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Anonymous Hack Syrian President's Emails with Password " 12345 " Hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad's office were leaked on Monday after an attack by the hacker group Anonymous. The target was the mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs and about 78 inboxes of Assad's aides and advisers were hacked and the password that some used was "12345", according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Click here to read the leaked documents,  part one Click here to read the leaked documents,  part two The interview took place amid Syria's increasingly harsh crackdown against civilian protesters. Assad's TV interview with Walters was memorable for his repeated denials that Syrian citizens were being killed. " We don't kill our people ... no government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person ," Assad told Walters. [ Source ]

Symantec releases patch to address pcAnywhere source code exposure Anonymous activists have released source code for PCAnywhere onto the internet, hours after a hacker's negotiations for payment from Symantec broke down. Symantec code exposure turns up danger to pcAnywhere customers.Symantec has released new information and a patch to address the recent code exposure incident. The release followed failed email negotiations over a $50,000 payout to the hacker calling himself YamaTough to destroy the code. The code was posted on the Pirate Bay file-sharing website on Tuesday at around 5:40am. " Symantec has been lying to its customers. We exposed this point thus spreading the world that ppl need" - #AntiSec #Anonymous Spread and share! " said a statement accompanying the download link on Pirate Bay. Symantec has stated that users of pcAnywhere are at increased risk. The Symantec website states that, because of the age of the exposed source, " Symantec anti-viru...

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday, and confirmed by the company, a group of hackers attempted to extort $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not releasing its stolen PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus source code. Hackers associated with the group Anonymous known as the Lords of Dharamaja leaked what appears to be another 1.27 gigabytes of source code from Symantec Monday night, what they claim is the source code of the Symantec program PCAnywhere.  A 1.2GB file labeled " Symantec's pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code " has been posted to The Pirate Bay. We have asked Symantec whether this code is authentic and will update when we hear back. The leak comes as little surprise: Symantec had previously revealed that the hackers had obtained 2006 versions of that code along with other Symantec products from the same time period, and warned users of PCAnywhere to disable its...

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 :  https://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.