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Fujitsu cracks 278-digit crypto in 148 Days using 21 PCs A team of researchers in Japan have successfully broken a 278-digit piece of crypto in less than 200 days. Fujitsu Laboratories Limited , National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University jointly broke a world cryptography record with the successful cryptanalysis of a 278-digit (923-bit)-long pairing-based cryptography, which is now becoming the next generation cryptography standard. " We were able to overcome this problem by making good use of various new technologies, that is, a technique optimising parameter setting that uses computer algebra, a two dimensional search algorithm extended from the linear search, and by using our efficient programing techniques to calculate a solution of an equation from a huge number of data, as well as the parallel programming technology that maximises computer power ." This doesn't mean that pairing-based cryptography, which is rapid...

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Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked After weeks of confusion and frustration with blocked websites, the mess finally looks to be clearing. Indians are all heaving a sigh of relief because their ISPs have unblocked the access to the file-sharing, video-streaming BitTorrent sites that include The Pirate Bay, Torrentz.eu, Vimeo among others. It was in news last month that following Reliance, Airtel had also blocked torrent services and video sites after they received the 'John Doe' court order. Thousands of users from various states of India found the access to torrents blocked. India's Medianama is reporting today that the Madras High Court recently limited a badly drafted April ruling on the subject. The court said in its updated ruling, according to Medianama, which obtained a copy of it, that " the interim injunction is granted only in respect of a particular URL where the infringing movie is kept and not in respect of the entire website. Further, the a...

Intel CPU Vulnerability can provide control of your system to attacker The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has disclosed a flaw in Intel chips that could allow hackers to gain control of Windows and other operating systems. The flaw has already been exploited on 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7, FreeBSD, NetBSD and there's a chance Apple's OS X may also be vulnerable. The flaw was disclosed the vulnerability in a security advisory released this week. Attackers could execute malicious code via kernel privileges or launch a local privilege escalation attack.  VMware's virtualization software is not affected, and neither are AMD's processors, as they do not use the SYSRET instruction whose incorrect handling causes the flaw or handle it differently.Many of the affected vendors have already pushed out an update that defuses the flaw. However, it said that while 32-bit operating systems are safe, " Intel CPUs that use the Intel 64 extension need th...

US and Israel developed Flame Malware against Iran Unnamed Western officials confirmed that Flame was developed by US and Israeli governments. The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame computer virus that collected intelligence to help slow Iran's nuclear program. The massive piece of malware secretly mapped and monitored Iran's computer networks, sending back a steady stream of intelligence to prepare for a cyber­warfare campaign, according to the officials. The effort, involving the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel's military, has included the use of destructive software such as the Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran's nuclear-enrichment equipment. The cyber campaign against Iran's nuclear program has included the use of another computer virus called Stuxnet that caused malfunctions in Iran's nuclear enrichment equipment. " This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action, " said one former high-ranking U...

Linkedin sued by Member for Hacking Incident Illinois resident Katie Szpyrka filed a $5 million class action lawsuit against LinkedIn in the US District Court in the Northern District of California on June 15, claiming the business-oriented social networking site violated its own user agreement and privacy policy. The move comes in relation to a security breach around June 6 when LinkedIn admitted that encrypted passwords belonging to some 6.5 million of its 160 million users had been stolen and posted on the web. The incident resulted in hackers posting users' information online but it is not yet clear how much data they obtained. Szpyrka, who pays a monthly fee of $26.95 for a premium LinkedIn account, says the networking site used an alarmingly weak encryption format whereby it failed to 'salt' the passwords before storing them. The suit alleges that LinkedIn failed to adequately protect members because it stored passwords in an unsalted SHA hashed format, which Szpryka c...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the Justice Department's Criminal Division. According to the indictment, between 2008 and 2011, Miller and others allegedly remotely hacked into computer networks belonging to RNK Telecommunications Inc., a Massachusetts company; Crispin Porter and Bogusky Inc., a Colorado advertising agency; the University of Massachusetts; the U.S. Department of Energy; and other institutions and companies. The indictment alleges that when Miller hacked into the computers, he obtained other users' access credentials to the compromised computers. He and his co-conspirators then allegedly sold access to these computer networks as well as other access credentials. After gaining unauthorized access to these...

