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BackTrack 5 R1 Released - Penetration Testing Distribution BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you're making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite thumbdrive, BackTrack has been customized down to every package, kernel configuration, script and patch solely for the purpose of the penetration tester. Official BackTrack 5 R1 change log: This release contains over 120 bug fixes, 30 new tools and 70 tool updates. The kernel was updated to 2.6.39.4 and includes the relevant injection patches. According to the guys at OffSec, This release is their best one yet! Some pesky issues such as rfkill in VMWare with rtl8187 issues have been fixed, which provides for a much more solid experience with BackTrack.We've have Gnome and KDE ISO images for 32 and 64 bit (no arm this release),...

78000 Indian Blogs Hacked by ZHC Each and every blog hosted on  Blog.co.in  has been hacked by ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW. There are around 78000 blogs hosted on this service , Represent Indian blogs Service.  Reason of Hacking By hackers : ZCompany Hacking Crew Observes Black Day with the people of Indian occupied Kashmir on 15th August.  Free Kashmir .. Freedom is our goal..// End the Occupation. . . . List of all the websites that were hacked: https://www.2shared.com/document/pneC3OHn/blogcoin.html Mirror of Hacks available here :  https://mirror.sec-t.net/hacker/?s=1&user=ZCompanyHackingCrew

#OpBart : BART Police database hacked by Anonymous A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked by Anonymous Hackers and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online HERE . Some say it was Anonymous, some say it was a n00b mademoiselle wielding a +1 SQL injection. This is the second attack was launched on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) yesterday that led to the personal details of 102 police officers being leaked. Anonymous appeared to remove itself from the blame, saying on one of its Twitter feeds that ' no one claimed responsibility for the hack ' and that 'some random Joe joined a channel and released the data to the press'. It said: " The leak today of BART officer data could be the work sanctioned by those who truly support Anonymous, or agent provocateurs.   People who are against Anonymous know they can do things under the name 'Anonymous' and never be questioned. This is Anonym...

Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) Hacked for #Antisec Operation AntiSec is targeting defense contractors again. Continuing their beef with law enforcement, and organizations that offer them support, they have targeted Richard Garcia, the Senior Vice President of Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) . AntiSec plans to release nearly 4,713 emails and thousands of documents taken during the breach. AntiSec targeted VDI's website due to their relationship with several law enforcement agencies from Texas and other parts of the U.S., as well as their relationship with the FBI, the DHS, and U.S. Marshals Service. Moreover, with this hack Antisec (in)directly targeted FBI since Richard Garcia is the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's field office in Los Angeles. To those supporting AntiSec, this alone is reason enough to target VDI and release Garcia's corporate email to the public. " Any private corporation supporting US military or law enforcement operations are legitimate...

Samsung hires Android hacker Cyanogen Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik is best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android, an after market customised firmware bringing new features and functionality to the Android platform. There's no information yet on whether Samsung is interested in CyanogenMod, or more in Kondik himself, but the programmer and hacker has said the move will allow him to use his talents in " the real world ," while development of CyanogenMod continues as usual. The Cyanogen firmware caters to more than 40 different Android devices and brings such functionality as native theming, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), an OpenVPN client, USB tethering, and claims increased performance and reliability over official firmware releases. Kondik has on occasion received input from Google on the development of the platform and as of mid-July it had been downloaded and installed on more than half a million devices. [ source ]