March 2013 ~ Computer Tricks

Pakistan Election Commission Website Faces Cyber Attacks

Pakistan Election Commission Website was under Cyber Attack, ”Data of our website is not stolen and our IT Experts have designed the system which is difficult to breach” says Election Commission of Pakistan.

29th March 2013 at 8:00 PM (PST) when IT Team of Election Commission Of Pakistan was uploading the data of the overseas Pakistanis they found they have been attacked.

Currently the Nature of the attack is unknown, Election Commission stated that the attack was launched from two countries. They have further stated that attackers also sent an email (name of the countries and content of the email is still not declared by ECP)

The Election Commission statement says that the we are transferring our Data to new Server, Once the Process is Completed, the Website will be Live once again. Currently the Website is Down.

Chinese Hackers Downed Indian Defense System .... !!!

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The famous reporting news channel of India, “Times of India” has claimed that Chinese hackers have breached their powerful security network system and stolen top secret files from there. This is the Indian Defense System where the security breach took place which was acknowledged as the most secure system in the whole world. The hacking process has been successful which resulted in major Indian missile and armament systems may have been compromised.

According to the reports of Times of India, the cyber attack has resulted in the leakage of “Shakti” (the newly introduced advanced artillery combat and control system of the Indian Army) and the latest mobile defense system called the Iron Dome. These leaks were observed during the first week of March 2013. The researchers of Canada and America at the University of Toronto have published their findings in the form of a report called ’Shadow in the Clouds’.

The report discussed concisely about the operations being carried out by the cyber network of China, this group of hackers is known by the moniker ‘Shadow Network’. The ‘Shadow Network’ has stolen the top secret files of the Indian government.

There is notion that operations, recent cyber attacks held in United States are also made by the same organization working in China. Researchers have also declared that these Chinese cyber spies have also tapped into the Indian embassies in Belgium, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Kuwait and the United States. The files hacked by the Chinese may be due aimed to evaluate the Indian government’s affairs with other countries throughout the world. Further investigations confirmed that these cyber attacks were made out from the servers located in China. The report has declared in their statement that the attack has compromised Indian Defense System, Business, Academic and Government Systems.

Chinese Hackers Broke Into Indian Navy's Computer System

Earlier this year, the US government claimed that they have averted an attack on US defense system by the Chinese hackers.

Largest Cyber Attack In The History Of World

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The CNN reported that the world’s Largest Cyber Attack is happening right now, If you are using an internet connection and it is showing you a lack of performance in speed and efficiency then the problem is not with your laptop, computer, or some sort of Trojan that is affecting the speed of internet connection. But it is something which is happening at a global level and a lot of people living all around the world are affected badly. You can find the details of world’s largest cyber war happening, just scroll your mouse button down a bit.

The reports suggest that hackers usually utilize the DDoS technique to hack the websites and bring them down. Now what if I say you that this technique is utilized by top web hosting groups?

Largest Cyber Attack Yes, that’s 100 percent true. Recently a cyber war has started between a spam fighting group calledSpamhaus and a web hosting company called Cyberbunker. The company Cyberbunker launched a massive DDoSattack on Spanhaus. The war was initially fueled by Spamhaus which is a nonprofit organization which black-listed many servers including Cyberbunker. In its revenge the Cyberbunker attacked Spamhaus. Now this is a type of cyber attack which is much bigger as compared to any other attack ever happened or took place since the beginning of internet. Hence world has started to name it as “world’s largest cyber attack”. And it is happening right now, every time you are experiencing a slow internet connection today it is not because of any kind of technical problem.

The attack on Spamhaus which maintains a spam registry, black listing many spam servers, has been under fire. This attack is thought to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet. Cyberbunker and various other web groups are utilizing different botnets in order counter attack who so ever poses a threat to their network. In Largest Cyber Attackthe attack started a week ago and now it has attained a great amount of tendency that it even slowed down the internet connection of every state.

This cyber attack on Spamhaus has attained a flat 300 billion bytes per second i.e. a massive 300 GBs per second. To make people understand you can view it as a Largest Cyber Attack which is five times more powerful than the recent cyber attacks performed on many major American banks.