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#OccupyLondon : The Night of Thousand Masks on 5th November Anonymous Mask = " A symbol that unites them behind one universal message " . Activists plan to protest on 5th November ,2011 at Saint Pauls Cathedral London 9:00pm - 11:00pm. This going to be " The Night of Thousand Masks ". Message By Anonymous : Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday , I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I susp...

Super Cryptography : The Next Generation Encryption The next generation of encryption technologies meets this need by using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to replace RSA and DH, and using Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher for high-speed authenticated encryption. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller in 1985. According to Cisco ," New algorithms for encryption, authentication, digital signatures, and key exchange are needed to meet escalating security and performance requirements ". A 244-bit ECC key has the equivalent strength of a 2048-bit RSA key for security; a 384-bit ECC key matches a 7680-bit RSA key. Greater strength for any given key length enables the use of shorter keys, resulting in significantly l...

The Hacker News Magazine - Anniversary Edition  - November Issue 06 In November of 2010 the team at The Hacker News finally achieved our ultimate goal of launching an online News Portal and Magazine addressing the tricky and complicated world of hackers and hacking. In our first year The Hacker News made our fair shares of mistakes, typical of first-time publishers, but our successes have been innumerable and The Hacker News has reached many of it goals in this often hectic and exciting  first year. The Hacker News was fortunate enough to have assembled a dedicated and professional team that intrinsically understood that it is not enough to hope to succeed; you have to plan to succeed. And I am grateful to each and every one of these talent people that understood this concept and helped implement it daily to help insure our success. As the mainstream media often denigrates computer hackers as nothing more than digital pranksters, we at The Hacker News believe that many...

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 -...

Palestine : Hackers have taken down phone and Internet services The main phone network in the West Bank and Gaza has suffered a sustained attack by computer hackers, the Palestinian Authority (PA) says. Mashour Abou Daqqa, the Palestinian telecoms minister, said the disruptions, which began Tuesday morning, came from various sources around the world, but had no detailed information. He said hackers used IP servers in Germany, China, and Slovenia to launch the attack. Hack may be linked to rising regional tensions over the Palestinian Authority's successful move to acquire membership in Unesco on Monday. It also comes against the backdrop of new cross-border clashes along the border between Israel and Gaza. One Israeli civilian and at least 10 Palestinian militants were killed in the worst violence on that front in months. The fighting followed the launch of rocket salvos against Israeli territory last week. Israel retaliated with airstrikes. Daqqa suggested its neighbour coul...

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites Kimberly from  Stopmalvertising  found Blackhole Exploit Kit on Website of most popular Webserver software site WAMPSERVER . Almost at the bottom of the webpage they notice a Javascript requesting a file from jquery.googlecode.com . The URL is followed by a long string of parameters. The file  returns a 404, it's just there to fool people. Once the script decoded we obtain an iframe leading to vc-business.com/in.php .According to Analyse of Kimberly , If a vulnerable Java, Windows Media Player, Flash or Adobe Reader version is detected, the visitor will be redirected to 91.194.214.66/dng311011/c7a44076f6c722eb74725563b0a000a0/spl.php and from there to 30domaaaam.in/main.php?page=c76874df55550a3f . According to Norton Safe Web , 91.194.214.66 has been caught in distributing the ZeroAccess rootkit. Second Recent Attack by Blackhole Exploit discovered in  thousands of WordPre...

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer Duqu malware attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like cyber-surveillance Trojan. The vulnerability has since been reported to Microsoft and Microsoft is working on a fix for the kernel vulnerability right now. Researchers at the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) in Hungary confirmed the existence of the zero-day vulnerability and exploit in a brief note posted to its web site. Our lab, the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) pursued the analysis of the Duqu malware and as a result of our investigation, we identified a dropper file with an MS 0-day kernel exploit inside. We immediately provided competent organizations with the necessary information such that they can take appropriate steps for the protection of the users. The installer file is a Microsoft Word document (.doc) that exploits...

Virtual Machine for Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E) Released The Honeynet Project release of the Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine. Do you need to analyze a piece of Android malware, but dont have all your analysis tools at hand? The Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine, put together by Anthony Desnos from our French chapter, is here to help. A.R.E. combines the latest Android malware analysis tools in a readily accessible toolbox. Tools currently found on A.R.E. are: Androguard Android sdk/ndk APKInspector Apktool Axmlprinter Ded Dex2jar DroidBox Jad Smali/Baksmali Download A.R.E