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Interpol  #TangoDown , Suspected 25 Anonymous arrested Interpol’s Web site (www.interpol.int) went down Tuesday just hours after the international police agency announced the arrest of 25 suspected members of the hacking collective Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain. The authorities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain carried out the arrests and seized 250 items of IT equipment and mobile phones, Interpol says.Those arrested are aged between 17 and 40. A National Police statement said two servers used by the group in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic had been blocked.It said the four included the alleged manager of Anonymous' computer operations in Spain and Latin America, who was identified only by his initials and the aliases " Thunder " and " Pacotron ". Authorities in Europe, North America and elsewhere have made dozens of arrests, and Anonymous has increasingly attacked law enforcement, military and intelligence-linked targets in retal...

$60000 for Exploiting Google Chrome, Hackers at Pwnium  work... Google has offered prizes, totalling $1 million, to those who successfully hack the Google Chrome browser at the Pwn2Own hacker contest taking place next week i.e 7 March 2012. Chrome is the only browser in the contest's six year history to not be exploited like at all.  Therefore Google will hand out prizes of $60,000, $40,000, and $20,000 for contestants able to remotely commandeer a fully-patched browser running on Windows 7. Finding a "Full Chrome Exploit," obtaining user account persistence using only bugs in the browser itself will net the $60k prize. Using webkits, flash, or a driver-based exploit can only earn the lesser amounts. Prizes will be awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis, until the entire $1 million has been claimed. “ While we’re proud of Chrome’s leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it’s harder to learn and imp...

Secunia PSI 3.0 : Automatic Patching Of Insecure Applications Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free program that scans the system for programs that are installed in an outdated version.The developers have just released the first beta version of Secunia PSI 3.0 for Windows. A new version of the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) tool from vulnerability management firm Secunia automates the updating of third-party programs that don’t already have auto-updaters built-in. When you start the program for the first time after installation, you are asked to run a scan on the system. Secunia compares the list of installed software with the latest versions stored in their database. A list of outdated programs are then displayed in the program interface. Though most software vendors release patches, its tedious for users to find these updates and download them, where Secunia inspector tool identifies vulnerable programs and plug-ins in your Computer, download and installs all t...

Irongeek 's Shared hosting MD5 Change Detection Script Adrian Crenshaw aka  Irongeek  just release another great tool for web admins that will monitor the files on a website, and report any changed via email. Actually " irongeek.com " was hacked few days back which is hosted on a shared hosting. There is an awesome article posted by him on his blog " How I Got Pwned: Lessons in Ghetto Incident Response ". I think after that  Adrian decide to make a handy tool/script to help web admins so that they can easily monitoring there files on a shared server. This simple shell Script user can run on a shared server. Let suppose once hackers get into your website either by exploiting known vulnerabilities in any of the installed programs OR by getting FTP access to your server, the first thing they usually do is to plant backdoor scripts to log them in again at a later date. They need some executable script on the server to gain access to MySQL passwords, installatio...

r00tw0rm leak United Nations Environment Programme database r00tw0rm group of Hackers hack and leak the complete 82.8 MB database from The united nations environment programme ( UNEP ), which is the voice for the environment in the united nations system. Via a tweet, r00tw0rm shout ," United nations environment programme http://pastebin.com/pXXNv2rH @inj3ct0r @AntiSecOp @sanjar_satsura @Oblivi0u5 @AnonymousIRC @OpCensorThis_ " Hackers leaks data on various file hosting sites such as rapidshare . According to leak, 5 databases and 100's of tables with admin logins and users data.  The united nations environment programme ( UNEP ) website is currently down while writing this post. Other Hacks by r00tw0rm can be seen here .