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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that the database on the system contained over 75,000 records that included social security numbers for both students and employees. Nobody is sure how long the malware was running on the server, but it was shutdown once the breach was found. It's suspected that the software was being used to identify cutting edge research that the school is working on, but that has yet to be confirmed. It's also good to know that while students may have had their identity stolen, the database contained no " academic information such as student grades ," so at least the attackers won't be able to identify whether students passed their criminology courses.

UNITED Security Summit 2011 , 19-20 September - San Francisco The UNITED Security Summit is focused on innovation and collaboration in the security community. Bringing together security decision makers, practitioners, commercial vendors, open source projects and academia, the Summit highlights technologies and approaches that will help organizations better cope with the increased security threats they are seeing on a daily basis.Based on the anatomy of a breach, the Summit provides educational and interactive sessions that will reflect on the fundamental security challenges from four perspectives through a common lens. Date : 19 September-20 September 2011 Location : Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, USA

JonDo 00.15.004 IP changer with Bitcoin, connection manipulation protection and higher efficiency JonDos publishes a new version of the JonDo-Software, an IP changer and IP anonymization program, that you can use for anonymous surfing in the Internet with high security anonymous proxy servers. What is new? JonDo now integrates Bitcoin as additional payment method for the JonDonym Premium services: For every new payment, a new random Bitcoin address is generated. This hides against third parties for what a customer pays. Additionally, all data about the payment proccess are deleted after completion in order to fulfill even the highest privacy requirements. But of course, even if the identity of a buyer was known, neither JonDos nor the JonDonym operators could see what he/she does in the JonDonym system. Moreover, a stability protection against connection manipulations has been developed: In some countries, especially those in the middle east, HTTPS/SSL connections get manipulat...

HKEx - Hong Kong stock exchange Hacked Trading in Hong Kong was disrupted on Wednesday by a hacking incident on the Hong Kong Exchange website. " Our current assessment that this is a result of a malicious attack by outside hacking ," Charlies Li, chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, told reporters. The seven stocks in question were all due to release sensitive results to the website that could impact the price of their stocks.Although the Hong Kong stock exchange also operates an alternative backup site for posting the results, it chose to halt trading of the affected stocks for the afternoon session.Stocks affected included HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong exchange itself.It is unclear at this point whether the attack actually compromised the site, or if it was merely a denial of service attack. " It was the first time for a suspension due to such a kind of technical problem and one involving so many companies ,...

Hungry Hackers website hacked by CyberMind One of the Famous Hacking Tips and Tricks site "Hungry Hackers" -  https://www.hungry-hackers.com/  for Beginners got Hacked and Defaced by  CyberMind . The Hack shows that " Hackers are also not safe " . Update : Same site was also hacked on 2011-07-29 by Group Hp-Hack - Dr.TaiGaR and NeT DeviLSaudi Arabia Hackers . Mirror of hack can be seen here

Hackers Get Hacked at # Defcon 19 Conference There are so many ways to get hacked at the world's largest hacker conference. A hacker could bump against your pocket with a card reader that steals your credit card information. Or a hacker might eavesdrop on your Internet traffic through an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Or a hacker might compromise your cell phone while you charge it in the hotel's public phone-charging kiosk. More than 10,000 hackers and security experts have descended upon the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this weekend for three days of lectures and contests. A hacker with name Coderman claim about such an incident Happens at Rao Hotel Well by early Saturday morning a weapon was deployed in DefCon. Some characteristics of Hack Attack : - full active MitM against CDMA and 4G connections from Rio to carriers. - MitM positioning for remote exploitation to ring0 on Android and PC. - fall back to userspace only or non-persistent methods when p...

#OpFacebook : Facebook will be down on November 5 by Anonymous Hackers Attack Anonymous has vowed to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5. Or more accurately, somebody has set up a Twitter account and YouTube channel to announce a plan dubbed "Operation Facebook." In a YouTube video, the hacking group warns, " Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. " " If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy. " The group said in its message that "Operation Facebook" would be begin November 5. It claimed the social network, based in Palo Alto,Calif., provides information to "government agencies" so they can "spy on people." If Operation Facebook is real, it could mark a new phase for Anonymous, which in recent weeks has joined forces with the remnants of the more tightly knit hac...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said personal information for more than 92,000 of its customers was illegally sold to a third party. The information exposed included the names, account numbers addresses, phone numbers birthdates, and sex of 92,408 credit card holders, Citi Cards Japan warned in an advisory (PDF) issued Friday . The personal identification numbers and card security codes were not accessed. Citi Cards Japan did not mention how customer information was obtained as the sale of such information is currently under investigation. " While the risk of fraud is minimal due to the absence of security information, CCJ has placed internal fraud alerts and enhanced monitoring on all accounts identified, and no unusual...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the government understand technology? Or, with new successes in the Indian economy, maybe the nation is feeling the need to flex a few muscles. India's communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks. The request suggests that the Indian government is trying to broaden the scope of its online surveillance for national security. Telecommunications service providers in India provide facilities for lawful interception and monitoring of communications on their network, including communications from social networking websites such as Facebook...

#DefCon 19 : Presentations from the Defcon Conference for Download Defcon 19 presentations available for download, Go check out the presentations from this year's defcon conference here:  https://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ For folks that don't have time to click: curl -silent https://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ | grep -i 'pdf' | cut -d '"' -f 8 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | grep -v '/' > dc19pdf.txt; for i in $(cat dc19pdf.txt); do curl --location "https://THIS-DOWNLOAD-WOULD-BE-FASTER-WITH-A-PREMIUM-ACCOUNT-AT-good.net" -L "https://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/$i" > $i; done

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots Hacking crew team TriCk – TeaMp0isoN today hack and deface the blog website of BlackBerry against London riots, One of the leading Mobile Company. They post a message also on homepage, as given below . Also There were calls on Tuesday to shut down the BlackBerry Messenger service which is thought to have helped mobilise looters in the riots in London. Mirror of Hack can be seen here . Message posted by TeaMp0isoN on Blog site : This hack is a response to this statement by RIM: "We feel for those impacted by this weekend's riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can. As in all markets around the world Where BlackBerry is available, we cooperate with local telecommunications operators, law enforcement and regulatory officials. Similar to other technology providers in the UK we comply with The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and co-operate fully with the Home ...

Tweaking Facebook Status with HTML button Have you thought that Facebook status updates that can be modified ? Yes we have a tweak for you :  One is a Button Tag.  One of our Hacker Friend " Acizninja DeadcOde " , admin of  https://blog.cyber4rt.com sharing such cool tweaks with The Hacker News readers : Here's the concept: 1. Log in to your Facebook account. 2. Copy and paste the url code below into the Address Bar and press the Enter key: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=209403259107231&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww..facebook.com&message&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehackernews.com%2F&name=<center><button>Visit+:+The+Hacker+News<%2Fbutton><%2Fcenter> 3. After that just press the button SHARE, and see your Facebook profile.You can also send them to friends, Fans Page & Events. NOTE : app_id=209403259107231 ( App ID on Facebook, Keep it same ) Redirect_uri = https://www.facebook.com ( This Wil...

Official Website of Will Smith's Daughter Willow Smith Hacked Today a Hacker with name  BLaCk SPECTRE hack and Deface the  Official Website of Willow Smith .Willow is the daughter of musician-actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith. May be this attack is just for fun, as no message is posted on site.