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The tech-oriented Nasdaq stock exchange has confirmed that its network has been hacked and its customers have been notified. In a written statement to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Nasdaq said it had discovered some malware files installed on a part of its network called Directors Desk – a system designed to allow company boards to store and share documents. "The files were immediately removed and at this point there is no evidence that any Directors Desk customer information was accessed or acquired by hackers," the statement said. "Our trading platform architecture operates independently from our web-facing services like Directors Desk and at no point was any of Nasdaq OMX's operated or serviced trading platforms compromised." The investigation was initially started by the US Secret Service, but has been taken over by the FBI. People familiar with the matter have confirmed to the WSJ that "so far the perpetrators appear to have just been looking aro...

HBGary chief Aaron Barr's Twitter account hijacked and personal details leaked in revenge for infiltration of hacking collective The loose hacker collective Anonymous says it has taken revenge on aUS security company whose principal claimed to have penetrated the group and identified some of its key people. They hacked the Twitter account of Aaron Barr, the chief executive of HBGary, and sent out a series of angry tweets while many Americans were watching the Super Bowl match on Sunday night, allegedly including Barr's social security number and address, and his mobile phone number. The tweets link to torrents of the company's emails. Members of the group also put up a brutal set of claims: "Anonymous has: "entire control of all emails for the company of hbgary.com. we have full admin control of "hbgaryfederal.com. we have wordpress control of hbgary.com "all emails will be put up in a torrent. "full access to all their finincials ...

Right now you can download a 4.7 gigabyte book abounding of about 50,000 emails baseborn from a computer aegis able called Aaron Barr. That's what happens aback you cantankerous the hacking aggregate Anonymous. Hackers from Anonymous, best-known for attacks on Scientology and Wikileaks detractors, besmirched Barr's online activity Sunday black afterwards acquirements he planned to accommodated with the FBI tomorrow and duke over advice he'd aggregate about them. They defaced the website of HBGary Federal, the D.C.-based computer aegis close Barr works for. Again they took over Barr's Twitter account, tweeting his amusing aegis cardinal and a book absolute 50,000 HBGary aggregation emails. They alike affirmation to accept wiped his iPad. Barr became a ambition of Anonymous afterwards he appeared in a Financial Times commodity this weekend claiming he'd "penetrated" the group, anecdotic associates by watching their chats and allegory amusing networking p...

If you invite guest users into your Entra ID tenant, you may be opening yourself up to a surprising risk.  A gap in access control in Microsoft Entra's subscription handling is allowing guest users to create and transfer subscriptions into the tenant they are invited into, while maintaining full ownership of them.  All the guest user needs are the permissions to create subscriptions in their home tenant, and an invitation as a guest user into an external tenant. Once inside, the guest user can create subscriptions in their home tenant, transfer them into the external tenant, and retain full ownership rights. This stealthy privilege escalation tactic allows a guest user to gain a privileged foothold in an environment where they should only have limited access. Many organizations treat guest accounts as low-risk based on their temporary, limited access, but this behavior, which works as designed, opens the door to known attack paths and lateral movement within the resource t...

Albania Security Group Hack more than 1 000 Facebook Pages In One day ! There are Four Admins In the Group : 1.) Hacker Twilight  2.) Akrepi Hacker  3.) BombRun 4.)  WarBot They Spread a Hex Javascript on Facebook, Once Victim will run that ,it automatically add there email id as admin in all victims Facebook pages. Nice Concept ! Beware .... these are Genius ....

Yesterday, the UK adopted secretary, William Hague, explained to a aegis appointment in Munich how cyber abyss were aggravating to access the UK government and aegis contractors. According to a BBC report, Mr. Hague explained that attackers had adulterated government computers with the Zeus trojan (Zeus "Zbot") in attacks agnate to those on the Department of Homeland Aegis aftermost June. While I acclaim the government for about acclamation these issues, I absolutely achievement this isn't account to those in the MoD (Ministry of Defence) or aegis industries. The types of threats Mr. Hague categorical are not aloof hitting the UK government. These types of malware, amusing engineering and targeted phishing are accepting drive adjoin businesses all over the planet. Most of the examples he cited began as email attacks. While best practices advance that you should block all executable agreeable from entering your mail gateways, booby-trapped abstracts are still a ris...

