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Pop star KE$HA twitter Hacked Pop star KE$HA has fallen victim to internet pranksters after her Twitter.com blog was hacked on Sunday. Tweet by her account : Single out in a couple hours. Ugh so f**kin stressful… wish I could stay on da (the) beach forever. " It was potentially seen by Kesha's 3.1 million followers, or even more, given that Twitter is a mainly public social network. The singer later spotted the fake message and quickly deleted it after realising her account had been compromised.She tweeted, " Animals!! I love u (sic)! I got hacked. Single is not out yet. Promissse (sic) you'll be the first to know! " According to Zdnet, Kesha's account may be verified, but if someone gains access to a verified Twitter account, it doesn't become unverified. It's currently unclear if someone outside of Kesha's inner circle actually managed to gain access to her account. It's certainly possible that someone she knows and has entrusted her Twitter account password with ...

Finally Google Chrome gets hacked at Pwn2Own Vupen Security and Sergey Glazunov independently managed to penetrate Google Chrome's security defenses at the Pwn2Own and 'Pwnium' contests respectively. The annual competition, which invites ethical hackers from around the world to attempt hacking into the most popular web browsers and in the process expose vulnerabilities and loopholes in the browser's security, while grabbing a handsome reward. At this year's competition, the co-founder and head of research of Vupen, Chaouki Bekrar and his team managed to break into Google Chrome in less than 5 minutes, in the process quashing talks about the browser's unquestionable security. They used "a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities to take complete control of a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1) machine." For the successful break-in, Vupen has won itself 32 points. Google Chrome security knew that the Flash Player plugin sandbox is significantly weaker and that...

XSS Vulnerability discovered on Paypal Vansh and Vaibhuv two Indian Hacker found a XSS vulnerability in world famous site Paypal. Paypal is affected by an XSS vulnerability where it fails to validate input. One can add arbitrary javascript with no need for any filter evasion. This is a serious security issue, with potential implications that are only starting to be understood. However, it is critical to realize that this problem does not expose any way to break into the server itself. What it allows is for malicious attackers to potentially take control of the interaction between a user and a website. It is likely that the most serious thing that an attacker can potentially do in this situation is change how a page appears to a particular user. Also Read :  Kevin Mitnick's website open to Cross-Site Scripting ( XSS ) vulnerability

Kevin Mitnick 's website open to Cross-Site Scripting ( XSS ) vulnerability Cross-Site Scripting ( XSS ) vulnerability discovered in official website of Kevin Mitnick (one of the most talented hackers, and the one one most prosecuted by the state. Mitnick's hacker handle was "Condor". He became the first hacker to appear on an FBI "Most Wanted" poster, for breaking into the Digital Equipment Company computer network, Mitnick has become something of a celebrity in hacker circles due to his Hacking talent) by  Fabián Cuchietti . This is a serious security issue, with potential implications that are only starting to be understood. However, it is critical to realize that this problem does not expose any way to break into the server itself. What it allows is for malicious attackers to potentially take control of the interaction between a user and a website. It is likely that the most serious thing that an attacker can potentially do in this situation is chang...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer on the Libyan mission, thereby exposing their own personal information to unknown hackers. Late last year, senior British military officers, Defense Ministry officials, and other government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as United States Navy admiral James Stavridis. Nato will not officially say who was behind the cyber-fraud or who accepted friend requests but it is understood that evidence points to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. NATO has advised senior officers and officials, including Admiral Stirvis to open their own social networking pages to prevent a repeat of such incident. the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (Shape...

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GOM Media Player v. 2.1.37 Ucha Gobejishvili (longrifle0x)  from The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team  discover Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GOM Media Player v. 2.1.37. GOM Player (Gretech Online Movie Player) is a 32/64-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer (temporary data storage area) than it was intended to hold. Since buffers are created to contain a finite amount of data, the extra information - which has to go somewhere - can overflow into adjacent buffers, corrupting or overwriting the valid data held in them. Although it may occur accidentally through programming error, buffer overflow is an increasingly common type of security attack on data integrity. In this case, The vulnerability can be exploited by local or remote attackers and Vulnerable module is GomU+0x125cb7. ...

