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This project was originally unveiled at the recently concluded  ShmooCon . It shows a lot of promise and the authors two years of study and experimentation. The name is  Ubertooth. Ubertooth is an open source 2.4 GHz wireless development platform suitable for passive bluetooth monitoring. It aims to be the world’s first open source and affordable bluetooth monitoring and development platform. In reality, the commercial equivalents of such tools are available for 10000$ and above! Since it’s inception from almost two years ago, there are two version (both open source) of the Ubertooth platform (if we may call it!). They are as follows: Ubertooth Zero : It was a low power (comparable to a Class 3 bluetooth device) USB dongle, and the first working prototype hardware platform of Project Ubertooth. It has since been superseded by Ubertooth One. Ubertooth One : It is a smaller, higher power (comparable to a Class 1 bluetooth device) USB don...

Operation Libya (#OPLIBYA) - Anonymous Press Release for Free citizens of the world ! NOTE :  One More Press Released By Anonymous Hackers on there official site/Facebook/Twitter. We are Publishing This news, just as the Media of "Hacking Field" . These is No relation b/w 'The Hacker News' & 'Anonymous Hackers'. Free citizens of the world: For a long time the people of Libya have suffered under the madness of their leader, Muammar Abu Minya al-Gaddafi, and his government.  For too long, the people of Libya have suffered in silence.  With the recent riots in Tunisia and Egypt, the fear is gone by the Arabs throughout the region.  It 'not to spend more time in silence. Anonymous is trying to bring its support to the courageous people of Libya.  Anonymous says his involvement with this release for a common goal.  We, the people will not be silent as dictators shoot their citizens.  We, the people will not remain passive while the power...

The database of global banking recruitment website  efinancialcareers-gulf.com  has been hacked, according to the former CEO of Credit Suisse Private Bank Australia, Nick Kalikajaros. The British company that has Australian operations believed its registered users' names, email addresses, registered countries and encrypted passwords were accessed during the breach. Kalikajaros claimed the website operator's managing director, James Bennett, issued a warning and apology to its customers over the weekend. "We are not immune from illegal attempts to access and extract information, as is the case with many organizations which maintain large information databases. Although we constantly review and improve our security features, unfortunately on this occasion, some information was taken, for which we offer our full apology," Bennett was reported to have said. Neither eFinancialCareers.com nor its parent, New York Stock Exchange listed Dice Holdings, Inc. have releas...

Iranian computer hackers on Monday hijacked the website of the Voice of America, replacing its Internet home page with a banner bearing an Iranian flag and an image of an AK-47 assault rifle. The group called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to “hear the voice of oppressed nations.” The banner stated that “we have proven that we can.” The message called on the United States to “stop interfering in Islamic countries.” It then listed more 90 websites of VOA it claimed has also been hacked. A State Department spokesman could not be reached for comment. An administration official said the group identified with the banner is known as the Iranian Cyber Army. VOA operates a global network of news and information outlets that reflect official U.S. foreign policies. It broadcasts, through radio, television and the Internet to scores of nations around the world. Little is known about the group. It was credited with hacking and defacing Twitter in December 2009, replacing the...

Lohchab Network Private Limited (India) Hacked by TriCk (TeaMp0isoN - ZHC) Link :    http://lohchab.in/ Mirror :  http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/13096395

Richard Kirk Kirk hacked into more than 300 eBay users' e-mail accounts after cracking their passwords. He then was able to steal money from his victims' usually secure PayPal accounts. He transferred money from PayPal into hundreds of his own accounts, and then used the stolen cash to buy valuable items, including gold bars. On Friday he was jailed for three and a half years for fraud and theft committed between 2008 and 2010. Nottingham Crown Court heard he stole more than £180,000 from his victims to buy gold jewellery, gold bullion bars and a Mitsubishi Shogun car on eBay. Victims were mainly individual account holders from Mansfield, Nottingham, Australia and Sweden. One account belonged to a special school in the North West for children with a short life expectancy. Kirk used the school's website, which sold memorabilia, to sell gold bars. After he agreed a sale of £3,000, the gold was never sent to the buyer. "Richard Kirk is a professional eBa...

