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An Open Letter to PayPal from Anonymous Hackers ! Just Now  Anonymous Hackers Publish and open letter to Paypal , The Copy of Letter is as Given Below : Dear PayPal staff, In recent news (reference below) we took notice that you froze the account of Courage to Resist, the organization raising funds for legal support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. We regret to learn that after the massive protest in December 2010, PayPal has yet to appreciate  the untenable position they have found themselves in. PayPal stands at the epicenter of the  conflict of interests between the United States government and the First Amendment of the  United States Constitution. You are already aware that Bradley Manning's motives and reasoning  are politically grounded. However, his motives and/or reasoning are not and should not be any  concern to you. Additionally, by refusing to process the aforementioned legal funds you are  patently interfering with the defendant...

The U.S. agency that tracks complaints of criminal activity on the Internet reported Thursday that fewer people complained about Internet fraud in 2010 than in the previous year. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) runs a Web site where victims can report details of any cyberfraud. It shares the data with law enforcement agencies to help them hunt down criminals. Last year it received 303,809 complaints, almost 10 percent fewer than the previous year's total of 336,655. The IC3 is run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center. It released its annual report Thursday, based on data submitted in 2010. The largest single source of complaints was from people who had been duped by criminals posing as buyers and sellers. International scammers, preying on eBay and Craigslist users, have made millions over the past decade. Just last week, a Romanian national, Adrian Ghighina, pleaded guilty to his role in a scam that took in $2.7 ...

Google has warned that search rankings will be changing after it refined its systems to weed out content farms and other search spammers. Changes made in the last 24 hours have "noticeably impacts" on around 12 per cent of search queries. The changes are designed to block out so-called content farm – sites which contain a large amount of copied or poor quality content. Instead sites which contain original content, research and analysis will receive preferential treatment. " We can't make a major improvement without affecting rankings for many sites. It has to be that some sites will go up and some will go down ," said the  Google blog . "It is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that's exactly what this change does." Google said that the changes had not been influenced by the results of its Chrome Blocklist extension, which was launched last week. However it said that the top few dozen sites it had downgraded matched the data from the extension by 84 per cent. Th...

I had the honor of hosting the first episode of the Xposure Podcast live from Xposure Summit 2025. And I couldn't have asked for a better kickoff panel: three cybersecurity leaders who don't just talk security, they live it. Let me introduce them. Alex Delay , CISO at IDB Bank, knows what it means to defend a highly regulated environment. Ben Mead , Director of Cybersecurity at Avidity Biosciences, brings a forward-thinking security perspective that reflects the innovation behind Avidity's targeted RNA therapeutics. Last but not least, Michael Francess , Director of Cybersecurity Advanced Threat at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, leads the charge in protecting the franchise. Each brought a unique vantage point to a common challenge: applying Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to complex production environments. Gartner made waves in 2023 with a bold prediction: organizations that prioritize CTEM will be three times less likely to be breached by 2026. But here's the kicker -...

Anonymous doesn't kid around and the Westboro Baptist Church learned that the hard way. The hacktivist group took down their website and left a stern message. The two groups, the radical hackers which launch denial-of-service attacks and the radical religious organization which preaches its message about God by protesting military funerals, have been sparring through the Internet and online message boards. The feud began with a "letter" from Anonymous to Westboro Baptist Church, explaining if the church didn't stop their "benighted gospel of hatred" and "fascist views," Anonymous would target their websites. Then WBC responded to the letter telling Anonymous to "bring it." Anonymous followed that by explaining the initial letter was a trap set up by "attention whoring idiots." WBC took exception to that and said in reality, Anonymous had attempted, and failed, to hack their sites. WBC spokesperson Margie Phelps said the se...

The Metropolitan Police were called in after vandals breached a database maintained by  St George's University of London medical school  and sent obscene mails to the users of the database. The emails claimed that the database was "closed due to Aids", and that university executive board members were involved in child pornography. The Guardian newspaper reported that the breach occurred last week in the Primary Care Electronic Library [PCEL] database, a list of UK based doctors and nurses. PCEL does not contain patient medical records. According to the university, only the PCEL database server was affected and not the main university server. Confidential details of partners, staff and students were not compromised.

