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Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize ! WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Wednesday awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's top honor for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights," joining the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Assange, an Australian former computer hacker who is fighting extradition from Britain to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, was praised and rewarded with the Sydney Peace Prize's Gold Medal. Although the Peace Prize is awarded annually by the foundation only three other people in its 14-year history have been awarded the gold award for courage in pursuit of human rights -- the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. The foundation paid tribute to Assange's determination to seek greater transparency and accountability from governments around the world, having challenged "centuries old practices of government secrecy." "By championing people's right to k...

Hacked PlayStation Network to be fully restored by end of May ! Sony said Tuesday it aimed to fully restore its PlayStation Network, shut down after a massive security breach affecting more than 100 million online accounts, by the end of May. Sony also confirmed that personal data from 24.6 million user accounts was stolen in the hacker attack last month. Personal data, including credit card numbers, might have been stolen from another 77 million PlayStation accounts, said Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. spokesperson Satoshi Fukuoka. He said Sony has not received any reports of illegal uses of stolen information, and the company is continuing its probe into the hacker attack. He declined to give details on the investigation. Sony shut down the PlayStation network, a system that links gamers worldwide in live play, on April 20 after discovering the security breach. The network also allows users to upgrade and download games and other content. Sony was under heavy criticism o...

ICSE Guess compromised, over 1 lakh 10 thousand users hacked by lionaneesh ! Admin User/Pass leaked By Indian hacker Loinaneesh. There are more than 1 lakh 10 thousand users data stolen. Big sites, Less Security :P

NCASC & 3 More Nepal Government Sites Hacked By cool_sh4v1k Hacked Sites : https://necan.gov.np/license.html https://epsnepal.gov.np/license.html https://ncasc.gov.np/license.html https://nepalstandards.gov.np/license.html Mirrors : https://www.zone-h.net/mirror/id/13681612 https://www.zone-h.net/mirror/id/13681609 https://www.zone-h.net/mirror/id/13681610 https://www.zone-h.net/mirror/id/13681611

Microsoft Releases Patch Tuesday Fixes for Windows Server and PowerPoint ! Microsoft addressed two security bulletins in May's Patch Tuesday release. Despite its small size, security experts said administrators should apply the fixes immediately as they addressed significant threats. Microsoft fixed a critical vulnerability affecting Windows Server and an important bug in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, according to the Patch Tuesday advisory released May 10. Microsoft also assigned separate "exploitability" scores for newer versions of the software under the "improved" exploitability index ratings. The team fixed a critical vulnerability (MS11-035) in the WINS component in Windows Server 2003 and 2008. WINS is a name resolution service that resolves names in the NetBIOS namespace and does not require authentication to use. While usually not available by default in Windows Server, it is commonly used in the enterprise for internal network servers. Administrators who have enabled WIN...

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to help consumers pay for services such as health care more securely and avoid identity theft. Recent guidelines issued by the White House on cyber-security could provide an impetus for secure online bill paying in health care, according to health care industry experts. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace presented by the White House provides direction on how to protect consumers and businesses from identity theft and fraud in online transactions by creating an identity ecosystem. Under the ecosystem strategy, consumers would maintain their anonymity during transactions by providing one piece of information, such as age, but not name, address, birth date or other information. "The rapid and vastly positive changes that have followed the rise of online transactions—like making purchases or downloading bank statements—have also led to new challenges," President Obama wrote in the str...

BackTrack 5 Released – Penetration Testing Distribution, Download Now ! Download : https://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ Direct Links from FTP :  https://mirrors.rit.edu/backtrack/

Anonymous IRC hacker, Ryan Cleary  Exposed ! The 'Anonymous' collective named Ryan Cleary as the person responsible for breaching two of its own sites. The 18-year-old was accused of trying to bring down message boards used by Anonymous members to communicate with each other. Read Here ' We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named "Ryan" ,' a post on its AnonOps site said. 'He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps network admins use. So he organised a coup d'etat.' Mr Cleary was accused of stealing passwords and targeting the network servers used to keep Anonymous's websites running. ' This is not a joke, this isn't a lie, this is the truth and we are sorry for that, ' the post added. A later update showed a screenshot of a ' revenge attack ' that gave the alleged culprit's full name, address and phone numbers. Anonymous is still under attack. Going to Ano...

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked On the 23rd of March 2011 we posted a blog about the source code for the infamous crime kit ZeuS (Wsnpoem/Zbot) being sold on at least two dark market forums (see: https://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3176/). This weekend we found the complete source code for this crime kit being leaked to the masses on several underground forums as well as through other channels. We already collected several addresses from where it is being distributed in a compressed zip archive. We even compiled it in our lab and it works like a charm. When unzipped it looks like this: We can hereby confirm that the complete ZeuS/Zbot source code is freely available for inspection, inspiration or perhaps to be compiled and used in future attacks. ZeuS/Zbot is already considered as being amongst the most pervasive banking Trojan in the global threat landscape. It is an advanced crime kit and very configurable. With the release and leakage of the source code the ZeuS/Zbot co...

Channel [V] INDIA website HacKeD By MaDnI ( Pak Cyber Army ) Hacked Site : https://www.channelv.in/forum/ Mirror : https://www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/13675949

You got owned, Exposure about privacy on facebook ! If you had any doubts regarding privacy on facebook, here is a list containing hundreds of user and password, how can this be ? Easy, any application that asks for permission can get your credentials! And then do not say that we had not warned :P WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook is Spying on You and Your Loved Ones "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence." Read More News Regarding Facebook on THN : Assange says Facebook is spying tool for US intelligence ! A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook Facebook is not Exclusion, XML Vulnerability ! Truth About Facebook -  CIA, U.S. government - Everything Related ! Vulnerability in Facebook Email feature Exposed ! Face...