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#FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous, cia.gov Tango Down ! Anonymous has struck again at Central Intelligence Agency, The site went down about 3:10 p.m. apparently under a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. No specific reason for the attack was announced, nor were any specific groups or individuals within Anonymous named as the attackers. Anonymous took credit for crashing the websites of the US Department of Homeland Security, which was quickly revived, and the FBI. CIA's site is still down even two hours after the attack. One of the twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous issued a statement on the reasons of the attack: " We do it for the lulz, " referring to the popular online abbreviation " for laughs ." Two weeks ago, the online group also released the audio of a conference call between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain's Scotland Yard counterpart targeting members of the largely untraceable group. It was done as part of th...

BFT- Browser forensic tool Released by DarkCoderSc From the Developer of Famous DarkComet RAT Tool, DarkCoderSc Yesterday Release Another Interesting tool called BFT- Browser forensic tool. Browser forensic tool, is a software that will search in all kind of browser history (even archived) in a few seconds.It will retrieve URLS and Title with the chosen keywords of all matching search.You can use default example profiles or create yours, with thematic search. You can Download it from here :  BFT Download Video Demonstration: 

Iran Shutdown Google ,Yahoo & other Major sites using Https Protocol We Received latest reports from Iran ,Governments has blocked access to the major sites plus websites using certain Https protocol like Gmail, Google ,Yahoo. On the eve of the anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the country's monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic republic. At the same time nobody can even use banking websites in Iran because all of them using "Https" to encode the sensetive data . As well as Yahoo, Gmail, Google and all sites that rely on the search giant's API such as WolframAlpha. Sites such as BMI.ir , BPI.ir and Parsian-Bank.com are also apparently banned. There is Online Service  https://www.blockediniran.com  , where you can check that Is there any site blocked in Iran or Not ? We check the " google.com " as shown,but it showing that site is Working. This Condition until Esfand, next month in Persian calender after the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolu...

Listen to your instincts when it comes to the web Lee Ives from Security-FAQs talk about Internet Security in January Edition of The Hacker News Magazine . When you are on the web the best thing that you can do is to go with your instincts. In real life, when we walk around, we usually go with our gut to make sure that we stay out of danger. If something does not seem right we usually "sense" it for lack of a better term. This is not something that is new. This is how we survived in the wilderness all of those many years ago. We made sure that we stayed safe by following our instincts and doing the right thing. All of these years later and that same advice still holds up to be true. But like we said in the previous paragraph, you have to worry about following your instincts when you are on the web as well. There are many different kinds of pitfalls that you can encounter when you are on the web. It doesn't matter whether it is meeting the wrong type of person or it is downloading...

THC-HYDRA 7.2 - Fast and Flexible network login Bruteforce Tool Updated One of the most famous network logon cracker – THC-HYDRA 7.2 get latest Update . Hydra is a parallized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modulesare easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.Hydra was tested to compile on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris 11, FreeBSD 8.1 and OSX, andis made available under GPLv3 with a special OpenSSL license expansion. Hydra is best for Samba, FTP, POP3, IMAP, Telnet, HTTP Auth, LDAP, NNTP, MySQL, VNC, ICQ, Socks5, PCNFS, Cisco and more. Includes SSL support and is part of Nessus. Changelog v7.2 Speed-up http modules auth mechanism detection Fixed -C colonfile mode when empty login/passwords were used (thanks to will(at)configitnow(dot)com for reporting) The -f switch was not working for postgres, afp, socks5, firebird and ncp, thanks to Richard Whitcroft for reporting! Fixed NTLM auth in http-proxy/http-proxy-url module Fixed ...