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URGE (Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter) Hijacking Twitter Trends Released by Anonymous Anonymous have created something called Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter, or more simply URGE, which hijacks Twitter trending topics, allowing Anonymous members and supporters to subvert the topic with their own embedded messages. Anonymous is calling it TwitterRaiding. Members of the group say that they are tired of constantly seeing trending topics that are redundant or related to pop culture and created this tool to help create more attention for topics that may have a wider meaning or different kind of impact on other Twitter users. In a statement, members say that, “ This is not a hacking tool nor is it an exploit tool .” A press release on URGE states: To the people of the interwebz, We recently have become tired of seeing trending topics on twitter that were redundant and “pop culture” like. We have also grown tired of Twitter not trending hash tags that actually serve a cause and mean somet...

20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital Last month Stanford University's hospital discovered a massive privacy breach when 20,000 emergency room records appeared online. The records included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, dates of admission and discharge, and billing charges. Social Security numbers, birth dates, credit card accounts or other information that could potentially result in identity theft was not exposed. Even so, the hospital is offering free identity-protection services to all affected patients. The Hospital released the following statement: " An electronic file that an outside vendor’s sub-contractor created and caused to be posted to a website contained limited information about patients seen in the Emergency Department of Stanford Hospital & Clinics between March 1 and August 31, 2009. The Hospital discovered this on August 22, 2011, and immediately took action to ensure removal of the file from the website, which was done within 24...

Hacker Halted USA 2011 - 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend Hacker Halted is a global series of Computer and Information Security conferences presented by EC-Council. The objective of the Hacker Halted conferences is to raise international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT Security. The event is currently in its 14th year. Also present at Hacker Halted is EC-Council's H@cker Halted | Academy, trainings and workshops led by EC-Council instructors and trainers. Hacker Halted returns to Miami for the 3rd year in a row will be held in Miami on 25th and 27th October 2011. Participate and be part of one of the world’s most recognized information security conference. Gain perspective through keynote addresses on the current state of information security as well as emerging trends and threats. An information security conference with a comprehensive agenda. Choose from the various focused tracks covering critical domains of information security. Match your informati...

winAUTOPWN v2.7 – Windows Autohacking Tool This version covers almost all remote exploits up-till mid-July 2011 and a few older ones as well. This version incorporates a few new commandline parameters: -perlrevshURL (for a PERL Reverse Shell URL), – mailFROM (smtpsender) and -mailTO (smtpreceiver). These are the commandline arguments required for a few exploits which require remote connect-back using a perl shell and email server exploits requiring authentication respectively. This version also tackles various internal bugs and fixes them. A complete list of all Exploits in winAUTOPWN is available in CHANGELOG.TXT A complete list of User Interface changes is available in UI_CHANGES.txt Also, in this version : BSDAUTOPWN has been upgraded to version 1.5. In this release you will also find pre-compiled binaries for : FreeBSD x86 FreeBSD x64 DragonFly BSD x86 Download winAUTOPWN v2.7

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, formerly the director of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, will join Sony in the newly created position of chief information security officer and a senior vice president. The new hire signals a heightened seriousness by Sony in the aftermath of an intrusion into its online videogame service earlier this year. The breach compromised the personal information of more than 100 million accounts from its online networks, including the possible loss of some credit card information. Sony said there have been no reports of any credit card data theft. Sony shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming video and music network on April 20...