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Anonymous Hackers hit 50 Malaysian government websites Malaysia has been hit by a wave of attacks after the " Anonymous " hacker group accused the government of Internet censorship. More than 50 government websites were hit and 41 of them were closed The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said in a statement the attacks on websites with the .gov.my domain started shortly before midnight Wednesday and lasted several hours. Little damage was caused and these were denial of service attacks. Apparently most of the websites have already recovered. Anonymous warned on a website that it would target the government portal www.Malaysia.gov.my on Wednesday. It was still down this morning. It is interesting that it has just woken up to this problem. Malaysia's media operate under strict censorship laws. Until now websites have remained relatively free, due to an official pledge not to censor the Internet in a bit to get foreign cash into the countr...

PayPal vulnerability : Hack any Paypal account within 30 seconds UPDATE :  This has been debunked, Paypal accounts are safe.  http://thenextweb.com  have spoken in depth to Matt Langley, the person who discovered the supposed issue, and it’s clear why he assumed there was a serious security breach but the issue is far less serious than initially thought. Matt Langley explains: “ It seems that the ‘victim’ had opened an account using an email address of mine, with extra characters thrown in, which Gmail ignores and accepts as the same email address, so it was gmail which uncorrupted the email address and sent the emails to me, not Paypal. I had previously reported an account set-up with fraudulent email address to Paypal many times in the past, but only yesterday noticed that the email address was different to mine, in a way which on any other email system in the world would be a different email address. ” OLD : A security vulnerability in PayPal’s ...

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LulzSec take down CIA Website The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Infamous for a series of high-profile hacks on Sony, Nintendo, the PBS, FBI affiliates, LulzSec claimed on Wednesday its responsibility for hacking the website for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. " Tango Down - cia.gov - for the lulz ," the group tweeted at around 6 p.m., June 15 at  http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81115804636155906 Over the weekend, a portion of the Senate website was hacked, and the same website was targeted again on Wednesday. LulzSec was unable to access proprietary data due to a firewall, the Senate acknowledged today. The hacker group tweeted an hour ago, "Lulz Security, where the entertainment is always at your expense, whether you realize it or not. Wrecking your infrastructures since 2011." Its Twitter followers have swelled to nearly 160,000. A CIA spokeswom...

Interview with Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) Inj3ct0r provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and security professionals. The tools and information on this site are provided for legal security research and testing purposes only. The project does not belong to the Turkish, American, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian etc hackers. THN : What is injector Team doing these days , what plans are there about forum and how these things will help beginners ? Inj3ct0r : inj3ct0r is not an institute for beginners.  Forums and all are coming, look out for news alerts. THN : Most of the time we hear that the Injector admin belongs to Pakistan , is it true ? Inj3ct0r : They may be and they may not be from that country.   One of admin says –“ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” ...