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Wifi Protector - Protect Your Android From Wi-Fi Sniffing Attacks The only app that is able to countermeasure " Man In The Middle " attacks on Android platform - Wifi Protector . No other app provides this type of high network security. Protects your phone from tools like FaceNiff, Cain & Abel, ANTI, ettercap, DroidSheep, NetCut, and all others that try to hijack your session via "Man In The Middle" through ARP spoofing / ARP poisoning. WifiKill can't take you offline with this app installed. The "Immunity" feature is the only one that requires root, all other features work without root access. Features - Uses very few resources - Uses no resources if Wi-Fi is disabled - Nearly zero battery consumption - Requires very few permissions. Requests only absolutely necessary permissions - Undetectable by the bad guy - 100% silent and passive inside the network. Generates no noise - Highly customizable notifications - Plays ringtone on atta...

DEF-CON Chennai Group DEF-CON Chennai Group 4th meet successfully was held this past weekend on 29th Jan at Le Waterina Resort, Chennai. Team THN also join this Event, It was a nice setup.  " We like to thank each and everyone who attended this meet and made it a success story. We like to thank all the speakers for giving wonderful presentations and speech . Blog post by DCG. List of people who made a difference at DCG Chennai (DC602028) 1) Mr. Hari Krishnan (Organizer) 2) Mr.Viknesvaran (Organizer) 3) Mr. Prateek Dwivedi 4) Mr. Adithya Gupta 5) Mr. Ravi 6) Mr. Kaushal Sharma 7) Mr.Amrinder Singh 8) Mr. Abhinab 9) Mr. Pranav Sharma 10) Mr.Karthick 11) Arush sal For DEF-CON Chennai (DC602028) Official photos:

Syrian president 's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers According to report received to THN editorial, A hacker based out of Saudi Arabia, identified as Salman Al Anzi, claims to have hacked the private email account of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. He also hack a number of Syrian ministries, the Al-Arabiya TV Channel. The hacker threatened to reveal Assad's personal correspondence containing scandalous facts if the president doesn't meet his requirements. According to the city Saudi Arabia, the hacker threatened to Bashar al-Assad download scandals and scandals of his aides and Iran's support for him, and copies of e-Bashar by secret ballot, with said hacker to the size of these scandals, 4 GB, gave the hacker the Saudi ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad for the implementation of conditions, and only carried out what threatened him. The wave of threats from the hacker, Israeli sources said that a Saudi, and announced several thwarted attempts to penetrate the sites ...

NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year's breach of NASA's servers , Royal Navy, The European Space Agency and MySQL.com. The 20-year-old man, named as Razvan Manole Cernaianu , allegedly attacked Pentagon and NASA computer systems, revealed security holes, and published information about SQL injection vulnerabilities he had discovered, the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorist (DIICOT) said in a press release . He also posted a video on his blog demonstrating an attack he carried out against the U.S. government, and created and offered for sale a computer program used to hack Web sites. Through his exploits, Cernaianu blocked access to systems and seriously disabled their proper functioning, authorities said. Currently, Cernăianu is being taken to Buc...

Glances v1.3.7 released - System monitoring tool for Linux Glances is a system monitoring tool for GNU/Linux distributions. It grabs information from your system and display its in a CLI curses screen.Glances can monitor CPU, average load, memory, network interface, disk IO, file system space and processes. When a alert is detected, stat is automatically colored and the processes list sorted by CPU or memory.The latest version (1.3.7) displays a log history in the bottom of the screen with the latests alerts. Glances use a standard GNU style installer: $ tar zxvf glances-1.3.7.tar.gz $ cd glances-1.3.7 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install Get More info from  Documentation  and  Official site . Download Glances v1.3.7 from Here .