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25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he “made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply” a computer program to hack into a Facebook server, Westminster magistrates’ court heard. Mangham, a resident of York, was arrested by the e-Crime Unit of the Metropolitan Police in June this year; and has been charged with five offences under the Computer Misuse Act. Mangham is currently on bail, and like all accused hackers has been prohibited from accessing anything even resembling a computer. " The court feels it will be safer if there was no access to the internet which will reduce the temptation for your son to go on to Facebook ," said Judge Evans. As per Facebook, no personal information had been compromised during the hacks attempted by Mangham. The social network also added that it had been ...

PDD - Packet Dump Decode Released PDD is an open-source program created by Srivats.Packet Dump Decode (pdd) is a simple convenient GUI wrapper around the Wireshark/Ethereal tools to convert packet hexdumps into well formatted xml containing the decoded protocols and protocol contents.You need to have Wireshark installed, because PDD is only a wrapper around Wireshark. Convert hexdumps to - Tree-View (within application) Pcap file and open with Wireshark/Ethereal Text description of packet contents XML description of packet contents Download

Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability at Google Appspot The Google Appspot " ClickDesk " login page is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting attack. Cross Site scripting attack is a critical issue in web application. When an attacker gets a user's browser to execute his/her XSS code, the code will run within the security context (or zone) of the hosting web site. With this level of privilege, the code has the ability to read (keylogging), modify and transmit any sensitive data accessible by the browser. A Cross-site Scripted user could have his/her account hijacked (cookie theft), their browser redirected to another location, or possibly shown fraudulent content delivered by the web site they are visiting. The vulnerability can easily be amplified by publicly available tools like Cross Site Scripting framework (XSSF), Cross Site Scripting harvest perl (XSS-Harvest) and so on. Proof of concept: The following proof-of concept sample will do a HTTP POST to trigger the XSS vuln...

Korean HSBC bank hacked TurkGuvenligi (TG) TurkGuvenligi (TG) Hacker Hack and deface the  Korean HSBC bank website. Mirror of Hack is also available here . Same hacker deface the Websites of Free Gary McKinnon Campaign last week.

Biggest ISP in Kuwait Qualitynet Side-Server Database Leaked AnonKuwait claim to hack the Biggest ISP in Kuwait " Qualitynet " and leaked  14MB of data in sql format  server-side database. Penetration of one of Qualitynet servers working for Ministry of Education having a database containing high school graduating students information. The server is moe.qualitynet.net . Hacker have hacked the whole server and extracted an SQL dump. Qualitynet is the biggest internet service provider in Kuwait. It owns a very big network connected to other countries in Middle East. Qualitynet shocked us all in InfoConnect exhibition when it increased the pricing of their services by 70% and it shocked us again by applying the unfair downstream cap policy. Qualitynet is one of the major factors in setting the decision of cap policy which angered people of Kuwait toward these unlawful unacceptable decisions. Qualitynet does not provide the perfect security so we encourage differen...