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Siemens multiple domains hacked by Hmei7 Indonesian hacker Hacker named " Hmei7 " previously in news for hacking Microsoft and IBM , yesterday hack and deface 6 domains of Siemens company.  Defaced websites come from different TLD which include the Ecuador, Peru, Venezuelan, Colombia and Brazil and two of the defacement’s come from the Brazil zone. Ecuador |  mirror Peru |  mirror Venezulan  |  mirror Colombia |  mirror Brazil  |  mirror

Best Free Android Security Software Avast Antivirus For you who longing for free Android antivirus, this is an exciting THN news for you. Avast, one of the famous antivirus vendors, now has launched Android Antivirus you can use for free! This Antivirus mobile is named Avast Mobile Security . Avast Free Mobile Security supports a number of features that are usually available only in paid-for Android security software. These include privacy reports, call and SMS filtering, SIM-card change notifications, firewall and application management. By using Avast Mobile Security in your Android phone, your cell phone will be protected from virus, threat, hacker, even it’s able to minimize your loss if your Android cell phone is stolen. The antivirus component supports real-time protection and automatic updates. Updates can be configured to only be downloaded over certain types of connections and the interface can be protected with a password. Call and SMS filtering can help device owne...

ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released ANONdroid is a JonDonym proxy client for Android smartphones. This nice piece of software is under ongoing development by the AN.ON project of the university Dresden. Project leader is Dr. Stefan Köpsell. ANONdroid uses the core libraries of JonDo with a smartphone compatible GUI. ANONdroid acts as a proxy for your internet applications and will forward the traffic of your internet applications encrypted to the mix cascades. It is still under development, but a first version is ready for download from the Andoid market . a secure browser configuration is important for anonymous surfing we recommend the use of Orweb browser. It is a browser for Orbot, but can be used with ANONdroid too. After installation you have to change the proxy settings of Orweb to localhost:4001. How It Works When you start the JAP client program, JAP first connects to the InfoService to check if the program version is still current. If t...

Official Android Market  host many Malware Games F-Secure researchers recently found malware in the Android Market disguised as free versions of popular games. Disguising malware as a free version of a popular game (such as Cut the Rope and Assassin’s Creed) seems to be a popular tactic that the bad guys are using to scam users of Google’s Android Market app store. Overnight more malware appeared in Google’s official app repository. The Trojanized games have been uploaded by a company calling itself Eldar Limited . This is the second time in two weeks malware disguised as free games has been uploaded to the Android Market. Google's app police managed to detect this fraud and quickly removed it from the Android Market. While the apps are still listed on AppBrain and AndroidZoom, the links will direct users back to the official Android Market where they have already been removed. " These have now been removed by Google, but their appearance in the official Android Market in...

Why US Aircrafts Drop Spy Devices in Syrian ? Last week Iranian engineer claim to hijack U.S. drone by hacking GPS system using GPS spoofing. On December 14, residents of a small town in northern Syria reported seeing unidentified aircraft circling overhead, and dropping several small items attached to mini-parachutes , which entered Syrian airspace through the Turkish border. The gadgets, pictured here, look suspiciously like surreptitious listening devices. Residents say the question is :  who dropped them, and why? The sources explained that the aircrafts that dropped the devices were American, not Turkish. They added that the aircrafts took off from Incirlik air base, southeast of Adana, which is 130 km away from the city of Afrin, mainly to belong to the Kurdish nationalists. “ This action aims at eavesdropping on communications between the Syrian troops, locating their spots accurately and collecting any information about it in order to provide them to U...

Call spoofing - Evolution of Cybercrime in Growing Children The Hacker News & 5 Other Top IT Security Sites are Sponsoring a Special Edition January 2012 Magazine under a Cyber Security Awareness Campaign called " ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK ". Our goal is to provide the most up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics that address the tricky and complicated world of hackers and hacking. Lets know about " Call spoofing " and How much easy it is for kids to do Call spoofing. First of all the term ‘ cyber crime ’ is a misnomer. The concept of cyber crime is not radically different from the concept of conventional crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission, which cause breach of rules of law and counterbalanced by the sanction of the state. Any criminal activity that uses a computer either as an instrumentality, target or a means for perpetuating further crimes comes within the ambit of cyber crime. The computer may be used as a tool in the follo...

