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Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in the U.S. Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ.O) and at oil and gas companies. "Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who is introducing the bill, said in a statement on Thursday. The bipartisan Cybersecurity Enhancement Act would fund more cybersecurity research, awareness and education. "Businesses and investors must trust that their investments are secure. We cannot allow security breaches to undermine our trust in the U.S. economy," said Menendez, from New Jersey. Hackers working in China broke into computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical information, computer security firm McAfee Inc (MFE.N) said on Thursday. Nasdaq OMX, operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market, said over the weekend that it had found "suspicious ...

Operation Algeria, Part 2 by Anonymous Hackers Released ! FREE-THINKING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, The Algerian government imposes, upon its own citizens, intolerable restrictions on their basic liberties. The Algerian government wants to enforce a future where injustices remain unchallenged and where existing exploitation of one man by another remains unpunished. The Algerian government hides the truth from its citizens and denies them free expression and access to information. Let's call for an end to censorship. Now is the time for freedom and transparency, a time for people to express themselves freely and to be heard from anywhere across the world. How else than through well informed citizens can a society prosper and flourish? The Algerian government hereby declares itself an enemy of Anonymous and the people. Anonymous hears the cries for freedom from the Algerian people, and has decided to step up. We cannot, and will not, remain silent while this injustice is being done....

Operation Tequila - Anonymous Hackers New target for Saturday, EXAfm.com ! Citizens of the world: Tequila is not finished... Following the #OpTequila, Anonymous has decided to support the protests that are going on February 12th in Mexico DF against the censoring measures taken by MVS and Mexican Government, and to give our solidarity to any people oppressed by the system. This support will be divided in two ways: Attacking the site www.exafm.com (IP: 74.54.222.101 PORT: 80 Method: TCP) using LOIC or any other DDoS tool, starting at 11 AM (Central Mexican Time). It belongs to MVS. Supporting the march going from the Auditorio Nacional to MVS headquarters, in solidarity with the Mexican people's cause always fighting for Freedom of Expression. Knowledge is free and that won't be negotiated. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us! If you are going to the protest, don't forget your Guy Fawkes' mask: https://b...

Mubarak Resigns, Congratulations Egypt : Anonymous Press Release ! It was 18 days of sometimes violent demonstrations that forced the man who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years to step down.  Friday was the day the demonstrators had been awaiting. The announcement of Mr. Mubarak's resignation drew an immediate roar of cheers and honking automobile horns throughout Cairo that went on for hours. The announcement came from Vice President Omar Suleiman on state television. He said Mr. Mubarak was stepping down and had asked the military to take control of the country.  He ended his statement with the words "May God help everyone."  Thousands headed to Cairo's central Tahrir Square to join the tens of thousands already there.  Among them was 33-year-old Eman Saad. "My reaction?  It's amazing!  Freedom!" said an jubilant Saad. Anonymous Press Release : Congratulations Egypt! Sisters and Brothers of Egypt today is momentous. Today you write proud history. T...

Archives of all of HBGary 's conversations with the FBi, NSA, CIA, US Army, House and Senate ! 16K cia.zip  https://uiu.me/cia.zip 25M nsa.zip  https://uiu.me/nsa.zip 15M fbi.zip  https://uiu.me/fbi.zip 112M army.zip  https://uiu.me/army.zip 396K house.zip  https://uiu.me/house.zip 6.0M senate.zip  https://uiu.me/senate.zip

The Real Story about rootkit.com , HBGary E-mail ! HBGary E-mail Viewer greg@hbgary.com Go back Original file: 27606 click here to show this e-mail with HTML markup From: jussi jaakonaho <jussij@gmail.com> To: Greg Hoglund <greg@hbgary.com> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:15:54 +0200 Subject: Re: need to ssh into rootkit click here to show full headers Attachments: This e-mail does not have any attachments. did you open something running on high port? On Feb 6, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Greg Hoglund wrote: > ok let me know if you need me >  > On 2/6/11, jussi jaakonaho <jussij@gmail.com> wrote: >> tnx. >> i am also connected to the box, seems some people have download problems - >> have figured earlier that some chinese used chinese chars on names of files, >> which then our filtering stripped off when putting db etc. so some db >> editing >>  >>  >> _jussi ...

