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Jordan denies security services hacked website !

Jordan denies security services hacked website !

Feb 09, 2011
Jordan denied on Tuesday that its aegis casework had afraid and, for several hours, silenced the kingdom's best accepted account website, Ammonnews, afterwards its arch editor declared they had done so. "We actually adios the ambiguous and aberrant claims that the aegis casework attacked the website," the state-run Petra account bureau quoted an anonymous government official as saying. "The authorities accept not accustomed any complaints about the issue. They will investigate it already they accept a complaint." "Jordan is a country of laws and institutions that absolutely backpack their duties to assure people's rights," the official added. "Respecting the law and columnist abandon is one of Jordan's constants." Ammonnews went offline for several hours on Monday, a day afterwards it had appear a account analytical of the government issued by 36 associates of Jordan's above tribes who represent the courage of the kingdom....
Pwdsindh.gov.pk Hacked By Angel aka 4d0r4bl3 !

Pwdsindh.gov.pk Hacked By Angel aka 4d0r4bl3 !

Feb 08, 2011
Pwdsindh.gov.pk Hacked By Angel aka 4d0r4bl3 ! Links :  https://pwdsindh.gov.pk/pwd/Portals/0/here.txt https://pwdsindh.gov.pk/pwd/Portals/0/for.jpg
Lots of Biggest Facebook Pages Hacked By Omega Chg (Albania Hacker) !

Lots of Biggest Facebook Pages Hacked By Omega Chg (Albania Hacker) !

Feb 08, 2011
Lots of Biggest Facebook Pages Hacked By Omega Chg (Albania Hacker) ! List of some biggest FaceBook Pages hacked : https://www.facebook.com/The.Pop.Gallery  (139,460 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/Star.Acadeemy8  (149,554 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/Ramy.Fares.Musican  (146,556 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/Music.Now.Company  (149,135 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/Hakim.Egypt  (146,390 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/AmrDiab.TamerHosny  (138,757 People Like This) https://www.facebook.com/pages/AsllanNaser-Komedian/120873654594524  (15,956 People Like This) and lots more than 1000+ pages got hacked !!
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Anonymous Hackers Attacks its Own Investigating Group !

Anonymous Hackers Attacks its Own Investigating Group !

Feb 08, 2011
If you were missing some of the Dan-Brown-novel-in-real-life action, Anonymous is aback to ample you up. This time, they tweeted that they managed to auspiciously drudge into the website of one of its investigators, HBGary Federal as able-bodied as its CEO, Aaron Barr's Twitter account. And like the mark of Zorro, Anonymous tweeted from Barr's annual saying, "Today we accomplished anybody a lesson. Back we absolutely adjudge to chaw aback adjoin those who try to accompany us down, we chaw hard". In accession to hacking into his Twitter account, the accumulation additionally claimed to accept been able to abstract claimed advice about Barr like his home address, amusing aegis cardinal and corpuscle buzz number. The accumulation additionally claimed to accept afraid into COO, Ted Vera's LinkedIn account. Anonymous afraid into HBGary's websites, hbgary.com and hbgaryfederal.com, which accept aback been taken down. Anonymous had put up a folio in the aboriginal ...
Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Feb 08, 2011
Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial academy antagonism that trains acceptance to defended computer systems and bulwark off cyber attacks. Cyber aegis has become added basic to civic defense. That's why the Air Force Association in Washington, D.C. launched the aboriginal aerial academy cyber aegis claiming in 2008 alleged CyberPatriot. "Because of our nation's assurance on the Internet," said Sandy Schlitt, lath administrator of the American Air Force Association, "we charge huge numbers of cyber aegis specialists to avert the Pentagon, Wall Street, weapon systems, satellites." The antagonism is advised to brainwash cyber albatross in teenagers and animate the abutting bearing of cyber aegis profes...
Russian hacker steals $10 million from a former Royal Bank of Scotland !

Russian hacker steals $10 million from a former Royal Bank of Scotland !

