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Smiasm - Reverse engineering framework What is Miasm? Miasm is a a free and open source (GPLv2) reverse engineering framework. Miasm aims at analyzing/modifying/generating binary programs. Here is a non exhausting list of features: opening/modifying/generating PE/ELF 32/64 le/be using Elfesteem Assembling/Disassembling ia32/ppc/arm Representing assembly semantic using intermediate language Emulating using jit (dynamic code analysis, unpacking, ...) Expression simplification for automatic de-obfuscation Graphic disassembler using Grandalf How does it work? Miasm embed its own disassembler, intermediate language and instruction semantic. It is written in Python. To emulate code, it uses libtcc to jit C code generate from intermediate representation. It can emulate shellcodes, parts of binaries. Python callback can be executed to emulate library functions. Read Documentation & Download Here

#OpPayPal - Anonymous calls for boycott of PayPal for blocking Wikileaks The Latest Operation could be a major departure into legal direct action for Anonymous, LulzSec and AntiSec. If so, this is one to watch with great interest. The campaign marks something of a departure for LulzSec and Anonymous, which are both known for stealing and releasing private information from websites with poor security.The groups are at pains to emphasis that their current protest is being waged through legal means.During Operation Payback, Anonymous had called for a boycott, but little was gained due to the distributed nature of Anonymous and relatively low media profile. What is Operation Paypal ( #OpPayPal ) ? IRC: http://bit.ly/pDIZbY According to Anonymous and Lulzsec " Paypal is a corrupt corporation who voluntarily disabled donations to wikileaks with no legal base or reasoning whatsoever.  They are actively working with the FBI to arrest and imprison the only peop...

Metasploit Pro 4.0 released - Enterprise Integration, Cloud Deployment & Automation Rapid7 launched Metasploit Pro 4.0, a penetration testing solution that provides security professionals with a better view of their threat landscape by integrating with more than a dozen vulnerability management and Web application scanners, and by providing data to security information and event management (SIEM) systems through a documented interface. This enables defenders to identify vulnerabilities that could lead to a data breach and prioritize their remediation more effectively. Security teams increase their productivity by spending less time fixing unimportant vulnerabilities and have an effective way to verify that remediation was successful. The new capabilities in Metasploit Pro 4.0 now enable defenders to: Integrate security risk intelligence Integrate Metasploit Pro with your security information and event management (SIEM) system to improve your dashboard information Import ...

BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk Pakistan Cyber Army claims to hack the BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.- India's No. 1 Telecommunications Company)10,000 User information like name, email, phone number and location & BSNL's internal working of VPN ,detail of circuits and as well as more technical details. More Screenshots: Source: Email from PCA

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is because the target of the just announced upcoming DDOS attack is none other than the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, and while Israel has allegedly been happy to dispense hack attacks in the past, the onslaught on the Iranian nuclear power plant courtesy of the Stuxnet virus coming to mind, we doubt it will as happy to be seen on the receiving end of decentralized computer warfare.

OSForensics – Digital investigations faster Here there is a new utility called OSForensics, currently it is freely available that I found very useful for conducting a computer forensics. OSForensics can retrieve data about recently accessed applications, documents, media and network shares by scanning locations in the registry which store a user’s Most Recently Used (MRU) lists. The data which can be tracked by OSForensics includes files accessed in Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Wordpad, Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Media Player, Windows Search, Connected Network Drives and the Windows Run command. Read More Here Download OSForensics 

90000 web pages infected by mass iFrame attack Security Experts Wayne Huang, Chris Hsiao, NightCola Lin discovered that more than 90000 web pages are infected by mass iFrame attack. There's been a mass scale injection ongoing recently, with the injected iframe pointing to willysy.com . Just Try a simple Google Search to find out the facts. Video Demonstration: Researchers at Armorize said the injected scripts redirect users to malicious Web domains that is launching attacks targeting known vulnerabilities in Java, Adobe's PDF, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and other common platforms, according to the report by Armorize experts Wayne Huang, Chris Hsiao and NightCola Lin. The campaign is targeting online commerce sites, the researchers found. Read more at Source .

Change.Gov Donor List 2010 leaked by #Antisec Anonymous Hackers today leak the list of 60804 Donors to Change.Gov via Twitter tweets. The list is uploaded on Mediafire Link . The data contains the Name, Employee,City, State, Zip and Donated Amount in a CSV file. Yesterday 300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu and  CNAIPIC - Italian government hacked by #Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked.

Anonymous , LulzSec & Stuxnet nominated for Pwnie Awards 2011 for Epic 0wnage The nominees for the Pwnie Awards 2011 are finally selected today. Anonymous are nominated for hacking HBGary , LulzSec for hacking everyone & Stuxnet also nominated in  Epic 0wnage. More Details on Nominations Read Here Next week the judges will gather at an undisclosed location and vote on the winners, who will be announced during the awards ceremony on Aug 3rd in Las Vegas.

300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu In a tweet , P0keu posted a link to PasteBin which appears to be e-mail accounts and passwords of 300 military and government accounts used the same password as their actual e-mails, then the contents of their e-mail account will also be exposed. The PasteBin dump says it contains 290 accounts. A large number of them end in .mil and .gov. Just a point of clarification, this doesn’t appear to be actual e-mail accounts and passwords, but rather, a website that uses people’s e-mail accounts as a log-in name. So the account to the website is exposed. If the password used with the e-mail is the same as the password for that actual e-mail address, then that e-mail might also be exposed along with who knows what else that is tied to that account. Amongst those accounts that are exposed, there appears to be accounts from the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Deparment of Homeland Security, the NSA, the Pentagon and several others. ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Released Red Hat has updated Enterprise Linux 5.7, which now includes several features from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The operating system processors supports deployments on Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z architectures. Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include: Hardware enablement Support for new hardware from Red Hat partners encompassing processors, chipsets and new drivers for storage, networking, and graphics allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 deployments to benefit from new hardware platforms delivered in 2011, including Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z. Virtualization improvements Several virtualization enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include improved migration performance for KVM, as well as several performance and scalability improvements for the Xen hypervisor. SCAP support OpenSCAP introduces support for the Security Content Automation Protocol, including a library and set of utilities, giving a stan...

CNAIPIC  - Italian government hacked by Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked CNAIPIC - Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche /National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection hacked by Anonymous Hackers for Antisec Operation. Various Documents has been leaked via a pastebin message .  Message By Hackers on Pastebin : Heynow, This is a prerelease of a series we are going to make to reveal the biggest in history of European LE cyber operation Evidence exploitation and abuse. Thing's gonna get published and twittered all over anonymous and lulzsec community. Today we were granted with the Italian law enforcement Pandora box, we really think it shall be a new era of “regreaissance” to the almighty Homeland Security Cyber Operation Unit in EU. So we decided to leak everything they got since they were established as a full scale cyber taskforce named CNAIPIC. This corrupted o...