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According to Armorize, soccer news site Goal.com was recently found to be serving malware. "In an analysis of the attack, Armorize researcher Wayne Huang suggests that a hacker specifically targeted and compromised Goal.com through a back-door that allowed the attacker to manipulate the site’s content at will," writes threatpost's Brian Donohue. "According to the report, Goal.com was detected on April 27 and 28, 2011 serving up an iframe attack that forwarded visitors to a rogue domain in the .cc top level domain (TLD)," Donohue writes. "That redirect was the first in a chain of events that resulted in the delivery of a known exploit pack, g01pack that targets attacks at the specific operating system and browser version the Goal.com visitor is using. After exploiting the user's browser, further malware, including a Trojan horse program were downloaded to the victim's computer."

On Tuesday, April 26 Sony shared that some information that was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. Once again, Sony’d like to apologize to the many users who were inconvenienced and worried about this situation. Sony want to state this again given the increase in speculation about credit card information being used fraudulently. One report indicated that a group tried to sell millions of credit card numbers back to Sony. To my knowledge there is no truth to this report of a list, or that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list. One other point to clarify is from  this weekend’s press conference . While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why Sony said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our databa...

One more Hacker Website Ub3rHakerz.NET Hacked By Shadow008 (PakCyberArmy) Sites Hacked :  http://ub3rhakerz.net/ Mirror : http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/13604712

Source Code of Osama FaceBook worm Leaked ! Source Code :  http://www.reddit.com/tb/h3mdu

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