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Inj3ct0r Team found cross site scripting vulnerability in  4shared , a file sharing site. Vulnerability link is exposed in a note  available at their website.  In general, cross-site scripting refers to that hacking technique that leverages vulnerabilities in the code of a web application to allow an attacker to send malicious content from an end-user and collect some type of data from the victim. Also same hackers claiming to get access over a private server of NATO Library and expose the links online. Website titled " NATO Multimedia Library Online Catalog ". Inj3ct0r member told The Hacker News , " We found another secret NATO server. We received a root on the server and gave the world the hidden database to NATO personnel. Now everyone can look for a secret document ." These three servers are available online without authorization, but its not confirm that servers got hacked or not.

Lulzsec Hacker , Jeffrey Hammond faces a potential prison sentence of more than 30 years if found guilty of all charges filed against him. U.S. District Court chief judge Loretta Preska, who presided over a bail hearing for Hammond want last week. Hammond was also charged with using some of the stolen credit card data to help make $700,000 in unauthorized charges, and accused of participating in a hack of the Arizona Department of Public Safety website. " In early May 2012, a federal grand jury handed down a superseding indictment in the case against alleged LulzSec and Anonymous leaders, accusing Hammond of masterminding the LulzSec and Anonymous attacks against the website of Stratfor (a.k.a. Strategic Forecasting), beginning in December 2011. " Informationweek said . " At last week's hearing in a Southern District of New York federal courtroom, Hammond's defense attorney, Elizabeth Fink, suggested that the FBI may have used entrapment to catch her client, ...

The UN nuclear watchdog has acknowledged one of its former computer servers had been hacked. The stolen information was contained in a statement by a group with an Iranian-sounding name calling for an inquiry into Israel's nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is investigating Iran's nuclear program. A group called Parastoo Farsi for the swallow bird and a common Iranian girl’s name claimed responsibility for posting the names on its website two days ago. The group had been known to be critical of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program. “ The IAEA deeply regrets this publication of information stolen from an old server that was shut down some time ago ,” agency spokesperson said and agency experts had been working to eliminate any “ possible vulnerability ” in it even before it was hacked. Israel and the United States accuse Iran of seeking to develop a nuclear weapons capability, a charge Tehran denies, and says the Islamic state is th...

Once again a zero day vulnerability exploit is sold by cyber criminals in the underground, once again a the flaw is related to Oracle’s Java software that could allow to gain remote control over victim's machine. The news has been reported by KrebsOnSecurity blog that announced that the exploit being sold on an Underweb forum. The vulnerability is related to the most recent version of Java JRE 7 Update 9, it isn't present in previous versions of the framework, in particular the bug resides within the Java class “MidiDevice according the info provided by the seller that describes it with following statements: “ Code execution is very reliable, worked on all 7 version I tested with Firefox and MSIE on Windows 7 ,” “ I will only sell this ONE TIME and I leave no guarantee that it will not be patched so use it quickly. ” The exploited class is a component of Java that handles audio input and output. It's easy to understand that similar vulnerability has a great value du...

Anonymous Hacker managing Operation Syria ( OpSyria ) have released 1 GB of emails dump from  Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Files are in files are in Arabic language. Documents includes scanned copies of Syrian ministers passports, details about an arms transport from Ukraine, report which shows that 200 tons of Syrian bank notes have been shipped from Russia. " Within the stash you will find details about cargo flights from Russia, each containing 30 tons of fresh Syrian Cash " Hackers said. " Furthermore you will find lulzy documents such as scanned passports from Syrian ministers (PDF) and details about arms transportation from Ukraine ". Emails are available here and Full Archive is available to download also.