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Brazil Under Anonymous Attack - Tangara da Serra city site defaced ! Anonymous Hackers attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city on Sunday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. The attacks this week, which they call " #opmegaupload " shut down the websites of the FBI and US Justice Department for several hours to protest the closure of Megaupload.com. Hackers succeed in shutting down the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes . They posted the image of a grim-faced joker with a message saying, " If Megaupload is down, you are down too ." It was signed " GhostofThreads ". Anonymous use DDoS attacks tools like so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon  which is a piece of software that volunteer hacktivists download to their PCs and choose to run, whereby it then starts blasting the target website with traffic. Stats says that , in last 7 days LOIC downlo...

For Protest Against #SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson Dinelson deface 68 Websites for Protest Against SOPA and PIPA. List of all Hacked site is posted here . A protest to a Congressional bill called SOPA caused quite a stir on Wednesday as thousands of websites protested SOPA with blacked-out pages. Megaupload, a hugely popular website for sharing files, was a major SOPA target, because it allegedly disobeys copyright laws and legislation. After the SOPA protest, the Department of Justice issued a release stating that federal officials had taken the site down. Following this announcement, a hacking collective called Anonymous launched several attacks on government and entertainment industry websites, including those for the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Universal Music. 2 days back SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress . Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing...

Third Security breach at Core Security Technologies Possible Security Breach in Website of Core Security Technologies by sncope Hacker. This is 3rd time when sncope hack and Leak the Passwords of Core Security Technologies. The details of Pentest done by  sncope is available on Pastebin . It include the Login details with hashed passwords and IP address of Users as shown below. Last Time Core Security was Hacked in September 2011 by sncope. That time Hacker defaced the Homepage of Site. Update : According to Core Security Technologies Hacker breached an old Server which is not in use from last 8 Years and there is no sensitive or confidential Information stored on it.  Core Security 's Response about above Attack " There is nothing of importance posted here. Core's active servers, websites or networks were not compromised nor did the information recently posted contain information residing on those systems. In fact, the information is from a third-party serve...

Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked The Official Website of  King Saud University (KSU) Got hacked by some unknown Hacker.is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Database of 812 Users hacked from  http://printpress.ksu.edu.sa/  and dumped on Internet by Hacker on a file sharing site  including Mail address list, mobile phones and passwords. Passwords are not encrypted in any hashes. Most of the Students using same Email ID and Password for Facebook and Other Sites. Its not clear weather its Part of Cyberwar b/w of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

DreamHost Hacked - Change Your Passwords Now ! All Dreamhost customers should read this post immediately and change all related passwords (including WordPress ones). Dreamhost said " Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. " They say there's " no evidence that customer passwords were taken ", but they''re pushing out password changes to everyone just to be safe. In addition, you should change any of your other passwords just to be safe that is, if they're at all similar to your DreamHost password.  To edit your password in the panel, please log into the web panel and go to Manage Users . Click edit next to the FTP/shell user on the right and you can change your password there.  This is the second time within week, when hackers targeted to these big websites, Dreamhost don’t give any clue of the hack.

Book Review : Defense against the Black Arts How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It Ben Rothke  write a review of a   new book on hacking " Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It ". Authors are Jesse Varsalone, Matthew Mcfadden, Michael Schearer and Sean Morrissey. " If there ever was a book that should not be judged by its title, Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It, is that book. Even if one uses the definition in The New Hackers Dictionary of 'a collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area', that really does not describe this book. The truth is that hacking is none of the above. If anything, it is a process that is far from mysterious, but rather aether to describe. With that, the book does a good job of providing the reader with the information ne...

Woohooo! After #SopaBlackout , Congress Postpones Action on #SOPA, #PIPA A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today. The votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability. Google Inc. said today it collected more than 7 million signatures from the U.S. for its online petition to Congress during an Internet protest against anti- piracy legislation backed by Hollywood. Visitors to Google, the world’s most popular search engine, were greeted yesterday by a black box covering the company’s familiar icon, and a message that read “ Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the Web! ” The message linked to a page outlining Google’s opposition and an option to join a petition urging Congress to reject the l...