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Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker Citigroup has confirmed its consumer banking sites were temporarily offline Friday because of what a bank spokesman referred to as temporary outages. Hackers with Anonymous have claimed to be behind the attacks. The operation behind the attacks waged against banks in Brazil, known as #OpWeeksPayment on Twitter, claims issues with government and capitalism were catalysts for the attacks. Anonymous Brasil said its attacks were only meant to fight corruption in BrazilA group of internet hackers, which calls itself Anonymous Brasil, continued its relentless attacks which began earlier last week by taking down the websites of the Citigroup and Citibank.The group, which is targeting financial institutions, issued a warning message to them, saying Anonymous Brasil does not forget you. Your turn will come. Apart from Citigroup, both in Brazil and in the US, the group had also targeted the websites of four major banks in Brazil, including B...

Joomscan Security Scanner updated to 611 Joomla vulnerabilities Database Another huge update coming from Security Team Web-Center that Joomscan Security Scanner is now updated to 611 Joomla vulnerabilities Database. Last update for this tool was in November, 2011 with 550 vulnerabilities in Database. In joomscan you can check for new updates with command: ./joomscan.pl check or ./joomscan.pl update Download for Windows  (141 KB) Download for Linux  (150 KB )

Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration Bilal Bokhari from zer0byte.com Illustrated perfect example of Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack on his blog. Bilal want to share this article with our Readers at THN, Have a look : If we look at the history of computer development, the computer developers/engineers just 10 years back did not have any clue as to how this industry is going to be, the way this industry we have today. The Computers and its applications nowadays are more powerful and much smarter than ever before. Computer applications are used in every industry like engineering, designing, music programming, web development etc which enables their users to come up with amazing products every day. So far so good the story of the computer development sounds amazing but there is a problem with its development. When computer applications are developed, they are not particularly a complete perfect solution. They contain some flaws or bugs which can be ex...

Sun Microsystems (Print) - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Today Ucha Gobejishvili ( longrifle0x ) a Pentester from Georgia reported 3 More important Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystem's and Java Printer Webpages. Java's Vulnerable Link   : Click Here Sun's Vulnerable Link 1 :  Click Here Sun's Vulnerable Link 2 :  Click Here Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an attacker can send a malicious script to a different user by relaying the script from an otherwise trusted or innocuous server. These flaws are extensive on the Web and allow an attacker to place malicious code that can execute attacks against other users in the security context of the web servers of the trusted host. Previous vulnerabilities  reported by longrifle0x : Click here to Read or Mirrors .

ProCredit Bank Georgia hacked by RetnOHacK #AntiSerbs Group of Hackers named - B!JemBeX, RetnOHacK, Weedh0aX, mR.Thg hack into ProCredit Bank of Georgia (procreditbank.ge) . They Deface the Administrator panel page located at  http://www.procreditbank.ge/admin/login.php  as shown in image attached. On Deface page Hacker said " This day have received that much time..when will you accept that you lose the fight ?in this game you do not have no chance to win..you always were and always will be losers remain losersMitrovica do not sell , Mitrovica is ours as alwaysWe do not want peace with you , because I hate slaves.Date of " 28 November " is approaching to unite all Albanians... ". Till now its unclear that Hacker damage anything else rather than site pages.

Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call Earlier today, Anonymous released a confidential conference call between the FBI and law enforcement officers in the UK. The 16-minute call discusses ongoing investigations into hackers associated with Anonymous, AntiSec, and LulzSec. From all appearances, Anonymous retrieved the sensitive access code information and a list of attendees from an FBI email account. The group released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group. The email, titled “ Anon-Lulz International Coordination Call ”, was published on pastebin earlier today: http://pastebin.com/8G4jLha8  . The email with details for accessing the call was sent to law enforcement officials in Britain, France, the Netherlands and others but the only people who identify themselves on the call are from the FBI and Scotland Yard.In a message on Twitter, An...