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13th Friday, Everything Down : Twitter ,You tube & Blogger ! Twitter is down and fail whales abound. Some users have experienced problems loading the service since about 1:30 ET. Twitter announced that it is aware of the situation on its status log: " We are currently experiencing site stability issues. There may be intermittent issues loading twitter.com. We're working to fix it as soon as possible ," the post says. We'll continue to update you with more information, as it becomes available. Today Blogger.com was also down from last 48 hours, But Finally, Blogger.com is back !

Critical Flash Player Update to fix 11 Security Holes Adobe  has released another batch of security updates for its ubiquitous  Flash Player software. This "critical" patch fixes at least 11 vulnerabilities, including one that reports suggest is being exploited in targeted email attacks. In  the advisory  that accompanies this update, Adobe said "there are reports of malware attempting to exploit one of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2011-0627, in the wild via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word  (.doc) or  Microsoft Excel  (.xls) file delivered as an email attachment targeting the  Windows  platform. However, to date, Adobe has not obtained a sample that successfully completes an attack." The vulnerabilities exist in Flash  versions 10.2.159.1  and earlier for Windows,  Mac ,  Linux and  Solaris . To learn which version of Flash you have, visit  this link . The new version for most platforms is 10...

Finally, Blogger.com is back ! Blogger.com is back now, Official statement : https://buzz.blogger.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html

Hacker getting WordPress Database Dump with Google Query ! There appear to be multiple WordPress powered sites that are performing an DB->XML dumb of the articles and subsequent pages. The comments section includes originating IP address, datetime, E-Mail address, homepage, etc. These entities are traditionally not exposed to the anonymous Internet via WordPress. Since the XML dump is structured it's quite easy to harvest this data. More alarming is the volume of sites freely exposing this. I'm not certain of the root cause but perhaps it's related to an upgrade procedure. Google is happily indexing and caching these dumps as it appears they're created in the attachment system (URI ?attachment_id=\d+) with an HREF to the actual dump. A simple Google search below will return a multitude of sites. Perhaps someone on the WordPress side can comment on this behavior? Google Query - inurl:uploads ".xml_.txt" wordpress Anoth...

Final Fantasy maker Square Enix hacked, 25,000 email addresses Stolen ! Square Enix has confirmed that personal data has been compromised after hackers accessed the Eidos Montreal website. The Deus Ex website was also accessed by the attack from hackers. It's thought that it took place on Wednesday. The publisher's now confirmed that personal data has been compromised. "Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites. We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again," Square Enix said in a statement sent to VG247. However, the company insists that while personal data such as up to 25,000 email addresses and resumes for jobs at Eidos Montreal – of which 350 were accessed – no credit card data was stolen due to the webs...

Pakistan Cyber Army got hacked by Indian Cyber Army (Indishell) Hacked site :  www.pakcyberarmy.net Mirror :  https://mirror.sec-t.net/defacements/?id=24393 Note By ICA :  https://pastebin.com/ZfNH774F

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report ! The Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is an investigation of the current threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft Security Centers. Volume 10 (SIR v10) is the most current edition covering 2010 and contains five sections: Key Findings provides data and analysis produced by Microsoft security teams. Reference Guide gives additional information for topics covered in the Key Findings. Featured Intelligence spotlights the latest threat topic. Global Threat Assessment provides deep dive telemetry by specific country or region. Managing Risk offers methods for protecting your organization, software, and people. Download Here

Facebook Security Update , Protection from Untrustworthy Websites With Web Of Trust (WOT) Web of Trust (WOT), the worlds leading crowd-sourced website reputation rating service, and Facebook, the Internets leading social platform, begin collaboration today to give Facebooks over 500 million users reliable protection against dubious web links. When a Facebook user clicks a link that leads to a page with a poor reputation rating given by the WOT community, Facebook shows a warning message. WOTs global community has reported five million sites for phishing, untrustworthy content, fraudulent services or various scams. Facebooks ability to protect its users from malicious links is significantly improved with the use of WOT reputation ratings. Whenever a Facebook user navigates to an untrustworthy site a warning will appear allowing the person to avoid the link, learn more about the rating or continue forward. Web users have rated more than 31 million websites with the free WOT add-on. WO...

