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Albania is the most Malware infected Nation Researchers at Security firms Norman and Microsoft Analyse data from their security products that Albania is the most Malware infected Nation, with 65% of scanned computers reporting infections.  Rest Most Infected Countries are South Korea, Guatemala, Vietnam, Indonesia, Argentina, Thailand, Georgia, the Philippines, Algeria, Venezuela, Lithuania and Pakistan according to Norman Report . Where as Microsoft also shows such reports that the most common category in Albania in Second quarter of 2011 was Worms, which affected 43.7 percent of all computers cleaned in Albania, down from 44.9 percent in First quarter of 2011. The most common threat family in Albania in Second quarter of 2011  was Win32/Autorun, which affected 25.2 percent of computers cleaned in Albania. Win32/Autorun is a family of worms that spreads by copying itself to the mapped drives of an infected computer. The mapped d...

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites The Italian Anonymous Hackers took down the Vatican's website ( Vatican.va ) on Wednesday in retaliation for the "corruption" of the Roman Catholic Church. On an Italian-language website Anonymous accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for various misdeeds throughout history including the burning of heretics during the inquisition. In their statement the group noted : “ Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organisation spreads around the world .” “ This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church. ” Meanwhile, late on Tuesday hackers associated with LulzSec took down and defaced more than 25 websites belonging to Panda Security , claiming the security firm had been " earning money working with Law Enforcement to lu...

THE “ TRUTH ” SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU By:  Patti Galle, Editor  THN. As I look at my guy fawkes mask and reflect on the recent arrest of several lulzsec members, I have a wrenching feeling in my gut to tell the “truth.” Gather around anonymous , lulzsec , FBI, passionate supporters, liberal haters, and people without a clue. I have something to tell you and although the truth may hurt, it is time to find that wrenching in your own gut and step up. Today all focus is on sabu and his taboo relationship with the FBI that caused the arrest of: Ryan ackroyd a.k.a. Kayla, lol, lolsoon jake davis a.k.a. Topiary, atopiary darren martyn a.k.a. Pwnsauce, raepsauce, networkkitten donncha o'cearrbhail a.k.a. Palladium Jeremy hammond a.k.a. Anarchaos, sup_g, burn, yohoho, pow As should yours, my heart goes out to these brave men and their families as they work their way through the corrupt and ill focused justice system for leading the only movement existing in our mis-shapened world...

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network Unidentified hackers have broken into the website of the Turkish government claimed to be Part of Anonymous Group of Hackers. The hackers aimed to access official documents on government correspondence but were prevented from doing so by on-duty information technology experts. Anonymous, members of which have so far attacked many websites worldwide for various reasons. The Prime Ministry tightened cybersecurity measures and implemented a new network firewall following the attack. The website was under DDoS attack for 2 hours. Turkish specialists managed to counter the attacks with new software. There has been no information on data leakage.Attacks were made from State Virginia, USA, and China.

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebook said that its service was unavailable in some European countries this morning because of technical problems. Third parties suggested a problem with Facebook's European DNS servers may have been at the root. These machines connect the address "Facebook.com" with the actual content of the website, and during the outage attempts to contact to them as normal received no response. DownRightNow, which monitors major web services, showed Facebook having suffered ongoing intermittent service until mid-afternoon.CERT.Be, a Belgian government agency, claimed that the outage was due to a DDoS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed. Later Facebook announce, ' The issue ha...