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Key Indian websites hacked

‘DEranged security’ offers over 100 email acconts and passwords of government organisations across the world In a startling development of a major cyber security breach,  a Swedish hacker, who has managed to hack into emails of Indian embassies in the US, China, Germany, Belgium, among others, has triggered a million dollar question on the issue of cyber security in India, or rather, lack of it. The issue has raised much-debated question of inadequate cyber laws in India and the government’s lax approach towards cyber crime and cyber security.  The Sweden-based hacker has also managed to hack the emails of the National Defence Academy (NDA) & DRDO officials.

The hacker has reportedly posted email id’s and passwords of 100 email accounts of embassies & govt offices across the world including 13 Indian establishment on his website — www.derangedsecurity.com

It is still unclear as to how the passwords were accessed by the (more…)

Here is a list with working passwords to exactly 100 email-accounts to Embassies and Governments around the world. Yes it’s the real deal and still working when we are posting this. So why in the world would anyone publish this kind of information? Because seriously, I’m not going to call the president of Iran and tell him that I got access to all their embassies. I’m DEranged, not suicidal! He has bombs and stuff…

Experience tells me that even if I would contact everyone on this list most are not going to listen or perhaps just blame me for being an evil hacker and that no one else would ever find this out. WTF does it take for people to learn!?

Can’t throw it away, it’s only a matter of time until someone else gets the same information. Or wait, does someone else have this already? For how long have they had it? What are they doing with it?

Selling it would probably make me a fair amount of money but that ain’t my style and I’m sure people have (more…)

Key Indian websites hacked

‘DEranged security’ offers over 100 email acconts and passwords of government organisations across the world How safe is cyber space in India? This is a question that is recurrent. In a recent devlopment, a hacker has taken on cyber security in India. In Sweden, the hacker managed to hack into email inboxes of Indian embassies in US, China, Germany, Belgium and other countries. Further more, the hacker has also managed to get into the emails of the National Defence Academy & DRDO officials. The hacker has posted email ids and passwords of 100 email accounts of embassies & government offices across the world, including 13 Indian establishments, on his website ‘DEranged security’.

It remains unclear how the (more…)