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LulzSec will release Murdoch email archive LulzSec behind a hack on The Sun's website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday. The Sun's website were redirected towards a fake story on the supposed death of Rupert Murdoch by infamous hacktivist collective LulzSec. The group also redirected visitors to the main News International website to the LulzSec Twitter account. Sabu leader of LulzSec said via Twitter that the group was sitting on emails of News International staffers that it planned to release. Sabu released email login details for former News International chief exec Rebekah Brooks, a central figure in the News of the World voicemail-hacking scandal. The hackers also posted the mobile phone numbers of three News International execs. This information seems to have come from an old database.

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee connected to the leak, during a nationwide sweep targeting Anonymous. The public first learned of the AT&T files from a Torrent release by LulzSec. The documents were included in the group's final release before they disappeared from the public eye. The release also marked the second major data leak under the AntiSec movement, which has targeted both government and private sector organizations since its founding. In addition to documents, the insider leak also included a bootable USB drive used by AT&T. while interviewing Cleary for a separate story, he bragged about the AT&T leak, and the fact an insider delivered the information and software to Anonymous. " …a...

BackTrack 5 Release 1 will be available on 10th of August,2011 BackTrack 5 R1 (Release one) will be available for download on the 10th of August,2011. This will complete our first 3 month cycle since the last release. With over 100 bug fixes, numerous package updates and the addition of over 30 new tools and scripts.  BackTrack Crew  will have a pre-release event of BackTrack 5 R1 at the BlackHat / Defcon Conference a few days earlier.

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam (the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day), dodgy pharmaceuticals, counterfeit stuff and pirated software. The size of the Rustock botnet has already been cut in half, but that still leaves it with hundreds of thousands of systems under its control. In order to bring down the entire botnet Microsoft is now turning to the legal system. Microsoft Declares " Today, we take our pursuit a step further. After publishing notices in two Russian newspapers last month to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit, we decided to augment our civil discovery efforts to identify those responsible for controlling the notorious Rustock botnet by issuing a monetary reward in the amount of $250,000 for new information that results in the identifi...

NetSecL Linux 3.2 released with new XFCE NetSecL 3.2 comes with a brand new XFCE which increased dramatically the performance experience, we closed many bugs and also gained more compatibility to OpenSuse 11.4 – most packages are 11.4 compatible. GrSecurity kernel is updated to 2.6.32.8 please check installation instructions if you wish to use GrSecurity. Features : - Ext4 issue with GrSecurity is resolved - booting in VM with new GrSecurity resolved - New Metasploit - Firefox 5 - Updated Exploit-db repository - GrSecurity Kernel – locked from zypper – you can update the whole system without worrying - Snort-inline reintegrated (get snort rules and change them to drop – if you use the advanced firewall) - Size of the ISO smaller with 200 MB this allowed us to have a sub project NetSecL Toolset a minimal VM with console, webshell and all pentesting tools! Minimal System Requirements for running the live DVD: 512 MB of RAM Minimal System Requiremen...

Auth3ntiQ & shika01 found local file include on numericable.be & numericable.lu Hackers named " Auth3ntiQ and shika01 " found local file include on numericable.be & numericable.lu . Venerable Links : Link 1 Link 2 Bugs are critical , Hackers can steal all account with this LFI .

Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab - Pakistan (TDCP) Hacked by Code Injector Code Injector from Team Indishell hack the official website of Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab - Pakistan and Deface it. Visitor to the website can see a deface page with some message on homepage. Hackers provide the screenshot of FTP shell :