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PwnieExpress : Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900

PwnieExpress : Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900

Nov 12, 2011
PwnieExpress : Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900 PwnieExpress providing one of the best Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900 .It  Includes Aircrack, Metasploit, Kismet, GrimWEPa, SET, Fasttrack, Ettercap, nmap, and more, Custom pentesting screen with shortcuts to macchanger, injection on/off, etc. Built-in wireless card supports packet injection, monitor mode, and promiscuous mode also available : Try It
Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Nov 12, 2011
Operation Brotherhood Shutdown  : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers Anonymous Hackers take down the The Muslim Brotherhood websites. The hacking group had made an announcement Tuesday in which they threatened to launch "Operation Brotherhood Takedown," on all Brotherhood sites at 8pm on Friday, 11 November. According to a video released by them on youtube as shown above. They claim to taken down following sites: As of 2:24 PM EST, ikhwanonline.com IS DOWN. As of 2:26 PM EST, ikhwanweb.com IS DOWN. The Brotherhood claimed in a statement released on Saturday morning that the attacks were coming from Germany, France, Slovakia and San Francisco in the US, with 2000-6000 hits per second. The hackers later escalated their attack on the site to 380 thousand hits per second.Under the overload, four of the group's websites were forced down temporarily.Anonymous is made up of a group of unidentified hackers who have previously attacked Israeli, Russian and NATO...
Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo

Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo

Nov 12, 2011
Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo Another Android Feature Exploited, Funny that Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo . Check out the video below, courtesy of Malaysia's SoyaCincau : He said " While some of you think that it is a trick and I had set the Galaxy Nexus up to recognise the picture, I assure you that the device was set up to recognise my face. I have a few people there watching me do the video and if any one of them is watching this video I hope you can confirm that this test is 100% legit .".
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#Anonymous : Now is the Time to evolve or Die

#Anonymous : Now is the Time to evolve or Die

Nov 12, 2011
#Anonymous : Now is the Time to evolve or Die Anonymous was formed and birthed on the internet message board 4chan in 2003. The moniker Anonymous was derived as homage to 4chan. At the time, if someone posted to 4chan's forums and no name was given then the post was credited to "Anonymous". Seizing onto the premise or the idea that actions can be taken anonymously by the lesser or powerless "Anonymous" moved beyond 4Chan and morphed into sometime larger and more potent. The original premise of "Anonymous" appeared to be a limited but noble idea; attempting to keep the internet open and free because governments and corporations were earnestly trying and demanding limits and restrictions to the freedom of expression on the internet. To date "Anonymous" has remained a banner that many channers, as well as hacktivists and IRC users, post under and are loosely grouped together. Allied under the umbrella of "Anonymous" with no real command structure in the group, "Anonymous" rem...
Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked

Nov 11, 2011
Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked The official website of the Supreme Court was hacked yesterday.Information technology experts of the court, however, recovered it around 8:00pm. According to the message posted on the site, the hackers identified themselves as " Bangladeshi UnderGround Hacker 3xp1r3 Cyber Army ".They, however, claimed that all the data is safe and not being tampered with or deleted." Some other hackers are trying to hack Bangladeshi sites!! And delete all the data !! (sic), " they warn. Head of IT department of the apex court Quddus Zaman confirmed the restoration of the site, www.supremecourt.gov.bd. Earlier, Supreme Court registrar A K M Shamsul Islam told , " A person from Singapore called me up in the morning and said the website of the Supreme Court has been hacked. Several others also phoned me later and complained about it ."
Burp Suite Pro v1.4.03 released - CSRF generator, SSL strip Added

Burp Suite Pro v1.4.03 released - CSRF generator, SSL strip Added

Nov 11, 2011
Burp Suite Pro v1.4.03 released - CSRF generator, SSL strip Added There is a new CSRF generator, which produces proof-of-concept HTML for generating virtually any HTTP request. You can access this feature by right-clicking any item within Burp, and using the engagement tools context menu to select "generate CSRF PoC". Some useful features are: Support for all form encoding types: standard URL encoding, multipart encoding, and plain text encoding. Auto-detection of the optimal encoding type, with manual override. Ability to edit both the request and response in-place, to fine tune attacks. In-browser testing, by pasting a URL into your browser that will cause Burp Proxy to serve up the CSRF PoC in its response. Download/Buy from here
Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking

Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking

Nov 11, 2011
Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking Valve CEO Gabe Newell has contacted all users of the Steam game distribution platform to let them know that the company has suffered a security breach. Right before going offline, users saw a new category in the forum that directed them to open a site named "Fkn0wned." Many users also complained that their email ids related to Steam accounts were "spammed with ads for the web site. Valve recommends all users to keep closely watched the activity of their credit cards because the hackers had access to that information during the attack. Forums Steam are closed for the moment, but the program itself is running. " We have no evidence that the numbers encrypted credit card or personal identifying information was taken by intruders, or the protection of card numbers or passwords have been cracked . We are still investigating , "Newell wrote. " At the moment we have no evidence of misuse of credit cards b...
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