Feb 08, 2011
A 27-year old Russian hacker pleaded accusable to burglary $10 actor from a above Royal Bank of Scotland analysis aback in 2008, and he's apprehension a adjudication and sentencing at the end of this or at the alpha of the abutting week. The balloon is captivated in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and the man - one Yevgeny Anikin - has accepted that he was allotment of the all-embracing hacking arena that accomplished the cyber heist. According to Reuters, they afraid into the accounts of the bank's customers, aloft the absolute that adapted the best abandonment of funds that could be accomplished in one day and organized a accompanying abandonment of the funds from ATMs amid in Europe, the US and Asia. Anikin is not the aboriginal affiliate of that hacking arena to be bent and sentenced. Late aftermost year, addition one accustomed a bastille book of six years from a cloister in St. Petersburg.
Microsoft going to patch 22 bugs, 3 zero-days !

Microsoft going to patch 22 bugs, 3 zero-days !

Feb 08, 2011
Microsoft today said it will affair 12 aegis updates abutting anniversary to application 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, its Internet server and Visio, the company's abstracts diagramming tool. The aggregation additionally appear it will accommodate patches abutting Tuesday for three bugs it has already acknowledged, including one that has been exploited by abyss for several weeks. "The big account is that there are three zero-days that are actuality patched," said Andrew Storms, administrator of aegis operations at nCircle Security, talking about the leash of accepted flaws. Of the three unpatched-but-admitted vulnerabilities, one is in IE, a additional is in Windows' apprehension of thumbnail images and the third is in IIS (Internet Advice Server), Microsoft's accepted Web server software. Microsoft accustomed the IE bug on Dec. 22, several weeks afterwards French aegis close Vupen issued a bare-bones advising that said all version...
ClassicCars.com hacked by Indonesian hackers !

ClassicCars.com hacked by Indonesian hackers !

Feb 07, 2011
Late yesterday evening website classiccars.com had been defaced. While it's not shocking news that another site of the millions on the internet has been hacked, this one was unusual in that the defacement seemed to be nothing more than an advertisement for the hackers. Ten years ago hacking for bragging rights was a somewhat common practice, but today most attacks are more silent and are designed to steal information. I poked around to find out more about who was behind the attack and how they are compromising the security of the sites they are attacking. The image and stolen JavaScript code that made up the new home page were stored at a free web host. No surprises there, but I did discover that they had an active IRC network. The group had planted an IRC bot in a chat channel that they can command to remotely scan networks for vulnerabilities. This provides them with a list of hosts that are vulnerable to SQL injection and other techniques. It appears the bot uses search en...
HBGary Federal hacked and exposed by Anonymous !

HBGary Federal hacked and exposed by Anonymous !

Feb 07, 2011
As the coin was tossed to kick off Superbowl XLV, Anonymous unleashed their anger at a security firm who had been investigating their membership. HBGary Federal had been working on unmasking their identities in cooperation with an FBI investigation into the attacks against companies who were cutting off WikiLeaks access and financing. Unlike the DDoS attacks for which Anonymous has made headlines in recent months, this incident involved true hacking skills. Anonymous compromised the HBGary website and replaced it with an image explaining their motivation. In addition to the defacement, they downloaded over 60,000 emails from the company and posted them on The Pirate Bay. The Twitter account of HBGary's CEO, Aaron Barr, was also compromised and tweeted multiple offensive messages, as well as his home address, social security number and cell phone. According to Forbes, the LinkedIn accounts of other HBGary executives were compromised "in minutes." The research, whi...
Nasdaq confirms its network was hacked !

Nasdaq confirms its network was hacked !

Feb 07, 2011
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...
Anonymous attacks US security company !

Anonymous attacks US security company !

Feb 07, 2011
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 ...
Anonymous Hackers Pay Back FBI Snitch with 50,000 Leaked Emails !

Anonymous Hackers Pay Back FBI Snitch with 50,000 Leaked Emails !

Feb 07, 2011
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...
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