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#OpBART and #Bart-Action : Anonymous hacks myBART, Leaks BART User Info In reaction to BART’s shutdown of cell phone service Thursday, Anonymous has taken to the Internet and begun #opBART and #opMuBARTek (a reference to the Egyptian president’s shutting down that country’s Internet service during protests) a multi-pronged series of actions designed to protest the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s stifling of free speech. There will be a peaceful Anon-organized protest Monday at BART Civic Center Station at 5pm. Attendees are requested to wear either a red shirt or clothes with fake blood stains, and to bring video cameras. On Sunday afternoon, it defaced myBART.org and leaked a myBART user info database.In a press release accompanying the data leak, Anonymous accused BART police of killing innocent passengers, violating people’s right to protest, and preventing bystanders from using emergency services during the cell phone shutdown. BART has issued a Press Release: Press Releas...

100's of Indian Government, Education and Corporate websites Hacked By ZCompany Hacking Crew One of the Famous Pakistani hackers Group " ZCompany Hacking Crew " Once again Hit Large number of Indian websites and Deface. Hacked Websites and Their Mirrors of Hack are listed Here . These are  Indian Government, Education and Corporate websites. The Hack is done for the event of Indian and Pakistan independence day. Both Countries Hack Cyber war from last few years. Message and Reason of Hack mentioned by Hackers " This message is not for Indian government but common Indian people who dont know what their government hides. For those of your politicians who boast of Kashmir being an integral part of India read your own law books:" Indian Penal Code(Act No. 45 of 1860) CHAPTER-II SEC 18: “India”.- “India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir."The 15th of August is special for you because you got freedom on this day yet you shou...

BlackBerry Enterprise Server vulnerable to malicious image file There are remotely and easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that could allow an attacker to gain access to the server by simply sending a malicious image file to a user's BlackBerry device. The vulnerabilities are in several version of BES for Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise, and Research in Motion said that an attacker who is able to exploit one of the bugs might also be able to move from the compromised BES server to other parts of the network. The company has issued a patch for the BES flaws and says that they are at the top of the severity scale in terms of exploitability. The vulnerability in both the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and the BlackBerry Messaging Agent is related to the way that the components handle PNG and TIFF image files. Exploiting the vulnerabilities can be as easy as sending a malicious PNG or TIFF file to a BlackBerry user. In some scena...

Mibbit AJAX IRC client service Hacked Mibbit AJAX IRC client service being hacked. The proof of hack is further backed up by Mibbit’s official statement. Mibbit is a web-based client for modern web browsers that supports Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Mibbit connects to IRC from anywhere on almost any device. There are Mibbit and hundreds of IRC networks for places to chat. The Anonymous sabu tweet that the Mibbit Chat network was Hacked and he had posted a Pastebin link on the tweet about the Mibbit details. On the pastebin Data there where many Personal Data and many links. The Mibbit had detected the unauthorized access to the server which runs their blog. Mibbit shut it down and began investigating . Later today at around 8pm GMT Mibbit shutdown the IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had been accessed maliciously from another server, tools.mibbit.com. Mibbit now know the data's included The personal information of 9 Mibbit operators ...

AOL Postmaster Website hacked by HODLUM AOL’s postmaster.aol.com website was hacked Saturday afternoon by someone who goes by the name “ HodLuM .” The site was slightly defaced with a message from the hacker. “ AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ! ,” the message read. AOL finally discovered the hack, and fixed the page between two and four hours after evidence of the breach was posted to Reddit.com. The various forums where this hack was posted all included various jokes along the lines of, “ AOL still exists?! ” Ouch… The AOL Postermaster blog has so far not responded to the hack. The hack of AOL Postmaster comes at the end of a difficult week for AOL. While the hack of a minor AOL web property has nothing to do with the poor performance of its stock, the incident can only serve to worsen the mood at a company that’s struggling to stay upright.