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Microsoft 's official Youtube channel hacked It appears that someone has hacked into Microsoft's account on Youtube and removed all videos. As can be seen in the picture, there are currently no videos at all anymore (see the red arrow in the screenshot) and the comment about the website is not " Wish to Become Sponsored ? Message me ". Also the hometown has been changed to "Hey". In their place are short clips soliciting advertisers, not surprisingly, as the channel has some 24,000+ subscribers.As of 1:30 p.m. ET, four videos have been uploaded to the account, all time-stamped within the past two hours. A fifth video, most recently uploaded, seems to have been removed. The video, "Garry's Mod – Escape the Box," featured what appeared to be an animated gunman shooting at the inside of a construction box.The channel's description reads, " I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/. " Neither Microsoft nor Google (which owns YouTube) have disclosed info...

XSS Vulnerability in Interactive YouTube API Demo Beta There is a Critical Cross site XSS Vulnerability in Interactive YouTube API Demo Beta, Discovered by various sources. One of the White Hat Hacker " Vansh Sharma " Inform us about this XSS Vulnerability with proof of concept. Proof Of Concept : Open  https://gdata.youtube.com/ Enter script <img src="<img src=search"/onerror=alert("xss")//"> in the keyword area. Press ADD

Apache Server  2.3.14  Denial of Service (DDOS) Vulnerability exploit Latest version of Apache Server 2.3.14 fails.The Egyptian Hacker and Exploit writer " Xen0n " discovered this Vulnerability and Develop an perl exploit for (DDOS) Vulnerability. The Exploit is available on Inj3ct0r 's Website.

OpenVAS - Advanced Open Source vulnerability scanner OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.The powerful and comprehensive OpenVAS solution is available as Free Software and maintained on a daily basis. An overview of the vulnerability handling process is: The reporter reports the vulnerability privately to OpenVAS. The appropriate component's developers works privately with the reporter to resolve the vulnerability. A new release of the OpenVAS component concerned is made that includes the fix. The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerability scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager controls the Scanner via OTP (OpenVAS Transfer Protocol) and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP). All intelligence is implemented in the Manager so that it is possible to implement variou...

Phishing Site hacked for teaching lesson to Scam Lovers Researchers at the security firm GFI Labs found an email used to lure people to a phishing site called " canal-i. " The message attempts to scare unsuspecting readers by telling them they have exceeded the storage limit on their inbox, and says, " You will not be able to send or receive new mail until you upgrade your email. Click below link and fill the form to upgrade your account. " When clicked, that link directs users to a Web page that asks for their username, email address and password. For one hacker he or she has not been identified this was not just an ordinary phishing scam, but also a chance to teach others. The white-hat hacker "white hat" refers to hackers who exploit security bugs to improve security stripped the phishing page of its malicious content and replaced it with a stern educational message about the perils lurking in the online world. Hackers have created a fake tool es...

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin #OpDarknet , including personal details 1500 users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tools that target Hidden Wiki and Freedom Hosting — alleged to be two of the biggest darknet sites hosting child porn. News of the Anonymous campaign to actively target anyone hosting child porn sites comes from statements associated with Anonymous on Pastebin and two Anonymous YouTube video channels. AnonNews has yet to issue a press release. The AnonMessage and BecomeAnonymous YouTube channels both posted videos with statements of intent to hunt, skin and kill pedobears everywhere, starting with Freedom Hosting.

Metasploit 4.1.0 Web UI Cross Site Scripting vulnerability The Web UI in Metasploit version 4.1.0 suffers from a stored cross site scripting vulnerability discovered by " Stefan Schurtz ". Technical Details Login to Web UI -> Create New Project -> Project name -> '"</script><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>