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Irfan Shakeel has found xss vulnerability in EESL and Harvard University's Website ! Who is Irfan Shakeel ? Well , Irfan Shakeel ,is a telecommunication engineer from Pakistan, He is a White hat Hacker. He is working as a security researcher for a while. His blog at http://www.ehacking.net/  .The main objective of his blogging is create the security awareness among user's. 1.) Harvard University's Website -  http://news.harvard.edu 2.) EESL - Energy Efficiency Services Limited -  http://www.eesl.co.in

Unkn0wnV1rus said - Indian Reserve Bank is Venerable and easy to hack ! Hello Friends, Last night I got a email from " Unkn0wnV1rus " . He/she submit us a news about " Venerability of Indian Reserve Bank's website " . He claim that he have access to server . Purpose of publishing this news is just to inform Indian Govt. that still India's 99% important sites/servers are venerable. Website Link : brbnmpl.co.in

The Indian Institutes of Management on Monday dismantled the web portal of their Common Admission Test (CAT) amid fears that some students managed to access their results in the 2010 CAT through the website ten days before schedule. The IIMs dismissed speculation that the CAT website “ www.catiim.in ” had been hacked, but admitted late tonight that they had made the portal dysfunctional to prevent any chance of students accessing results ahead of schedule. The results are scheduled to be released on January 12. “Our website has not been hacked. We have voluntarily made the website dysfunctional,” 2010 CAT convenor and IIM Lucknow professor Himanshu Rai told HT. But Rai conceded that some students could have accessed results over a brief period between last night and today morning. “We yesterday started the process of testing out the process of uploading results. If during the period we were testing, someone put in their details, they may have accessed some result details,” Rai a...

" Anonymous ," the shadowy hacktivist group that's attacked PayPal, the record industry and the Church of Scientology, has upped the ante: It's now taking on entire countries. The group launched massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on at least eight Tunisian government websites beginning Sunday night, according to Al Jazeera and the Internet security company Sophos. As of 4 p.m. EST Monday, the official Tunisian government website, www.tunisia.gov.tn , was still offline. Last Thursday, Anonymous launched similar attacks against websites operated by the government of Zimbabwe. Both attacks are part of " Operation Payback ," Anonymous' long-running campaign against organizations it feels are threatening Internet freedoms. Tunisia and Zimbabwe had blocked their citizens' access to Wikileaks last month, after secret U.S. State Department cables unflattering to either country were revealed as part of Julian Assange's huge dip...

New Delhi:   With the growing diversity of operating systems among companies, and the increasing use of mobile devices, cyber criminals will put a new spin on social engineering by 'malware campaign' under which they will bombard recipients with email that drop virus downloaders.       According to an internet security software and service provider Trend Micro study on Threat Predictions for 2011, threat researchers have found that more than 80 per cent of the top malware use the web to arrive on users' systems and every second, 3.5 new threats are released by cyber criminals.       During current year, proof of concept attacks against cloud infrastructure and virtualised systems will emerge. Diversity of operating systems at the endpoints forces the cyber criminals to focus more on critical cloud services and server infrastructures. Further, the report noted that mid-sized companies will be targeted in cyber espionage. The growth ...