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Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an extraordinary meeting of a key subcommittee after it emerged that hackers had access to emails and documents belonging to the chamber's 480 legislators for at least one month. The personal computers and servers of Japanese lower house lawmakers have been hit by a cyber attack, and passwords and user IDs may have been stolen. Next, Information on military aircraft and nuclear power plants may have been stolen in a series of cyberattacks on Japanese defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy. Mitsubishi Heavy said late last month that 83 computers at 11 of its facilities had been hit by cyberattacks but no leakage of information on products and technologies had been confirmed. Christo...

The Hacker's Choice releases SSL DOS Tool German hacker group "The Hacker's Choice" officially released a new DDoS tool. The tool exploits a weakness in SSL to kick a server off the Internet. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processingpower on the server than on the client.THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric property by overloading theserver and knocking it off the Internet.This problem affects all SSL implementations today. The vendors are awareof this problem since 2003 and the topic has been widely discussed.This attack further exploits the SSL secure Renegotiation featureto trigger thousands of renegotiations via single TCP connection. Download: Windows binary: thc-ssl-dos-1.4-win-bin.zip Unix Source : thc-ssl-dos-1.4.tar.gz Usage: Use " ./configure; make all install " to build and Run :  ./thc-ssl-dos 127.3.133.7 443 Tips & Tricks for whitehats 1. The average server can do 300 handshakes per second. This would require 10-25% of your lapt...

Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers French researchers from ESIEA , a French engineering school, have found and exploited some serious vulnerabilities in the TOR network. They performed an inventory of the network, finding 6,000 machines, many of whose IPs are accessible publicly and directly with the system's source code. They demonstrated that it is possible to take control of the network and read all the messages that circulate. But there are also hidden nodes, the Tor Bridges, which are provided by the system that in some cases. Researchers have developed a script that, once again, to identify them. They found 181. " We now have a complete picture of the topography of Tor ," said Eric Filiol. The specific attack involves creating a virus and using it to infect such vulnerable systems in a laboratory environment, and thus decrypting traffic passing through them again via an unknown, unmentioned mechanism. Finally, traffic is redirected towards ...

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Bleeding Life 2 Exploit Pack Released Black Hat Academy releases Bleeding Life 2 exploit pack. This is an exploit pack that affects Windows-based web browsers via Adobe and Java. You can read all about it, and download it for yourself. Statistics are kept based on exploit, browser, and OS version. Exploits Adobe CVE-2008-2992 CVE-2010-1297 CVE-2010-2884 CVE-2010-0188 Java CVE-2010-0842 CVE-2010-3552 Signed Applet Features Advanced Statistical Information Stylish Progress Bars Full User-Friendly Admin Panel Referer Stats Secure Panel - Login/Logout Ability To Set and Save Passwords On Panel Ability To Allow Guest Access - Guest Can Only View Stats Page, Clicking and Other Pages Disabled. Ability To Add and/or Remove Exploits Used Ability To Add Scan4You Credentials For Built-In Scanner Use Ability To Filter Browsers Ability To Filter Operating Systems Attempt To Detect and Filter HTTP Proxies Ability To Blacklist by IP/Range Ability To Import Blacklist On Pan...

Microsoft 's official Youtube channel hacked It appears that someone has hacked into Microsoft's account on Youtube and removed all videos. As can be seen in the picture, there are currently no videos at all anymore (see the red arrow in the screenshot) and the comment about the website is not " Wish to Become Sponsored ? Message me ". Also the hometown has been changed to "Hey". In their place are short clips soliciting advertisers, not surprisingly, as the channel has some 24,000+ subscribers.As of 1:30 p.m. ET, four videos have been uploaded to the account, all time-stamped within the past two hours. A fifth video, most recently uploaded, seems to have been removed. The video, "Garry's Mod – Escape the Box," featured what appeared to be an animated gunman shooting at the inside of a construction box.The channel's description reads, " I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/. " Neither Microsoft nor Google (which owns YouTube) have disclosed info...

