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13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man " Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation “Phish Phry” in 2009. The two year long Operation Phish Phry saw US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US Attorney’s Office working in unison with the Egyptian law enforcement agencies. The US District Court for the Central District of Los Angeles had sentenced Lucas to 11 years in prison late last week. Read More Here

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet " MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D " We have check that is  MasterCard.com is really down & YEAH , Its down (  Via  ). The Ddos Attack is in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous by Hackers. This can be the part of Operation Antisec started by Lulzsec and Anonymous Together. It’s irrelevant if the ip's are traceable or not. It will not be possible for any police or court differentiate between the users who voluntered to the task and the ones who had their computer hijacked (with a virus). This is 2nd time MasterCard becomes the target of Anonymous.

774 Websites hacked by ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC) Pakistani hackers Group " ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC)" Hack 774 more websites. They leave a message on every deface page as shown.  The list of hacked sites , mirrors and Message is posted by them on Pastie at  http://pastie.org/2132590

Double nibble URI decoding XSS Vulnerability on   EC Council website What EC Council is ? They offers certifications in certified ethical hacker ceh, Computer Security, network security, internet security program and computer forensics and penetration testing. Information Security, Ethical Hacking, Computer Forensics, Advanced Penetration Testing, Application Security, Disaster Recovery and other critical Information Security Topics and Security Courses. XSS POC : Link : Click Here Submitted By :  Nulled Byte

2000 Websites defaced by The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) Tunisian HaCker 17 Years old The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) from Tunisia strike again to 2000 websites with mass defacement. List/Mirror of hacked sites are here :  http://www.zone-h.com/archive/notifier=The%20077   (Use proxy to open link, if your are not able to open it directly)