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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...

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822) VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore) Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be ...

Ani Shell v1.3 Released -- Mail Bomber (with less spam detection) & PHP Decoder Introduction Ani-Shell is a simple PHP shell with some unique features like Mass Mailer , A simple Web-Server Fuzzer , DDoser, Back Connect , Bind Shell etc etc ! This shell has immense capabilities and have been written with some coding standards in mind for better editing and customization. Customisation 1. Email Trace back is set to Off as default and emails will not be sent , If you are setting this feature on make sure you change the default email address (lionaneesh@gmail.com) to Your email address , Please Change it before using. 2. Username and Passwords are set to lionaneesh and lionaneesh respectively , Please change them for better security. 3. As a default Lock Mode is set to on! This should not be change unless you want your shell exposed. Default Login Username : lionaneesh Password : lionaneesh Features Shell Platform Independent Mass - Maile...

Mallika Sherawat official website Defaced by KFMDD Teams Hackers Bollywood Star - Mallika Sherawat official website  mallikasherawatwow.com   get defaced by an Indian hacker " KFMDD Teams " . Hacker put " Tiranga " on the deface page as shown.

Philippines Congress hacked by BashCrew for #AntiSec The Philippians Goverment has become the latest target in the #antisec operation with a hacker crew known by BashCrew , Congress.gov.ph being hacked and having some data leaked . The leak has personal information, emails, contact numbers etc via pastebin link .

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials Colombian Anonymous Hackers announced that they had sent spam bombs to some 250 officials of Colombia's national Police ( https://colombiareports.com ) and revealed personal data of employees of the National Police inviting the public to harass the officials Here . In a statement published online, the hackers thanked the National Police " for keeping us submitted and trampled. " In the same statement, the group " Colombian Hackers " released personal information on hundreds of police officials, some with home addresses and identification numbers. Colombia Wednesday celebrated its 201st anniversary of its declaration of independence of Spain. The hackers had announced an independence offensive the day before.

English Defence League Facebook Page Deleted & Members Mobile Numbers Leaked TeaMp0isoN Hacking Crew Hack and Delete Official Facebook page of English Defence League was on  https://www.facebook.com/English.Defence.League.EDL  . Also  TeaMp0isoN Leaks the Phone numbers of Members of  English Defence League  via a pastie link . Screenshot of the Numbers are shown below :

Wireshark 1.6.1 and 1.4.8 Released Wireshark 1.6.1 and 1.4.8 have been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above (Intel and PPC), and source code are now available. In 1.6.1 Two vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the advisory for details . Many other bugs have been fixed. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 1.6.1 release notes . In 1.4.8 Two vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the advisory for details . Many other bugs have been fixed. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 1.4.8 release notes . Official releases download page

Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk A Android user complain that , All passwords are stored in plane text on Disk via a message on discussion board of Android. He said " The password for email accounts is stored into the SQLite DB which in turn stores it on the phone's file system in plain text.Encrypting or at least transforming the password would be desirable. " On this Android Support "Andy Stadler" Reply that : Hello- Thanks for the information and the feedback on this concern. First, I would like to reiterate the notes made by a couple of you, which is to remind users that if you are concerned about this issue, *please* simply click the star. Every time you respond "please fix" or "should be fixed!" it sends email to over 200 people. Second, please know that we take information security very seriously, and this is baked into the Android platform at multiple levels. Now, with respect to this particular ...

Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery Security researcher Charlie Miller is quite well known for his works on Apple products. Today he has come up with a very interesting way to hack the MacBook using the battery. Laptop battery contains its own monitoring circuit which reports the status of the battery to the OS. It also ensure that the battery does not overcharge even when the laptop is turned off. Miller has discovered that on the MacBooks, the batteries are shipped with the default password set on the chips. It means that if someone knows the default password, the firmware of the battery can be controlled to do many things from simply ruining the battery to installing a malware which reinstalls whenever the OS boots. Miller said that it might even be possible to overload the battery so that it catches fire. This is what Miller said: These batteries just aren't designed with the idea that people will mess with them. What I'm showing is that it's possible to use...