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Book Review: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing This review is for the BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing book published by Packtpub written by Wes Boudville. The authors tackle a persistent danger to many websites and networks that hang off the Internet, where often the complexity of the operating systems and applications and the interactions between these can open doors to attackers. So the basic idea of penetration testing is to preemptively probe ('attack') your system. Find the weaknesses first, before others do so. In part, the text offers a good overview of the field, separate from the usages of BackTrack. So you get a summary of several common security testing methodologies. Including the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual. If you have a background in science experiments, you'll see clear parallels in how this OSSTMM approach investigates an unknown system. As far as BackTrack is concerned, its capabilities are...

Cyber War : Another 7000 Israel credit cards Exposed on Internet This week has began under worse auspices worse for Israel, which, despite its attention to the cyber threats posed by cyber-space, has been victim of a series of attacks that have checkmated the government of Jerusalem. Kosova Hacker's Security Group of Hackers today claim to release another Another 7000 Israel credit cards on Internet. Last week  xOmar from  "group-xp"  threatened the Israeli people by exposing millions of credit cards. After that Israel said that it will respond to cyber-attacks in the same way it responds to violent terrorist acts, by striking back with force against hackers who threaten the Jewish state.  The Dump of these 7000 Cards are posted on Tinypaste  by Kisova Hackers. Th3 Dir3ctorY, ThEtA.Nu, & X|CRIPO, three hackers from  Kosova Hacker's Security  Group posted all the credentials including full name of the card holder, CCV...

INNA - Romanian singer 's Site Defaced by DARKDevilz Crew After Hack of Official Website ( www.innaofficial.com and www.inna.ro ) of INNA by DARKDevilz Crew Hackers., Million of her Fans Redirected to another defaced page at  http://meb.zgokalp.k12.tr/tok.html  as shown above. Below we upload a screenshot of Source code of URL :  http://www.innaofficial.com/videos/  . Here you can see the Refresh-Metatag that redirecting webpage to another site that contains a message posted by Hacker. Mirror of Hack is also available here : Mirror 1 & Mirror 2 . [ Source ]

UniOFuzz  0.1.2-beta  - Universal fuzzing tool Released UniOFuzz version 0.1.2-beta - the universal fuzzing tool for browsers, web services, files, programs and network services/ports released by  nullsecurity team . Video Demonstration:  pigtail23, Developer of UniOFuzz demonstrated the tool in above Video. Download UniOFuzz

Book Review: IPhone Applications Tune-up Packt recently published a new book- IPhone Applications Tune-up . The book is of course about programming for the iPhone. But there is one chapter on maintainability that is far broader applicability than just the iPhone. This review was written by Wes Boudville . Read more about the book or download a free Sample Chapter here: Sample Chapter Moses explains several general aspects of programming that can and should be adhered to by most participants. Experienced programmers already know this. But if you are starting professional coding, you should pay serious heed. Specifically Moses says you should comment your source code. However, it is "likely a developer's least exercised skill". Learn to regularly put into the source code intelligent comments that explain the context of the source lines they are next to. Especially if the source is intricate. Moses disposes of the objection that some say, that the time taken to write comm...

100 Kenya government websites breached by Indonesian hacker An Indonesian hacker on Tuesday attacked and defaced more than 100 Kenya government websites Among the ministries affected include the Ministries of Local Government, Livestock, Environment, Fisheries, Housing, and Industrialisation in a major cyber security breach. A Kenyan expert aware of the incident said an Indonesian hacker known as direxer was responsible for the hacking. The hacker, referred to as Direxer , broke into the sites and defaced them to show that he had managed to access them. Others hacked sites are ministries of Finance, Education, Public Health, Youth Affairs, National Heritage and Roads; as well as sensitive departments such as Administration Police, Immigration, Prisons and various city, municipal and county councils. Check List here . A Cyber Incidence Response Team (CIRT) based at the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has moved into action and was making efforts to restore the affected ...

The Undead  “Corporations” by Patti Galle  The Hacker News Editor " Patti Galle " share her views about Corporations in THN Magazine December Edition . We would like to share same article with our blog Readers. Enjoy the interesting read : Corporations are soulless entities possessing privileges and the rights of citizenship that actual people have; all the while not having to shoulder any of the natural responsibilities. Undead Corporations have concentrated the essence of avarice, rage and fury to form their corporate structure. And as these covetous Corporations have accumulated immeasurable wealth they have methodically utilized this wealth and power to procure, infiltrate, and seize control of the influential and powerful American government and many governments across the world vigorously fusing them into a globe-encompassing non-living aberration, now rightfully called or labeled as Corporatocracy. At present, on an ever escalating level, world governments ar...