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#Blackhat Conference : Square Mobile Gadget allows to Hack Credit Cards Researchers at the Black Hat security conference today revealed two ways the Square payment system , which turns any iPhone, iPad or Android into a point-of-sale credit card processor, could be used for fraud.  Square a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments  can be hacked to steal credit card data, with very little technical hardware required. Adam Laurie and Zac Franken, directors of Aperture Labs, discovered that due to a lack of encryption in the current Square app and free dongle for swiping cards, the mobile payment system can be used to steal credit card information, without even having the physical credit card.Square works by converting credit card data into an audio file that is then transmitted to the credit card issuer for authorization. "The dongle is a skimmer. It turns any iPhone into a skimmer," Laurie said. To clone a ca...

c0c0n 2011 (Hacking and Security Conference) - Call for Papers Announcing c0c0n 2011 - Oct 7-8 Cochin , India c0c0n is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. The Information Security Research Association along with Matriux Security Community is organizing a two day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2011, as part of Information Security Day 2011. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2011 is scheduled on 07 and 08 Oct 2011.The number of digital security incidents and cyber crimes are increasing daily on a proportionate rate. The industry is demanding more and more security professionals and controls to curb this never ending threat to information systems. c0c0n is aimed at providing a platform to discuss, showcase, educate, understand and spread awareness on the latest trends in information, cyber and hi-tech crimes. It also aims to provide a hand-s...

Get Ready for Microsoft 13 updates for August Patch Tuesday Microsoft has announced that it will release 13 bulletins to address 22 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, .NET and Visual Studio on its next Patch Tuesday. Another "critical" bulletin affects Windows server operating systems, and addresses a code-execution risk on unpatched systems. Also of note is an update restricted to newer versions of Windows (Windows 7 and Windows 2008) that tackles a potential, though difficult to exploit, code-execution risk. Scheduled for release next Tuesday 9th August. Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, commented that the update will have patches for end-users, server administrators, office users and software developers. He said: " Top priority should be given to a critical bulletin that affects Internet Explorer 6 through 9 on Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2003 and 2008. If left unpatched, attackers could use this vulnerability to remotely take control of victims' sys...

AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can't easily see. These "invisible" non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber human accounts in most cloud environments, and they have become one of the ripest targets for attackers. Astrix's Field CTO Jonathan Sander put it bluntly in a recent Hacker News webinar : "One dangerous habit we've had for a long time is trusting application logic to act as the guardrails. That doesn't work when your AI agent is powered by LLMs that don't stop and think when they're about to do something wrong. They just do it." Why AI Agents Redefine Identity Risk Autonomy changes everything: An AI agent can chain multiple API calls and modify data without a human in the loop. If the underlying credential is exposed or overprivileged, each addit...

BackBox - Linux distribution based website Hacked BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and to provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment thanks to its own software repositories always been updated to the last stable version of the most known and used ethical hacking tools. Two Days back backbox linux website got hacked by Emperor Hacking Team and 3 subdomains named ' Forum.backbox.org ' & ' wiki.backbox.org ' & ' rafaelle.backbox.org ' also got defaced. mirror link1:  https://zone-h.org/mirror/id/ 14521377   www.backbox.org mirror link2:  https://zone-h.org/mirror/id/ 14521376 forum.backbox.org mirror link3:  https://zone-h.org/mirror/id/ 14521386 raffaele.backbox.org

Mini PHP Shell 27.9 V2 Released According to Developer jos_ali_joe and [ Devilzc0de ] " This is a continuation of PHP Shell Mini 27.9 V1 , Editing Shell c99 and new tools ". Features :  Encoder , Processes , FTP-Brute-Forcer , Server-Information , SQL-Manager and etc. Download :  https://www.megaupload.com/?d=DRHS3AV9 Disclaimer : Use at your own Risk, Shell may have Backdoor.

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v2.0 Released The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed. This is the official change log: Removed un-needed assignment in core around create random string Added the Binary2Teensy option in the Teensy menu, this will allow you to create a payload and inject alphanumeric shellcode through shellcodeexec in a new technique released at BSIDESLV Changed the path of metasploit to be /opt/msf3/framework3 versus /pentest/exploits/framework3 Added the ability for multiple payloads in binary2teensy attack Added the ability to leverage the SDCard mounted Teensy device with payload generation without mounting the SDCard to the victim machine Fixed a bug where webattack_email turned on would not trigger base...

GFI SandBox - Powerful automated malware analysis GFI SandBox™ (formerly CWSandbox) is an industry leading dynamic malware analysis tool. It gives you the power to analyze virtually any Windows application or file including infected: Office documents, PDFs, malicious URLs, Flash ads and custom applications.Targeted attacks, hacked websites, malicious Office documents, infected email attachments and social engineering are all part of the Internet threat landscape today. Only GFI SandBox™ gives you a complete view of every aspect and element of a threat, from infection vector to payload execution. And GFI SandBox can quickly and intelligently identify malicious behavior using Digital Behavior Traits™ technology. Features Dynamic threat analysis Dynamic and threat analysis shows how applications execute on the desktop, what system changes were made, and the network traffic generated. When coupled with Digital Behavior Traits you get the ability to automatically identify malicious act...