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Pakistan president 's website hacking case adjourned ! A court here has adjourned the case of a man who hacked into the Pakistan president's website and uploaded material defaming Asif Ali Zardari. Additional Sessions Judge Tanveer Meer Wednesday adjourned the cyber crime case, reported the Daily Times. According to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) enquiry, the hacker, Shahbaz Khan, had the username ADIL/Th3-penetrator and defaced the website www.president-of-pakistan.com and uploaded material defaming Zardari and the country. Khan was arrested and he told investigators that the president's website was hacked by some international hackers. He claimed he had added the following lines: " THIS SITE GOT HACKED BY ADIL WHERE IS YOUR SECURITY? HUH DON'T TELL ME TO STOP!" THANKS 2= FBI, MASTERMIND, SALMAN, EJA2SALAM PK, CODE5, SHER, SAIF "

WordPress.Com Hacked, Hacker  Root the Server ! The parent company that operates WordPress, made an announcement this morning that it has hacked, resulting what the company said was a low-level (root) break-in to several of their servers. The company warned that potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed to the attackers, including client source code. WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg made the following announcement in a blog post this moring. Read here We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and copied. While much of our code is Open Source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners’ code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited. Based on what we’ve found, we don’t have any specific suggestions for our users beyond reiterating these security fund...

Apollohospitals.com is vulnerable to SQL injection Found and Submitted By : Zero Cool

Supreme Court of Canada vulnerable to xss attack ! Vunl Link :  http://sr.scc-csc.gc.ca/ search?client=SCC-CSC&site= Internet&output=xml_no_dtd& proxystylesheet=SCC-CSC&hl=en& oe=latin1&ie=latin1&q=%3E%22% 3E%3CMARQUEE%3EHACKED+BY+ZERO+ COOL%3C%2FMARQUEE%3E&btnG= Search Found n Submitted by : Zero Cool

ESET NOD32 releases Antivirus for Linux 4 ! ESET announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux offers protection against cross-platform and emerging threats, enhancing the security of Linux platforms. The scanning engine automatically detects and cleans malicious code, including threats designed for Windows and Mac based systems. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop includes ESET Remote Administrator, which provides IT administrators with a management console to control an entire network from a single screen — supporting tens or thousands of heterogeneous computers. Key benefits and features: Detection and proactive cross-platform protection  – Advanced heuristics technology delivers real-time, proactive protection from malware, hacker attacks and exploits. Product protects against Linux, Windows and Mac malware Small system footprint ...

Malaysiakini - Malaysia's Most Popular News Website Shutdown's after cyber attack ! It has been reported that Malaysia's most popular news website Malaysiakini ( http://www.malaysiakini.com ) has been hit by cyber attack from 11 AM afternoon shutting the website down. The attack created a stir when the website stopped working just before the Sarawak election, making the website inaccessible to the readers. The attack has been diagnosed as Denial-of-service attack which is considered to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB's Internet proper use policy, and also violate the acceptable use policies of virtually all Internet service providers. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations. According to the technical team, the cyber attack has resulted in  swarming the Malaysiakini servers...