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Hackers launching own satellites in orbit to beat Censorship Worried about Internet censorship by SOPA and PIPA ? Wait !! This News is for you , Hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. Good guy hackers plan to launch satellites to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act and create a censorship-free Internet. According to BBC News Technology Reporter David Meyer, the plan, which was detailed this week during the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin, is in response to proposed legislation such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow the U.S. government to block websites believed to violate intellectual property law. “ The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space ,” hacking activity Nick Farr, who initially began soliciting financial support for what has been dubbed the Hackerspace Global Grid , in August, told Meyer on Friday. “ Let’s take the internet out of the control of te...

Facebook Scam : Selena Gomez Caught On Leaked Tape Another Facebook Scam is circulating with the headline " Selena Gomez Caught On Leaked Tape " and Message " you will lost your all respect for Selena Gomez after watching this ". By Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following page designed to look like Facebook. Facebook already declared as " Most Spamy Social Network of the Year " by The Hacker News Awards 2011. Clicking the play button loads a “ share ” box allowing you to spread the scam message to your friends. The following survey scam also loads another Scam as shown below. Scams like this often use multiple domains, so you may see a variation in the landing pages and scam messages. These scams contain click-jacking and like-jacking components and ends in a survey scam. One of the most common types of Facebook spam is a Wall post that encourages you to install a Facebook application. The application will require that you to agree to a...

One million pages infected by Lilupophilupop SQL injection ISC (Internet Storm Center) reported that   lilupophilupop.com SQL injection attacks. There were about 80 pages infected according to Google searches few weeks back and now it raise to over 1 million . sites being injected with string : "></title><script src="http://lilupop******.com/**.php"></script>          Recommended Read :  The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011            Infections are shows on .com, .de, & .uk as the most affected regions. ISC posted stats just to give you a rough idea of where the pages are: UK - 56,300 NL - 123,000 DE - 49,700 FR - 68,100 DK - 31,000 CN - 505 CA - 16,600 COM - 30,500 RU - 32,000 JP - 23,200 ORG - 2,690 If you want to find out if you have a problem just search for " <script src="http://lilupophi*****p.com/ " in google and use the site: parameter to hone in on yo...

Chinese Government taking strong step against Cyber Crime The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Chinese government has announced that it will work together with 10 Chinese search engines. The user IDs, passwords and email addresses of more than 6 million accounts registered on CSDN, a site for programmers were leaked as we reported last week . The popular social-networking site Tianya was also hit by hackers last week. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday it would investigate the hacking incidents. In the U.S. data theft and hacking have become very common over the last few years. Recently, hacker group Anonymous hacked into the servers of security firm Stratfor and stole credit card and other personal details on thousands of users of the site and its services. The U.S. isn't alone in f...

Facebook distributing White Hat Debit Card to Bug Bounty Winners Polish IT security portal Niebezpiecznik.pl, which recently published an image of a bug bounty card given to Szymon Gruszecki, a Polish security researcher and penetration tester. Neal Poole, a junior at Brown University, has reported close to a dozen flaws to Facebook, and also recently received a White Hat card. Poole has earned cash reporting flaws to Google and Mozilla. Charlie Miller, Announced - Best White Hat Hacker of Year at  The Hacker News Awards  2011 and a Researcher & former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with the Department of Defense (DOD) and helping out with cyber security, better known for finding holes in iOS 5 and Safari than Facebook, also has received a White Hat card. " Facebook whitehat card not as prestigious as the SVC card, but very cool ;) Fun way to implement no more free bugs ," he tweeted. Security researchers are getting a c...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the " Year of the Hack ” or “ Epic #Fail 2011 ”. Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for hacking faster then companies can increase their security.  Every year there are always forward advancements in the tools and programs that can be used by the hackers. At the end of year 2011 we decided to give " The Hacker News Awards 2011 ". The Hacker News Awards will be an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the Hacking community. The THN Award is judged by a panel of respected security researchers and Editors at The Hacker News. Year 2011 came to an end following Operation Payback and Antisec, which targeted companies refusing to accept payments to WikiLeak's, such as, Visa and Amazon. Those attacks were carrie...