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Update : Latest Hack by TiGER-M@TE :  700,000 sites on Inmotion Hosting Server hacked in one shot On the morning of Saturday, Jan 8, 2011 the biggest news of cyber world was -  Google Bangladesh website (Google.com.bd) Hacked by TiGER-M@TE  . TiGER-M@TE is a Bangladeshi Hacker, He was already connected to "The Hacker News" from last 2-3 months for providing his Hacks News ! Finally we take a small interview of this great Hacker, who make Google Down !! Unix Root          -  Tell us Some Introduction about you. TiGER-M@TE -  Me TiGER-M@TE , nationality Bangladeshi. I've Been hacking since 2007 and I work alone.I like to exploit servers rather than exploiting web application and I use only 0days and private exploits. Unix Root          -  Do you Hack Google on Jan 8, 2011 and Why ? TiGER-M@TE -  I've hacked not only Google but also local domain of Yahoo, Avast, Microsoft, Bing,...

Storrs : A computer hacker accessed the customer database of HuskyDirect.com, a website that sells sports paraphernalia from the UConn Co-op, prompting the store to order the vendor that manages the site to take it down. The Co-op announced Tuesday that it has notified law enforcement of the security breach and informed HuskyDirect.com customers whose billing information the database contained. Information that may have been exposed includes customer names, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers as well as credit card numbers, their expiration dates and security codes. The Co-op said it is arranging credit protection for the customers. The Co-op is investigating how many of the 18,000 accounts in the database were accessed. Customers who purchased items in the Co-op with a credit card were not affected, nor were students who purchased text books, or made purchases in person at a Co-op store or off-site location, the Co-op said. Only those customers who made purchases thro...

Bharat desi - Indian Community Hacked By Unix Shell Codrr ! Statement By Unix Shell Codrr," I hack this site to save its data,site is completely safe ! ". Site link :  https://www.bharatdesi.com/ News Source : Unix Shell Codrr | Via Email

In what some might call a rather bold action, hackers have managed to gain access to the Twitter and YouTube accounts of North Korea. This may come across as something unusual, particularly to those of you who already know that the people of North Korea have no internet, computers and pretty much anything else which can give them access to the rest of the world, meaning that the hack was likely done by an outsider (or a North Korean thin ice walker), and their hack probably won't be noticed by the North Korean public at all. Why North Korea would have YouTube and Twitter accounts still bewilders me. The hack, which happened on January 8th – Kim Jong-un's birthday of all dates – saw the North Korea Twitter account posting tweets which called for an uprising to overthrow Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un, obviously let everyone who checks out that Twitter know something was up. Shortly afterwards, the hackers moved on to the country's YouTube page where they posted a video (which can be fou...

Several members of a Korean crime gang were arrested this past Sunday (Jan. 9) for hiring hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against gaming sites owned by rival gangsters. The Korea Times reports four members of a crime gang based in Incheon, South Korea hired a hacker, identified only as Park, to launch DDoS attacks that would effectively prevent a rival gaming site from operating due to an overload of traffic. Police also arrested Lee, (who was identified only by the single moniker), the head of a computer server rental company for participating in the attacks. Park and Lee, who managed the Incheon-based gang's illegal gaming site, took down 109 rival websites between Nov. 21 and Dec. 15, 2010 by infecting them with malware for one to two hours a day, the report read. To further eliminate the competition, gang member Yoem put a 50,000-strong botnet of Chinese computers at Park and Lee's disposal. Often called "zombie" computers, botnets are a netwo...

The GTVHacker dev team has won a cash bounty for being the first to successfully root and enable third-party application support on a Google TV device before Google – Google will reportedly be bringing support for Android applications to the platform some time later this year. According to developer Howard Harte, who originally announced the bounty at the end of November last year, the GTVHacker team used a hardware hack, adding serial console support to the UART1 header on the Logitech Revue, to enable root and install third-party apps on Google TV. The reward for hacking a Google TV device was originally set at $1,000 for a software-only approach. In his original announcement, Harte noted that he would give partial consideration ($500) for other methods involving hardware hacks, such as the one used by the five member GTVHacker team. While the bounty is confirmed to have been paid, the final amount of the reward was not mentioned by either party. Instructions on how to root Logit...

