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Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are based on real vulnerabilities in the way the Internet is constructed. Recent cyber security attacks using sophisticated malware (think Stuxnet) and social engineering techniques have raised the bar for defenders. Cyber Styletto pivots off these cyber events to educate and entertain. It is written as fact-based fiction. The story comes from the minds of Gian DeTorre and Mike Brennan. DeTorre is the pen name of an award winning fiction writer and literary critic whose stories and reviews have been published worldwide. " Cyber Styletto is a new genre in literature, bringing the modern, secretive world of cyber espionage together with a good, old-fashioned thriller ," DeTorre said. I hope our a...

GateOne Beta - Terminal emulator for HTML5 web browsers The software makes use of WebSockets to connect a server backend written in Python and a frontend written for modern browsers in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS. The frontend doesn't require any browser plug-ins to be installed.Gate One also supports HTTP over SSL (https) secure connections from the browser to the server and authentication technologies such as Kerberos. It has its own internal plug-in system (plug-ins can be written in Python, JavaScript and CSS); currently available plug-ins for Gate One include SSH client connections, session recording and playback, and a bookmark manager for storing terminal sessions. Top features: * No browser plugins required! * Supports multiple simultaneous terminal sessions. As many as your hardware can handle. * Users can re-connect to their running terminals whenever they like from anywhere. * Can be embedded into other applications. Add a terminal--running whatever appl...

Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit THN is launching a Wireless Hacking series of blog posts where we will talk about a lot of tools and techniques. We hope this will be fun and informational for all of our readers. The series will be based on the SecurityTube Wireless Security Expert (SWSE) course material. We spoke about it in previous blog posts and loved the course material, and also SecurityTube's spirit of providing the entire course material free and only charging if you are interested in getting certified. As a responsible disclosure, we would like to inform you that we have subscribed to the SWSE course and certification. Once we registered we received the course slides and login to the student portal. This post is a short summary of the study path for the course. The student portal provides a structured path for learning: You can download the course slides, the full course material and watch the welcome video (embedded in the end). Each les...

Hcon's Security Testing Framework (Hcon STF) v0.1beta After the first demo of Hfox, many people asked about a Chromium based framework for penetration testing/ethical hacking.  After 3 months of work and research, and some input from AJ, the following tool has been developed for the arsenal of Hcon's tools: Specifications 1.         Based on Chromium Source (iron build) version 14. 2.         Works for ever need of hacking/penetration testing such as recon, enumeration, social engineering, exploitation, vulnerability assessment, anonymity, mobile tools, and reporting. 3.         More secure and tracking free from Google and Stable than other Chromium-based builds. 4.         Over 100 tools integrated with easy-to-use interface. 5.         Tested and heavily modified tools with suggestions contribute...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man, Christopher Chaney  and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi". Twitter was ablaze earlier today with messages claiming to link to naked pictures of film actress Scarlett Johansson, which were allegedly stolen from her iPhone by a hacker earlier this year.The photographs may or may not be of Scarlett Johansson, but I would suggest that every hot-blooded male exercises some restraint as it's extremely possible that cybercriminals might exploit the interest to post dangerous links on the web designed to infect computers or steal information. To gain access to these email accounts, Chaney would search through details of celebrity lives within magazines as well as social media accounts like Twitter and figure ...

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Phoenix Exploit's Kit 2.8 mini version Back in April of this year, we reported the leak of  Phoenix Exploit Kit 2.5 .  The version currently in circulation is 2.8, and despite its lower activity for the last half of this year, it remains one of the preferred exploit packs used by cyber-criminals. In comparison to the Black Hole Exploit Pack, the PEK has a similar licensing model.  The last version released offered an "alternative" to purchasing the exploit pack.  This "alternative" is the Phoenix Exploit's Kit 2.8 mini. The current licensing model consists of the following: ·           Simple Domain (Closed) – USD $2,200.00 ·           Multithreaded Domain (Closed) – USD $2,700.00 ·           Extra-Encryption Service (ReFUDing) – USD $40.00 The mini version does not change the characteristics of the Exploit P...

