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For more than two weeks, the PlayStation Network has been offline. PlayStation 3 and PSP owners have been unable to connect to the Internet, play games online or download new titles. Sony's working on a fix, user data has been compromised, and everyone has something to say on the matter. However, it's important to understand how we got here. Below is the timeline of the PSN outage. This chronicles what led to this problem and what has happened since it occurred. 2 April: Anonymous, the online activist collective, begins Operation: Sony, a series of denial of service attacks on Sony websites that it says are in defence of free speech. 11 April: Sony announces the case has been settled out of court and that George Hotz has agreed to take down his website. 13 April: Anonymous says it will intensify its attacks and calls for a day of protest on 16 April. “In the eyes of the law, the case is closed, for Anonymous it is just beginning… prepare for the biggest att...

Security Alert : Skype for Mac Has Unpatched Security Flaw  Mac users may want to be extra careful when using Skype, thanks to a nasty zero-day vulnerability in the Mac OS X version of the client. Security researcher Gordon Maddern from the firm Pure Hacking discovered a flaw in Skype that allows a skilled individual to gain remote access to another’s machine simply by sending a Skype message. Maddern says the discovered the hole by accident but put together a proof of concept showing how potentially dangerous it could be. By simply sending a message, Maddern was able to take control of a user’s computer and execute a shell instance. Scary stuff. The researcher contacted Skype more than a month ago, but despite assurances from Skype that a fix was on the way, the program has remained unpatched. In fact, it appears that it was only after Maddern blogged about the issue — and others like ZDNet UK championed the cause — that Skype felt the need to see the issue as a major pro...

cPanel Tutorials website (cpanel123.com) Defaced by Ahmdosa HaCker Hacked Website: http://cpanel123.com/ or Mirror : http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/13634720

Paktribune.com compromised, 800+ emails/passwords Exposed ! Hacked Site :- http://paktribune.com Hack Proof :- http://pastebin.com/jkzEz1b9 Hacked by mohit Pande ( Toshu )

IndoCoder.or.id Hacked By Shadow008 (PakCyberArmy) Sites Hacked: Forum: http://www.indocoder.or.id/community/ Blog: http://www.indocoder.or.id/journal/ Mirror: Forum: http://www.k0-ka.in/attack/?id=1498 Blog: http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/13632754

Sony Corp. (6758) Chairman Howard Stringer apologized and offered U.S. customers of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online entertainment services a year of free identity- theft protection after the system was crippled by hackers. Japan’s biggest consumer-electronics exporter will offer a $1 million insurance policy per user, covering legal expenses, identity-restoration costs and lost wages that occur after data is stolen, Sony said in a blog post. Austin, Texas-based Debix Inc. was hired to provide the monitoring service and similar programs for users in other countries are also being considered, it said. The announcement follows last month’s hacking of Sony’s online entertainment and games platforms when the Tokyo-based company was criticized by U.S. lawmakers for not informing users of the breach quick enough. The shares fell to their lowest in a week in Tokyo today after Sony increased the total number of accounts that were comprised to 101.6 million. “This is an unprecedent...

DragonBall Browser v1.0.0 ~ Browser For Hackers ! Hey everyone, this is Harsh Daftary presenting new browser made for hacker’s.. Browser purely made in vb, small yet fast browser. This includes hacking and programming zone’s and some hacking tools.. Features: Windows Mail Online Media Player Hacking News Zone (The Hacker News) Programming Zone Hacking Zone Exploit Zone Google dork list port scanner File Information: Report date: 2011-05-04 14:19:13 (GMT 1) File name: dragonbrowser-setup-exe File size: 858kb Space required: 738kb MD5 hash: ea0ee74a33f7ee522b2e434a1a15d617 SHA1 hash: 22b5592f6bf909a3484add59660da5fc0c5486b0 NoVirusThanks: http://vscan.novirusthanks.org/analysis/ea0ee74a33f7ee522b2e434a1a15d617/ZHJhZ29uYnJvd3Nlci1zZXR1cC1leGU=/ Download Link :  http://www.multiupload.com/UK3Q0TLFCQ Download Runtimes : http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/install/6/win98me/en-us/vbrun60.exe Note: Browser tested on vista and windows 7, not su...

If you are in Syria and your browser shows you this certificate warning on Facebook, it is not safe to login to Facebook. You may wish to use Tor to connect to Facebook, or use proxies outside of Syria. Yesterday we learned of reports that the Syrian Telecom Ministry had launched a man-in-the-middle attack against the HTTPS version of the Facebook site. The attack is ongoing and has been seen by users of multiple Syrian ISPs. We cannot confirm the identity of the perpetrators. The attack is not extremely sophisticated: the certificate is invalid in user's browsers, and raises a security warning. Unfortunately, because users see these warnings for many operational reasons that are not actual man-in-the-middle attacks, they have often learned to click through them reflexively. In this instance, doing so would allow the attackers access to and control of their Facebook account. The security warning is users' only line of defense. EFF is very interested in collecting TLS/SSL ...

Microsoft prepares critical Windows patch for Next Tuesday ! Microsoft will issue two bulletins for Patch Tuesday next week — a 'critical' one affecting Windows and an 'important' one for Office, the company said on Thursday. Affected software includes Windows Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2004 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac, according to the advance notice. The light Patch Tuesday release follows 17 bulletins that Microsoft issued in April. Microsoft also said it is changing its Exploitability Index, the guide it uses to provide customers with information on the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

Upload Vulnerability in Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (ISRO) Website NOTE : Cant share link, bcoz of Security Reasons ;-)