshot of Hacked Site:

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Indian Telecommunications Provider BSNL's Sub-Domains Hacked By Pakistani Hacker

Pakistani defacers with handle "P4K M4D HUNT3R-Z" have intruded and boxed the sub-domains of much reputed Indian Telecommunications provider BSNL.

Hacked Websites:-  http://ir.bsnl.co.in/

                                 http://www.vas.bsnl.co.in/

                          

BSNL's Value Added Services and BSNL International Roaming domains was hacked and left defaced by hackers. Hackers left a security warning to the site administrators instead of any other warnings like over the Kashmir. 

No other message or information regarding any data compromise or credentials theft has left over the deface. 

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Google's Acquisition Continues- SlickLogin Acquired [EXCLUSIVE]

The Israel based firm that is providing overwhelming security to its End Users that uses High Frequency Sound Waves as passwords, going to integrate with search giant Google's security mechanism known as "Two Factor Authentication" soon.

SlickLogin, the company behind the development of Smart Identification Technology has been acquired by Google to mount their technology over its two step verification security mechanism. 

For Google this is the Fifth acquisition in Israel after Waze.

So, wait for the time when you are having with Sound Waves as your Passwords, as Google is always enhancing the way for Security of its users. 

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Microsoft Honored An Asian Security Researcher with $100,000 Bounty

Recently Microsoft  has awarded a Security Researcher "Yang Yu"  a bounty of $100,000 as a part of its Bounty Program. Company said that he was awarded this bounty for his research on Mitigation Bypass variants. Microsoft paid this $100,000 bounty second time under its program. 

As Microsoft stated that " This payout reflects the fact that our team learned something new that will help us build more robust defences but it was built upon known mitigation bypass techniques." 

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More than Million Files Stolen from NSA Servers by Edward Snowden

Every internet user might be aware of National Security Agency (NSA). The agency which is responsible for spying the globe by downloading million GB information daily with their specially designed spying software had inadequacy in securing their own systems with highly confidential data. 

Edward Snowden has nearly more than 1.7 Million secret files of NSA which he compromised using a simple web crawler tool which can be freely downloaded from net.

Everyone was heedless that how can he gained access to National Security Agency's servers and crawled the files from them. The intelligence branch officials of NSA stated  that "Edward used Web Crawler tool against NSA's internal network and might had used Passwords of his mates to download the information from server"
This incidence is very shocking as the agency whose job is to protect the nation against various cyber attacks, unable to detect the inside worker of it.
Snowden stated that "he only did this to inform the general public about the government's actions"

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Indian NIC Domains Hacked by Leet Haxor- Team Madleets

Popular hacker with handle "1337" from "Team Madleets" again marked his presence in Cyber World with these defaces. Leet haxor defaced more than fifteen high profiled sites of India with .nic and .gov domains. Most of the domains are hosted on the same server. List of hacked sites with their Mirrors are mentioned below:-

http://tempweb2037.nic.in/ 

http://tempweb2033.nic.in/?module=pages&pageid=40 
http://tempweb2085.nic.in/fancynews.php?newsid=16 

ent&view=article&id=23 
http://tempweb2039.nic.in/ 
http://tempweb2040.nic
http://tempweb2038.nic.in/index.php?option=com_con
t.in/?page_id=50 
http://goaspcb.gov.in/?page_id=50 
http://ddpmod.gov.in/ 
http://ddp.gov.in/ 
http://tempweb2044.nic.in/ 

2002.nic.in/document/1337.h
http://tempweb2045.nic.in/ 
http://tempweb2046.nic.in/ 
http://tempweb2050.nic.in/pages/view/37-introduction 
http://tempwe
btml 
http://tempweb2003.nic.in/main/wp-content/gallery/1337.html 
http://tempweb2004.nic.in/captcha/1337.html 

.org/mirror/id/21694615 
http://www.zone-h.o
http://tempweb2006.nic.in/app/tmp/1337.html 

Mirror
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21694829 
http://www.zone-
hrg/mirror/id/21694475 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21694952 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21694966 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21695278 

rror/id/21695584 
http://www.zone-h.org/m
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21694475 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21695532 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21695572 
http://www.zone-h.org/m
iirror/id/21695654 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21695668 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21695778 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21696820 
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21696793 


http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21696782

Now, All domains have been taken down. 

Message from Team:- "NIC India STAMPED by TeaM MaDLeeTs Nothing related to cyber war or anything like that Security is just an Illusion"

Hackers also stated that more than 100 plus .nic domains are there in their hands. 

Apart from this, the hacker last year also managed to hack domains of Google of Malaysia, Albania and Kenya. 

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Ebay and Paypal UK domains Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

The Syrian Hackers group "Syrian Electronic Army" have added Paypal and ebay's UK domain to their Hit List. In a tweet they confirmed that they were able to hack into the Domain Registry of these two that is managed by Mark Monitor. 

They stated that the reason behind the Hack is the both domains are denying Syrian Citizens the ability to purchase Online Products, paypal was hacked by #SEA

The screenshot in tweet showed that SEA was able to access the admin panel, which they next targeted to change the DNS configuration of the website, thus helps to deface these websites.



Paypal is currently one of the biggest e-commerce business allowing payments and transfers throughout the world. Side by side e-Bay is an American internet consumer to consumer corporation that is being used for online shopping around the globe.

The defaced page showed the message "hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, Long Live Syrian"

The group said that it is a hacktivist operation and no user accounts or data breach . "If your paypal account is down for few minutes, think about Syrians who were denied online payments for more than three years"-- they said in a tweet. 

