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Cain & Abel v4.9.43 Released Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems.It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary and brute force attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. Change Log : Added SAP R/3 sniffer filter for SAP GUI authentications and SAP DIAG protocol decompression. Added support for Licensing Mode Terminal Server connections to Windows 2008 R2 servers in APR-RDP sniffer filter. Added support for MSCACHEv2 Hashes (used by Vista/Seven/2008) in Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks. Added MSCACHEv2 Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables. Added MSCACHEv2 RainbowTables to WinRTGen v2.6.3. MS-CACHE Hashes Dumper now supports MSCACHEv2 hashes extraction from Windows Vista/Seven/2008 machines and offline registry files. Fixed a bug (crash) in Certificate Collector wit...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees said was an attempt to jam information on parliamentary elections. " The attack on the website on election day is apparently tied to an attempt to publish information about violations ," chief editor of the independent-minded Ekho Moskvy radio Aleksei Venediktov wrote in his Twitter blog. Websites of Forbes Russia, Bolshoi Gorod and New Times magazines, Slon.ru news portal, Golos election watchdog and its Kartanarusheniy.ru website that was supposed to map vote fraud were down throughout most of Sunday.These media organizations and the watchdog have pledged to report voting violations from all over Russia live.Independent and opposition media, as well as the LiveJournal social network that ha...

XSS Vulnerability On Twitter Found by 15 Years Old Expert A 15 years old XSS Expert " Belmin Vehabovic(~!White!~) " discovered XSS Vulnerability On Twitter and report us. The Vulnerable link is here . Even He also Discovered XSS Vulnerability in Facebook also as tweeted by him Yesterday  &Facebook is offering him $700 as Bounty.

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 (DC602028) We like to invite all of you for our 4th meet which is going to held on 29th January 2012. DEF-CON Chennai is a registered group of DEF-CON, our group id is DC602028. [ Tickets for the Meet] For General Public : 700 INR For Students: 600 INR To book the tickets mail to dc602028@gmail.com [ Time of the Meet ] On 29th January 2012 From 2 PM to 7 PM Do make sure that your at the venue by 1:45 PM [ Venue of the Meet ] The Venue is going to be at Le Waterina Hotel, a 4 Star Resort. Le Waterina – The Boutique Hotel No 35 Kaveri Nagar (near Bella Ciao) Waterland Drive,Thiruvanmiyur Kottivakkam Beach.Chennai 600041. Refer: https://www.defcontn.com/DC602028/invitation-for-the-january-meet-2012/

THN December Magazine Released ! Who We are at The Hacker News ?  It is hard to re-cap the past year and all the excitement and hard work we have experienced launching an online magazine.  The subject, Hacking, is even more exciting as the technology world awakens to the security issues facing all internet users from government, large corporations and personal users. We have tried very hard to keep the readers informed and up to date regarding security threats and security breaks world wide.  Our daily news aims to give business and personal PC users an understanding of what is happening in computer security developments and what criminal activity is breaching security systems. Mostly, we understand the importance of disseminating information and keeping the internet free of restrictions.  We believe that information and opinion are the foundation of a healthy society and we strive constantly to address the political and social issues facing our new world of ele...

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. A new Android app to identify whether your smartphone has any Carrier IQ tracking/monitoring software installed on it has been released, the Voodoo Carrier IQ detector , giving users a simple way to put their minds to rest on privacy. The handiwork of Android app developer supercurio, the tool is only a few hours old and only partially finished, with the consequent warning that the results can't be entirely relied on yet. supercurio has offered up the source code under an open-source license for those who want to help refine the tool, so we're guessing the rough edges and reliability will be polished off in short order. Download Application Download Source Code

McAfee drafted Five Steps to Avoiding bad apps on Pc & Mobile Malicious applications are one of the most serious threats to smartphone users today. Not only can a dangerous app infect your phone and steal your personal information, it can even spy on you. Read our five easy tips for avoiding bad apps, and keep your device and information safe. An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you " don't have anything to hide ," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially with something as personal as your cell phone. McAfee has come up with five " Common sense " practices that you might not have thought about before, but they actually do make sense fo...

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability Wikileaks has released  ( https://spyfiles.org/ ) dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. According to Assange, over 150 private sector organisations in 25 countries have the ability to not only track mobile devices, but also intercept messages and listen to calls also. Site founder Julian Assange has held a press conference, revealing the secrets of the industry.­ The whistleblowing site has published some 287 documents from its huge database, collected from 160 international intelligence contractors. The database includes internal documents of such companies like Gamma corporation in the UK, Ipoque of Germany, Amesys and Vupen in France, VASTech in South Africa, ZTE Corp in China, Phoenexia in the Czech Republic, SS8 and Blue Coat in the US, among others. From the press release: " The Wikileaks Spy Files reveal the de...

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially with something as personal as your cell phone. An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy. In the nearly 20-minute video clip, Eckhart shows how software developed by mobile-device tracker Carrier IQ logs each keystroke and then sends them off to locations unknown. In addition, when Eckhart tried placing a call, Carrier IQ's software recorded each number before the call was even made. What is Carrier IQ, exactly? ...

Nullcon GOA 2012 - International Security Conference The open security community is a registered non-profit society and by far the largest security community in India with more than 2000 members comprising of information security professionals, ethical hackers and law enforcement professionals that focuses on Infosec research and assisting Govt. and private organizations with cyber security issues. null has 7 chapters through out India - Pune, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai and Bhopal, interacting with around 5000-6000 people by various activities like monthly meets, security camps, workshops, talks at various events & organizations and executing security projects. Our portal https://null.co.in provides free information on security research, responsible vulnerability disclosure, open source security software project, white papers, presentations, monthly chapter meets. We see that currently there is a disconnect between t...

Security Research : Be friend to anyone on Facebook in 24 hours " People have simply ignored the threat posed by adding a profile without checking if this profile is true. New Technologies have loopholes, but it is up to the users to be aware of this type of flaw. Social networks can be fantastic, but people make mistakes. Privacy is a matter of social responsibility. There is no solution. We must make good use of the social network and we are alone in this task ", said Nelson Novaes , a Brazilian (independent) Security and Behavior Research. The two experiments (Proof of Concept – Research Study) were presented at the Conference Silver Bullet . Both were used with the sole purpose of POC to demonstrate the fragility and privacy issues in the use of social networks. The technique is unusual and totally contrary to the terms of use of Facebook, but shows exactly how users can be manipulated. To prove his theory, the researcher in the field of online security and behavior Ne...

Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure? It's not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, who claim they've discovered a new class of computer security flaws that could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies. The researchers, who have working quietly for months in an electronics lab under a series of government and industry grants, described the flaw in a private briefing for federal agencies two weeks ago. They told Hewlett-Packard about it last week. HP said Monday that it is still reviewing details of the vulnerability, and is unable to confirm or deny many of the researchers' claims, but generally disp...

New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer Recently We Expose about 25 Facebook phishing websites and also write about biggest Facebook phishing in French  which steal more then 5000 usernames and passwords. Today another new attack on Facebook users with Zeus Bot comes in action. The researchers of Danish security firm CSIS , has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. A new worm has popped up on Facebook, using apparently stolen user credentials to log in to victims' accounts and then send out malicious links to their friends. The worm also downloads and installs a variety of malware on users' machines, including a variant of the Zeus bot. If followed, the link takes the potential victim to a page where he or she are offered what appears to be a screensaver for download. Unfortunately, it is not a JPG file, but an executable (b.exe). Once run, it drops a cocktail of malicious files onto the system, including ZeuS, a popular Tro...