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Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Airports Websites

Several U.S. airport websites were temporarily taken down due to the attack of pro-Russian hackers last Monday. According to Andrew Gobeil, spokesman for Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, on Monday morning, they noticed that the external website was down and quickly ordered their IT and security people to investigate the said attack. He also said that the attack did not impact the airport's operations.      The pro-Russian hacker group known as "Killnet" used a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to take down the said websites temporarily. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a malicious attempt where the attacker's goal is to disrupt the regular traffic of a server, service, or network. This was done by sending many requests to the target, which overloaded resources and made them unavailable.      According to some reports, the attack launched by the Killnet wasn't intended to steal information or compromise the internal system...

YouTube Channels of Eminem, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, and many more A-list celebrities are HACKED!

Yesterday, many Twitter users shared their reactions on different A-list celebrities' YouTube channels being hacked by a newly made Spanish Twitter account named Los Pelaos , derived from a Latin pop group. The alleged hacker uploaded bizarre videos on different YouTube channels of well-known celebrities such as Eminem, Harry Styles, Michael Jackson, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, etc. One of the videos was entitled with the artist's name and then "- Free Paco Sanz (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos)."      Many fans began to share screenshots of the said video. One of the bizarre videos features a Spanish criminal named Paco Sanz , also known as the "2,000-tumor man". According to  Daily Mail , Sanz is currently in prison for defrauding thousands of people by pretending to have a terminal illness. In the video, you can see Paco holding a guitar backward while singing in Spanish. Then, it ended with inappropriate moaning v...