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DDOs Tracer - 1.0 Released by MaxPainCode At most any time of the day, there's a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack underway somewhere on the Internet. Yes, it's still true, despite reports that some ISPs have experienced fewer DDOS attacks overall during the last six months. It's a matter of quality, not quantity: " When DDOSes do occur, they are done with much greater purpose than they used to be ," says Rodney Joffe, senior vice president and senior technologist for Neustar, a directory services and clearinghouse provider for Internet industry. " They are usually to obscure what's [really] happening in the background ." So if you want to be safe and trace someone like a pro here is the tool that is being used by tracing the ms per second and then if the site goes down or just get lot of traffic it will report the time that the attacker started his web attack, that is really good as you can report the attack and give to police more inf...

Uronimo - Mobile platform website Hacked by Team Inj3ct0r Uronimo - Mobile platform Hacked by  Team Inj3ct0r today. They leak the database of site on Pastebin , including Username, Hash Password, emails and Phone Numbers of 1000 users.

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to take Anonymous and other non-professional cyber-attackers more seriously as it issues a warning about potential attacks. The 2 September security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Security and Communications Integration Centre warned financial services companies to be on the lookout for attackers operating under the Anonymous umbrella to “solicit ideologically dissatisfied, sympathetic employees” to the cause. The unclassified DHS communique is addressed broadly to those in charge of cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection and also warns about new tools that Anonymous has said it plans to use in launching future attacks. One of the attack tools highlighted in the alert is dubbed #RefRef, which is said to be capable of using a server's resources and processing power to conduct a denial of service attack against itself. " Anonymous has stated publi...

United Nations Sub-Domain of Swaziland hacked by Cocain Team Hackers Swaziland sub domain of United Nations website Got defaced by Cocain Team Hackers. Mirror of hack also posted on Zone-H. Last hacks By Cocain Team Hackers are : Official site of NDRRMC hacked by Cocain TeaM Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom Defaced Cocain hackers NERC - National Syrian energy research center Defaced by Cocain Team Youth Peer Education Network (YPEER) Of Syria Defaced by Cocain TeaM

Theregister.co.uk , Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic got hacked by Turkguvenligi The Register  One of the Biggest British technology news and opinion website got hacked by Turkguvenligi . Not only this Vodafone , Telegraph , Acer , National Geographic , Ups.com  , betfair.com  also got hacked by him.  Turkguvenligi is also know with name " TG Hacker '. These hacks are done by DNS Hijacking  method. But still theregister.co.uk and other sites are accessible via the original IP address ( 68.68.20.116 ) from several places around the world. Nameserver lookup of the register has the following nameservers now: theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns4.yumurtakabugu.com. theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns2.yumurtakabugu.com. theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns1.yumurtakabugu.com. theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns3.yumurtakabugu.com. But, It should probably look something like: theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns1.theregister.co.uk theregister....

European Union hacked by Inj3ct0r Team One of the Sub domain of European Union hacked and Defaced by Exploit writers at  Inj3ct0r Team . Hacker deface the web page and wrote : We are against nuclear weapons.  We are against violence in Libya.  We are against the arrest of policy Tymoshenko's in Ukraine. We are opposed to Russian influence in the territory of Ukraine!  Fuck off Russian President Medvedev, Prime Minister Putin , and Ukraine President Yanukovich !  You are idiots! You are trying to scold the Slavic peoples.  Soon your conspiracy against Ukraine will be published on WikiLeaks !  Ukraine will never be a colony of Russia ! You can arrest me, but you do not arrest the idea.  I am not alone, we are legion. *** Незалежна Україна Від розпроданих банкірів, Партії продавших, Від гнучких політиків, Голоси віддавших, Від прем’єр-міністрів, Що мови не знають, І від зеків-президентів, Що опозицію саджають... *** Hacker P...

100's of Israel Websites Hacked By Cyber-Warrior / AKINCILAR Group Cyber-Warrior / AKINCILAR Group has started an attack about the political tension between Turkey and Israel (Ahmet Davutoglu - Dr. Michael Ben-Ari), and they still keep attacking. Cyber-Warrior / AKINCILAR Group made a name for themselves by hacking thousands of websites that insults their country, religion and nation. The group is called as “ Virtual Castle of Turkey ”. Within the context of attack the website of Dr. Michael Ben-Ari who attracted attention by saying “ Turkey should be declared as enemy country ”. To show their protest in the virtual world Cyber-Warrior / AKINCILAR Group has also hacked the free hosting service called 020.com ’s all the websites. After the attack the personal website and thousands of other Israel websites’ homepages changed with the same text. The following text have put on hacked websites’ homepages: “ Israel has to apologize from Turkey and all Islamic world because of ...

BackBox Linux 2 released The BackBox team is proud to announce the release of BackBox. Linux 2.BackBox 2 features the following upstream components: Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8. BackBox is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. It is designed to be fast and easy to use. It provides a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, which are always updated to the latest stable versions of the most often used and best-known ethical hacking tools. What's new System upgrade Performance boost New look and feel Improved start menu Bug fixing Hacking tools new or updated Three new section: Vulnerabilty Assessment, Forensic Analysis and VoIP Analysis Much, much more! System requirements 32-bit or 64-bit processor 256 MB of system memory (RAM) 2 GB of disk space for installation Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution DVD-ROM drive or USB port Download BackBox...

Mobile APP Network Forum Hacked, 15000 user accounts leaked Mobile APP Network Forum is Hacked by "Why So Serious?" hacker. He also hacked VBTeam.info and EA Game - Battlefield Heroes some days before. He leaked over 15.000 accounts of the community (Forum) on Pastebin in two parts. Part 1 Part 2

Pakistani Music site Database and Vulnerability Exposed by Maxt Breaker A hacker with name " Maxt Breaker " hack one of the Pakistani Music website and expose its  Database and Vulnerability via posting on public sites. Vulnerable Link is also shown in Image and some sample of database is also visible. Hacker claim to hack 996 User Email ID and Password from site and make them Public.

HDFC Bank Database Hacked by zSecure team using SQL injection vulnerability zSecure team is back in news again, this time they have discovered a critical SQL injection vulnerability in HDFC Bank's Web Portal. Using this critical flaw HDFC Bank's various databases can be accessed and dumped as well. This critical flaw really affects the customer realtions of HDFC Bank's and this really questions the existing security in place within bank. HDFC Bank is the leading bank in India but they lack behind the basic security that needs to be implemented. zSecure team claimed in their blog post that even after sending them complete details about the vulnerability and even after conducting the vulnerability assessment from the third party service provider they were not able to discover this critical falw which existed in their web portal. This really raises a big question on their existing security policy. What would have happened if somone else would have gained acceess to this c...