XSS Vulnerability in Interactive YouTube API Demo Beta There is a Critical Cross site XSS Vulnerability in Interactive YouTube API Demo Beta, Discovered by various sources. One of the White Hat Hacker " Vansh Sharma " Inform us about this XSS Vulnerability with proof of concept. Proof Of Concept : Open  https://gdata.youtube.com/ Enter script <img src="<img src=search"/onerror=alert("xss")//"> in the keyword area. Press ADD

Apache Server  2.3.14  Denial of Service (DDOS) Vulnerability exploit Latest version of Apache Server 2.3.14 fails.The Egyptian Hacker and Exploit writer " Xen0n " discovered this Vulnerability and Develop an perl exploit for (DDOS) Vulnerability. The Exploit is available on Inj3ct0r 's Website.

OpenVAS - Advanced Open Source vulnerability scanner OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.The powerful and comprehensive OpenVAS solution is available as Free Software and maintained on a daily basis. An overview of the vulnerability handling process is: The reporter reports the vulnerability privately to OpenVAS. The appropriate component's developers works privately with the reporter to resolve the vulnerability. A new release of the OpenVAS component concerned is made that includes the fix. The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerability scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager controls the Scanner via OTP (OpenVAS Transfer Protocol) and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP). All intelligence is implemented in the Manager so that it is possible to implement variou...

Phishing Site hacked for teaching lesson to Scam Lovers Researchers at the security firm GFI Labs found an email used to lure people to a phishing site called " canal-i. " The message attempts to scare unsuspecting readers by telling them they have exceeded the storage limit on their inbox, and says, " You will not be able to send or receive new mail until you upgrade your email. Click below link and fill the form to upgrade your account. " When clicked, that link directs users to a Web page that asks for their username, email address and password. For one hacker he or she has not been identified this was not just an ordinary phishing scam, but also a chance to teach others. The white-hat hacker "white hat" refers to hackers who exploit security bugs to improve security stripped the phishing page of its malicious content and replaced it with a stern educational message about the perils lurking in the online world. Hackers have created a fake tool es...

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin #OpDarknet , including personal details 1500 users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tools that target Hidden Wiki and Freedom Hosting — alleged to be two of the biggest darknet sites hosting child porn. News of the Anonymous campaign to actively target anyone hosting child porn sites comes from statements associated with Anonymous on Pastebin and two Anonymous YouTube video channels. AnonNews has yet to issue a press release. The AnonMessage and BecomeAnonymous YouTube channels both posted videos with statements of intent to hunt, skin and kill pedobears everywhere, starting with Freedom Hosting.

Metasploit 4.1.0 Web UI Cross Site Scripting vulnerability The Web UI in Metasploit version 4.1.0 suffers from a stored cross site scripting vulnerability discovered by " Stefan Schurtz ". Technical Details Login to Web UI -> Create New Project -> Project name -> '"</script><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

Announcing Contest Winners for  Ghost in the Wires Book We ran a competition for the book " Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick " last week. We'd like to thank the following people for sending in the best of the best of reviews about Kevin Mitnick's new book, "Ghosts in the Wires." All the reviews we received were great and the editorial staff had a tough time narrowing it down to 3 winners. We felt the winners captured just what we were looking for about a great book and great author. Congratulations winners and enjoy your copy of Kevin's book. drknit3 "Study the past if you would define the future." I think one of the most important things our pioneers can do is pass on knowledge to those who are just getting into the field. Kevin Mitnick has obviously played a huge roll  in defining the industry. This sharing of knowledge and experience plays a huge roll in defining the future. Although Ghost in the Wires highlights just one aspect...

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data Anonymous, the Internet "hactivist" group, today, apparently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, hacked into several different police databases and leaked sensitive personal data, among them passwords, names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers from the Boston Police Patrolmens' Association (BPPA) and Birmingham, Alabama Police Department, according to several reports. Additionally, Anonymous claims to have hacked the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and offers the above image as proof. A press release by Anonymous said that the hack was timed to the IACP meeting as part of a "Day of Action Against Police Brutality." Another document appears to be about 1,000 user names and passwords belonging to the Boston Patrolmans' Association. In the video below, you can hear a hacker call the Baldwin country sheriff's office to say " your website has been def...