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University of Washington Vulnerable and Database Leaked by Hacker A few days back, a Team INTRA member hacked into the University of Washington database and released much data. Today, N0B0DY and N0LIFE hacked into it again, releasing the most recent passwords on  Pastebin . The root MySQL password was also released, as well as many other MySQL users. The information_schema database was accessed, and they released the COLUMNS table completely, having 6363 records. Hackers also expose the vulnerable links in Pastebin note. University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The exposed vulnerabilities are of SQL injection. It is a technique used to take advantage of non-validated input vulnerabilities to pass SQL commands through a Web application for execution by a backend database. Attackers take adv...

Australian Nokia Sub Domain Defaced by Hackers Latest News coming from Zone-H that Australian Nokia Sub Domain Defaced by Hacker going with codename - " aldyfrz " an Indonesian hacker. Reason of Hacking is Unclear and Security Breach possibly just Damage the Site. The Hacker Sub domain of Nokia is :  http://press.nokia.com.au  Press Club Site and While writing this update Nokia Restore the site , So if anyone miss to see the Deface page, They can check at  Zone-H  mirror link.

British sensationalist Newspaper Daily Mail Hacked by TeaMp0isoN Yesterday Visitors to the Daily Mail's recipe pages ( http://recipes.dailymail.co.uk/index.htm )  had been confronted with a message left by hackers who defaced and disabled the site. British sensationalist newspaper the Daily Mail has been hit by hackers in support of the online movement Opcensorthis.  News of the hack spread via Twitter and it seems to have happened late afternoon on Sunday, 5 February, and lasted for a couple of hours. A mirror link posted on the TeaMp0isoN Twitter gives those that missed it a look at what the hackers were promoting. " For years you've poisoned the mainstream media with your sensationalist, ultranationalist nonsense, continuing to inject reader's minds with anti- immigration and borderline racist propaganda ," says the text on the deface web page. " Your distorted bias on news is wrongly justified by patriotism and conservatism, though we see through yo...

Malware automatically uploading stolen data to the File sharing sites Roland Dela Paz , a threat response engineer with Trend Micro have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. File-storage services offer several advantages for cybercriminals. SendSpace accepts files and then generates a link that can be shared with other people to download the content in the files. The malware has been configured to send files, copy the download link and send it to a command-and-control server along with the password needed to access the archive, Dela Paz wrote. Here is a screenshot of the Sendspace page leading to the archive of collected documents. Malware utilizing free online services are definitely not unheard of. Utilizing a public file hosting site is yet another clever way for cybercriminals to store stolen data as they do not need to set up a server that will store large amou...

In our Last Month Magazine Issue, Lee Ives from London, England and Admin of Security-FAQs - talk about internet security for your children and what to watch out for and how to protect them and yourself. You can Download Here Special The Hacker News Magazine January 2012 Edition. Have a look the interesting Article shared by Lee : The one thing that is great about the internet is that just like many of the other major mediums it has content for all different types of age groups. If you have older people that you need to entertain then you will be able to find something for them to be entertained by on the web. If you have younger kids that you have to entertain then you will find something for them as well. But unlike the other major mediums such as TV, you have a more diverse stock from which to pick from. With the internet you are getting content from all around the world and no matter which age group you need to entertain, you will be able to find something for the...