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FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio The investigation into the LulzSec hacking team continues, with news that FBI agents have searched a house in Hamilton, Ohio. FBI investigation believed to have been fuelled by interviews with Ryan Cleary, but did not lead to charges. Federal agents are said to have searched a teenager's home in Jackson Road, Hamilton on Monday 27 June, although no-one was charged after the search warrant was served. Ohio teenager was known within LulzSec as " m_nerva ", who leaked text logs of discussions between the group after they had hacked into the website of an FBI affiliate at the beginning of June. After that, m_nerva's case address was listed by LulzSec as being in Hamilton, Ohio  Last week FBI agents searched the house of a woman in Iowa and questioned her about links with the group. LulzSec said in a statement that it had six members, though it never stated their gender.

Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems Computer hackers shut down Al-Qaida's ability to communicate its messages to the world through the Internet. Al-Qaida's online communications have been temporarily crippled.The attack was carried out within the past few days by unknown hackers targeting al-Qaida's Internet communications systems. According to Kohlmann," My guess is that it will take them at least several days more to repair the damage and get their network up and functioning again ,". A year ago, Al-Qaida's Internet communications suffered a similar hacker attack. British newspapers reported earlier this month that the the UK government hacked into an al-Qaida website last year and inserted recipes for making cupcakes in place of instructions on how to build bombs. The target was the group's English language magazine, "Inspire," intended for Muslims in the West. The magazine is the product of al-Qaida in the Arabian P...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama’s release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named “ Ensuring al-Qa’ida’s Demise ”.  The strategy articulates the United States’ broad, sustained and integrated campaign against al-Qa’ida, its affiliates and its adherents, consistent with the President’s enduring commitment to protect the American people. Download the 26 pages PDF released

Anonymous Antisec leaks Zimbabwe, Australia and Brazil governments data dumps Anonymous Hackers have published a mass of data including passwords that appears to have been stolen from the governments of Brazil, Zimbabwe, Australia and the Caribbean island Anguilla. One of the files released via Twitter appears to contain usernames and encrypted passwords for different areas of the Zimbabwean government's website. These login details include Gmail accounts, as well as gov.zw email accounts. Anonymous also released a file which appears to contain login details to Brazilian government websites. The rest of the release consists of SQL database files from Australian, Zimbabwean and Anguillan government websites, which appear to contain personal details of various individuals. 1.) Zimbabwean government dumps : Click Here  via Tweet 2.) Password files from various Brazilian Government servers : Click Here via Tweet 3.) Australia governments data dumps : Click H...

Sony Hiring Information Security Engineers After 14 Hacks, Finally Sony open  job recruitment for " Sr Application Security Analyst ". Sony Estimates 171 Million Dollar Loss due to PSN Hack. Also Sony CEO sorry for PSN hack, offers data theft insurance. Social network Facebook has hired a computer hacker who was recently sued by Sony for hacking the online game system PlayStation 3. Facebook did not reveal what 21-year-old George Hotz will do for the firm.  Hotz - also known by the alias "GeoHot" - gained notoriety in 2008 when he developed a software for unlocking the iPhone and allowing it to be used by other networks. He also released instructions on Sony PlayStation 3 that helped owners modify their consoles to run unauthorized applications and pirated games. It's been two months since the personal details of 100 million PSN and SOE users were stolen and Sony is still dealing with the fall-out. From SONY (Taleo): You will act as a S...

Indian shopping website  Groupon  leaks Email/Passwords of 300,000 Users Groupon subsidary – Sosata.com  leak the e-mail addresses and plain-text passwords for 300,000 users and also the sql file is index on Google. SoSasta.com offers its services in 11 cities - Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Delhi/NCR, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Nagpur, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru - and has mailed customers stating that they were made aware of a security breach. The email sent to the customers says: " Over this weekend, we've been alerted to a security issue potentially affecting subscribers of Sosasta. We wanted to let you know that the issue has been brought under control and your accounts are secure. However, as a precautionary measure, we recommend that you change your SoSasta password immediately, by visiting the SoSasta website (Sign-In using your existing password, then click on Profile followed by Change Password). If you use the same email/password combination at oth...