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13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man " Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The two year long Operation Phish Phry saw US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US Attorney's Office working in unison with the Egyptian law enforcement agencies. The US District Court for the Central District of Los Angeles had sentenced Lucas to 11 years in prison late last week. Read More Here

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet " MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D " We have check that is  MasterCard.com is really down & YEAH , Its down (  Via  ). The Ddos Attack is in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous by Hackers. This can be the part of Operation Antisec started by Lulzsec and Anonymous Together. It's irrelevant if the ip's are traceable or not. It will not be possible for any police or court differentiate between the users who voluntered to the task and the ones who had their computer hijacked (with a virus). This is 2nd time MasterCard becomes the target of Anonymous.

774 Websites hacked by ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC) Pakistani hackers Group " ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC)" Hack 774 more websites. They leave a message on every deface page as shown.  The list of hacked sites , mirrors and Message is posted by them on Pastie at  https://pastie.org/2132590

Double nibble URI decoding XSS Vulnerability on   EC Council website What EC Council is ? They offers certifications in certified ethical hacker ceh, Computer Security, network security, internet security program and computer forensics and penetration testing. Information Security, Ethical Hacking, Computer Forensics, Advanced Penetration Testing, Application Security, Disaster Recovery and other critical Information Security Topics and Security Courses. XSS POC : Link : Click Here Submitted By :  Nulled Byte

2000 Websites defaced by The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) Tunisian HaCker 17 Years old The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) from Tunisia strike again to 2000 websites with mass defacement. List/Mirror of hacked sites are here :  https://www.zone-h.com/archive/notifier=The%20077   (Use proxy to open link, if your are not able to open it directly)

Operations AntiSec : Anonymous takes down Tunisian government site As LulzSec calling it quits, but the hacking via Operations AntiSec continues. Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility of taking down Tunisian government's official website moments ago.The seized domain now displays text posted by Anonymous, along with a masked image that signifies the hacker collective as shown. Anonymous said " The internet is the last frontier and we will not let corrupt governments spoil it.We are Anonymous, We are LulzSec, We are People from around the world who are stepping in the name of freedom. " Tunisian government blocks social networking sites Facebook and YouTube. Several other sites filtered which include, porn sites, gay and lesbian sites, dating sites etc.

ThePiratebay removes  50 Days Of Lulz Yesterday Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. The group confirmed its retirement . With this they also Released a Torrent file : https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50_Days_of_Lulz Thepiratebay just deleted the lulzsec torrent " 50 days of lulz " , reason theres some virus in it. Check Virus Details here . Thepiratebay does not allow files that are mislabeled, or contain virus/trojan's, or child pornography. Being as how this torrent was extremely popular, it may have infected 100's of thousands of people already. Lulzsec's account on thepiratebay was not banned so they are cleared to upload the same torrent again without the alleged "trojan". @AnonymousIRC said, " We will see to get a clean torrent up ASAP. #AntiSec " . We do have to wonder, what happens now ? Does the Internet go back to normal with websites ...

Toggle.com [ forum & blog ] hacked by   CYB-IMP [ Cyber Impossibilities ] One of the biggest Software download website  Toggle.com with world rank 10,000 got hacked by a new hackers group called CYB-IMP [ Cyber Impossibilities ]  . They Deface   forum.toggle.com and blog.toggle.com  as shown (Mirrors of hack given below) The groups members are : L0ckreader'z the one who done the most of work & other are : masterSELL ; Oldfacce ; PretoriaN. ; Snnuzz  This Hack was done by 16 P.M. Today and this was as a presentation of new group CYB-IMP ,in the deface page there is shown the Albanian flag so they represented themselves as ALBANIANS . Hackers also leak the database and Server Info on Pastie : //// ### FORUM & BLOG TOGGLE.COM OWNED ### \\\\ blog.toggle.com db : define('DB_NAME', 'blogtog_wordpress'); /** Tu nombre de usuario de MySQL */ define('DB_USER', 'blogtog_blogtog'); /** Tu contraseГѓВ±a de MySQL */ defin...

Lulzsec Exposed, Long Live Anonymous ! Lulz war ! Today Hacking group "Lulzsec" completed their 50th day and also announce the retirement of Lulz boat . What are the Reasons behind this ? Lulz Security's rise to prominence has been extraordinarily fast.The hacking group first emerged in May and in the past few weeks has attacked the websites of some of the world's leading corporations and governments. The group specialises in locating websites with poor security and then stealing information from them and posting it online via Twitter account, well They have 278,429 Followers]in 50days. To understand who/what lulzsec is, you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. It's a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincable. According to Anonymous " The problem with Lulzsec is that they lack the skills to kee...

50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. LulzSec tweet a message which was posted on Pastebin : https://pastebin.com/1znEGmHa The group confirmed its retirement on the LulzSec Twitter feed , which managed to amass 277,540 followers during its short stint online. " For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could ," writes LulzSec. " All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. " The group was also behind attacks on Sony, attacks on PBS, the US Senate, the CIA, and a slew of gaming sites popular with 4Chan users including EVE Online, M...

Wikileaks - We help you safely Get the Truth ! Note : The Article is Taken from "The Hacker News Magazine" - June Edition. Download Magazine here .. The United States Department of Justice has left no stone unturned in their ruthless attempts to uncover or fabricate evidence against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Their goal is to charge Assange with conspiracy to commit espionage. If the United States is successful Julian Assange will become the United States convenient scapegoat, along with others like US citizen and Army Pvt. Bradley Manning. These two will disproportionately take the blame for the United States failed policies and crimes.  Julian Assange has said that the long and cruel detention and forthcoming US government prosecution of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning is nothing more than an attempt to "terrorize whistle-blowers" and that Pvt. Manning like himself is a victim of alleged government repression and mistreatment. "There is no doubt t...

NATO Reports Data Breach to One of Its Websites The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just issued a short statement that reads as follows: " Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO's e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information and does not contain any classified data. Access to the site has been blocked and subscribers have been notified. " It's unclear whether Anonymous is behind this attack against NATO's e-Bookshop or LulzSec did this for "Operation Anti-Security" . Stay Tuned for Updates .