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Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom Defaced Cocain hackers

Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom Defaced Cocain hackers

Aug 24, 2011
Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom Defaced Cocain hackers Cocain Hacker deface the website of  Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom. Mirror of hacked site is available on Zone-H .
Knock v1.5 - Subdomain Scanner , allows to bypass wildcard

Knock v1.5 - Subdomain Scanner , allows to bypass wildcard

Aug 24, 2011
Knock v1.5  - Subdomain Scanner , allows to bypass wildcard Knock is a python script, written by Gianni 'guelfoweb' Amato, designed to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist. This program is self contained, doesn't need to be installed in any particular location. All it needs is a recent version of Python 2.xOnly for use the Zone Transfer option (-zt) you must install the module dnspython, otherwise you can do without. If the name server allows zone transfers to occur, all the DNS names and IP addresses hosted by the name server will be returned in human-readable ASCII text. Usage $ python knock.py <option> <url> Rapid Scan Scanning with internal wordlist: $ python knock.py <url> Scanning with external wordlist: $ python knock.py <url> <wordlist> Options -zt Zone Transfer discovery: $ python knock.py -zt <url> -dns Dns resolver: $ python knock.py -dns <url> -wc Wildcard testing: $ python knock.py ...
Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees

Aug 24, 2011
Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees ThEhAcKeR12  has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. Hacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing login credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com . Allianceforbiz.com is a professional trade show management company that manages conferences, meetings and trade shows for customers, according to the company Website. The list has been made public on Pastebin and Mediafire and a message posted on Twitter: " 20,000 email-passwords had been leaked consisting mostly of US Mill Army, Govern. & corporate giants ." The spreadsheet contains usernames, passwords, e-mail addresses. company name. The file also contained 17,668 company names, of which 14,739 were unique, and most had only one e-mail address associated with ...
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German Gema website hacked by Anonymous Hackers

German Gema website hacked by Anonymous Hackers

Aug 23, 2011
German Gema website hacked by Anonymous Hackers The GEMA website was hacked by Anonymous. Here is a screenshot who was circulating now the whole web presence disappeared. Whoever wants to playback or perform music in public in Germany will become, as a rule by doing this, a customer of GEMA. GEMA (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) is a performance rights organization from Germany. It is the only institution in Germany. GEMA represents some 60,000 composers, authors and music publishers and the rights of more than a million copyright owners internationally whose works are used in Germany.
XSS vulnerability in Bing.com Maps by Juan Sacco (runlvl)

XSS vulnerability in Bing.com Maps by Juan Sacco (runlvl)

Aug 23, 2011
XSS vulnerability in Bing.com Maps One of the Security Researcher " Juan Sacco (runlvl) " - Insecurity Research Labs expose the Cross Site vulnerability (XSS) in Bing.com Search Engine. BING.COM is prone to a XSS vulnerability because the application failsto properly perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in thevictim's browser. Details : The reflected XSS vulnerability is a variant of a cross-site scriptingflaw: it occurs when the data provided by the attacker is exectued bythe browser, and then displayed on "normal" pages returned to otherusers in the course of regular browsing, without proper HTML escaping. Aclassic example of this is with online message boards where users areallowed to post HTML formatted messages for other users to read. Vulnerable Link
Android Trojan GingerMaster Uses Gingerbread Root Exploit

Android Trojan GingerMaster Uses Gingerbread Root Exploit

Aug 23, 2011
Android Trojan GingerMaster  Uses Gingerbread Root Exploit As our smartphones become more ubiquitous and more powerful, they need to be protected in much the same way that you would protect your computer. Further to this, a malicious piece of malware has been discovered for devices powered by Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, giving the hacker the ability to take complete control of the smartphone remotely. According to Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang from the NCSU Department of Computer Science, the new threat, which his team has dubbed GingerMaster, is the first malware to use the root exploit for Android 2.3. " As this is the first time such malware has been identified, it is not surprising when our experiments show that it can successfully evade the detection of all tested (leading) mobile anti-virus software, " he writes . Once the GingerMaster malware is installed and has root privileges, it then reaches out to a remote command-and-control server and asks for instr...
Automated HTTPS Vulnerability Testing by Qualys SSL Labs

