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Selena Gomez  has warned fans to ignore a series of hateful messages posted on her  Twitter  and  Facebook. com pages, after her online accounts were targeted by hoaxers. The Wizards of Waverly Place star's pages on the social networking sites were taken over by hackers earlier this week. Imposters confused fans with a series of profanity-riddled messages, including, "THE KID ON 4CHAN.ORG IS A LIEN F**KER HE DIDNT HACK S**T!!!!," and, "This message is for puha, YOU SUCK B**CH!!!" The unauthorized posts have since been deleted. And Gomez has taken to her Facebook page to warn fans to ignore the mean messages, assuring them the problem is being fixed. She wrote, "Sorry everyone. My Facebook Page and Twitter account has been hacked and we are cleaning it up." News Source : Om Rathore

DarkComet-RAT (Remote Administration Tool) is software design to control in the best condition and comfort possible any kind of Microsoft Windows machine since Windows 2000. This software allow you to make hundreds of functions stealthy and remotely without any kind of authorization in the remote process. This software is a long time project, started the August 2008, DarkComet-RAT is now one of the best and one of the most stable RAT ever made and totally free. – (that’s what we like more about DarkComet RAT) This RAT provides most of the features provided by others. Download  DarkComet RAT v3.0   here News Source : Dark Commet

“DFF (Digital Forensics Framework) is a simple but powerful tool with a flexible module system which will help you in your digital forensics works, including file recovery due to error or crash, evidence research and analysis, etc. DFF provides a robust architecture and some handy modules.“ This is the change log: Lib EWF support : The LibEWF [1], developed by Joachim Metz, has been included as a connector. It provides support for Encase(R) file format (E01/S01 format). Bookmarks : It is now possible to bookmark interesting nodes and sort them by categories. The aim is to gather relevant files when performing analysis. Bookmarked nodes can then be used by other modules and also extracted. Advanced Hexadecimal viewer : Features used to resolve the DFRWS 2010 challenge [2] have been included. These features are very useful when studying unknown data structures or performing advanced files analysis. This upgraded version of the hexadecimal viewer provides three new visualization mo...

“ Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education .” This update fixes many vulnerabilities such as the one with MAC-LTE dissector and the ENTTEC dissector. The following protocols have been updated – AMQP, ASN.1 BER, ASN.1 PER, CFM, CIGI, DHCPv6, Diameter, ENTTEC, GSM A GM, IEEE 802.11, InfiniBand, LTE-PDCP, LTP, MAC-LTE, MP2T, RADIUS, SAMR, SCCP, SIP, SNMP, TCP, TLS, TN3270, UNISTIM and WPS. You can now read captures via the Endace ERF, Microsoft Network Monitor and VMS TCPtrace file formats. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 1.4.3 release notes. Download Wireshark v1.4.3 & Wireshark v1.2.14 here . News Source : Wireshark

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour’s plan for biometric identity cards.  That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to increase Internet Security by creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet.  The US government is stressing this is not a national identity card system, though it would be hard to see how it would not be used as such by law enforcement and banks. A spokesperson said “We are not talking about a national ID card, we are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy; reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.” Many banking websites already use your existing card with a chip and pin reader to authenticate your usage....