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BBC Server Compromised! Russian Hackers Broke Into FTP & Tried to Sell Unauthorized Access

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 1/02/2014 11:09:00 pm

BBC Server Compromised! Russian Hackers Hacked Into FTP & Tried to Sell Unauthorized Access on The X-Mass Evening 
Earlier we have seen world renowned media houses like CNN, NBC, Fox News, Washington Post, NY Times, NDTV and so on have fallen victim to hackers and cyber criminals. Now it was the turn for world’s largest and oldest broadcaster -British Broadcasting Corporation, widely known to us as BBC. Sources revealed that cyber criminals have managed to breach the security system of BBC and secretly took over a computer server at the BBC and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system. The attack was first identified by a cyber security firm named Hold Security LLC, in Milwaukee that monitors underground cyber crime forums in search of stolen information. However, it is still not clear whether the hacker stole any information or data or caused any damage to the site. In conversation with press Alex Holden, founder and Chief Information Security Officer of Hold Security told -"So far Hold Security researchers have found no evidence the conversations led to a deal or that data was stolen from the BBC.” So far the identity of hacker has not been confirmed, but the firm researchers observed a notorious Russian hacker known by the monikers "HASH" and "Rev0lver," attempting to sell access to the BBC server on December 25. However, BBC's security team managed to secure the site on Saturday, claims a person close to clean up efforts. One of the BBC spokesman refused to comment on the issue, he said, “We do not comment on security issues.” On the other hand, Justin Clarke, a principal consultant for the cyber security firm Cylance, said that while "accessing that server establishes a foothold within BBC's network which may allow an attacker to pivot and gain further access to internal BBC resources.” So far Hold Security researchers have found no evidence the conversations led to a deal or that data was stolen from the BBC. But we all know that  ftp systems are typically used to manage the transfer of large data files over the Internet. That's why the chances of data breach cant not be denied at this time. For updates on this piece of news and other hot information of the cyber & tech world stay tuned with VOGH. 


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Indian Air Force (IAF) Issued Strict Rules & Discipline to Avoid Hacking

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/30/2012 03:50:00 pm

Indian Air Force (IAF) Issued Strict Rules & Discipline to Avoid Hacking

Last month in a report we said Indian Govt is working on a robust cyber security structure, and parallely now the Indian Govt is emphasizing its security structure to fight against cyber threats. As a result of this ongoing cyber awareness, a very strict order have been issued by Indian air force to tackle and avoid cyber attacks. From now and onward every officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will now have to sign a declaration that they will not save or view any official document on personal computers. Failure to adhere to this directive will lead to a court marshal and prosecution. In a recent case, operational documents were found on the personal computer of a young pilot posted at an airbase in Tamil Nadu. A court of inquiry has been initiated. Over the years, cyberspace has emerged as a critical frontier for espionage as the use of computers and dependence on the internet has grown. Thus, document security has emerged as one of critical areas of concern for the government. It is perhaps alluding to these increasing instances of the cyberspace being used by foreign agencies to collect critical information. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing top cops of the country at the annual security conference hosted by the Intelligence Bureau earlier this month, said, "Our country's vulnerability to cybercrime is escalating... Large-scale computer attacks on our critical infrastructure and economy can have potentially devastating results. The government is working on a robust cyber security structure."
As a general rule, computers in which sensitive information are stored or prepared are never connected to the internet. "The IAF internal communication network, for instance, is not only a stand-alone network with no connection to the net, but also has the system configured in such a way that it doesn't allow external storage devices like pen drives or CDs," a senior MoD official told the press. Nonetheless, some officers have been found "keeping copies or preparing documents using critical information in their personal computers, which have subsequently passed out by malwares in the system or hacked," the officer added.

Beside of developing a robust cyber security structure, there is another reason behind this decision, and that is Couple of months ago we have seen that Chinese hackers have broken into Indian Navy's Computer System & stolen sensitive data. Later, inquiries revealed that a few naval officers had, against the rules, taken copies of the plans in pen drives from a naval computer, to study. The Chinese-made pen drives allegedly had malwares which transmitted the data back to IP addresses in China once they were used on computers connected to the internet. So the Indian Govt is now very strict about data privacy, so the implemented this new rule. Such bold decisions will surely make security tight and also reduce the probability of data theft & cyber espionage. 