Automated HTTPS Vulnerability Testing by Qualys SSL Labs

Aug 23, 2011
Automated HTTPS Vulnerability Testing by Qualys SSL Labs One of main problem in HTTP protocol is encrypting traffic and verifying data security, securing the web application against any threat is very important especially that if hackers conduct a Man-in the middle attack he can get all users information while data are transferred in a clear text form. HTTPS is a combination of the HTTP with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions, social network websites and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems. HTTPS is a huge step forward for website user's safety, but it can also be a huge challenge for the security teams, here we need to test our server to be sure that our users and customers are secure for this purposes we can use Qualys SSL server test SSL Server Test is a free online service that performs a deep analysis of the configuration of ...
F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks

Aug 23, 2011
F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks According to F-Secure Chinese military documentary shows footage of gov't systems launching attacks against US target. China is often blamed for launching online attacks, but the evidence is almost always circumstantial. Many of the targeted espionage Trojans seem to come from China, but we can't actually prove it. However, some new evidence has just surfaced. On 17th of July, a military documentary program titled "Military Technology: Internet Storm is Coming" was published on the Government-run TV channel CCTV 7, Millitary and Agriculture (at military.cntv.cn ). The program seems to be a fairly standard 20-minute TV documentary about the potential and risks of cyber warfare. However, while they are speaking about theory, they actually show camera footage of Chinese government systems launching attacks against a U.S. target. This is highly unusual. The most likely explanation is that this footage ended ...
Turkish government website Hacked by kurdish hacker for bombarding Kurdistan Regions

Turkish government website Hacked by kurdish hacker for bombarding Kurdistan Regions

Aug 23, 2011
Turkish government website Hacked by kurdish hacker for bombarding Kurdistan Regions Today a kurdish hacker " Mn Peshmargem " deface the website of  Turkish government for protest against the bombarding done by the Turkish Military planes in Kurdistan Regions. Message Posted by Hacker : Fuck racism Turkish, fuck acursed Ataturk, fuck you Turkish the fad ended of the Mongolians wait for your non honored soldiers, that they are embarrassed in front of a Peshmarga like me. If a Kurd die, 100 honorless Turks must go to hell afterwards. You coward Turks are always honorless and lost in front of a Peshmarga like me in the battle fronts. Do you want to hide your honorlessness and cowardice by bombing the mountains in Kurdistan??? Be sure that you must pay back a debt for bombing the mountains in Kurdistan. Fuck the honorless Turks, viva Kurds and Kurdistan, viva Peshmarga.
Kathmandu Metropolitan City website database hacked by T34mT!g3R

Kathmandu Metropolitan City website database hacked by T34mT!g3R

Aug 23, 2011
Kathmandu Metropolitan City website database hacked by  T34mT!g3R Hackers of Team "T34mT!g3R" today expose the SQL injection Vulnerability in Kathmandu Metropolitan City website and extract the database of site. Hacker post the Database info and  Vulnerable  Link   at pastebin .
Uniscan 4.0 vulnerability scanner Released

Uniscan 4.0 vulnerability scanner Released

Aug 23, 2011
Uniscan 4.0 vulnerability scanner Released The Uniscan vulnerability scanner is aimed at information security, which aims at finding vulnerabilities in Web systems and is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3.0 (GPL 3). The Uniscan was developed using the Perl programming language to be easier to work with text, has an easy to use regular expressions and is also multi-threaded. Uniscan Features Identification of system pages through a Web Crawler. Use of threads in the crawler. Control the maximum number of requests the crawler. Control of variation of system pages identified by Web Crawler. Control of file extensions that are ignored. Test of pages found via the GET method. Test the forms found via the POST method. Support for SSL requests (HTTPS). Proxy support. Official Change Log : - Uniscan is now Modularized. - Added directory checks. - Added file checks. - Added PUT method enabled check. - Bug fix in crawler when found ../ directory. - Crawle...
Metropolitan UK Police hacked for #Antisec by CSL Security using SQL injection Vulnerability

Metropolitan UK Police hacked for #Antisec by CSL Security using SQL injection Vulnerability

Aug 22, 2011
Metropolitan UK Police hacked for #Antisec by  CSL Security  using SQL injection Vulnerability One of the Anonymous Hacker " CSL Security " expose SQL Injection Vulnerability  in Metropolitan UK Police website via Twitter . He posted the stuff on Pastebin .  Vulnerable link is also posted by hacker. Where as no data has been published or leaked by Anonymous hackers yet. Yesterday  Danish Government database of 1,000,000 companies private info leaked by Hackers for Antisec Operation. Last week for OpBart - BART Police database hacked by Anonymous also.
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