MALWARE - June 2012 | The Hacker News Magazine Released Welcome readers, techies working in the darkness of night and any other internet security minded folk. June finds us exploring the new "F" word: Malware . You will learn lots from our regular author, Perluigi Paganini as he takes you through the history of malware and its consequences. We introduce two new authors, Charlie Indigo who will get your mind to thinking about the future of internet security and just what kind of world we will be living in. Gerald Matthews gives us an overview of malware and how the FBI, of all people, helped us out. Our founder, Mohit Kumar writes about the topic in general and Ann Smith ,Our Executive Editor, of course, will wow you with a thorough provoking editorial. Thanks again for your readership......we hope to hear from you soon. Download MALWARE - The Hacker News Magazine

LulzSec hacker - Brit Ryan Cleary charged for Sony and Fox hacks A 20-year-old Briton suspected of links to the hacking group Lulz Security is accused of cracking into websites for a Fox reality TV show, a venerable news show and other sites to deface them or steal personal information, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Ryan Cleary, 20, reportedly had ties to the well-known branch of Anonymous called LulzSec before he was arrested in London last June (although the hacktivist group denies his involvement with it). U.S. federal prosecutors said today that he worked to take down, deface, and steal personal information from Web sites. In a separate and similar case filed against Cleary in the United Kingdom in 2011, he faces allegations that he and others hacked a law enforcement agency, the Serious Organized Crime Agency, and various British music sites - all while he was still a teenager. Commenting on Tuesday's indictment, FBI spokesperson Laura Eimiller said, "Cleary is a skilled ...

United States Department of Defense data leaked  by Anonymous hackers A group called the " Wikiboat " belongs to Anonymous hackers have attacked the Defense.gov website and leaked data from the website. They have published the leaked data to the pastebin note. Also, today the Wikiboat targeted the GEMA.de website and took it offline. The leaked data includes some officials name, Emails ID's and Phone numbers as shown below: Hackers claim that, they have not collect this data from any SQLi vulnerability, even this data is collected form other sources. Three weeks before they was threatening to take down the websites of companies like Apple, Bank of America and Toyota and leak sensitive data. As part of its "Operation New Son ' they announced to attacks on a number of international companies.

OpenVPN Defaced by Hackers OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features Got Hacked Yesterday by Hacker called " HcJ ". Hacked deface the page as shown in above picture. Words form Page: OPENVPN Hacked No News Is a Good News HcJ & Cyb3R-1sT & Egyptian.H4x0rZ & Sas-TerrOrisT & H311 c0d3 &ISM H4CK Quote of the Day Don't be lammer, Leave your computer and enjoy your summer ./ HcJ During the writing of post, OpenVPN officials restore the site back to original state. If you like to see the deface page, can visit Zone-H for mirror. VPN Hacks May Leak Information: Such hacks can also be carried out by investigation agencies to collect evidences against various hackers. Always use double VPN or Tor with VPN for better Security.

Anonymous Hackers, with Twitter account " LulzsecReborn " Hack into TweetGif (https://tweetgif.com) and Hack complete Database, Later they publish that on the Internet also. TweetGif is a website which allows you to use animated GIF image as your twitter picture. LulzSec Reborn, a 3.0 version of the earlier LulzSec, have leaked 10,000 Twitter profiles' passwords,  Usernames, real names, locations, bios, avatars and secret tokens used to authenticate their accounts. Pastebin message posted:  The leaked data was uploaded to embed upload and contains a 4 MB SQL file with all the user details . Users table from https://tweetgif.com/ nothing serious like 10.000 twitters… https://www.embedupload.com/?d=9ZMOMGIIQA How Hackers and Spammer can use this? OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve application to act on their behalf without sharing their password. If your Twitter oauth Secret Key and Token get compromised , then the applica...

Flame spy virus going to Suicide The creators of the world's most complicated espionage virus Flame have sent a 'suicide' command that removes it from some infected computers. U.S. computer security researchers said on Sunday that the Flame computer virus, which struck at least 600 specific computer systems in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, has gotten orders to vanish, leaving no trace. The 20-megabyte piece of malware already had a self-destruct module known as SUICIDE that removed all files and folders associated with Flame, but the purging command observed by Symantec researchers instead relied on a file called browse23.ocx that did much the same thing. According to Symantec, the 'suicide' command was "designed to completely remove Flame from the compromised computer," the BBC reports. Computers infected with Flame, including honeypots, have been routinely contacting its C&C servers to check for new commands. W...

CVE-2012-2122 : Serious Mysql Authentication Bypass Vulnerability A serious security bug in MariaDB and MySQL Disclosed, According to Advisory All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. This issue got assigned an id CVE-2012-2122. " When a user connects to MariaDB/MySQL, a token (SHAover a password and a random scramble string) is calculated and comparedwith the expected value. Because of incorrect casting, it might'vehappened that the token and the expected value were considered equal,even if the memcmp() returned a non-zero value. In this caseMySQL/MariaDB would think that the password is correct, even while it isnot. Because the protocol uses random strings, the probability ofhitting this bug is about 1/256 ." " Which means, if one knows a user name to connect (and "root" almostalways exists), she can connect using *any* password by repeatingconnection attempts. ~300 attempts takes only a fraction of second, s...

