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Friday, May 09, 2014

EC Council official website hacked (http://www.eccouncil.org/)

The official website of International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, popularly known as EC-Council, is hacked. The hacker had inserted an image showing Edward Snowden's Passport and left following message on the www.ec-council.org website:
"
owned by certified unethical software security professional
-Eugene Belford

"
The name used by the hacker - Eugene Belford - is taken from the movie Hackers (1995) . The picture inserted is:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

WIPRO Limited's Consumer Care and Lighting business division, North-West Switches hacked by a Pakistan-based Hacker Group "HITCHER"


Cyber Crime is growing at an alarming rate. And unfortunately, the security experts aren't able to match their speeds! Due to this, every now and then there is a news of cyber crime viz. advanced persistent threat, SCADA vulnerability found, ICS under threat, website hacked, phishing reported, XSS injection flaw discovered, identity theft, database hacked, stuxnet etc. Nowadays, there are more number of cases of the hacking of websites especially the corporate sectors. In technical terms, hacking of website isn't a big deal. But if the market scenario is considered and especially when it is serving the customers, then it is indeed a big deal!!