Call for Article - THN Magazine "Cyber Warfare" April Issue As we move through March Madness and the recent arrests of our cyber soldiers, it is time for all good Anons and our faithful readers to take keyboards to Word and send in your articles on the topic of CYBER WARFARE. What do you know of this unconventional method of taking down governments and corporations and what does this mean for the world at large?   Send your articles to  admin@thehackernews.com

Symantec's Norton anti-virus 2006 source code Leaked by Anonymous Security firm Symantec confirmed Friday that the hacker group Anonymous has just posted some of its product source code, but strongly downplays any risk, because it's old code from a 2006 version of Norton security software. Anonymous claimed to have the information for a while but they finally published it on The website Pirate Bay . The information is a source code for the Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 edition,which includes files that serve as a source code for software products like the corporate edition, the consumer version, and files for NetWare, Windows and Unix. The download file is 1.07GB. The file has a note that asks for the liberation of the LulzSec members that were arrested. Symantec the anti-virus and Security Company previously stated that the breach will " not affect any current Norton product ". Then added: " The current version of Norton Utilities has been completely rebuilt and shares ...

' The New York Iron Works ' police supplier Hacked by Anonymous Anonymous Hackers with the Antisec movement have attacked the site of a company that sells equipment to US law enforcers such as the police. Members of Anonymous recently hacked the official site for law enforcement equipment supplier New York Iron Works . Defaced page include the message, " To our fallen brothers Your work has not been forgotten, your skills and teachings has spawn another generation of an elite squander. Like the knights at the round table, we have shared may common interests but let us not forget the game we play. AntiSec is still alive and well ,". The leaked data includes usernames, clear-text passwords and email addresses. The message posted to the New York Ironwork's homepage called the attack a " tribute to Jeremy Hammond ," the LulzSec member arrested in Chicago on Monday and one of the men responsible for the attack on the intelligence firm Stratfor on December 25 last year....

Bugtraq-I : Distribution for Pentesting and forensics Bugtraq system offers the most comprehensive distribution, optimal, stable and automatic security to date. Bugtraq is a distribution based on the 2.6.38 kernel has a wide range of penetration and forensic tools. Bugtraq can be installed from a Live DVD or USB drive, the distribution is customized to the last package, configured and updated the kernel. The kernel has been patched for better performance to recognize a variety of hardware, including wireless injection patches pentesting that other distributions do not recognize. Some of the special features that you can appreciate are: · Administrative improvements of the system for better management of services. · Expanded the range of recognition for injection wireless drivers. · Patching the kernel 2.6.38 to recognize 4 gigs of RAM in 32-bit. · Tools perfectly configured, automated installation scripts and tools like Nessus, OpenVAS, Greenbone, ...

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language Researchers at Kaspersky have reached out for assistance after an investigation into the Duqu Trojan uncovered a section that is written in an unknown programming language. The Russian security company says this new information could help them discover how the worm was able to communicate with its Command and Control (C&C) servers. The C&C servers essentially tell the worm what to do once it has accessed a system. While the majority of Duqu is written in C++, the Framework was not and was not compiled with Microsoft's Visual C++ 2008. Other languages ruled out include Python, Java, Objective C, Ada and Lua." Given the size of the Duqu project, it's possible that an entirely different team was responsible for creating the Duqu Framework as opposed to the team that created the drivers and wrote the system infection exploits ," said Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab, in a statement . The mysterious...

Albania is the most Malware infected Nation Researchers at Security firms Norman and Microsoft Analyse data from their security products that Albania is the most Malware infected Nation, with 65% of scanned computers reporting infections.  Rest Most Infected Countries are South Korea, Guatemala, Vietnam, Indonesia, Argentina, Thailand, Georgia, the Philippines, Algeria, Venezuela, Lithuania and Pakistan according to Norman Report . Where as Microsoft also shows such reports that the most common category in Albania in Second quarter of 2011 was Worms, which affected 43.7 percent of all computers cleaned in Albania, down from 44.9 percent in First quarter of 2011. The most common threat family in Albania in Second quarter of 2011  was Win32/Autorun, which affected 25.2 percent of computers cleaned in Albania. Win32/Autorun is a family of worms that spreads by copying itself to the mapped drives of an infected computer. The mapped d...

