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Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked ! Is your Internet TV vulnerable to hackers? Internet TVs could be the newest avenue for cybercriminals to infiltrate your home or business. Last year, Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with unsettling ease. According to a new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs with Internet content by 2016. What exactly these Internet Enabled TV have ?  Its IP addresses, always-on network interfaces, CPUs, storage, memory, and operating systems the details that have offered hackers a bounty of attack choices for the last three decades. " Our goal was to see if we could hack into the set-top box, steal customer personal information, pirate services, and incur denial-of-service conditions. "...

Nikjju Mass injection campaign target more than 2 Millions Urls Daniel Cid an open source developer and information security professional reported on Sucuri blog that their team tracked a new mass SQL injection campaign that started early this month and till now more than 180,000 URLs have been compromised.  Nikjju is a mass SQL injection campaign targeting ASP/ASP.net sites. At the time of writing Google has identified 361,000 pages infected with that javascript call, but the number is growing really fast. In this case it adds the following javascript to the compromised sites. One more interesting fact that researchers have noticed that  Nikjju.com domain was registered on April 1st 2012 and in 18 days more than 180,000 urls get infected. This mass Sql Injection also compromise some Government sites also , as listed below : jnd.xmchengdu.gov.cn study.dyny.gov.cn www.cnll.gov.cn www.bj.hzjcy.gov.cn www.mirpurkhas.gov.pk www.tdnyw....

Google Sent Hacked Notification Messages to Millions of Webmasters Google’s head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, announced on Twitter that they have sent out new message notifications to 20,000 web sites that are hacked. Specifically, Google sent these messages to sites doing “ weird redirects .” Weird redirects means the hack is where the hacker gains access to your HTACCESS and only redirects users who click from Google to your web site. Otherwise, if they type in the domain name directly, there will be no redirect. A year ago, Google began labeling hacked sites and sites with malware as sites that may compromised in the search results snippets. If a site has been hacked, it typically means that a third party has taken control of the site without the owner's permission, Hackers may change the content of a page, add new links on a page, or add new pages to the site. The intent can include Phishing to tricking users into sharing personal and credit card information or spam...

Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are Vested in Vision ! Two significant events will take place this week and cyber activists need to take note and pay attention. This will be your training on how to unfold the growing revolution that is spinning our world on a new and courageous path. First, Julian Assange has completed filming twelve episodes of his forthcoming show, “ The World Tomorrow ”. The first episode will be aired on RT and released online on Tuesday 17 April 2012, with other networks to follow. “ The World Tomorrow ” is a collection of twelve interviews featuring an eclectic range of guests, who are stamping their mark on the future: politicians, revolutionaries, intellectuals, artists and visionaries. The second event, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and political prisoner Bradley Manning’s next appearance in court will take place April 24-26 at Ft. Meade, MD. Bradley Manning was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the whis...

Lebanese Government sites hacked by ‘ Raise Your Voice ’ A group calling itself ‘ Raise Your Voice ’ hacked on Tuesday around 15 Lebanese government websites to ask for an improvement in living standards, the day the parliament launches a three-day session to assess the cabinet’s performance. “ To our dear “beloved” Lebanese Government,We are RYV, short for Raise Your Voice, and we are simply a group of people who could not bare sitting in silence, watching all the crimes and injustice going on in Lebanon. We will not be silenced and brainwashed by your media. We will not stop until the Lebanese people mobilize, demand their rights, and earn them. We will not stop until the standards of living are raised to where they should be in Lebanon. We will not stop until this government’s self-made problems are solved, like the power shortage, water shortage, rise in gas prices and rise in food product prices. We are RYV, expect us to break the silence, whether in the streets or on the Int...

