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THN Review : Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick First of all Thanks to Mr. Kevin Mitnick for sending Review Copy of his latest book & Auto-Biography " Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker ". I take about a week to read this amazing book and Finally  The Hacker News Review for this Book : Some call him a saint, some a criminal, others adore him. Industry may loathe him but we here at hacker news say “ Get Reading ” loyal subscribers and laugh, get mad, feel revenge, and pure educational enjoyment reading Kevin Mitnick’s new book “ Ghost in the Wires ” .  Yeah, we consider him pretty cool and the father of Social Engineering which is just ours and yours level of interest.   If a guy that can stay one step ahead of big business, catching them with their pants down and their hands in the Cookie jar, then this is the book for you.  If you admire a person who can squeeze blood from a turnip, you have the rig...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested the man as part of an international investigation into the activities of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups.The man, who was arrested at a residential address in Shetland, is said to have used the online nickname " Topiary " and acted as a spokesperson for the groups via forums such as Twitter. He was arrested at a residential address in the Shetland Islands and is currently being transported to a police station in central London. A search is ongoing at the address. It was carried out with the assistance of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) and Lincolnshire Constabulary. The arrest of Topiary is the third made in the UK in the search for members of the group, followi...

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website The Department of Defense today launched a new website to highlight DoD’s first unified strategy for cyberspace announced on July 14. The website is a tool to help explain and consolidate DoD’s cybersecurity accomplishments and new way forward for military, intelligence and business operations in cyberspace. The new website is designed to help users explore the five pillars of DoD’s cyber strategy: treating cyberspace as an operational domain; employing new defense operating concepts; partnering with the public and private sector; building international partnerships; and leveraging talent and innovation. Additional content includes links to cybersecurity jobs in government, key news items, press releases, and video of discussions on cybersecurity. Source

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. ...