-Source (NDTV)






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Microsoft India Get Clean Sheet By Delhi High Court (All The Criminal Charges Has Been Lift)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/21/2012 04:26:00 am

Microsoft India Get Clean Sheet By Delhi High Court (All The Criminal Charges Has Been Lift)

Microsoft India faced criminal charges, the case was filed on the Delhi high court. But in Monday quashed charges of hosting objectionable content against Microsoft India and set aside a trial court order for initiating criminal proceedings against the company for lack of evidence. Justice Suresh Kait said: "There is no evidence on record against the petitioner."
Justice Kait accepted the company's plea that Microsoft was not providing a platform to people to interact with each other and post or publish their views, but one engaged in development and sale of software and computing solutions. The company's counsel told the court that no defamatory material was posted on its websites, and Microsoft India is not a social networking site or search engine. The move came as Microsoft India approached the high court, challenging the trial court's order initiating criminal proceedings against it for hosting "obscene and derogatory content".
The high court also gave the complainant Vinay Rai liberty to file a fresh complaint if any credible piece of evidence was found against the company. The company in its petition submitted that there is not even an iota of evidence against the Microsoft India. "Still no offence whatsoever is disclosed against the company." "The complaint is wholly false and malicious and has been lodged with an ulterior motive to cause harassment and to blackmail the company and other officers of the company," the petition said while seeking quashing of proceedings against it.

-Source (Ndtv)




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Trinamool Congress Official Website Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/16/2012 11:46:00 pm

Trinamool Congress Official Website Hacked By Bangladesh Black-hat Hackers
All India Trinamool Congress official website get hacked. Hackers from Bangladesh take responsibility of this hack. This attack on the AITMC website is yet another out put of the ongoing cyber war between Bangladesh & India. This ongoing cyber war indeed causing lots of damages for India. Till more than 20K Indian websites get hacked including 30+ Indian Govt Sites, National Informatics Center (NIC), Indian Railways, Passport Dept, MIT, NDTV, Indian Stock Market and many more high profile websites. According to party resources the site was hacked on the 14th February evening and later restored to its original format. The site was hosted on a US server and during this attack the security has been penetrated. Party spokes man also confirmed that the vulnerability has been fixed. MP and party's cyber team head Derek O' Brien said "It was blocked for a few hours but there was no damage to the site. We have lodged a complaint with the cyber cell of the Kolkata Police to get to the bottom of the truth" 
In a statement Bangladesh Black-hat Hackers said that Mamata Banerjee had broken her promise on sharing of Teesta river water with the country. Which effect Bangladesh so they have performed the attack. In short it was a type of revenge.
This is not the first time earlier in 2011 hackers from Pakistan have hacked the official website of All India Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and so on. Also in an attack another Pak Hacker named KhantastiC haXor penetrated the official site of Indian Congress and defaced the Profile page of Party President Sonia Gandhi. Still Indian Govt is very careless about this burning issue. The rise of cyber crime is almost kissing the sky. And the status of Indian cyber security is in the disaster. The very out put is in front of us. Since the last week every day BD hackers penetrating Indian cyber fence very badly which is indeed causing lots of damage for the country not only reputation but also the country has caused lost of economical damage.If such things continues then in very coming future India have to face a massive disaster of National security including defense, army, secrete research areas and in many other sensitive sectors. 



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Bangladesh Cyber Army (BCA) Hit Indian Stock Market

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/15/2012 05:53:00 pm

Bangladesh Cyber Army (BCA) Hit Indian Stock Market (Cyber-War Continues)

The Cyber-War between India and Bangladesh is going on and on. But now its became rather one sided and most of the attack is coming from the Bangladeshi side. Recently they have released their second video where they vow to hit Indian Stock Market websites. During peak hour three main sites of Indian stock market was apparently down due to massive denial of service attack from BD hackers. As expected this DDoS attack surely effect the financial & banking sector of India. 

Targeted Sites:-

Press Release of BCA:-

The video mentioned the reason to be the killing another of innocent Bangladeshi citizens in the Bangladesh-India border zone yesterday. In the last 3-4 days, a huge number of Indian sites fell victim to hacking attacks of Bangladesh Cyber Army. Two other groups, Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers and 3xp1r3 Cyber Army were also involved in the attacks. Besides, they also have supports from Pakistani hackers which we have already covered. National Informatics Center (NIC), Indian Railways, Passport Dept, MIT, NDTV all became victim of this cyber attack.

VOGH Review:-
Being a media its our duty to rise awareness, so after seeing this so called cyber-war we can only see that it is just damaging thousands of websites. In short hackers from both countries are just bringing ruin to their own cyber space. While attacking websites of different countries, either knowingly or UN-knowingly they are just putting their cyber space in risk. Also such cyber-war always make negative reputation for those countries who have engaged the war. In short if they do not end war - the war will end them. 