Anonymous Apologize for their Kindness & Effort,   Anonymous Press Release 20 Feb,2011 (Must Read) ! NOTE :  One More Press Released By Anonymous Hackers on there official site/Facebook/Twitter. We are Publishing This news, just as the Media of "Hacking Field" . These is No relation b/w 'The Hacker News' & 'Anonymous Hackers'. The Complete Message Written by them is as given Following : Ladies and gentlemen around the world, We are writing to you today to inform you of a great realization that has come to fruition throughout the ranks of Anonymous. It is a sad revelation indeed that Anonymous, as a whole, has turned into nothing more than trolls trolling on trolls. It is due to that fact, and the recent outburst and outcry on the Westboro Baptist Church that select members within the group are apologizing for our brethren’s outbursts. We realize that many in the media and across the globe have followed our group, our legion of comrades in hopes tha...

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Phone tapping in India has become a national concern with a leading operator revealing that at peak there are upto 100 phone tapping requests a day. In India there are ten major operators, at a conservative average of 50 taps a day per operator, there would be 182,000 authorized phone taps each year.  Not a significant number for a country of 500 million cell phones considering the real need to tap corrupt officials, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, mafia and other antisocial elements. To meet this requirement over 2000 such phone tapping equipment was imported by private security agencies, large businesses besides police and government agencies. Since phone taps are authorized only by the government, it is quite probable that some of the equipment in private hands is being used illegally for spying on politicians and businessmen.  There are six ways in which modern phone systems can be illegally tapped for corporate espionage and spying: 1)   Use of Over the Air t...

A group of hacktivists acting under the banner, " Anonymous ," has warned a church with a controversial history that unspoken retribution will follow it continues its practice of inflammatory protests. In an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, Anonymous has put the anti-gay, fundamentalist church on notice that "the damage incurred will be irreversible," and that "neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover." The Westboro Baptist Church is led by Rev. Fred Phelps. It has drawn particular attention for carrying out anti-gay protests at funerals of military servicemen with signs celebrating the deaths of the soldiers with signs like " God Hates the USA " or " Thank God for 9/11. " The group operates a  website  with the URL godhatesfags.com. In its letter, Anonymous wrote the following: Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church AN OPEN LETTER FROM ANONYMOUS February 16, 2011 TO THE CONGREGAN...

Following in the steps of the HTC Evo before it, the Motorola Atrix 4G has been hacked to give root privileges before the phone is even available to buy. In more evidence that Android hackers are frequently out-pacing the creators of the phones themselves, the third post in the xda-developers thread where the root was announced was a half-sarcastic "why did it take so long?" Right now, this is more of an academic achievement than a practical one for two reasons. First, the actual steps to obtain root privileges haven't even been released to the public. Second, there is still a good chance that one of the main draws of rooted phones, custom ROMs, will be difficult to install thanks to an encrypted and locked bootloader. While rooting your phone is highly discouraged (as it's likely to cause an increased security risk, break all kinds of terms of service and make your carrier very unhappy) the speed of this announcement is nothing short of astounding. If the amount o...

A security researcher has released proof-of-concept code for an unpatched security vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows, prompting a warning from Microsoft that remote code execution attacks are theoretically possible. Details on the vulnerability were released on the Full Disclosure mailing list earlier this week and Microsoft followed up with two separate blog posts discussing the ramifications of the problem and suggesting workarounds until a patch can be created and released. According to Microsoft’s Mark Wodrich, the vulnerability was identified in the BROWSER protocol and although all versions of Windows are vulnerable, the issue is more likely to affect server systems running as the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). “In environments following best practices, the BROWSER protocol should be blocked at the edge firewalls thus limiting attacks to the local network,” Wodrich said. Wodrich provided technical confirmation of the buffer overrun vulnerability and expla...

