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The website of India’s Union Minister for Communication, Information and Technology has reportedly been hacked. Notorious hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. In their latest attack on Friday, the hacking group managed to hijack Kapil Sibal’s official website kapilsibalmp.com. The about page of the website was hacked to read: “Kapil Sibal is the world’s biggest retard. Born with a below 60 IQ he thought he could mess with the Internet and let the [...]

Not long after I began writing about cybersecurity, I became a paranoid caricature of my former self. It’s hard to maintain peace of mind when hackers remind me every day, all day, just how easy it is to steal my personal data. Within weeks, I set up unique, complex passwords for every Web site, enabled two-step authentication for my e-mail accounts, and even covered up my computer’s Web camera with a piece of masking tape [...]

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday ruled out bringing changes in cyber law in the wake of the controversy over the arrest of a man for allegedly targeting Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son on Twitter, saying the policeman in question was “ignorant”. “Just because some people do not follow it properly, we cannot entirely scrap the law. Can we do away with penal code? We cannot,” he said while participating in a session at the [...]

Twitter said that it mistakenly reset the passwords of “a large number” of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine security screening to identify accounts that may have been compromised. “In instances when we believe an account may have been compromised, we reset the password and send an email letting the account owner know this has happened,” Twitter said in its blog on Thursday. “In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of [...]

If you’re the type who’s always on Facebook, next week might just turn out to be a bummer for you ? hacker collective Anonymous is threatening to take down Facebook next Monday. According to a report by Wired, Anonymous has stated in a YouTube video that it would take down Facebook if gaming company Zynga does not do a volte face on “plans to lay off about 1,000 employees and outsource work.” The hacktivist group [...]

Banking giant HSBC said Friday some of its websites had been hit by a “large scale” cyber attack that disrupted online services, but it assured customers that their data were not compromised. The bank said in a statement that HSBC servers came under a “large scale denial of service attack” on Thursday. It said a number of sites were affected around the world but did not give an exact number or say where they were. [...]

Several Swedish official websites were knocked offline Monday, although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. “I can confirm that the government site had problems today, but for security reasons, I cannot say more,” Anna Dahlen, a government spokeswoman, told AFP adding that she did not know when the site would be back online. Among websites hit were sweden.se which gives general information about the country, studyinsweden.se and the armed forces’ portal. Patrik Braennstroem, [...]