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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer of Apple (AAPL). The company has promoted chief operating officer Tim Cook to the position of CEO and said that Cook will join the company's board of directors. Jobs will become Apple's chairman. Here is a copy of Jobs' resignation letter: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple''s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple''s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a n...

# Anonymous Leaks Nude Pics of # BART Spokesman A member of Anonymous has set up a blog (NSFW) exposing BART spokesman Linton Johnson's, uh, Johnson. The blog shows a couple photos (CAUTION: photos contain nudity) of Johnson cavorting at an outdoor party, pulling down his pants and revealing his dong. Also the message: " If you are going to be a dick to the public, then I'm sure you dont mind showing your dick to the public… " Linton became an Anonymous target after he revealed that he was the one who came up with the idea to shut down cell service at BART stations to prevent protests earlier this month over the shooting death of a homeless man at the hands of BART Police.

Cyber war against Israel have taken very dangerous turn The Cyber war between Egypt and Israel have taken very dangerous turn by setting normal internet users as target for botnet attacks. Since week ago some Egyptian hackers attacked so many Israeli's gov communities and organizations on the internet. Israeli prime minister Netanyahus for example . But yet it wasn't very scary attacks level , as it was far from the normal computer users. In Sudden escalation for the attack level , an Egyptian group launched computer worm which infected about 50000 personal computer in Israel and united states. Despite of my virtual machine security level , it was also infected by the same worm. I (Reuben Rayner) didn't notice that am infected till the attackers launched an exe file which viewed message in the full screen mode. Quits of the attackers message  they started with the word "Anti-Zionism"  " If u can see this message this mean that u either from israel o...

Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom Defaced Cocain hackers Cocain Hacker deface the website of  Egyptian Consulate in United Kingdom. Mirror of hacked site is available on Zone-H .

Knock v1.5  - Subdomain Scanner , allows to bypass wildcard Knock is a python script, written by Gianni 'guelfoweb' Amato, designed to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist. This program is self contained, doesn't need to be installed in any particular location. All it needs is a recent version of Python 2.xOnly for use the Zone Transfer option (-zt) you must install the module dnspython, otherwise you can do without. If the name server allows zone transfers to occur, all the DNS names and IP addresses hosted by the name server will be returned in human-readable ASCII text. Usage $ python knock.py <option> <url> Rapid Scan Scanning with internal wordlist: $ python knock.py <url> Scanning with external wordlist: $ python knock.py <url> <wordlist> Options -zt Zone Transfer discovery: $ python knock.py -zt <url> -dns Dns resolver: $ python knock.py -dns <url> -wc Wildcard testing: $ python knock.py ...