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Official Website of Will Smith's Daughter Willow Smith Hacked Today a Hacker with name  BLaCk SPECTRE hack and Deface the  Official Website of Willow Smith .Willow is the daughter of musician-actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith. May be this attack is just for fun, as no message is posted on site.

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website , a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus (http://anonplus.com/), the site Anonymous set up last month when it was booted off Google+ — did not include the name of the group responsible. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, however, credited the AnonPlus defacement to the ' Syrian Electronic Army ' in a message posted to Twitter. ' In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website ,' the defacement read Where as Anonymous Claim that, AnonPlus is not their any Official site. Lulzsec leader Sabu tweet  " Turns out people were correct: anonplus.com was a troll domain. Belongs to "fro" aka "cnap...

EC-Council is launching " CyberLympics " - Olympic games for Cyber Security Global CyberLympics is conceptualized and organized by EC-Council. The goal of the CyberLympics is to raise awareness towards increased education and ethics in information security. The mission of the Global CyberLympics is Unifying Global Cyber Defense through the Games. EC-Council’s Global CyberLympics , the world’s first ethical hacking championship will be held this September across six continents. The Global CyberLympics is endorsed by the U.N.‘s cybersecurity executing arm. The mission behind the games is to foster better cooperation and communication on cybersecurity issues among countries. Global CyberLympics is a series of ethical hacking games comprised of both offensive and defensive security challenges that will take place starting from September across six continents. Teams will vie for regional championships, followed by a global hacking championship round to determine the world’s b...

TeaMp0isoN : NASA forum is Vulnerable SQL injection, Admin Hacked ! TeaMp0isoN Hackers crew today Reveal on twitter that the discussion forum on NASA website at  https://worldwind35.arc.nasa.gov/forum/ is Vulnerable to SQL injection. The discussion Forum script is Powered by Vbulletin. According to hacker, He use Vbulletin 4.0.x => 4.1.3 (messagegroupid) SQL injection Vulnerability Exploit for hacking the Database of Forum . Hacker also expose the Login details of Admin of website on Pastie .

Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free Mikko Hypponen is an expert on cybercrime and chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki, Finland. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it distributes on its website . In the real world, you only have to worry about the criminals who live in your city. But in the online world, you have to worry about criminals who could be on the other side of the planet. Online crime is always international because the Internet has no borders. Today computer viruses and other malicious software are no longer written by hobbyist hackers seeking fame and glory among their peers, but by professional criminals who are making millions with their attacks. These criminals want access to your computer, your Paypal passwords and your credit card numbers. Criminal online gangs recruit people with high level computing skills but no job opportunities in the real-world economy. There is...

#DefCon 19 : Android Network Toolkit for Penetration Testing and Hacking Have an Android and wanna start pwning people, networks and machines like penetration testers do? Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham -- "Zuk" for short -- and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for easy hacking on the go. Need to find vulnerabilities on devices using nearby networks? The app, dubbed "Anti" for short, allows you to simply push a button to do things like search a WiFi network for potential targets, or even take control of a PC trojan-style. The firm says the tool’s purpose is for people to find aged exploits and patch them so that “hacking” their network and taking control of devices connected to it isn’t as easy as putting together a 10 piece puzzle. It will allow users to do more than just “find” these exploits, though – you can actually act on them as if you had every intent to cause malintent.Commands like “ man-in-the-m...

Call for DEFCON Chennai (DC602028) 2011 meet on 14th August Welcome to DC602028 aka DEF-CON Chennai  DEFCON Chennai (DC602028) inviting all the like minded heads for the August 2011 meet In Chennai. Get Ready for Next Generation DefCon Meet.. -Where it 's taking place? Dazzle restaurant, Neelankarai Chennai. -At what time? From 4PM to 6PM. -Who will be the speaker ? There is no speaker, really. We dont have any speakers. It's going to be a Hacker meet, so we want each and everyone among us to share their little adventure. In other words "All are Speakers". -What are we going to talk about? Literally about everything on the "Hack Field". PS: We will be discussing about Exploits and Narcissism. - Will I get a Free foods, Drinks and hukka? Sorry due to recession, we are in recession. We advice you to have 300rs to 500rs ;-) - How can I contact DEF-CON Chennai? You can contact us at defchennai@gmail.com .  Please leave your name and ph...