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The Korean Times reports the arrest of a pair of hackers over the weekend on DDoS charges. According to prosecutors, the pair, Lee and Park, operated a gambling website on behalf of a crime gang. In an effort to boost traffic to their own site, they used a 50,000-strong botnet to overload 109 rival sites during November and December 2010. A botnet, of course, is a collection of malware-infected computers (often called "zombies") which can remotely be instructed to initiate network-related activity. Sending spam is a common criminal task for which zombies are used; visiting targeted websites deliberately to waste their bandwidth is another. Since most web requests look alike, distinguishing the web hits of malevolent time-wasters from those of potential customers can be tricky. Sites which don't usually get a large number of simultaneous requests often aren't built to sustain heavy load. Prosecutors also allege that Lee, who runs a server rental company - ironically th...

Evidence, leaked accidentally, points to Chinese based miscreants’ knowledge, and potential exploitation, of the latest  Microsoft Corporation  (NasdaqGS:  MSFT )  Internet Explorer  zero day, via a recently released  Google Inc.’s  (NasdaqGS:  GOOG ) researcher’s( Michal Zalewski ) fuzzer application… Ooops. More, after the jump. A renowned Google researcher who this week released a new free fuzzer that so far has found around 100 vulnerabilities in all browsers says Chinese hackers appear to have gotten their hands on one of the same bugs he discovered with the tool. Google’s Michal Zalewski unleashed the so-called cross_fuzz tool on New Year’s Day and announced the fuzzer to date uncovered more than 100 vulnerabilities, many of them exploitable, in all browsers. In a bizarre twist, Zalewski says an accidental leak of the address of the fuzzer prior to its release helped reveal some unexpected intelligence, namely that “third parties in China” ...

Angel Found Venerability in Alnasir.com.pk ! Link to site :  http://alnasir.com.pk/ News Source : Angel via Email

A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking the e-mail account of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign has begun his one-year sentence in an unfenced federal prison camp in Kentucky, authorities said Thursday. According to a statement issued by spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 23-year-old David Kernell reported at the minimum security camp in Ashland, Kentucky on January 10 to begin serving out his sentence. Kernel's imprisonment at the Kentucky prison camp came despite a recommendation by sentencing Judge Thomas Phillips that he should serve out his term at a halfway house to reflect the "unique circumstances" of the case. In his ruling made in November, Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips had recommended that David Kernell be allowed to serve out his time at the Midway Rehabilitative Center on Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville, a half way house located near the college where Kernell took classes this summer. In...

5 websites hacked by Pak Cyber Combat Squad ! Hacked List : http://www.4lifecostarica.net/Ibrarz.html http://www.abisdentalcare.com/Ibrarz.html http://www.churchcomplements.com/Ibrarz.html http://www.lafuentedelosmariscos.com/Ibrarz.html http://www.germanruiz.com/Ibrarz.html News Source : Pak Cyber Combat Squad