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No Turning Back ~ 2012 by Patti Galle Patti Galle , from The Hacker News Editorial Staff wrote an Article in THN Magazine January Edition . We would like to share this read with all of our site readers. Rebellions are most always rooted in a call for justice, decency and morality. World history is full of countless rebellions against despots and others who did not conform to the will of the people. And as inequality grows to absurd new heights around the world and institutions of power are considered fundamentally dishonest, corrupt, and leaders no longer command the respect and confidence of the people then you have societies where social upheaval is inevitable. Rebellions spring up against fraudulent power and authority, and it is grounded in real outrage against mass murder (neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism), violation of human rights (torture, war crimes), widespread lying and hypocrisy, endemic political corruption, unrestrained thirst for money and power, and unprecedented ...

Wireless Penetration Testing Series Part 2: Basic concepts of WLANs This blog post is in continuation of the Wireless Penetration Testing and Hacking series we started ( Part 1: Getting Started with Monitoring and Injection ) on the basis of the “SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert” ( SWSE ) course which is based on the popular book “ Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing ”. In the third video, the instructor talks about some of the basic concepts of WLANs. We learn that communication over WLAN's happens over frames. There are mainly 3 types of WLAN frames which are Management frames, Control frames, and Data frames. These types of packets also have different subtypes . We learn that an SSID is a name given to an Access point or a network consisting of multiple Access points. We then learn about Beacon frames which are broadcast frames sent out periodically by Access point to broadcast their presence in the current RF (Radio frequency) vicinity. The instructor then starts wire...

Saudi hacker target Israeli stock exchange and National air carrier Saudi cyber Hacker OxOmar  struck again on Monday. This time disrupted the websites of Israel's stock exchange and National air carrier. Last week he had leaked private information about more than 400,000 Israelis. Credit card companies said around 25,000 numbers, some of them expired, had been posted . The pro-Palestinian group is referring to itself as “ Nightmare .” The site of El Al crashed but officials at Israel's flag carrier would not confirm or deny the incident was the work of hackers. A person familiar with the situation at El Al Israel Airlines says the carrier took down its website Monday after the alleged Saudi hacker network behind previous attacks warned that both sites would be targeted. " There has been an attack by hackers on the access routes to the (TASE) website. The stock exchange's trading activities are operating normally ," said Orna Goren, deputy manager of the excha...

Nigerian Army Education site hacked by Nigerian Hacktivists Today the official website of Nigerian Army Education Corps ( NAEC ) got defaced by some Nigerian Hacktivists, He tweeted . The Complete message posted by Hackers as shown below:

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday A hacker with code name of ' Yama Tough ' announce via Twitter that on Tuesday he will leak the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software which is 1,7Gb src. Last week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers. Yama Tough is trying to prove that Indian government was snooping on America and China. YamaTough said via Twitter " Pass it on to forensics and win the lawsuit ,".He has offered support to an American man who filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corp by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software program at the heart of the legal dispute. It was not immediately clear how the source code might help the case. A Symantec spokesperson commented on the incident: " We are still gathering information on ...

Data Stealing Malware on Internal Computer of  Japan Space Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that their computer has been infected with a virus, leading to a possible leak of data on its H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) the craft popularly known as Konotori that hauls cargo for the International Space Station (ISS). JAXA still isn't sure how the virus got on the computer, or who put it there. JAXA said the infection occurred on July 6 last year, when an employee in his 30s involved in the HTV's operation at the Tsukuba Space Center opened an e-mail attachment titled "bonenkai". An identical e-mail was also sent to several coworkers, but the employee accidentally opened the attachment as the sender had the same name as one of his friends. The space agency is working to minimize the damage and prevent further incursions. JAXA is now conducting an investigation into the leak and is checking other computers for viruses, according to the press releas...