Anonymous used to be all about disrupting the Web sites of companies that helped block WikiLeaks' funding. Now it's starting to act like WikiLeaks itself. The group is planning, as early as today, to release 27,000 e-mails from the server of Greg Hoglund, the chief executive of software security firm HPGary, which it says could have permanently damaging consequences for the company. Anonymous has already posted around 50,000 emails of Aaron Barr, the CEO of sister organisation HPGary Federal, which revealed a report by the firm looking at ways to sabotage WikiLeaks in collaboration with Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies. The emails also show that Bank of America, a potential target of WikiLeaks, was to hear the proposal via its outside law firm Hunton & Williams. A source from Anonymous says that most of the new e-mails from Hoglund are still unchecked and it is unclear who will be most liable when the information is made public, but added that briefly skimming the ...

Contents of HITB Magazine Issue 005: Linux Security: Investigating Kernel Return Codes with the Linux Audit System Network Security: Secure Shell Attack Measurement and Mitigation and ARP Spoofing Attacks & Methods for Detection and Prevention: Exploiting Web Virtual Hosting –Malware Infections Windows Security: Windows CSRSS Tips & Tricks Professional development: CISSP® Corner – Tips and Trick on becoming a Certified Information Systems Security Professional Interview: Rolf Rolles And much more…. Click here to read online via Google Docs.

"VERA is a Visualizing Executables for Reversing and Analysis tool. It is a tool for reverse engineering Windows executables. It is used in conjunction with the Ether framework to generate visualizations to help with the RE process." This is the official change log: Added processing of trace files without having to use gengraph via new wizard Better handling of low memory situations Major code cleanup, refactoring, and new buzzwordy sounding tasks Added a toolbar, because everyone loves those Added IDA integration and IDA Pro module Fixed a bug involving parsing of non-traditional Ether trace files Now should support larger and more complicated graphs Author getting paid to write and support VERA. This new version contains a bunch of new features and API improvements. The two biggest updates are the addition of the trace file parsing and analysis inside of the GUI. This alleviates the need for the gengraph.exe program. The next big feature is the integration with IDA Pro. Cu...

Has anyone you know ever lost control of an email account and inadvertently sent spam—or worse—to their friends and family? There are plenty of examples (like the classic  "Mugged in London" scam ) that demonstrate why it's important to take steps to help secure your activities online. Your Gmail account, your photos, your private documents—if you reuse the same password on multiple sites and one of those sites gets hacked, or your password is conned out of you directly through a phishing scam, it can be used to access some of your most closely-held information. Most of us are used to entrusting our information to a password, but we know that some of you are looking for something stronger. As we announced to our Google Apps customers  a few months ago , we've developed an advanced opt-in security feature called  2-step verification that makes your Google Account significantly more secure by helping to verify that you're the real owner of your account. Now it...

Free cellphone encryption is coming to Android users in Egypt courtesy of San Francisco software maker Whisper Systems. Until now, Redphone and TextSecure, voice- and text-encryption apps respectively, have generally been available in the US only. Whisper Systems has been working on making the packages available internationally. With cellphone communication playing a vital role in the more than two weeks of protests in Cairo and Alexandria, the company decided to jump-start a version for Egyptians, said principal Moxie Marlinspike. "Given the events in Egypt, we've stepped up our efforts to incorporate international support, and are almost ready to do our first international release by deploying RedPhone and TextSecure (which is also unavailable there) into Egypt," he wrote in an email. Marlinspike is no stranger to government surveillance. While returning from a trip overseas, US feds recently confiscated his handset and laptop. TextSecure uses strong encryption to make text ...