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Event : Bloggers meet at Microsoft TechEd India 2011 ! Calling all bloggers for exclusive session that will give you an insight on the latest technologies from Microsoft including the much talked about Microsoft web browser-Internet Explorer9, a new ICICI Direct portal on Silverlight and Windows Intune. Venue : Lalit Ashok Hotel Kumara Krupa High Grounds Bangalore - 560001, Karnataka, India. Bangalore, India

Play.com compromised and Security breach  Admitted ! Play.com , one of the largest online retailers of consumer goods, has suffered a security breach. In a warning to customers, Play.com has said that customer names and email addresses may have been compromised. Play.com is washing its hands of direct responsibility, claiming that a third party on its marketing communications team is at fault. Play advises customers to do the usual - to remain vigilant online and keep personal information under lock and key. Which is easier to do when trusted services do not suffer security breaches. It reminds its customers that it will not ask for passwords, bank account details or credit card numbers, and to forward suspicious activity to  privacy@play.com .  Specific details of the breach have not yet been revealed but with a wide customer base it's serious enough to have Play worried.  Here's the memo:

Milw0rm/Inj3ct0r 1337 Day Team clarify about their Team Membership ! Recently Inj3ct0r Received a Chat Log from one of the inj3ct0r team supporters.They post that chat on their Official Facebook Page as shown in image.The whole Chat is about a Guy Proclaiming himself to be from Milw0rm Team. Their was lots of Other same rumors,and finally1337day.com decide to clarify about their Team Membership ! Here the Note Released By 1337 Day Team : Click Here News Source : r4dc0re from 1337day Team

Accused youth created a Facebook account in the name of the girl and uploaded nude photos of the victim A Bangladesh court sent a young man charged for cyber crime and cyber bullying to prison on Saturday. Shakil Ahmed, 23, created a Facebook account in the name of his victim and uploaded photos, according to reports. He uploaded nude photographs of the girl on the social networking site, making him the second young person to be face legal action in a case like this in less than a year. Judicial magistrate A H M Anwar Pasha said that the elite anti-crime squad Rapid Action Battalion arrested Ahmed in the capital Dhaka on Saturday following a complaint from the victim. The victim complained that he was blackmailing her that he (Ahmed) would upload more photos, if she did not comply with his demands. Police refused to disclose the demands. He was sentenced to one-and-a-half months in prison after he confessed that he uploaded the photos, the magistrate said. "Ahmed uploaded...

25 Website Hacked By Xen0n (Bangladeshi Hacker) Hacked Site List :  http://pastebin.com/B50GsN7Q News Source :  Xen0n (Bangladeshi Hacker)

Jesse William McGraw , Clinic Hacker Gets 9 Year Sentence ! A former security guard at a Dallas medical office has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison in a hacking case that drew national attention because the hacker posted video of the crimes on YouTube. Jesse William McGraw was sentenced on charges that he broke into computers and installed malicious code while working the night shift in 2009 at North Central Medical Plaza, which houses a surgery center and medical offices. McGraw pleaded guilty to the hacking charges in May 2010; he has been in custody since his arrest in June 2009. McGraw was sentenced to 110 months in prison on each of the two counts, to be served concurrently, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. He was also ordered to make restitution to the occupants of the medical plaza, which include W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic, the North Central Surgery Center and the Cirrus Group. McGraw, who went by the moniker "Gho...

70 Wordpress blogs HaCkeD By The 077 ( Hamdi HaCker ) Tunisian HaCker ! Hacked Wordpress Blogs :  http://pastebin.com/wqFjwCs2

10 Websites hacked by Cyberhunterxx ! Hacked sites List :  http://pastebin.com/EJkmySFK

  10 Argentina WebSite HaCkeD By The 077 ( Hamdi HaCker ) Tunisian HaCker Hacked Sites :  http://pastebin.com/2eGKSAiD

30 more Website Has Been Hacked By Dinelson Us Hacked sites :  http://pastebin.com/pfw04vZj News Source :  Freed

WikiLeaks is among the 241 Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year. The nominees come from 53 organizations and are greater in number than in any previous year. Read More Here . Nobel-watcher and Peace Research Institute Oslo Director Kristian Berg Harpviken says he is not surprised WikiLeaks has been nominated and he expects it will receive more than one vote. " WikiLeaks has been on top of the international news headlines for the last 12 months," he said. "It is also something very new in more ways than just bringing interesting news. It is, in fact, newsworthy in and of itself as a phenomenon. It is an interesting and many ways challenging candidate in its own right. " We did a online Poll voting on this issue and the Results are as shown Below : These 241 nominations will be considered by the Nobel Committee, which will create a short list of nominees. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five people chosen by the Norwegian parliament presi...

DB Audit v4.2.29 all-in-one database security and auditing solution ! . DB Audit Expert is a professional all-in-one database security and auditing solution for Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. DB Audit Expert enables database and system administrators, security administrators, auditors and operators to track and analyze any database activity including database security, access and usage, data creation, change or deletion. What makes DB Audit really unique is its built-in support for multiple auditing methods giving you the flexibility to choose the best fit for your database security requirements. Key Benefits Improves system security and ensures system accountability. Captures both regular and “back-door” access to audited database systems. Features centralized security and auditing control of multiple database systems from a single location providing ease of management. Features unified auditing graphical interface that shortens the learning curve and is ...