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National Informatics Centre (NIC INDIA) got hacked by Anonymous ! National Informatics Centre (NIC INDIA) got hacked by Anonymous (India).  Purpose of this defacement is just to awake the Govt of India . Anonymous now start Operation India against corruption. Anonymous are world famous activist and always fight against Injustice. Defaced Site :  http://informatics.nic.in/oldnewsonline/abc.html Just today Morning the Anonymous Core team announce the about operation India on there official Twitter : All Indians and Anonymous are Invited to Join the Revolution against Corruption in India at :  http://www.facebook.com/OperationIndia  and on Twitter :  https://twitter.com/#!/operationindia When corruption, destruction and mayhem strikes from governments or corporations it is the goal of anonymous to awaken that entity and the public that a change must occur.As price pritchet once said, " change always comes bearing gifts. "Anony...

Sony Music Brazil Gets defaced ! A Sony Entertainment website just got hacked. A group of hackers by name “ The UnderTakers ” were able to take down Sony Music Brazil, which is down for more than 12 hours now. Looks like they don’t even know about it yet, as the “ Hacked The UnderTaker ” message left by the breachers on sonymusic.com.br , is still intact. The Sony network and its services got hacked more than a dozen times over a period of 2 months. Quite alarming it is for everyone, but the company is yet to learn from its mistakes. Check Here It’s pretty apparent to everyone that Sony hasn’t plugged holes yet, and has failed to be alert.

John The Ripper 1.7.7 Jumbo 5 - Latest Release Download New version of John The Ripper has been released, John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the UNIX operating system, it currently runs on fifteen different platforms (11 architecture-specific flavors of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing/breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. It can be run against various encrypted password formats including several crypt password hash types most commonly found on various UNIX flavors. John the Ripper Pro currently supports the following password hash types (and more are planned): Traditional DES-based Unix crypt – most commercial Unix systems (Solaris, AIX, …), Mac OS X 10.2, ancient Linux and *BSD “bigcrypt” – HP-UX, Tru64 / Digital Unix / OSF/1 BSDI-style extended DES-based crypt – BSD...

THN Report : ACER hacked because of their own stupidity ! Yes ! you read right , ACER hacked because of their own stupidity. Yesterday we report that Pakistan Cyber Army hacked Acer Europe Server and 40,000 Users Data, Source Codes & Server Compromised . Today we investigate on this and try to find out that how exactly Pakistan hackers got the FTP access . Here in above image you can see the screenshot taken by us from a ASP forum of Acer-Euro. Acer ASP Support Team posted some Hot Fix Release and give FTP access to other members , so that they can download that Hot Fix. This was posted on January 11, 2008 . Pakistan hackers got this and explore the FTP and In  "PB" directory they get "Country Wise Customer Data.zip" file,  which include the 40000 users data managed according to country wise.  Now this Data breach is only because of ACER's own Stupidity. The link of Forum post is " http://asp.acer-euro.com/FORUM/Topic472-8-1.aspx ".

F-Secure Releases Anti-Virus For Mac Key Features Easier and faster to use Designed with performance in mind Reliable protection Real-time antivirus protection, automated malware removal logic Easy to take into use Panic button Instantly block all traffic except update servers F-Secure Anti-Virus has 2 areas of protection. Firstly it has a realtime protection system that stops malware getting into your Mac in the first place. Secondly you have the option to scan your hard drive to detect threats that may already be present. The realtime scanner is great – it sits happily in them menu bar and doesn’t take up any CPU resource worth mentioning. The manual scanning however is a beast. For me, on a 128GB SSD (45GB in use) the scan took over 4 hours. In that time the program used up 80% of the CPU. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Mac is available from the company website with subscriptions starting at $29 a year. Free trials are also available. Video Presentation :

Ani-Shell v1.0 - PHP shell with features like Mass-Mailer , Fuzzer , DDoser by lionaneesh Ani-Shell is a simple PHP shell with some unique features like Mass Mailer , A simple Web-Server Fuzzer , and a DDoser ! This shell has immense capabilities and have been written with some coding standards in mind for better editing and customization. Features -- Shell -- Plateform Independent -- Mass - Mailer -- Small Web-Server Fuzzer -- DDoser -- Design Username : lionaneesh Password : lionaneesh Download  & More Info

As part of its cyber-warfare operations, British spy agency MI6 has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced '' bomb-making '' instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, a media report said. The operation was launched by MI6 in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit " lone-wolf " terrorists with a new English-language magazine, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported. When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to " Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom " by " The AQ Chef ", they were greeted with garbled computer code. The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for "The Best Cupcakes in America" published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show. It said: " The little cupcake is big again. Self- contained and satisfying, it summons memo...