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Millions of pcAnywhere users still Vulnerable to hijacking 3 weeks before we reported that Symantec releases patch to address pcAnywhere source code exposure, because attackers had obtained the remote access software's source code. But According to H.D. Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7, estimated 150,000 to 200,000 PCs are running an as-yet-unpatched copy of the Symantec software. While Symantec said it had patched all the known vulnerabilities in pcAnywhere. Symantec has released new information and a patch to address the recent code exposure incident. According to Computerworld report, PCs connected to the Internet, including as many as 5,000 running point-of-sale programs that collect consumer credit card data, could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in the troubled program. Symantec released a patch that eliminates known vulnerabilities affecting pcAnywhere 12.0 and pcAnywhere 12.1.At this time, Symantec recommends that all customers upgrade to pcAnywh...

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data Smartphones are increasingly becoming the preferred device for both personal and professional computing, which has also attracted hackers to increase their focus on creating malware and other security vulnerabilities for these devices. A former McAfee researcher " Dmitri Alperovitch " has used a previously unknown hole in smartphone browsers to plant China-based malware that can record calls, pinpoint locations and access user texts and emails. He conducted the experiment on a phone running Android operating system, although he saysApple Inc.'s iPhones are equally vulnerable. Android is particularly vulnerable because it has become the main operating system for mobile devices. Today most smartphones are android-based therefore there is a huge dividend for hackers to write Android-targeted malware compared to other operating systems. Alperovitch, who has consulted with the U.S. intelligence community, is...

Another #FuckFBIFriday , Anonymous hack FBI partner Infragard As Anonymous has promised that it will attack government, corporate and law enforcement web sites every Friday, So Anonymous has attacked the FBI affiliate Infragard for the second time, this time taking over and defacing the web site of its Dayton, Ohio chapter. Hackers give message " Greetings Pirates! Another #FuckFBIFriday is here and once again we emerge from the hacker underground to wreak havoc upon the 1%'s institutions of repression " . InfraGard is a private non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership between the U.S. businesses and the FBI. However, Anonymous has its own definition - " the sinister alliance between law enforcement, corporations, and white hat wannabees, " the group wrote in a note it posted onto the homepage of InfraGard Dayton, Ohio. Mirror link of hack is here .

Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain Anonymous attacks Official Site of the National Police ( https://policia.es/ ) after the arrests of suspected Anonymous hacktivists . The Spanish branch of the group has reported that six hacktivists have been arrested in Spain over the past few days. The police did not confirm the identity of the suspects, but claimed the force's technological investigation brigade is conducting a large operation. Anonymous Tweet : " @AnonOps 6 #Anonymous were caught by the police in spain. They're talking about a big anti-hack operation" We know. Expect uspolicia.es DOWN | #Anonymous #Spain " . Last week, Following the arrest of three young Anonymous hackers in Greece, the collective carried out a second assault on the ministry of justice's website, defacing its homepage. Last June Anonymous launched #OpPolicia, a successful DDoS attack against the Spanish National Police website. The attack was a direc...

Metasploit Framework 4.2.0 : IPv6, VMware, and Tons of Modules! Since last release in October, Metasploit added 54 new exploits, 66 new auxiliary modules, 43 new post-exploitation modules, and 18 new payloads.  Metasploit 4.2 now ships with thirteen brand new payloads, all added to support opening command sessions and shells on IPv6 networks. In addition, Metasploit's existing arsenal of payloads has been updated to support IPv6 as well. With this release comes a pile of new modules targeting VMware vSphere/ESX SOAP interface, as well as a pair of new brute force modules to audit password strength for both vmauthd and Virtual Web Services. Metasploit 4.2 now ships with fourteen new resource scripts, nearly all of which were provided by open source community contributors. These scripts demonstrate the power of Metasploit's extensible architecture, allowing programmatic Metasploit module usage through the powerful Ruby scripting language. Download Metasploit Framework 4.2....