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Channel.facebook.com cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability by Edgard Chammas Security researcher Edgard Chammas, has submitted on 02/04/2011 a cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting 1.61.channel.facebook.com, which at the time of submission ranked 2 on the web according to Alexa. It is currently unfixed. Link :  https://1.61.channel.facebook.com/iframe/11?r=https://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/1.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22The%20Hacker%20News%22)%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3E

Crif.org defaced by participants in # Anonymous The website of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France or the Representative Council for Jewish Institutions of France was defaced by the hackers on steroids over in Anonymous' operation palestine or #oppalestine. At the time of this writing the website www.crif.org is still defaced. here's a picture to immortalize the action.

Anonymous successfully taken down https://www.sonypictures.com/ and https://www.sonypictures.co.uk The Sony PS3 console was "hacked" or more appropriately, jail broken, by iPhone hacker, Geohot. Anonymous managed to reverse engineer his own PlayStation 3 to run home brew applications on it.And then later released the method to the public, through his site, geohot.com Sony hit Anonymous with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages/videos.Pay pal have granted access to Sony for them to view Geohot's Pay Pal account. The judge of the case has given permission to Sony to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com Sony are also after another group of hackers for the same case. The PS3 hack which GeoHot released can be compared to the "unlocking" of a phone. i.e. Once you purchase the phone, it's yours, you can do whatever it is you want with it. L...

QNet confirmed that E -commerce portal was down due to DDoS attack QNet has confirmed that its e-commerce portal was recently the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. This caused its main website to be offline for over 36 hours. QI Group IT Director, TG Kintanar said, "As a global direct selling company with a busy trading portal, it is not unusual for QNet to become a target for such attacks, although this has never happened before." QNet is a subsidiary of the QI Group of Companies. "Let me stress that the cyber-attack on our website was not the work of hackers. The DDoS merely blocked customers' access to our services, causing them great inconvenience. However, as QNet's online security measures were in place, our customer database remained intact throughout the attack. Nothing was compromised." Kintanar said. He added that upon noticing the attack on March 9, the QNet IT team immediately started working round-the-clock to set up an alternate transacti...

Kroger Customer Database Hacked ! The company announced in an e-mail to customers their system has been hacked by someone outside the company. This means the hacker had access to customer names and e-mail addresses contained in the Kroger database. Kroger stresses only the names and e-mail addresses of customers who voluntarily submitted those addresses to the company may be affected. Kroger says you may receive spam messages from senders you do not know. So, if you receive an e-mail from an unknown sender, do not open it. For more information, you can call Kroger customer service at 800-KROGERS.