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Protecting Your BlackBerry Smartphone with Security Wipe The BlackBerry device is a wonderful thing. We load our BlackBerries with various softwares and applications to increase our productivity and customize them with interesting themes and ringtones. We watch movies and play games and track day to day activities. All of these things require passwords and usually involve storing data on our devices that is sensitive in nature. So what if you want to wipe your BlackBerry clean? There are a number of reasons why you might want to wipe out your Blackberry. Perhaps you have switched jobs and need to submit your BlackBerry into your new IT department so they can set it up for their network. You wouldn't want them to have access to your previous employers data would you? Perhaps you have purchased a new model of BlackBerry and would like to gift your previous model to a friend or sell it on ebay. The same rule applies, you do not want them to see what you were using your Blackberry...

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked ! Hackers of Team Sector 404 have breached the Spanish Web site for the United Nations Refugee Agency ACNUR . Group claims to be working with Anonymous. Hackers was able to breach site with SQL Injection vulnerability . They leaked Barack Obama's email address, username, password (not in clear text), personal phone number and a login ID as shown. Other individuals whose information was leaked are Dirk Wildt from Die Netzmacher and Schaffstein from a non-profit organization called TYPO3 .Info of Other United Nation members also leaked from database. The team of hackers include  PHANTOM, RAWR, IO93, V, ZD4P50N, SPECTRUS, ANONGUS, FIBO,HACKW32, ADREX,NEKA, JJ, & ESCUADRON SPY PEOPLE Y HACKERSMX219 involve in this Hack as  Sector 404.

Cain & Abel v4.9.43 Released Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems.It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary and brute force attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. Change Log : Added SAP R/3 sniffer filter for SAP GUI authentications and SAP DIAG protocol decompression. Added support for Licensing Mode Terminal Server connections to Windows 2008 R2 servers in APR-RDP sniffer filter. Added support for MSCACHEv2 Hashes (used by Vista/Seven/2008) in Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks. Added MSCACHEv2 Hashes Cryptanalysis via Sorted Rainbow Tables. Added MSCACHEv2 RainbowTables to WinRTGen v2.6.3. MS-CACHE Hashes Dumper now supports MSCACHEv2 hashes extraction from Windows Vista/Seven/2008 machines and offline registry files. Fixed a bug (crash) in Certificate Collector wit...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees said was an attempt to jam information on parliamentary elections. " The attack on the website on election day is apparently tied to an attempt to publish information about violations ," chief editor of the independent-minded Ekho Moskvy radio Aleksei Venediktov wrote in his Twitter blog. Websites of Forbes Russia, Bolshoi Gorod and New Times magazines, Slon.ru news portal, Golos election watchdog and its Kartanarusheniy.ru website that was supposed to map vote fraud were down throughout most of Sunday.These media organizations and the watchdog have pledged to report voting violations from all over Russia live.Independent and opposition media, as well as the LiveJournal social network that ha...

XSS Vulnerability On Twitter Found by 15 Years Old Expert A 15 years old XSS Expert " Belmin Vehabovic(~!White!~) " discovered XSS Vulnerability On Twitter and report us. The Vulnerable link is here . Even He also Discovered XSS Vulnerability in Facebook also as tweeted by him Yesterday  &Facebook is offering him $700 as Bounty.