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Anti-cuts campaigners from  UK Uncut   have hacked into the website of phone giant Vodafone ( http://worldofdifference.vodafone.co.uk/ ) and posted blogs claiming the company has avoided millions of pounds in tax. The group, set up to oppose government cuts and corporate tax avoidance, has staged hundreds of direct action protests against companies and banks since it was formed five months ago, many focusing on alleged tax avoidance. Activists took over the blogs on the  World of Difference  website, the company's corporate and social responsibility initiative, demanding the company "pays its tax". Twenty minutes after activists hacked that section of Vodafone's website, it appeared to have been taken down. The World of Difference programme awards small grants to young people to undertake charity work and each winner has a blog on the website. UK Uncut were leaked the password details by a small group of the winners, who were angry at the fi...

SourceForge , the popular project hosting site, has released  Allura , the software that powers its service, as  Apache 2.0  licensed open source. The project to develop Allura began in 2009 and currently an instance of the software, which has also been known as "New Forge" or "Forge 2.0" during development, runs on SourceForge's servers. Allura is a Python based application which makes use of the NoSQL database MongoDB, the Solr search server and the RabbitMQ messaging platform, to deliver the repositories, wikis, trackers and forums to users allowing them to manage their projects. The developers also use nose to provide a suite of unit tests for the application. By design, Allura is extensible in a number of ways, most notably by basing new tools on  allura.Application  which provides themes, authentication and other pluggable APIs to Allura components. Allura was actually "soft launched" in February, in anticipation of a full launch this month, and...

Blazing Star (Pakistani website) Defaced by Crash Viperr & CyberDog ! Hacked Site :   http://www.blazingstar.com.pk/ News Source : Crash Viperr & CyberDog !

The  European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) , Europe’s Cyber security agency, issued a report focused on botnets this week titled, “ Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence. ” The report discusses the reliability of botnet size estimates and provides recommendations and strategies to help organizations fight against botnets. In addition, ENISA published a list of what it considers the top 10 key issues for policymakers in ' Botnets: 10 Tough Questions. ' The 154 page " Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence " report includes different types of best practices to measure, detect and defend against botnets from all angles. The countermeasures are divided into 3 main areas: neutralizing existing botnets, preventing new infections and minimizing the profitability of cybercrime using botnets. The recommendations cover legal, policy and technical aspects of the fight against botnets and give targeted recommendations ...

A total of 35,000 websites on the Chinese mainland were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to the Internet security report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC) on March 9. The report shows that the IP addresses of 5 million domestic host computers were infected with a trojan horse or corpse virus. According to the report, government websites are vulnerable to hacker attacks and websites of financial institutions have become the main targets of hackers. According to the monitoring by the CNCERT/CC, 35,000 websites on Chinese mainland were victims of hackers in 2010, a decrease of 22 percent from 2009. Of them, however, 4,635 were government websites, an increase of 68 percent from a year earlier. Around 60 percent of ministerial-level websites have potential security risks to various degrees. “Hackers use two main means to attack government websites. One means i...