An ‘ethical’ hacker demonstrates how one can break into the civic corporation’s e-governance site and I P Gautam’s official domain to access confidential info. The state government’s websites are under threat of being hacked. A BCA student, who calls himself an ‘ethical’ hacker, demonstrated how it was possible to hack into the e-governance site of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and civic chief I P Gautam’s official domain.  Falgun Rathod showed on his home PC how these websites are vulnerable to misuse, poking the bubble of the state government that prides itself in winning three National e-Governance Awards recently.  Rathod also demonstrated how one can access the balance sheet of all nagarpalikas in the state that use the double entry accounting system. He pointed out that one can easily update any file on the website or change the face of the websites by using defacer websites.  While checking the AMC website, the 20-year-old student came across the ‘Administ...

The HTC HD Mini, also previously known as Photon, is pretty old as far as smartphones go--the Windows Mobile 6.5 phone was first released back in February 2010. So a XDA Developer member has given the cellphone a new lease of life by bringing Android and Linux OS to it. Forum member "Cotulla" managed to get the HD Mini running Android via the Haret Launcher, a file used commonly to boot Android on Windows Mobile phones. The ROM for the hack was created from similar HTC handset HTC Aria, which can be booted from a SD card. Add the files (Cotulla made a developer file and a user file, so pick your camp), launch Haret, and Android for HD Mini is yours! Sadly, the Linux OS is far from complete. Although the hack is up and running, it's not without it's problems. The battery driver doesn't work, and neither does the GSensor or WLAN. Some of the touchscreen buttons are also not perfectly aligned, so need a bit of work. Unfortunately, Cotulla is no longer working on...

Joe Jonas braves the rain to go shopping at Fred Segal with a pal on Friday (February 18) in West Hollywood, Calif. The same day, the 21-year-old singer’s girlfriend, Ashley Greene, was spotted at LAX grabbing some Starbucks at LAX. Joe recently had to deal with some problems on his Twitter page. “Someone hacked my account. I did not RT that ocean up article and would never RT something like that. Looking into my account security,” he tweeted.

Collection king  Mohanbabu's son Manchu Manoj's email id was hacked last week. The star who came back from USA recently after treatment for his arm injury was in for a shock when his email id was hacked. Sources say the hacker even chat with Manoj's friends online. Manoj rectified the problem but the email id was hacked again. Though his bank accounts and other financial transactions are not operated from that email id, the star was amazed at the technological advancement in hacking his email id twice in one week. However, he has not lodged any complaint against the hackers yet with City Cyber Crime department. Meanwhile, he is gearing up to do Uukodathara Ulikkipadathara in his home production Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures which will go on floors next month.

THE internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia's easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based internet security watcher and author Joseph Menn's assessment of the current state of the internet before he spoke to the Internet Industry Association's gala dinner in Sydney last night. The only glimmer of hope was that people were becoming more aware of the risks involved with the internet - which he described as a "loaded gun" - but we have to be even more savvy if we are not to be become a cyber crime victim. Mr Menn said when he interviewed the former head of the US Department of Justice's Cyber Crime Unit she said half of all credit cards were in the hands of criminals. "And if your credit card details weren't in criminals' hands it was only because they hadn't got around to...

Operation Freedom ( OpFreedom )   Press Release By Anonymous Hackers ! NOTE : One More Press Released By Anonymous Hackers on there official site/Facebook/Twitter. We are Publishing This news, just as the Media of "Hacking Field" . These is No relation b/w 'The Hacker News' & 'Anonymous Hackers'. We are Anonymous. We are everywhere. And we fight for freedom. We fight for free speech.  We fight against censorship.  Together with the citizens of the world we are strong.  The actions of the  regimes will not be forgotten, nor will  they be forgiven. Anonymous hears those cries, and  we will assist in bringing to justice those who commit criminal acts  against the innocent. We will not remain silent and let these crimes  against humanity continue. Say no to Censorship and dictatorship. Join Us. Spread news.  Al Jazzera Live Stream Twitter IRC We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. A...