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JAIPUR: A senior manager of a private bank has registered an FIR against some unidentified persons who allegedly hacked his email ID and sent objectionable emails. The Ashok Nagar police are investigating the matter. SHO, Ashok Nagar and investigating officer of the case Jagmohan said one Brijesh Kumar registered the FIR on Wednesday. "He says that someone hacked his email account and sent mails with pornographic content and other objectionable mails," the officer said. "We have lodged a case under sections of Information Technology Act," the officer added.

Our favourite exploitation framework – The Metasploit Framework has been updated! We now have Metasploit Framework version 3.5.2! "The Metasploit Framework is a penetration testing toolkit, exploit development platform, and research tool. The framework includes hundreds of working remote exploits for a variety of platforms. Payloads, encoders, and nop slide generators can be mixed and matched with exploit modules to solve almost any exploit-related task." This is the detailed release log: Statistics: * Metasploit now ships with 644 exploit modules and 330 auxiliary modules. * 39 new modules and payloads have been added since the last point release. * 58 tickets were resolved and 331 commits were made since the last point release. New Modules: New Exploits and Auxiliaries: * Apache Tomcat Transfer-Encoding Information Disclosure and DoS * Microsoft IIS FTP Server Encoded Response Overflow Trigger * Apache HTTPD mod_negotiation Filename Bruter * Apache HTTPD mod_negotiatio...

Leader.ir Next Target by Anonymous at 11.02.2011 at 18.00 !! TARGET: Leader.ir -- 11.02.2011 at 18.00 ( 6 PM ) GMT LOIC:   https://3.ly/77Dy PRESS:   Operation Iran - Press release by Anonymous Hackers ! REASONS:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IHeYjiFlY

On February 6, 2011, as part of their attack on HBGary , the Anonymous group social engineered administrator of rootkit.com , Jussi Jaakonaho, to gain root access to rootkit.com . The entire MySQL database backup was then released by Anonymous and announced using HBGary's CEO Twitter account, @aaronbarr   : Sup, here's rootkit.com MySQL Backup https://stfu.cc/rootkit_com_mysqlbackup_02_06_11.gz #hbgary #rootkit #anonymous.   The table pic shown is the list of accounts found in rootkit.com MySQL database backup with passwords in cleartext.

Hackers in China  are causing havoc among computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies, according to a new report by McAfee.  Security outfits have warned that this type of attack could get lot worse as multinationals continue to prod the Chinese government.  McAfee said in its  Night Dragon whitepaper  that hackers have stolen bidding plans and other critical proprietary information. This can be used to detrimental effect and give competitors an advantage.  It could not name the five petrochemical and oil companies as it says they are clients. George Kurtz, CTO, said in a  blog post : "We have strong evidence suggesting that the attackers were based in China. The tools, techniques, and network activities used in these attacks originate primarily in China. These tools are widely available on the Chinese Web forums and tend to be used extensively by Chinese hacker groups." He warns that well-coordinated, targeted attacks such a...

Operation Italy Press Release : Anonymous Hackers will Soon strike again ! Operation Italy part2 - Target: Surprise : Join #opitaly the 13/02/2011 at 12 GMT PM Attention Please: citizens of the world Anonymous will soon strike again. We are determined to continue our protest. Anonymous represent the voice of the people,and that voice has clearly spoken against the current Italian government. Italian people deserve something better than faggot Berlusconi and his political class. The ruling political party in Italy stand against everything that Anonymous consider worthwhile freedom of expression,freedom of press,and a freely accessible and uncensored internet being only some of those universally granted rights. We also request the removal of the ban against thepiratebay.org and the deletion of the infamous Bondi/SIAE tax on digital storage. ,We are not willing to set deadlines for our protest;it will endure until all our requests ...