POOLE-based cosmetics retailer Lush is back online after it was forced to suspend internet sales after hackers attacked its website. Lush closed the site last month and asked anyone who placed an online order between October 4 and January 20 to contact their bank in case their card details had been compromised. A temporary site was back up and running late on Friday, before the full website re-launches. Shoppers are now being directed away from the Lush site when they come to the checkout, making payments at the Worldpay site. An online message to shoppers reads: "You can shop with confidence knowing that your details will be safe. Meanwhile the rest of the site has been tested by external experts to check that our processes are all as secure as they can be." It adds: "Thank you all for coming back to us and trusting us to serve you again." Lush became aware that its security had been breached on Christmas Day and investigated, but only told customers on January 21 when it sh...

Angel (4d0r4b13) help Admin to fix vulnerabilities of Website ! Mr. Nitin , owner of websites  https://www.lohchab.in/ and https://site2sms.com/  has email us and inform that recently his website was got hacked and after that Mr. Angel (4d0r4b13) , an Indian Hacker help him to find and Patch vulnerabilities in his site. The Personal Suggestion to all Hackers from ' The Hacker News ', that rather than wasting time on hacking others site,Help admins to find and Fix the venerabilities.That will be best use of your knowledge and help in securing your own country. 

Ankit Fadia ( Ethical Hacker and Cyber Security Expert ) is also Not Secure ! Ankit Fadia, 21 years old, is an independent computer security and digital intelligence consultant with definitive experience in the field of Internet security based out of the Silicon Valley in California, USA. He has authored 11 internationally best-selling books on numerous topics related to Computer Security that have been widely appreciated by both professionals and industry leaders the world over. Now the question raised that, is Mr. Ankit Fadia is Secured ? We have Notice that lots of Hackers from various countries are able to access his Site & Ftp , Even some of them are just only 15 years old. Last Days some images was uploaded on Facebook by some hackers, which shows that they access Ankit's Official Website and Ftp. Even they 'Root' The Server via uploading Shell . The guy who earn crores from Seminars ,is he can't audit his own security and can't afford a secure and...

A Texas man has admitted hacking into servers owned by an e-commerce company and making off with about $275,000. Jeremey Parker of Houston also copped to charges of breaking into servers maintained by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and causing some $43,000 of damage. The hacking spree spanned a 10-month stretch starting in December 2008 with the breach of systems owned by SWReg. A subsidiary of Digital River of Minnesota, the company manages royalties for independent software developers. "Parker hacked into SWReg's system, created the money by crediting the SWReg accounts, and then caused that money to be wire transferred to his bank account instead of the accounts of several developers," a press release issued by the US Attorney's office in Minnesota said. The NASA servers Parker hacked gave paying members of the scientific community access to oceanic data being sent to Earth from satellites. Eventually, the data was made available to everyone. Parker...

Twitter post suggests 'The Jester' may have been responsible for knocking controversial church offline A Twitter message from Monday suggests that a seld-proclaimed "hacktivist" using the handle The Jester may have been responsible for knocking the controversial Westboro Baptist Church offline. In the  message , the hacker claimed to have temporarily taken down the public website of the church "for celebrating the death of U.S. troops." The message, however, made no direct mention if The Jester (@th3j35t3r onTwitter) was also responsible for the unavailability today of several other websites affiliated to the WBC. Members of the WBC church, based in Topeka, Kan., are known for their strident anti-gay views and for protests at funerals of slain military personnel and others. Last week, someone purporting to be from the hacking collective known as Anonymous, posted a letter on an Anonymous site, warning WBC members of attacks against their church public webs...

The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country. On Friday and Saturday night the country experienced a near black-out, with continued patchy access this week, according to a  Google Transparency Report . Libya has had periods of partial or total unreachability through the weekend. The first night's internet blackout was repeated 24 hours later, with all prefixes unreachable from 1am to just after 8am Sunday morning, said James Cowie from internet monitoring firm Renesys. "At the moment, however, the Libyan prefixes are reachable, traceroutes inbound are completing at normal rates, and key commercial and government websites that we spot-check are responding normally," James Cowie wrote in a  blog post . Libya's access to the international internet is controlled by a single company, which is run by the state,  Cowie told CNN . That would make it easier, in theory, for the country to shut down internet connections ...

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months.  "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites were defaced by foreign hackers in the past six months," Minister of State for Communications and IT Gurudas Kamat said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.  He added that several measures have been taken to detect and prevent cyber attacks.  This includes audit of all new government websites and applications and engaging National Informatics Centre (NIC) to improve safety posture etc.  Replying to another query, Kamat said a total of 420 cases were registered under the IT Act 2000 in 2009.  "A total of 217, 288 and 420 cases were registered under IT Act, 2000 during 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively, thereby showing an increasing trend.  A total of 339, 176 and 276 ...