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The Egyptian government shut down most of its country's internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security's Infosec Technology Transition Council. The presentation — made by Bill Woodcock, research director of the Packet Clearing House — argues that the Egyptian Communications Ministry acted quite responsibly in the procedure it used to cut ties from the net, after the shutdown was ordered by Egypt's much-feared intelligence service. "Most of the outage was effected through a breaker flipped in the Ramses exchange, and the rest was phone calls and arm-twisting," the presentation says. 'Ramses exchange' refers to a central building in Cairo where Egyptian ISPs meet to trade traffic and connect outside of the country, a facility known as an Internet Exchange Point. The report's timeline also contradicts many observers' guesses that a smal...

Anonymous Response to Egyptian President Mubarak 's Second Speech ! Mr. Mubarak Billions of people around the world have naively held their hopes high only to watch in dismay while one single stubborn man once again highjacked the lives of millions.- The blood of the fallen in the struggle for freedom will not be crushed by your blind disregard for those clamouring for you to relinquish your desperate hold on power. Your abuses must end, now, and with them your pathetically transparent attempt to retain control through your henchmen, professional torturer, Mr Suleiman.- Your fractured, failed, despotic regime cannot be tolerated a minute longer. The people have spoken, in their millions. Your refusal to acknlowledge this fact and depart with dignity has shown us your delusion . You are aware of this, and so are we.- The Egyptian people are an inspiration for all living under a dictatorship. They will no longer stand by and listen to you speak on their behalf. They will be ...

This is the first time Mr.  Amr Thabet from Egypt , student at Alexandria University Faculty of Engineering Mechanical Department  ,  reverse a rootkit. He choose Stuxnet Rootkit (as it's a famous virus) and begin reversing.. Finally now he convert it into C++ code with a commented IDA Pro v.5.1 Database for it. Download Here

Online dating giant  eHarmony  has begun urging many users to change their passwords, after being alerted  to a potential security breach of customer information. The individual responsible for all the ruckus is an Argentinian hacker who recently claimed responsibility for a similar breach  at competing e-dating site PlentyOfFish.com . Late last year,  Chris "Ch" Russo , a self-styled "security researcher" from Buenos Aires, told me he'd discovered vulnerabilities in eHarmony's network that allowed him to view passwords and other information on tens of thousands of eHarmony users. Russo first alerted me to his findings in late December, right after he said he first began contacting site administrators about the flaw. At the time, I sent messages to several of the administrative eHarmony e-mail addresses whose passwords Russo said he was able to discover, although I received no response. Russo told me shortly thereafter that he'd hit a brick wall in his researc...

JAIPUR: A senior manager of a private bank has registered an FIR against some unidentified persons who allegedly hacked his email ID and sent objectionable emails. The Ashok Nagar police are investigating the matter. SHO, Ashok Nagar and investigating officer of the case Jagmohan said one Brijesh Kumar registered the FIR on Wednesday. "He says that someone hacked his email account and sent mails with pornographic content and other objectionable mails," the officer said. "We have lodged a case under sections of Information Technology Act," the officer added.

Our favourite exploitation framework – The Metasploit Framework has been updated! We now have Metasploit Framework version 3.5.2! "The Metasploit Framework is a penetration testing toolkit, exploit development platform, and research tool. The framework includes hundreds of working remote exploits for a variety of platforms. Payloads, encoders, and nop slide generators can be mixed and matched with exploit modules to solve almost any exploit-related task." This is the detailed release log: Statistics: * Metasploit now ships with 644 exploit modules and 330 auxiliary modules. * 39 new modules and payloads have been added since the last point release. * 58 tickets were resolved and 331 commits were made since the last point release. New Modules: New Exploits and Auxiliaries: * Apache Tomcat Transfer-Encoding Information Disclosure and DoS * Microsoft IIS FTP Server Encoded Response Overflow Trigger * Apache HTTPD mod_negotiation Filename Bruter * Apache HTTPD mod_negotiatio...

Leader.ir Next Target by Anonymous at 11.02.2011 at 18.00 !! TARGET: Leader.ir -- 11.02.2011 at 18.00 ( 6 PM ) GMT LOIC:   https://3.ly/77Dy PRESS:   Operation Iran - Press release by Anonymous Hackers ! REASONS:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IHeYjiFlY

On February 6, 2011, as part of their attack on HBGary , the Anonymous group social engineered administrator of rootkit.com , Jussi Jaakonaho, to gain root access to rootkit.com . The entire MySQL database backup was then released by Anonymous and announced using HBGary's CEO Twitter account, @aaronbarr   : Sup, here's rootkit.com MySQL Backup https://stfu.cc/rootkit_com_mysqlbackup_02_06_11.gz #hbgary #rootkit #anonymous.   The table pic shown is the list of accounts found in rootkit.com MySQL database backup with passwords in cleartext.

Hackers in China  are causing havoc among computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies, according to a new report by McAfee.  Security outfits have warned that this type of attack could get lot worse as multinationals continue to prod the Chinese government.  McAfee said in its  Night Dragon whitepaper  that hackers have stolen bidding plans and other critical proprietary information. This can be used to detrimental effect and give competitors an advantage.  It could not name the five petrochemical and oil companies as it says they are clients. George Kurtz, CTO, said in a  blog post : "We have strong evidence suggesting that the attackers were based in China. The tools, techniques, and network activities used in these attacks originate primarily in China. These tools are widely available on the Chinese Web forums and tend to be used extensively by Chinese hacker groups." He warns that well-coordinated, targeted attacks such a...

Operation Italy Press Release : Anonymous Hackers will Soon strike again ! Operation Italy part2 - Target: Surprise : Join #opitaly the 13/02/2011 at 12 GMT PM Attention Please: citizens of the world Anonymous will soon strike again. We are determined to continue our protest. Anonymous represent the voice of the people,and that voice has clearly spoken against the current Italian government. Italian people deserve something better than faggot Berlusconi and his political class. The ruling political party in Italy stand against everything that Anonymous consider worthwhile freedom of expression,freedom of press,and a freely accessible and uncensored internet being only some of those universally granted rights. We also request the removal of the ban against thepiratebay.org and the deletion of the infamous Bondi/SIAE tax on digital storage. ,We are not willing to set deadlines for our protest;it will endure until all our requests ...

A LOCAL secondary school's website was allegedly hacked and replaced with a pornographic site according to  a post in citizen journalism website Stomp. Stomper John, seeking a potential school for his son entering secondary school next year, visited the website of Junyuan Secondary School for more information on Wednesday evening after recommendations from friends that it was a good school. Upon logging into www.junyuansec.net , a pornographic site greeted him. He said the website had been hacked into and replaced with the pornographic site. 'What shocked me more was that the school did not do anything about it and let it remain this way,' he says. He added: 'It was like this the entire evening and I hope that the school will do something about it asap as it will tarnish the school's reputation.' An page error notification appeared when StraitsTimes.com tried to access the link on Thursday afternoon. The school's principal, Lee Lai Yong, told Straits...