Cologne security expert used an Amazon cloud-based service for hacking purposes on the cheap. He plans on making his software public and will describe it more fully at a hacker conference in the US later this month. On Friday, Thomas Roth, a Cologne-based computer security expert told the Reuters news agency that the single password encryption method used by most WiFi network administrators is not as foolproof as they would like to think. By running specialized software on a cloud-based computer he leased from Amazon, the security researcher said he had been able to hack into WiFi networks secured under the Wireless Protected Access (WPA) protocol, which had been previously considered very hard to penetrate. While that might have been true until very recently, Roth has now found an easy and inexpensive way in. His method is via Amazon, from whom it is currently possible to hire cloud-based computers for just 28 cents per minute. By contrast it would cost tens of thousands to bu...

A prominent security researcher said he doubts Microsoft's take down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. "Waledac just is not a hugely prolific spammer," said Joe Stewart, director of malware analysis at SecureWorks and a noted botnet researcher. "So I don't think it's going to affect spam [volume]. What it does do lately... what it's used for, is to install rogue antivirus software." The UK-based anti-spam service Spamhaus echoed Stewart today. "If [Microsoft's take-down] did affect spam, we haven't noticed," said Richard Cox, the chief information officer at Spamhaus. Like Stewart, Cox also dismissed Waledac's threat as a spam engine. "Waledac was not a high threat, it's less than 1% of the spam traffic," Cox said. "What we're worried about is Zeus, which is a far more damaging botnet, which is creating a substantial amount of spam." Postini, t...

How safe is your cell phone? Thieves are coming up with new ways to hijack the most popular smartphones. ABC Action News investigative reporter Michael George enlisted the help of a hacking expert to find out how these programs work, and how to beat them. Droids, iPhones, and BlackBerries are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to smartphones. The phones are wildly popular right now. USF student Marilyn Rodriguez says her whole life is on her phone. "I love my phone. It gets me through classes. I keep track of my schedule, my homework assignments," she said. More and more consumers are using their phones for things they used to do on their home computers. That includes tasks that require private, financial information, like online banking and shopping. The problem is, hackers are starting to figure this out, too. Stratum Security consultant Justin Morehouse is an expert in the methods used by hackers and identity thieves. It's his job to anticipate what the bad guys will ...

The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the attack on the Fine Gael website yesterday, after an Evening Herald journalist claimed he was sent data of 2,000 users of the site after the hack occurred. The Data Protection Commissioner said Fine Gael contacted him after their site was attacked by those using the "Anonymous" banner. On Twitter, Kevin Doyle, an Evening Herald journalist claimed the commissioner was informed the data of 2,000 users of the site was stolen by those who attacked it. He previously said it was almost 4,000, however, this was due to repeat posters on the database. Doyle also said the database he received of the site's users contained phone numbers, IP addresses and email addresses. Fine Gael recently revamped its site, letting the public post comments and register their mobile numbers and email addresses in order to receive information on the political party's upcoming election campaign. However, the site was taken offline and repl...

The government of Tunisia may have chosen an odd way to combat protesters: Hacking into their Facebook accounts.  This appears to have gotten the attention of the hacker group Anonymous, which is siding with the protests. The past month has seen many large-scale uprisings in the North African nation, as protesters gripe about the dictatorship goverment plus economic problems and unemployment. The Tunisian government has responded by partnering with hackers to infiltrate the accounts of dissidents deemed to be inciting riots, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The group said: Based on reports of users in the country, Tunisian authorities appear to be modifying web pages on the fly to steal usernames and passwords for sites such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Unknown parties have subsequently logged onto these sites using these stolen credentials, and used them to delete Facebook groups, pages, and accounts, including Facebook pages admin...