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24 Million Credit Card Data Stolen Under Chewbacca Malware Attack

A new Malware named "Chewbacca" is in headlines nowadays. According to RSA researchers, the targets of this malware is only the systems that process Credit Card information. The trojan installs a copy of itself in the windows start up folder  and its memory scanner searches for Credit card information e.g. Credit card regular expressions for card magnetic stripe data. Extracted data is sent to their servers via TOR. As the data is sent to TOR, so their real IPs cannot be retrieved. 

The number of impacted retailers mostly situated in United States including Russia, Canada and Australia. 

Malware Effect:- The login page of the server collecting data from infected Point of Sale Machine featured a picture of the Star Wars Wookie . Chewbacca is nothing but a Basic keylogger and memory scanner that runs at windows start up. 

Tip:- Deleting a single malware doesn't secure your systems but installing a security application can do. Remember, 24 million computers failed to detect this small keylogger. 

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Many Bangladeshi Government websites Hacked & damaged back

From previous few days Bangladeshi hackers are endlessly targeting over Indian cyber house that has finally created Indian hackers to require actions and reply back.

After the Hack of BCCI, Bangladeshi hackers were actively defacing Indian websites. Whereas the Indian hackers are already engaged in Associate in Nursing in progress terrorist act with Pakistani hackers. It's like these days they need marred five Government websites of People's Republic of Bangladesh  in return of Bangladeshi hackers attack over Indian cyber house. 

Indian hacker going with the code-name "Bl@Ck Dr@GoN" a member of "I-HOS TEAM" (Indian hackers on-line Squad) marred these websites warning The Bangladeshi hackers to not Hack Indian Sites.

Defaced Sites:-

http://www.seqaep.gov.bd/ 

http://www.dshe.gov.bd/ 

http://www.mpl.gov.bd/ 

http://www.cabinet.gov.bd/ 

http://www.prison.gov.bd/

Possibility is much more that these types of attacks will continue in future unless the Bangladeshi Hackers stop defacing Indian Sites.

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Microsoft New CEO Might be an Indian- Satya Nadella

Latest Reports say that Software Producing Giant "Microsoft" is considering Satya Nadella as Company's new CEO after a long time search. He has been at the Top of the list of Expected Candidates and is going to take Steve Ballmer's role in company. Steve Ballmer is going to retire from its portfolio in August '14. 

The board may decide to replace Bill Gates as a Chairman. If Satya Nadella is chosen as the new CEO, he'll be the third CEO of Microsoft after Bill Gates and Ballmer. Nadella is in-charge of Cloud Computing and the organization who pioneered Microsoft's Cloud OS that contains Bing, Skydrive, Skype etc.

The report also says that John Thompson, Microsoft's leading Independent director may be considered as the Chairman replacing Gates. 

Nadella persued Electrical Engineering in India and went to United States to take Computer Science degree. 

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Yahoo Mail Hacked

Recently Yahoomail have suffered from data breach. Today Yahoo have confirmed that it has identified an Unauthorized access to user accounts. Company didn't confirmed the number of stolen user accounts but prompted to users to reset their mail passwords. They added, Usernames and Passwords of its email customer service have been stolen and are used to gain access to other connected accounts with yahoomail.

                        

Its the latest of Security Breaches that allowed hackers to retrieve confidential information. Usernames and passwords were stolen from a third party database not from the yahoo systems. They said "The attack lead to compromised names and email addresses from the affected accounts' most recent sent emails". By retrieving names from sent folders, intruders may try to make their spam messages look like the real ones to the receivers.  This breach is the second time in two months that Yahoo suffered. In December the yahoo suffered a multi-day outage.  

The company already taking necessary security measures and have noticed the users under the breach to reset their Passwords via email or SMS. 

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Google fined 210 Million Won for unofficial data assembly through Street View feature

Today, search giant google is fined with 210 Million won by South Korea. In a meeting today held at Korea of The Korea Communications Commission, they said that google had captured data through illegal means for its street view feature. Further the commission ordered google to delete all the data that they have captured through the ibid feature.

To capture the realtime street images google had managed special vehicles equipped with advanced cameras and computers. The database is thus filled with details and personal information of people who may illegally been captured on camera. The database includes Internet ID's, Passwords, registration numbers etc.

Google has already been fined in United States, France and Germany on the same account.

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Supreme court of Bangladesh website hacked

Today Indian hacker group I-Hos have hacked and defaced the Official website of Bangladesh's Supreme Court :- http://www.supremecourt.gov.bd/scweb/
Its a payback of what Bangladeshi hackers done in past few days i.e. defaced huge amount of Indian sites that include Official site of BCCI and other cricket fans sites.
The court's website is not opening now, seems to be down.

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Official Website of The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) got hacked and defaced by Bangladeshi Hackers

Bangladeshi hacker with their name "Ashik Iqbal Chy", a member of BD Grey Hat Hacker group recently stamped the official website of The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
It was not an Index page deface but the hacker is successful editing the articles of the site showing the title 'Hacked by Ashik Iqbal Chy'. The defaced page showing some picture of Bangladeshi Cricket team with their Flag and a message quoting "Don't mess up with tigers".
At the time of writing this article the website is restored now.
Mirror of the hacked website can be found here:- http://www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/21650626
Some more Indian sites hacked by the same group on same time.
Screenshot of the hacked website:-

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Website of Indian Singer Daler Mehndi Hacked

Official website of Indian Pop singer Daler Mehndi (http://www.dalermehndi.com) and Canadian Singer Raghav has been hacked by Pakistani hackers named H4xoR99 and H4x0ri0uX M1nD from team Madleets.
"Your Site security is compromised" the hacker wrote on defacement page.

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