Apple iOS 5 Released ! Apple's iOS 5 has been released, with owners of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPad 2, along with the third- and fourth-gen iPod touch all getting the latest version of the mobile platform as a free update. Available to download for existing devices via iTunes, iOS 5 will also be preloaded on the new iPhone 4S, Apple's fifth-gen smartphone that goes on sale this Friday. " On non-mobile devices, our lives are quickly shifting from native applications [i.e. coded for a specific computer or smartphone's operating system] to Web applications, but by Apple dominating the consumer smartphone market first, and executing it beautifully, they have started to set some really unhealthy precedents that the rest of the industry is copying while simply trying to keep pace ," said Zeke Shore, the Co-Founder and Creative Director of design firm Type/Code. iOS 5 also brings with it iCloud, Apple's new synchronization and backup system that promises to deli...

Sony hacked again - 93,000 accounts compromised with brute-force attack Sony has warned users against a massive bruteforce attack against PlayStation and Sony network accounts. The attack – which used password and user ID combinations from an unidentified third-party source – succeeded in compromising 60,000 PlayStation Network and 33,000 Sony Online Entertainment network accounts. These accounts have been locked and passwords reset. The attack took place between October 7 and 10 and succeeded in matching valid sign-in IDs. According to a blog post by Philip Reitinger, Sony's Chief Information Security Officer, credit card details were not compromised. Both the motive for the latest attack against Sony network users and the identity of the perpetrator(s) remains unclear. Sony shut down its PlayStation Network in April in the aftermath of a far more damaging hack attack. The service wasn't restored until a month later. Personal information on 77 million account-holders wa...

WineHQ database compromise - One More Linux Project Fail Jeremy White, Codeweavers Founder has announced that access to the WineHQ database has been compromised. " On the one hand, we saw no evidence of harm to any database. We saw no evidence of any attempt to change the database (and candidly, using the real appdb or bugzilla is the easy way to change the database). Unfortunately, the attackers were able to download the full login database for both the appdb and bugzilla. This means that they have all of those emails, as well as the passwords. The passwords are stored encrypted, but with enough effort and depending on the quality of the password, they can be cracked ." Anybody who has reused a password stored there probably wants to make some changes fairly soon. Attackers have used phpMyAdmin, an open source database administration tool, to access the WineHQ project's database and harvest users' appdb and bugzilla access credentials. Wine (Wine Is Not an Emu...

Your Browser Matters - Microsoft Launches Tool For Checking Browser Security Microsoft launched a website today designed to give users a detailed look at how secure their browser is. The site, called Your Browser Matters , automatically detects the visitor's browser and returns a browser security score on a scale of four points. When you visit the site, called Your Browser Matters, it allows you to see a score for the browser you're using. Well, if you're using IE, Chrome, or Firefox—other browsers are excluded. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's latest release, Internet Explorer 9, gets a perfect 4 out of 4: If you visit the site with the most recent public releases of Firefox or Google Chrome, however, the results are less than perfect. Here, for example, are the detailed results for Chrome 14 and Firefox 7: Microsoft's new site is primarily intended to encourage users of older versions of Internet Explorer to upgrade. The bane of the existence of Web developers everywhere,...

iPad Finally Has a Facebook Application Facebook has just released its official iPad app . The tablet device was unveiled in January 2010, but development and negotiations with Apple stalled the release of Facebook's app until now. Facebook for iPad is now available in App Store . We've been waiting for a Facebook iPad app almost as long as there's been an iPad, and there has been talk that Facebook has been working on the app for more than a year. The lack of an app for Facebook has been a pretty massive hole in the functionality of the iPad, given the social network's unrivaled popularity. And tons of third-party apps have sprung up to fill the void – but none of them were the official, sanctioned apps of Mark Zuckerberg, and none included the kind of power that Facebook has baked into its own native app. Here are some of the top Features of the new app: Bigger, better photos: Photos appear bigger and in high-resolution with easy to flip and rotate features in the photo album ...

blueHOMES hacked - 500k users data and Password in Plain text leaked Some Anonymous Hacker hack the French property and property Germany Dealers website blueHOMES.com  . About 500,000 Users data claim to be hacked by Hacker and also database include all customer passwords in plaintext, including full addresses, skype account, and mailboxes of bluehomes. Specified data leaked on pastebin  with sample data of some users.