TIME Explains: The Deep Web

Published on 1 Nov 2013 | The FBI takedown of the online market Silk Road reveals the challenges of regulating the Deep Web. Here's what you need to know

Bangladeshi Hackers Attacked Malaysian Website

KUALA LUMPUR- Several websites with the ‘.com.my’ and ‘.MY’ domains experienced technical issues when it was hacked this morning  by a group known as TiGER-M@TE.

Several major websites that were affected include Google, Dell, Microsoft, MSN Malaysia, Bing, and Kaspersky.

The frontpage of the website was changed with the following text, “Hello Malaysia, you think you are more advanced than us? Respect our workers, we will respect you! Running it since 2007.”

Last month, at least 41 government agencies’ website faced technical difficulties after it was hacked by an international group of hackes known as ‘Anonymous.’

In May, PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s blog was allegedly hacked to give an impression that a ‘sex video’ purportedly involving her daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, was genuine.

In March, Google experienced a technical glitch after a search for “Sabah” showed a result in which the state was described as “illegitimate”. The incident happened during the Malaysia-Filipino standoff over Sabah’s sovereignty.

Meanwhile Google denied its website was hacked. - MD | source

How to Know If Your Facebook Page Was Hacked.

By Kay Ireland, eHow Contributor

A hacked account may have unauthorized postings.

Currently, Facebook is the second most popular website on the Internet. As such, it is a prime target for hackers. The Facebook accounts of unsuspecting victims are routinely hacked, usually to be used for phishing scams and advertisements. If you think that your Facebook account is impervious to hacking, think again. Clicking on certain links or having a weak password could mean you see some of the trademark signs of a hacked Facebook account.

Instructions

1. • 1
     Log into your Facebook account and choose "Account" from the upper right-hand corner. Select "Account Settings" from the drop-down menu and locate "Account Security." Expand the section and choose to receive notifications. This increases the security level for your Facebook account by setting your account so that when it is accessed from a computer or device it has never been accessed from before, Facebook notifies you immediately by email.
   • 2
     Test your password frequently. If your account has been hacked, the hacker usually changes the account to delay your access. If the password you use suddenly stops working, use the Facebook "forgot your password" link on the login page to reset your password. When you set your password, ensure that you use both letters and numbers to make it harder to guess.

     3   Look through your past Facebook activity, which is documented on your wall. If you see unfamiliar pictures, websites and videos posted, your Facebook account may be being used for phishing schemes to lure your friends and family members into clicking links because it appears that you've recommended them.
   • 4
     Ask your friends and family members to watch your profile for suspicious activity. They can notify you if a hacker has been posting items and links from your profile.
   • 5
     Watch your email for the security message that Facebook sends when suspicious activity is detected. If suspicious links and spam appear in your profile, Facebook sends a security message to the email address affiliated with your account. Your account is temporarily suspended until you can go through the process of resetting your password to reinstate access.

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Islamic hackers threaten Bank of America and NY Stock Exchange

The Bank of America’s online banking site suffered occasional problems Tuesday after threats on the internet that a cyber-attack would be launched on the bank and other US targets in protest at a film mocking Islam.

A message on pastebin.com claiming to be from ‘cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam’- a reference to the military wing of Hamas- declared that it would attack the Bank of America and the New York Stock Exchange as a first step in a campaign against “American Zionist Capitalists”.

The posting promised to continue aggressive actions until the “erasing of the nasty movie”, which although YouTube has blocked in volatile regions, remains available in other parts of the world.

The film in question, a privately funded short-movie, mocking the Prophet Mohammad, has ignited days of demonstrations.The uproar has left many dead across the Arab world, including Africa, Asia and some Western countries.

A Bank of America spokesman told Reuters that the website had suffered some problems but was available to customers.

But customers contacted by Reuters in Michigan, Ohio, Georgia and New York said they couldn’t access the site.

The threat to the New York Stock Exchange has seemingly not materialized as trading continued as normal.

Bill Pennington, chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security, told the weekly magazine InformationWeek that the problems on the Bank of America website do not necessarily mean they’ve been hacked.

“It’s reasonable to suppose it could be a coincidence,” he said, citing the recent GoDaddy outage, which was an internal technical error for which hackers claimed responsibility.

But he did concede that the website’s problems could also be the result of hackers, saying that hacking was “pretty easy”.

He said that only the perpetrators and possibly the victims [the Bank of America] will ever really know what happened.

Pennington warned that businesses should expect more attacks, “It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better,” he said.

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Computer hackers published unique identification stored on an FBI computer.

ublished on Sep 4, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish - Apple hacking explained : Computer hackers have published the unique identification codes of one million Apple devices online, which they say were being stored on an FBI computer.