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3 websites hacked by Team-Greyhat ! Hacked Sites : http://demoshop2.pentaconweb.dk/ http://suphamyenbai.edu.vn/index.htm http://impalamultiplex.com/index.html News Source :  Napster

Yahoo! India R&D will be hosting ‘HACK U’– the University Hack Day event for IIT Kharagpur students on campus between 17 and 20 March. Close to 250 students are expected to participate in this four day event of learning, hacking and fun, which is part of Yahoo!’s on-going commitment to nurture talent and innovation among today's student bodies. Conceptualized along the lines of Open Hack Day, Hack U provides a platform for the student community to develop and build applications using Yahoo!'s Open APIs (Application Programming Interface) like YQL and YAP, or even to create a new product concept itself. This novel concept provides students with the opportunity to work on product ideas, develop working prototypes in a 24 hour ‘Hackathon’ and eventually stand the chance to win cool prizes. The event will kick off with a series of hack-related presentations and tech talks by Yahoo! engineers followed by a non-stop 24-hour hacking session by the students. Praveen Ramachandr...

Kevin Mitnick 's latest Book : Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker ! Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private   information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could. The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a three-year run from the FBI. He creates fake identities, finds jobs at a law firm and hospital, and keeps tabs on his myriad pursuers - all while continuing to hack into computer systems and phone company switches that were considered flawless. A modern, technology-driven adventure story, GHOST IN THE WIRES is a dramatic account of the joy of outsmarting security programs, the satisfaction of code-cracking, and the thrill of unbelievable escape.

Iran is planning to recruit hackers to combat enemies after suffering last year's coordinated and sophisticated cyberattacks that reportedly crippled its Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. Fox News quoted Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, who leads Iran's Passive Defence Organization, as saying that the Islamic Republic plans "to fight our enemies with abundant power in cyberspace and Internet warfare." Recruiting hackers by paying them with sufficient amount of money is reportedly a part of the organisation's plan. Meir Javedanfar, author of The Nuclear Sphinx: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran, said that when it comes to projects that are important to them, "they have money." Mohsen Sazegara, a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, said that computer experts working on piecemeal projects would not be able to figure out that they were working on a government cyberattack plan. "It's a process. They write complic...

Web hosting administration company InterWorx Hacked ! Web-hosting administration outfit InterWorx has warned users to change their passwords following a deep penetrating hack attack. The assault on the firm's support desk database exposed users' login credentials because the support desk software was storing email and password data in plain text. Users were strongly advised to change their passwords on any site they accessed using the same login credentials as they used with InterWorx. The compromise – which ran between 28 February and 5 March – gave hackers admin control of websites administered through InterWorx, a facility they soon set about abusing in order to distribute malware. In a  notice  warning of the breach, InterWorx warns that a "few clients" have had their servers "modified to distribute malware javascript, as a direct result of this attack". InterWorx apologised for the breach in an email sent to users on Thursday and forwarded to E...

Adobe today released an advisory   to warn about a remote code execution vulnerability in Flash Player, which also affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat. This critical vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2011-0609. Currently seen attacks work through a malicious SWF file which is embedded inside an Excel file. The target must open a malicious XLS file for a vulnerability in Flash to be exploited. This kind of structure is a perfect setup for targeted attacks. And not surprisingly, targeted attacks have indeed been reported. During testing, the particular exploit was not able to run successfully on Windows 7. It did work on Windows XP. It's likely though a ROP-exploit would be able to exploit this vulnerability under Windows 7. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't really see the point of embedded SWFs inside Excel documents. From my point of view, this is a clear example of too much functionality in a product leading to security problems. As such, it would be great if Microsoft would ...

Times Square screens hacked using iPhone ! Hacker's Words : " The way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the headphone minijack of an iphone 4 and play back any video clip. you can play it through the ipod feature or through the camera roll. the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that it's being held next to. it doesn't matter what shape or size the hacked screen is because the hack video will simply keep its correct dimensions and the rest of the hacked space will stay black. i chose times square for my demo because it has lots of video screens to try it on. it is also one of the most monitored and secured areas in new york city and that made it that much more fun :). you can see in my video that the repeater is pretty powerful but the signal is not very stable yet. i'm working on that. i will post a new video later this week explaining how i made this pr...