MI6, CIA and Department of Justice Tango Down ! Hacker group Anonymous claimed it took down the CIA website for the second time in two months following a new DDoS attack on the U.S. secret service which lasted 45 minutes.  Anonymous is reportedly on a DDoS rampage today, downing the CIA, Department of Justice, and two Mi6 websites. Members of the group claimed responsibility throughout Facebook and Twitter. Brazilian hacktivist Havittaja reportedly launched the initial offensive on the DoJ and CIA for “lulz” while other members jumped on board a short time later. The technique also known as a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, is a concentrated effort by multiple individuals to make a network busy to its intended users. The end result is server overload. Anonymous makes a freeware tool available to its members to carry out these attacks, which it calls the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. The collective targeted the department of justice in January as part of Operation M...

Banking System Vulnerability - 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran Iran's Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromised. These banks now require their customers to change their ATM pin numbers before they can access their account. This has caused a rush to the ATM machines by the worried customers. The hacker was identified as Khosro Zare', a former bank-system specialist in Iran who recently left the country.Zare' claimed in a blog that he hacked the PIN codes to highlight the vulnerability of Iran's banking system. According to the report, the hacker had provided the managing directors of the targeted banks with information about the bank accounts of 1000 customers in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19) to warn them about the susceptibility of their computer systems and networks to cyber threats. But Central bank officials had earlier downplayed the reports, sayi...

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems.  Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can provide corroborating information about the document data itself. It can reveal information that someone tried to hide, delete, or obscure. It can be used to automatically correlate documents from different sources. More simply, electronic information about a file but not seen on a printed copy of the file. It is embedded and provides additional information, including when and by whom it was created, accessed, or modified. Informatica64  release Forensic FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives) , tool for forensic analysts focused on the use of metadata files to generate a forensic case. Several other metadata extraction tools exist but FOCA is co...

Phone Phreaking  using Bluebox   Demonstrated  in India Christy Philip Mathew , an Indian Information Security Instructor and Hacker demonstrated Phone Phreaking  using Bluebox in his lab. This time we have something really special that would remind us the phone phreaking. Actually Phone Phreaking reminds us about the life of Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak and John Drapper, mean the olden times when they used to play around with the bluebox. What is Blue Box : This device is certainly one of the most unique pieces of electronic equipment that I have been able to collect so far. It is essentially a hacking tool disguised to look like a common 1970's Texas Instruments hand held electronic calculator. Basically a real calculator was sacrificed and modified to produce audio frequency signaling tones which allowed the user to freely (and illegally) access the Bell Telephone System long distance network. The origin of the name " blue box " was due to the f...

Android Video Malware found in Japanese Google Play Store A new Trojan has been found, and removed, from the Google Play/Android Market, McAfee reported on Friday afternoon. The post says applications carrying the Trojan promise, and in some cases deliver, trailers for upcoming video games or anime or adult-oriented clips, but they also request "read contact data" and "read phone state and identity" permissions before being downloaded. McAfee Mobile Security detects these threats as Android/DougaLeaker .A, the company said.McAfee said that the fifteen malicious applications of this sort had been found on Google Play, and that all had been removed from the market. The app gathers the Android ID not the IMEI code that can uniquely identify the device, but the 64-bit number that is randomly generated on the device's first boot and remains with it for the life of the device. The app also harvests the phone's phone number and contact list, along with every n...

Sabpab - Another Mac os Backdoor Trojan Discovered Security firm Sophos has discovered more malware for the Mac OS X platform called Sabpab . It uses the same Java vulnerability as Flashback to install itself as a “drive-by download.” Users of older versions of Java now have still more malware to worry about. It also doesn't require any user interaction to infect a system either just like Flashback all that needs to happen is for you to visit an infected webpage. Sabpab, according to Sophos, installs a backdoor that allows the hackers to capture screen snapshots, upload or download files and execute commands on infected Macs remotely. The Trojan creates the files /Users/ /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PubSabAgent.pfile /Users/ /Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.PubSabAGent.plist Encrypted logs are sent back to the control server, so the hackers can monitor activity. Although one variant of Flashback installed a file in the LaunchAgents folder, not all tools for detectin...