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NDTV Under Cyber Attack From BCA (Cyber-War Continues)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/14/2012 04:51:00 pm

NDTV Under Cyber Attack From BCA (Cyber-War Continues) 
Cyber-War between Bangladesh and India continues. Hackers from bd mainly Bangladesh Cyber Army still targeting Indian cyber space. Earlier in our report we have covered the output of this cyberwar. Still if you do summary you will find that more than 10K websites from both India & Bangladesh get effected in this ongoing war. Among them there are many high value sites, Govt sites, media and many more. Even bd hackers launched attack on National Informatics Center (NIC), Indian Railways, Passport Dept, MIT and many more. Hackers claimed that they are continuously attacking Indian cyber fence to stand against injustice and oppression. This time the victim was a high-profile website, which is the official site of NDTV- a well known media. The NDTV server suffered from DNS failure. According to BCA The attack was done by the admin of Bangladesh Cyber Army named Bedu33n along with other members of BCA.
 
The above screen shot of submitted by BCA to prove the attack. This not the 1st time in the previous attack NTDV website suffers from massive denial of service attack. Also BCA released a You Tube video to send a message to Indian Govt. In their press release BCA said:-
 
"Indian hackers have hacked a number of our Government sites.
We know that the security of the sites are very weak, but we cannot allow them to hack these at any cost.
We have been forced to act back, we had no other way with our backs against the wall.
Under these circumstances, Indians have to agree to all the points as below, no matter what-
1. Stop hacking Bangladeshi websites and stop all types of access to Bangladeshi Cyber Space completely...
2. Stop killing innocent Bangladeshi citizens at BD-India borders...
3. Stop Tipaimukh Dam...
4. Sign the "Teesta Water Sharing Treaty"...
5.Either stop broadcasting of Indian Media in Bangladesh or let Bangladeshi Media enter India...
6. Stop all Anti-Bangladesh activities of BSF and punish all offenders for their deeds against Bangladesh...
7. Last but not the least, India has to stop all activities which go against Bangladesh in any possible way...
If these points are not accepted, our next attacks will be much bigger. You might think we are done, but this is just the beginning. Our next targets will be Indian Financial System, Communication System and IT Sector and Stock Exchange and we promise, those sites will be destroyed...."

VOGH Review:-
Being a media its our duty to rise awareness, so after seeing this so called cyber-war we can only see that it is just damaging thousands of websites. In short hackers from both countries are just bringing ruin to their own cyber space. While attacking websites of different countries, either knowingly or UN-knowingly they are just putting their cyber space in risk. Also such cyber-war always make negative reputation for those countries who have engaged the war. So If they do not end war - the war will end them.




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Cyber War Between Bangladesh & India (Exclusive Report)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/13/2012 02:11:00 am

Cyber War Between Bangladesh & India (Exclusive Report)
We all may be aware of ongoing cyber war between India and Bangladesh. Where thousands of sites get penetrated. Various cyber media from both countries covers the story. In this cyber war Pakistani hackers also contributed in behalf of Bangladesh. In their report both Hackers Media & TSR said the hackers group from India named Indishell officially declared the cyber war and hacked 6 high profile Bangladesh sites & Govt sites. Later in addition they have attacked more than 100 BD govt sites. In counter attack both Bangladesh Cyber Army (BCA) and 3xp1r3 Cyber Army has more than 850 Indian sites. The hackers also hit National Informatics Centre (NIC), NDTV and many other Indian Govt and other important sites. Hackers from Bangladesh (BCA) also performed massive DDoS attack on many Indian Govt sites. In a pastebin release hacker posted those target site list. Later it was the turn of Pakistan. Dangerous hacker from Paksitan named Shadow008 with another hacker named H4x0rL1f3 hacked more than 2K Indian sites. The hackers claimed that the main object was to hit Indian cyber fence & to defend Bangladeshi hackers in this ongoing cyber war. The list of those hacked sites can be found on a pastebin release. Earlier we have seen such cyber war between India & Pakistan, Israel & Saudi Arabia, KHS & German Hackers and so on. But this is the 1st time when India & Bangladesh fought against each other.



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Lady Gaga’s website hacked & Fans' data Stolen By SwagSec (US Hacker)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/17/2011 04:59:00 pm


Pop star Lady Gaga called in police after her website was hacked, resulting in the theft of thousands of names and email addresses.
Mirror.co.uk reports that Gaga's Britain website was hacked by US cyber attackers SwagSec, prompting her record label Universal to take urgent action.

"She's upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen," said a source. The cyber attack happened on June 27 but those responsible didn't make the information public until this week.
The hackers, who also issued a death threat against the singer, bizarrely branded her homophobic.
"The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a section of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken," said a spokesperson from Universal label.

"We take this very seriously and have put in place additional measures to protect personally identifiable information. All those affected have been advised," the source added.

SwagSec have also targeted other Universal artists recently including Amy Winehouse and Justin Bieber.

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