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Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the world about the possibility of industrial control systems being targeted by hackers. A team of researchers with John Strauchs, Tiffany Rad and Teague Newman presented their findings at a recent security conference. They said the project wasn't really all that difficult -- it just took a little time, some equipment bought online and a basement workspace. The idea for the research came about from work that Strauchs had done previously. " I designed a maximum security prison security system. That is, I did the engineering quite a few years ago and literally on Christmas Eve, the warden of that prison after it was occupied, called me and told me all the doors had popped open, including ...

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked The personal data of several political parliamentarians, ministers, Minister of UMP French Political Party employees were released online by an unknown source. The leak contain the details of  Bernard Accoyer, Lionel Tardy, Jean Tiberi, Georges Tron, Christian Vanneste, Jean Luc Warsmann, Laurent Wauquiez, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Patrick Balkany, Jean Francois Cope, etc.. Korben  publish  that , The leak available in 4 files posted on Pastebin under the name " French Right Wing Hacked "which includes personal information on over 1000 frames of the UMP. Database Dumps: -  http://pastebin.com/kpGWv9qD -  http://pastebin.com/WG7Ffh5t -  http://pastebin.com/jWA4RkCG -  http://pastebin.com/9tcqrFBX The first four of these files reveals all the potential variables specified for each record. Status, title, date and place of birth, education, employees, telephone numbers, business ...

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns Anonymous Hackers have successfully hacked the neo-Nazi website and published the database of its 16000 membership application database containing personal data of some applicants from all around the country. The hack was motivated by an apparent desire to shame the Finnish government into improving data security. In a Statement Anonymous says " We have no tolerance for any group based on racial, sexual and religion discrimination as well as for all the people belonging to them and sharing their ideologies, which is the reason why we decided to carry out last Monday's attack. ". Authorities are investigating the security breaches, according to an online message attributed to Anonymous Finland. According to the Helsingin Sanomat, the published information seems stolen from several sources: the Work Efficiency Institute, Student Alliance Osku, WinNova Länsirannikon koulutus Ltd, and Adu...

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw A major security flaw in Apple’s iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been uncovered by a security expert "Charlie Miller ". Charlie Miller gets a kick of out defeating Apple’s security mechanisms, using his hacking skills to break into Macbooks and iPhones. Now, Apple has kicked the security researcher out of its iOS developer program after word got out that he built a proof-of-concept iPhone app to showcase a bypass of the code signing mechanism. Hours before, a YouTube video that Miller released went viral. In it, he demonstrated how he hijacked an iPhone to run malicious code after installing his Instastock app, which was admitted into the App Store in September. According to the report, Miller plans to reveal the issue in a presentation at the SysCan security conference in Taiwan next week. As...

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International Foreign Government  E-Mails Hacked by TeaMp0isoN TeaMp0isoN group of hackers claim to hack more than 150 Email Id's of International Foreign Governments. They Release the Email List with Password on Pastebin note . Hex000101 Hacker, A member of TeaMp0isoN team got these Login credentials from various Government sites after hacking their databases such as armynet.mod.uk and website of Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au) .

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances of Android smart phones to be infected have doubled. A new report by TrendMicro says that " China is the birth place for most of malicious Android applications " . Even Android OS is also becoming more and more popular in China. This growth of Android users in China, however, seems to do little for the rocky relationship between Google and the Chinese government. It has been reported that access to the Google Android Market has been intermittent since 2009. According to a Report by TrendMicro, The inconvenience in accessing the Android Market, one not experienced by users from other countries, can be considered a big factor in the Chinese users’ preference in terms of where to dow...

Brazil ISP servers under Massive DNS poisoning attacks Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini Report that A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil. Several large ISPs in the highly connected country have been affected by the attack, and police have made at least one arrest in connection with the operation. Attackers have been able to poison the DNS cache records for several major Web sites at some large ISPs. Last week Brazil’s web forums were alive with desperate cries for help from users who faced malicious redirections when trying to access websites such as YouTube, Gmail and Hotmail, as well as local market leaders including Uol, Terra and Globo. In all cases, users were asked to run a malicious file as soon as the website opened. It asks the customer to download and install the so-called “ Google Defence ” software required to use the search engine. In reality, though, this ...

Sqlninja 0.2.6 is now available Sqlninja’s goal is to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications that use Microsoft SQL Server as back end. It is released under the GPLv3.There are a lot of other SQL injection tools out there but sqlninja, instead of extracting the data, focuses on getting an interactive shell on the remote DB server and using it as a foothold in the target network.  Here’s what it does: Fingerprint of the remote SQL Server (version, user performing the queries, user privileges, xp_cmdshell availability, DB authentication mode) Bruteforce of 'sa' password (in 2 flavors: dictionary-based and incremental) Privilege escalation to sysadmin group if 'sa' password has been found Creation of a custom xp_cmdshell if the original one has been removed Upload of netcat (or any other executable) using only normal HTTP requests (no FTP/TFTP needed) TCP/UDP portscan from the target SQL Server to the attacking machine, in order to find a port th...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government  & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as several government portals and ministries.The Israeli army and intelligence agencies' websites were offline. In a video that was uploaded to YouTube, Anonymous warns that if the siege on Gaza is maintained, it will have no choice but to go on the attack.. " Your actions are illegal, against democracy, human rights, international, and maritime laws ," the statement addressed to the government of Israel and posted on Youtube and Anonymous-affiliated sites said. " Justifying war, murder, illegal interception, and pirate-like activities under an illegal cover of defense will not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world. " " If you continue blocking human...