Iran government websit es now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks. The country’s deputy minister for communications and information technology, Ali Hakim Javadi, Reuters reports that more than 90 percent of all the Iranian government’s websites have had their hosting locations transferred inside the country. “ Over 30 000 Iranian websites, including those of key institutions such as ministries, were hosted abroad, mainly in North America ,” the Islamic Republic News Agency cited Ali Hakim Javadi, the Deputy Minister for Communications and Information Technology, as saying without specifying the countries involved. “ The data was at risk of being accessed at any moment .”Iranian officials said last year that malicious software known as Stuxnet affecte...

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group A new financial research group, Anonymous Analytics  has released a report accusing Chinese firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture of “ 11 years of deceit and corporate fraud ”. The company is one of China’s largest fruit and vegetable suppliers. A faction within the online hacking collective Anonymous has moved into an unlikely new area – exposing corporate fraud and making money in the aftermath. The group alleges that Chaoda’s management has funnelled more than $400 million out of the company through false accounting and payments to shell companies. Hong Kong’s government announced an investigation into the company on Monday, shortly before the release of the Anonymous report, leading its shares to fall by 26 per cent before being suspended from trading. In a departure from illegal hacking, Anonymous Analytics claims that “ all information presented in our reports is acquired through legal channels, fact-checked, and vetted thoroug...

Tor anonymity will become illegal with SOPA acts ? The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the newest attempt by Congress and corporations in the United States to regulate the Internet. SOPA's proponents include the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry of America. They view SOPA as a means to counter rampant piracy on the Internet, especially sites such as ThePirateBay.org. A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could make it illegal to distribute Tor and other software that can circumvent attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites. The effects of SOPA and PIPA will be felt throughout the world, as the way the bill defines “U.S. websites” is so broad as to cover most of the Internet itself. The list of collateral damage the bills are feared to cause goes on, and the list of the bills’ critics keeps expanding. In addition to the million+ citizens who have spoken out, the legislation is also opposed by tech companies such a...

Kaspersky Internet Security  Memory Corruption Vulnerability Vulnerability-Lab Team discovered a Memory & Pointer Corruption Vulnerability on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011/2012. A Memory Corruption vulnerability is detected on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011/2012. The vulnerability is caused by an invalid pointer corruption when processing a corrupt .cfg file through the kaspersky exception filters,which could be exploited by attackers to crash he complete software process. The bug is located over the basegui.ppl & basegui.dll when processing a .cfg file import. Affected Version(s): Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 & Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 KIS 2012 v12.0.0.374 KAV 2012 v12.x Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 & Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 KIS 2011 v11.0.0.232 (a.b) KAV 11.0.0.400 KIS 2011 v12.0.0.374 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 & Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 The kaspersk...

China Software Developer Network (CSDN) 6 Million user data Leaked The "Chinese Software Developer Network" ( CSDN ), operated by Bailian Midami Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is one of the biggest networks of software developers in China. A text file with 6 Million CSDN user info including user name, password, emails, all in clear text leaked on internet. The Download Link  (use xunlei to download the file) of the File is available on various social Networks. NowChinese programmers are busy changing their password now. Full archive of 104.9 MB (MD5 = b75678048d100600d3a6c648075636a7) available for Download Now : Here Just did some data ming on CSDN leaked user data. Some interesting findings. Here are the results of Top 100 email providers form 6M CSDN user emails : @qq.com, 1976190 @163.com, 1766919 @126.com, 807893 @sina.com, 351590 @yahoo.com.cn, 205487 @hotmail.com, 202944 @gmail.com, 186843 @sohu.com, 104735 @yahoo.cn, 87048 @tom.co...