Online game ' League of Legends ' Compromised A recent slew of security failures have left countless accounts hacked at sites like Linkedin and eHarmoney. Now League of Legends is the latest database to suffer from hackers this week. Riot has sent out a mail to registered League of Legends players in Europe, asking them to change their passwords due to a hackers accessing some player account information. Full details are below, but know that according to Riot," absolutely no payment or billing information of any kind was included in the breach. " but email addresses, encrypted account password, summoner name, date of birth, and for a small number of players – first and last name and encrypted security question and answer. Obviously, this information could be used in phishing scams. Riot Games does encrypt passwords through it warns " our security investigation determined that more than half of the passwords were simple enough to be at risk of easy cracking ". Marc Mer...

Critical Sqli Vulnerability in channel [V] Website A 16 years old White Hat Hacker " Arjun Siyag " from India discover a Critical Sqli Vulnerability in channel [V] Website ( https://www.channelv.in ). Proof of the hack is as shown in above image. Hacker disclose only the admin username and password, which will not effect the admin panel directly,because for login Email ID is required.  SQL Injection is one of the many web attack mechanisms used by hackers to steal data from organisations. It is perhaps one of the most common application layer attack techniques used today. Through SQL Injection, the hacker may input specifically crafted SQL commands with the intent of bypassing the login form barrier and seeing what lies behind it. This is only possible if the inputs are not properly sanitised (i.e., made invulnerable) and sent directly with the SQL query to the database. SQL Injection vulnerabilities provide the means for a hacker to communicate directly to the database. ...

Serious Tumblr Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability can be used to Spread Worms Two Indian Security Researchers Aditya Gupta ( @adi1391 ) and Subho Halder ( @sunnyrockzzs ) have found a serious Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in one of the most famous social networking websites Tumblr. This could be used to steal the cookies of the authenticated user, as well as could be used to make a worm, like the one seen in MySpace (Samy Worm) and Orkut (Bom Sabado) earlier. " We have also tried to contact them via Twitter and mail earlier, but no response from their side. So we have decided to release it. Well, not exactly, where the vulnerability is, but just to let them know that it is vulnerable ." Tumblr is the one of the most popular social networking websites worldwide, and is ranked 37th by Alexa.

Last.fm Confirms They Were Hacked , Change Your Passwords Now After this week's LinkedIn fiasco, it appears the latest tech giant to fall to bored hackers is Last.fm. Music-streaming website Last.fm is the latest organisation to urge its users to change their passwords immediately. The London-based site, owned by CBS, said in an advisory that it was currently investigating a possible leak of passwords but did not provide any further details. The dating site said it is "continuing to investigate" but "as a precaution" has reset affected members passwords.Affected members will receive an email with instructions on how to reset their passwords.eHarmoney, which brands itself as "#1 Trusted Online Dating Site for Singles" has around 20 million registered online users. The breach was confirmed by Last.fm on their official Twitter account overnight, and comes amidst a backdrop of similar breaches, including at LinkedIn where up to 8 million passwords may ha...

Anonymous India takes down MTNL website The hacker-group Anonymous has struck again in India. This time the victim is the MTNL website. The group posted on their website, saying, " We are against Internet Cencorship. Instead of blocking few URLs the ISP blocked the whole domain of various file sharing websites. The HC Madras, DoT didn't isssue any list of websites to be blocked still ISP supported internet censorship. " MTNL's corporate website could not be accessed, following the attack since afternoon and officials said efforts were underway to restore it. MTNL Delhi, Deputy - GM (Internet), Deepak Sharma said it was not hacking but 'denial of service attack' under which the server is unable to provide services to the customers. Anonymous has called for non-violent protests across several cities in India on June 9 to protest against what it alleges as 'censorship' of the internet. It accused the department of telecom of instructing the Internet Service Providers (I...

LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked LinkedIn Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts. Norweigan IT website Dagens IT first reported the breach, noting that "Two days ago a package on the 6.5 million encrypted passwords posted on a Russian hacker site. Vicente Silveira, Director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the company's blog Wednesday afternoon and outlined steps that LinkedIn is taking to deal with the situation. He wrote that those with compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid. "It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases," Linkedn director Vicente Silveira said in the blog post. The file only contains password...