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Lulzsec Releases Final Message to the friends around the globe Anonymous Tweet  Video message as " Lulzsec Last Message ". In 10minutes the Video get 200 Likes and 7000 Views. Every message of Anonymous/ Lulzsec is spreading like Fire. The Video Message is here : Lulzsec Message is : Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us. For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love....

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments Anonymous Hackers leaks Nimbuzz data via the twitter account  of AnonymousIRC which included a link to their latest leak from Nimbuzz  https://pastebin.com/TvSxycCf . About thirty minutes later, that twitter account posted a link for download named " antibuzz " along with an invitation for everyone to join Anonymous IRC . Nimbuzz is a Dutch company that provides services similar to Skype, Including text and video communication.The pastebin release claims that Nimbuzz is " capable and self-admittingly willing to co-operate with governments to help censor the public's use of the very services they offer. " Anonymous Says " People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraidof their people. ".

PayPal UK Twitter account hijacked by angry customer Second high-profile hack of the week against Twitter accounts, Yesterday  FOX News Twitter Account was Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S & then sent false tweets saying that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead. Today an  angry customer of Paypal hijack the Twitter account of PayPal UK. In PayPal's Hacking case, the attackers sent out messages promoting paypalsucks.com , a site devoted to what it says is " exposing the nightmare of doing business 'the PayPal way' ". Another tweet sent from the hacked account read, " PayPal can freeze your funds for no reason, do not use PayPal!! " The account's photo and description was changed before being taken down by Twitter. The Tweets were removed within a few hours of the hijacking. " Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended ," Twitter said on its page for the PayPalUK feed. A spokesman for PayPal UK said that the company is...

I had the honor of hosting the first episode of the Xposure Podcast live from Xposure Summit 2025. And I couldn't have asked for a better kickoff panel: three cybersecurity leaders who don't just talk security, they live it. Let me introduce them. Alex Delay , CISO at IDB Bank, knows what it means to defend a highly regulated environment. Ben Mead , Director of Cybersecurity at Avidity Biosciences, brings a forward-thinking security perspective that reflects the innovation behind Avidity's targeted RNA therapeutics. Last but not least, Michael Francess , Director of Cybersecurity Advanced Threat at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, leads the charge in protecting the franchise. Each brought a unique vantage point to a common challenge: applying Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to complex production environments. Gartner made waves in 2023 with a bold prediction: organizations that prioritize CTEM will be three times less likely to be breached by 2026. But here's the kicker -...

Video Demonstration : Vsftpd backdoor discovered by Mathias Kresin 2.3.4 of vsftpd's downloadable source code was compromised and a backdoor added to the code. Evans, the author of vsftpd . This module exploits a malicious backdoor that was added to the VSFTPD download archive. This backdoor was present in the vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz archive sometime before July 3rd 2011. The bad tarball included a backdoor in the code which would respond to a user logging in with a user name ":)" by listening on port 6200 for a connection and launching a shell when someone connects. Read more here Affected versions : vsftpd-2.3.4 from 2011-06-30 Metasploit demo : use exploit/unix/ftp/vsftpd_234_backdoor set RHOST localhost set PAYLOAD cmd/unix/interact exploit id uname -a Video Demonstration :

NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked ! Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO .  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. They Leak a Backup of Random 2,646 files from Server as Proof of Hack . The archive uploaded by hackers is available at  https://www.mediafire.com/?s2chp1v2jqsf52z  . We talk to Team Inj3ct0r about this hack They said : 1.) The Reason of Hacking is "Nuclear weapons. its development and financing" 2.) They hack Tomcat 5.5 Server using 1337day privat exploit (0day) . 3.) They get the root privilege to the Server. 4.) They are able to Deface the website of NATO also, but they will not do this. They have just take the backup of server and trying to distribute that on Internet. This archive contains various configurations XML/Batch/...

RedHack deface 1000 sites for Turkey #AntiSec RedHack Hackers Group deface more than 1000 websites today. The complete list of hacked sites are here  . The hack is done in support of Anonymous and Operation Antisec. The hackers also release a press Release as below with Reason of this hack.  Press Release By Redhack : Our people from all nationalities and Revolutionary, Democrat, Patriotic and Opposition Comrades, Since 1997 our objective is, to be the "common voice" of revolutionaries in digital arena and have carried out our actions according to this strategy. On the anniversary of Sivas Massacre which took place on 2nd July 1993 and resulted in death of thirty-five intellectuals, singer, authors and poets; we have hacked hundreds of websites belongs to Adnan Oktar also known as Harun Yahya bigot and collaborating fascist websites in order to announce that we have not forgotten this massacre and will not let it be forgotten.  We have also taken opportunity to ...

FOX News Twitter Account Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S Fox News Politics Twitter account @foxnewspolitics  hacked last night.  The account's icon had been changed from the Fox News Politics logo and featured the following new description: " H4CK3D BY TH3 5CR1PT K1DD3S. " Hacker's Personal account was  @TheScriptKiddie on twitter, but After hack, Twitter has suspended his account. Then hacker made another announcement via  Fox News Politics Twitter account  that " twitter has suspended TheScriptKiddie please follow @ScriptKiddi3 for future releases. we have confirmed Fox News is aware of the attack. " THN talk with " The Script Kiddies " Group. They Reply : " We are a new group called The Script Kiddies. As i have stated in past interviews we do have connections to anonymous, however this does not represent them in anyway. personally I have been part of many hacks leading back to HBgary and #operationPyaback with anonymous . we will not ...