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The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the attack on the Fine Gael website yesterday, after an Evening Herald journalist claimed he was sent data of 2,000 users of the site after the hack occurred. The Data Protection Commissioner said Fine Gael contacted him after their site was attacked by those using the "Anonymous" banner. On Twitter, Kevin Doyle, an Evening Herald journalist claimed the commissioner was informed the data of 2,000 users of the site was stolen by those who attacked it. He previously said it was almost 4,000, however, this was due to repeat posters on the database. Doyle also said the database he received of the site's users contained phone numbers, IP addresses and email addresses. Fine Gael recently revamped its site, letting the public post comments and register their mobile numbers and email addresses in order to receive information on the political party’s upcoming election campaign. However, the site was taken offline and repl...

The government of Tunisia may have chosen an odd way to combat protesters: Hacking into their Facebook accounts.  This appears to have gotten the attention of the hacker group Anonymous, which is siding with the protests. The past month has seen many large-scale uprisings in the North African nation, as protesters gripe about the dictatorship goverment plus economic problems and unemployment. The Tunisian government has responded by partnering with hackers to infiltrate the accounts of dissidents deemed to be inciting riots, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The group said: Based on reports of users in the country, Tunisian authorities appear to be modifying web pages on the fly to steal usernames and passwords for sites such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Unknown parties have subsequently logged onto these sites using these stolen credentials, and used them to delete Facebook groups, pages, and accounts, including Facebook pages admin...

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses. Roth has created a program that runs on Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) system. It uses the massive computing power of EC2 to run through 400,000 possible passwords per second, a staggering amount, hitherto unheard of outside supercomputing circles--and very likely made possible because EC2 now allows graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for computational tasks. Among other things, these are particularly suited to password cracking tasks. In other words, this isn't a clever or elegant hack, and it doesn't rely on a flaw in wireless networking technology. Roth's software merely generates millions of passphrases, encrypts them, and sees if they allow access to the network. However, employing the theoretically infinite resources of cloud computing to ...

Ireland's main opposition party confirms that the personal details of up to 2,000 people have been compromised by the attack Ireland's main opposition party's website has been hacked into by a group which has recently come to prominence for attacks on companies related to the WikiLeaks controversy. Up to 2,000 people's personal details were compromised in the attack by the hackers, known as Anonymous, Fine Gael said. The American internet firm ElectionMall, which reported the cyber attack to US authorities, has informed the party that the FBI is now involved in the investigation. A statement from Fine Gael confirmed that its site, Finegael.com had been compromised by the Anonymous group, which has backed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange against attempts by the United States government to stop the leaking of sensitive American diplomatic cables. Anonymous has launched attacks on the websites of companies such as Visa, Mastercard and Amazon over allegations ...

GFI Software , a leading IT solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, today revealed continuing high levels of Trojan and rogue malware circulating during December, with data revealing a surge in activity, boosted by themed activity around the Christmas and New Year holiday period. The top 10 data is compiled from monthly scans performed by GFI's award-winning anti-malware solution, VIPRE ®  Antivirus, and its antispyware tool, CounterSpy ® , as a service of GFI Labs™. Users were targeted with a variety of infected email, web links and other delivery mechanisms promising festive information, discount offers, Christmas e-cards and free software. The month also saw the big movie release of the season, Disney’s TRON Legacy, targeted by a wide array of SEO poisoned links, unwanted installs and other malware fakery, while a spate of fake iTunes emails caught several people off-guard, resulting in users running afoul of a malicious script that took advant...

Of all criminal offences committed in the   United Arab Emirates   (   UAE ), a whopping 70 percent are cyber crimes, a top official has said.   Cyber criminals are keeping up with new developments in information technology, and make the maximum use of any new software or system that comes with any security gap or loophole, said Major Saeed Mohammad Al Hajeri, head of the information technology crime department of   Dubai   Police.   Saeed said this at a lecture titled "Procedures followed in investigating information technology crimes", delivered at the Institute of Training and Judicial Studies in Sharjah, the Gulf News reported.   Among the most common   cyber crimes   is providing illegal   VoIP   (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls, which is the preferred method of communication for drug smugglers and human traffickers since these calls are hard to trace, Saeed said.   Hacking   is another illegal activi...

Samyak Tejawat  (13 year old) found vulnerability in this Italian government site ! Whole database can be extracted. Mr. Samyak Tejawat inform the admins of site about this venerability, Hope it will be fixed soon :)  SQLi vuln. link =   http://www.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it/primopiano/dettaglio_primopiano.php?sezione=primopiano&tema_dir=tema2&id_primopiano=1000 News Source : Samyak Tejawat | Via Email

IBM Developer Works Defaced by Hmei7 ! Website Link : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ Zone-H mirror: http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/12878142 News Source : Hmei7

Krunal Goswami ( tech2spider ) found new XSS in Stanford University Website ! Tech2spider has submitted a cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting stanford.edu. We manually validated and publishing th. It is currently unfixed.is news. Check this Link :  http://www.stanford.edu/group/ tabletennis/cgi-bin/index.php? photos&event=%3Cscript%20type= %22text/javascript%22%20% 3Ealert%28%22XSS%20Vulnerable% 22%29%3C/script%3E News Source :  Krunal Goswami ( tech2spider )

1700 Websites Hacked By The 077 ( HamDi HaCKer ) List of all 1700 Sites Hacked By 077 http://pastebin.com/reibDPaP News Source : HamDi HaCKer

Las Vegas is a city like few others. Every year more than 35 million people visit and lose themselves in the casinos, bars, shows and shopping malls on Las Vegas Boulevard aka The Strip. The vast influx of visitors, coupled with the insatiable desire of those hotels and casinos to set themselves apart, means that many of the 1.8 million people that live in the city do so only briefly. Some stay for a year or two as a new hotel goes up or a show is in town. Many have briefer stays allied to a big conference or a busy holiday season. The net result is that it is a city where a lot of people live, but in which communities are hard to find. "It's not a social city," said Vegas resident Evan Pipho, a programmer who, with Jeff Rosowski, is trying to find a way to bring the city's hackers, makers and coders together. Thanks to the pair, Las Vegas has its own Dorkbot chapter and they are in the process of setting up a hackerspace in Mr Rosowski's garage. They ho...

An Olympia-area man has been arrested in what the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office says is the largest identity-theft case in the county’s history. More than 1,000 victims statewide had their driver’s licenses, credit cards and Social Security numbers stolen, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Detectives served a search warrant at a Johnson Point Road home Thursday morning and arrested Anthony Eugene Vaughn, 30, on suspicion of 1,000 counts of second-degree identity theft and two counts of first-degree identity theft. During a hearing Friday, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Lisa Sutton ordered Vaughn held at the Thurston County Jail with bail set at $500,000. The case remained under investigation, and more arrests might be coming, sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Dunn said Friday. Detectives think Vaughn had accomplices who stole identification documents during car prowls and residential burglaries and that he used the documents to open fraudulent bank accounts in the victims’ names. He t...