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BackTrack 5 “ revolution ” will Release on May 10th, 2011 As BackTrack 5 development rolls on full steam ahead, we’ve been getting numerous questions about the future release. We thought we’d publish a blog post with general information about BT5 for the impatient. The codename of this release will be “ revolution ”, for a bunch of reasons. BackTrack 5 will be based on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS) , and will (finally) support both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. We will be officially supporting KDE 4 , Gnome and Fluxbox while providing users streamlined ISO downloads of each Desktop Environment (DE). Tool integration from our repositories will be seamless with all our supported DE’s, including the specific DE menu structure. Perhaps most importantly BackTrack 5 “revolution” will be our first release to include full source code in it’s repositories. This is a big thing for us, as it officially joins us to the open-source community and clears up any licensing issues which were pres...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as academic proof of concepts, quickly turned into geek pranks, then evolved into cybercriminal tools. By 2005, the virus scene had been monetized, and virtually all viruses were developed with the sole purpose of making money via more or less complex business models. In the following story, FortiGuard Labs looks at the most significant computer viruses over the last 40 years and explains their historical significance. 1971: Creeper: catch me if you can While theories on self-replicating automatas were developed by genius mathematician Von Neumann in the early 50s, the first real computer virus was released “in lab” in 1971 by an employee of a company working on building ARPANET, the ...

So what is the difference between Seccubus V2 and Seccubus V2 ? Before you try something new you want to know if it is going to be worth it. This article should give you an idea of why we spend quite a lot of time and energy in rebuilding Seccubus V2 from scratch. I clearly recall the conversation between myself and my coworker Anton Opgenoort that resulted in the first (internal) release of Seccubus. We were discussing the pros and cons of different vulnerability management tools when he challenged me: .Surely you can set up a Cron job to start a Nessus scan yourself?. Anton claimed at one time, and now, more than three years later, it has led to the Seccubus as we know it today. This little history illustrates what is fundamentally wrong with Seccubus V1. While it functions quite well, and has been maintainable for much longer than I expected, it is still in the basis a bunch of shell scripts and some Perl CGI thrown together. ...

Google has warned of politically motivated and targeted attacks against users of its services. According to the company, the attackers are also targeting the users of another undisclosed social network. In a blog posting, the Google security team says that the exploit is based on a security hole in a Windows DLL for rendering MHTML (MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML) which has been known for some time. All versions of Windows are reportedly affected. Google and Microsoft say they are working to solve the problem. Until a solution has been found, Google service users have been advised to install a hot fix supplied by Microsoft. The hot fix can reportedly block the attack until an official patch becomes available. Google also said that it has deployed various server-side defences to make the vulnerability harder to exploit. However, the company added that this is not a tenable long-term solution, and that it can’t be guaranteed to be fully reliable or comprehensive. News Source :...

Indianmicrofinance.com Defaced By HEX786 ! Hacked Site :  www.indianmicrofinance.com Mirror :   http://mirror-az.com/mirror/?id=14910 News Source : HEX786

China Government Site Hacked By Team Grey Hat ! Hacked Site :  www.jssjj.gov.cn News Source : Napster 

17 websites Hacked by Angel 4k4 4d0r4b13  Hacked sites :  http://pastie.org/1670234