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Anonymous Leaks 10,000 E-mails of Iranian Government A collection of 10,365 e-mails of the Iranian government were leaked by Anonymous OpIran on June 2, 2011. According to members of Anonymous the files were taken after the hacker accessed the Iranian Passport and Visa Office email center. These files consist mostly of the Iranian government alerting individuals of their visa application status. According to a member of Anonymous, the files were aimed more to damage the image of Iran in “ both cyber space and the real world. ” The 63 mb file was released quietly by Anonymous. It was posted to file-sharing websites across the Internet. Download The File and Rar password is :  opiranopiran

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt It's the second time Google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on China . On 1st of June we have Reported that :  Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia .  This time Google says unknown hackers from Jinan, China, a city with a military command center, stole the personal Gmail passwords of hundreds of senior U.S .government officials. Google said the hackers' "goal" was to eavesdrop on the officials  "to monitor the content of the users' emails." The hackers did not steal any government-owned emails, but U.S. officials who work at home frequently use Gmail to do government business. White House teams often use Gmail to communicate where and when the President might travel. The risk is growing that too much secure information is being sent on non-secure systems. FBI is now investigating and this new revelation of hacking is adding heat to the growing frict...

Sony Pictures hacked and Database Leaked by LulzSec YES ! Sony Hacked Again once more by Lulzsec. The Target is  SonyPictures.com and It compromised over 1,000,000 users'personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses,dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.Also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures(including passwords) along with 75,000 "music codes" and 3.5 million "music coupons". SonyPictures.com was hacked by a very simple SQL injection , one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities.From a single injection, They accessed whole database.  The worst thing is Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, No md5 OR other type of Encryption. The Leaked Data included databases from Sony BMG Belgium & Netherlands .These also contain varied assortments of Sony user and staffer information. Message By Lulzsec: Our goal here is not to come across as m...

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NATO Vs Anonymous Oh Anonymous, now you’re for it… NATO leaders have been warned that Wikileaks-loving ‘hacktivist’ collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states’ security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary – and promise to ‘persecute’ its members. In a toughly-worded draft report to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, General Rapporteur Lord Jopling claims that the loose-knit, leaderless group is “ becoming more and more sophisticated”, and “could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files ”. NATO report threatens to ‘persecute’ Anonymous (Thinq) The NATO Draft Report

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the problem doesn’t rest with Gmail security but rather this scheme was a result of phishing and malware. Google spilled the details on Wednesday via its official blog: Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. The goal of this effort seems to have bee...