Hackers owing allegiance to protestors and stonepelters in Kashmir have hacked a website of Sikkim government and posted a message and pictures of the agitators on the page. The hacked website -- www.sikkim-culture.gov.in -- belongs to the Cultural Affairs and Heritage Department of the Sikkim government, which promotes art and culture of the north -eastern state. The group, which claimed to have hacked the website, identified itself as Z-Company and in the past several months has indulged in similar acts in the past. "Everyday hundreds of innocent people are abused, raped and even killed in Palestine and Kashmir by the Indian and Israeli army, a third of the deaths are children, who are the real soldiers? The child holding a stone or the stranger holding a gun?," read the message posted on the webpage. Hackers also left behind two pictures of stone- pelting protestors in Kashmir and Palestine. Earlier, another group of hackers, calling themselves Cyber Sangbaaz (St...

Software hacker group "Anonymous" launched attacks Sunday against the Italian government's website citing political grievances, ANSA news agency reported. "Anonymous" announced its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults earlier in the day, saying they were launched because "the political and economic situation in Italy has become unstable." The website (www.governo.it) did not immediately appear to be blocked. DDoS attacks are efforts to overload websites with so many simultaneous requests that computer servers can't handle the load and freeze or crash. Police had alerted the site and its manager of the potential attack ahead of time, allowing them to put counter measures in place. A loose-knit group of online global hackers, "Anonymous" previously attacked government websites in Egypt and Tunisia, both roiled by anti-government protests, among other sites. Last Thursday, it apparently zeroed in on Yemen, where the website o...

www.seth.pt Hacked By Pak Cyber Combat Squad ! Links : https://www.seth.pt/pccs.html Mirror : https://mirror-az.com/mirror/?id=11180

TheHackerNews  and  CyberArmy(India)   Facebook Pages Hacked By  Albania Security Group  ! Link of pages :  https://www.facebook.com/thehackernews and https://www.facebook.com/cyberarmy.in Albania Security Group !! The Group is created by 4 members !! hacker twilight ,akrepi hacker , BombRun , WarBot ! They have hacked 300 facebook fan pages in 1 day ! No issue for us, Because If  Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page can be Hacked , then no-one is secure on Facebook ! Thanks to  Albania Security Group, They prove that Security is really from you !! I read the script these guys used to hack us... and really wanna appreciate, they did damn awesome job.  Update : Both Facebook Pages Successfully Retrieved By Owner Of "The Hacker News" , - Security is From you !!

Yemen has denied that the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh—the ambition of anti-government protests—was brought bottomward by hackers this accomplished week, its official account bureau said. "An official in the admiral of advice and advice technology denied letters claiming that the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh was hacked" on Thursday, the Saba account bureau said in a celerity backward Friday. "The president's website, which is directed by Saba, has been operating commonly annular the alarm and was not hacked." AFP approved in arrogant to admission Saleh's website (presidentsaleh.gov.ye) on Thursday afterward calls by a loose-knit accumulation of all-around hackers accepted as Anonymous for attacks on the site. The armpit was activity as accustomed yesterday. Valleywag, a Silicon Valley blog endemic by the Gawker network, said the cyber attacks on official Yemeni government websites had been dubbed "Operation Yemen" in Anonymous babble rooms.

British Adopted Secretary William Hague has said that cyberspace is acceptance abyss and adverse intelligence agencies to advance the British government. During a appointment in Munich, Hague not alone talked about how government computers were adulterated by a virus aftermost year, but additionally abundant an attack to abduct abstracts from a UK defence contractor. He fatigued that addition in beard of an agent of addition defence close had advised to abduct information, the BBC reports. He additionally said that some computers of the British government were adulterated with the "Zeus" virus, which was appear afterwards users had opened an e-mail declared to accept appear from the White House and followed a link, the address said. "Our experts were able to bright up this infection but added adult attacks such as these are acceptable added common," he said. Insisting that cyberspace was accouterment "rich pickings" for criminals, Hague apprenticed...

The cyber abomination badge arrested four youths, who had purchased cottony sarees account over Rs 17 lakh by application baseborn acclaim agenda capacity and agreement orders online. The youths, three of them engineers, had become accompany while alive in a arch alarm centre in the city. While one is a business graduate, the added three had marine, computer and civilian engineering degrees. The accused -- A Peter (29), V Kaviarasu (27) and SK Yuvaraj (27) Coimbatore and A Irfan (26) of Kolathur actuality were arrested by the cyber abomination addition badge absorbed to the Central Abomination Branch (CCB) on Friday and adjourned in administrative custody. The four had purchased cottony sarees account Rs 17.8 lakh and awash them to a few bounded shops at a cheaper price. Irfan and Yuvaraj were incharge of auction of the baseborn goods. Based on the complaint of Kumarasamy, who is a accepted administrator in a arch bolt exhibit in T Nagar, the cyber abomination badge tracked the a...