The White House proposed Thursday reforming the Federal Information Security Management Act by formalizing the Department of Homeland Security role in managing cybersecurity for the federal government's civilian computers and networks. What the Obama administration does not propose is the establishment of an Office of Cyberspace with a Senate confirmed director in the White House, as proposed in a number of bills before Congress. In addition, the proposal would give DHS more flexibility in hiring cybersecurity professionals and permit the government and business to temporarily exchange experts, so that both can learn from each others' expertise. The comprehensive proposal, outlined in a White House blog, also calls for a federal data breach notification law and criminal penalties for cybercrimes. Besides establishing a new framework aimed at protecting individuals' privacy and civil liberties, the White House proposal also would codify practices that allows DHS to hel...

A widespread hack spread across Facebook early Thursday morning and shows no signs of abating as of yet. It comes in the form of a script that posts heavily profanity-laden wall posts continuously, instructing you that the only way to remove the posts is to click a 'Remove This App' link. Unfortunately the link is a hoax and allows the malicious script to access your Facebook account. Your account will then continue to spread the script in the form of similarly formatted wall posts on your friends accounts. The message uses the phrase 'Vote for Nicole Santos', leading some to believe that it is a high school prank related to Prom season. Here is a link  ( https://pastebin.com/u5abvXQi ) to the raw code of the script causing the problems on Facebook. If any of you commenters have any suggestions as to how this might have been injected in the first place please do let us know. Unsurprisingly many are trying to trace the source back to the 'Nicole Santos' that may have originat...

The source code of the ZeuS Botnet is now available for  Download . Derek Jones  (the author this article) imagine there are a few organizations who would like to talk to the author(s) of this code. All developers have coding habits, that is they usually have a particular way of writing each coding construct. Different developers have different sets of habits and sometimes individual developers have a way of writing some language construct that is rarely used by other developers. Are developer habits sufficiently unique that they can be used to identify individuals from their code? I don't have enough data to answer that question. Reading through the C++ source of ZeuS I spotted a few unusual usage patterns (I don't know enough about common usage patterns in PHP to say much about this source) which readers might like to look for in code they encounter, perhaps putting name to the author of this code. The source is written in C++ (32.5 KLOC of client source) and...

The Anonymous : Need of  21st century ! Anonymous is the political movement of change for the 21st century. Anonymous can and certainly will accomplish what many other political and peace movements of the past could not. How will they achieve this? Through peaceful protest. When corruption, destruction and mayhem strikes from governments or corporations it is the goal of anonymous to awaken that entity and the public that a change must occur. Given that, many will use the name Anonymous to perform acts of a criminal and malicious nature. By doing this it gives the real " Anonymous " a bad name. In fact, governments and corporations will try to retaliate against the false anon by restricting internet freedom and user capabilities. We must understand that the Anonymous who strives for political change and world peace must be free to work without the mistrust and misdeeds of others who tarnish their good work. As price pritchet once said, " change always c...

New Facebook worm propagating : VERIFY MY ACCOUNT , Video Explanation of Code In the past hour a new application has begun spreading on Facebook which has found an exploit in the existing sharing system. Whatever you do, don't click the link described below. The system is pretty straight forward. It suggests that you click "VERIFY MY ACCOUNT" within a link which ultimately results in the user posting the same message to all their friends' walls. The message typically resembles the following one: Scam Signature Message:  In order to PREVENT SPAM, I ask that you VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT. Click VERIFY MY ACCOUNT right next to comment below to start the process… The result is that thousands of users have seen the message spreading to their profiles in the past hour or so. Our guess is that this message could reach hundreds of thousands of users before it's shut down (unless Facebook's security team is up right now). The bottom line is this: don't click any of the links resembling t...