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites The Italian Anonymous Hackers took down the Vatican's website ( Vatican.va ) on Wednesday in retaliation for the "corruption" of the Roman Catholic Church. On an Italian-language website Anonymous accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for various misdeeds throughout history including the burning of heretics during the inquisition. In their statement the group noted : " Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organisation spreads around the world ." " This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church. " Meanwhile, late on Tuesday hackers associated with LulzSec took down and defaced more than 25 websites belonging to Panda Security , claiming the security firm had been " earning money working with Law Enforcement to lu...

THE " TRUTH " SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU By:  Patti Galle, Editor  THN. As I look at my guy fawkes mask and reflect on the recent arrest of several lulzsec members, I have a wrenching feeling in my gut to tell the "truth." Gather around anonymous , lulzsec , FBI, passionate supporters, liberal haters, and people without a clue. I have something to tell you and although the truth may hurt, it is time to find that wrenching in your own gut and step up. Today all focus is on sabu and his taboo relationship with the FBI that caused the arrest of: Ryan ackroyd a.k.a. Kayla, lol, lolsoon jake davis a.k.a. Topiary, atopiary darren martyn a.k.a. Pwnsauce, raepsauce, networkkitten donncha o'cearrbhail a.k.a. Palladium Jeremy hammond a.k.a. Anarchaos, sup_g, burn, yohoho, pow As should yours, my heart goes out to these brave men and their families as they work their way through the corrupt and ill focused justice system for leading the only movement existing in our mis-shapened world...

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network Unidentified hackers have broken into the website of the Turkish government claimed to be Part of Anonymous Group of Hackers. The hackers aimed to access official documents on government correspondence but were prevented from doing so by on-duty information technology experts. Anonymous, members of which have so far attacked many websites worldwide for various reasons. The Prime Ministry tightened cybersecurity measures and implemented a new network firewall following the attack. The website was under DDoS attack for 2 hours. Turkish specialists managed to counter the attacks with new software. There has been no information on data leakage.Attacks were made from State Virginia, USA, and China.

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebook said that its service was unavailable in some European countries this morning because of technical problems. Third parties suggested a problem with Facebook's European DNS servers may have been at the root. These machines connect the address "Facebook.com" with the actual content of the website, and during the outage attempts to contact to them as normal received no response. DownRightNow, which monitors major web services, showed Facebook having suffered ongoing intermittent service until mid-afternoon.CERT.Be, a Belgian government agency, claimed that the outage was due to a DDoS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed. Later Facebook announce, ' The issue ha...

FBI get 4 more months to fight with DNSChanger On March 5th, a US District Court (New York) signed an order to extend the March 8th deadline to July 9th.This extension will allow for all affected entities to continue to track-down and remediate agains hosts which are still compromised. Current data indicates that there are still several million infected/affected hosts world-wide dealing with this issue. Over the last month, the temporary servers routed an average of 430,000 infected IP addresses according to the government request for extension. Security firm Internet Identity also found that at least 94 Fortune 500s and three major government agencies are still infected with DNSChanger . The remaining infected systems will now have an additional four months to get rid of the malware before having their DNS pulled. The malware hijacked users clicks by modifying their computers' domain name system (DNS) settings to send URL requests to the criminals' own servers, a tactic th...

DDOS attack on LIME 's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of service, which is defined as an explicit attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing or utilising the particular service. " The attack, though confined to a small portion of LIME's Internet customer base, inconvenienced the affected customers and gave the appearance of a widescale service-impacting problem on the company's network, " noted a statement from the company. LIME has announced plans to take legal action against the person responsible for an attack on its network, which resulted in internet service disruptions to hundreds of customers over the last week. Managing Director, Alex McDonald says engineers implemented some changes in the broadband network to isolate the IP ...

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