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Anonymous , LulzSec & Stuxnet nominated for Pwnie Awards 2011 for Epic 0wnage The nominees for the Pwnie Awards 2011 are finally selected today. Anonymous are nominated for hacking HBGary , LulzSec for hacking everyone & Stuxnet also nominated in  Epic 0wnage. More Details on Nominations Read Here Next week the judges will gather at an undisclosed location and vote on the winners, who will be announced during the awards ceremony on Aug 3rd in Las Vegas.

300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu In a tweet , P0keu posted a link to PasteBin which appears to be e-mail accounts and passwords of 300 military and government accounts used the same password as their actual e-mails, then the contents of their e-mail account will also be exposed. The PasteBin dump says it contains 290 accounts. A large number of them end in .mil and .gov. Just a point of clarification, this doesn't appear to be actual e-mail accounts and passwords, but rather, a website that uses people's e-mail accounts as a log-in name. So the account to the website is exposed. If the password used with the e-mail is the same as the password for that actual e-mail address, then that e-mail might also be exposed along with who knows what else that is tied to that account. Amongst those accounts that are exposed, there appears to be accounts from the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Deparment of Homeland Security, the NSA, the Pentagon and several others. ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Released Red Hat has updated Enterprise Linux 5.7, which now includes several features from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The operating system processors supports deployments on Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z architectures. Highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include: Hardware enablement Support for new hardware from Red Hat partners encompassing processors, chipsets and new drivers for storage, networking, and graphics allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 deployments to benefit from new hardware platforms delivered in 2011, including Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z. Virtualization improvements Several virtualization enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 include improved migration performance for KVM, as well as several performance and scalability improvements for the Xen hypervisor. SCAP support OpenSCAP introduces support for the Security Content Automation Protocol, including a library and set of utilities, giving a stan...

I had the honor of hosting the first episode of the Xposure Podcast live from Xposure Summit 2025. And I couldn't have asked for a better kickoff panel: three cybersecurity leaders who don't just talk security, they live it. Let me introduce them. Alex Delay , CISO at IDB Bank, knows what it means to defend a highly regulated environment. Ben Mead , Director of Cybersecurity at Avidity Biosciences, brings a forward-thinking security perspective that reflects the innovation behind Avidity's targeted RNA therapeutics. Last but not least, Michael Francess , Director of Cybersecurity Advanced Threat at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, leads the charge in protecting the franchise. Each brought a unique vantage point to a common challenge: applying Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to complex production environments. Gartner made waves in 2023 with a bold prediction: organizations that prioritize CTEM will be three times less likely to be breached by 2026. But here's the kicker -...

CNAIPIC  - Italian government hacked by Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked CNAIPIC - Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche /National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection hacked by Anonymous Hackers for Antisec Operation. Various Documents has been leaked via a pastebin message .  Message By Hackers on Pastebin : Heynow, This is a prerelease of a series we are going to make to reveal the biggest in history of European LE cyber operation Evidence exploitation and abuse. Thing's gonna get published and twittered all over anonymous and lulzsec community. Today we were granted with the Italian law enforcement Pandora box, we really think it shall be a new era of "regreaissance" to the almighty Homeland Security Cyber Operation Unit in EU. So we decided to leak everything they got since they were established as a full scale cyber taskforce named CNAIPIC. This corrupted o...

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822) VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore) Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be ...