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Secunia PSI 3.0 : Automatic Patching Of Insecure Applications Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free program that scans the system for programs that are installed in an outdated version.The developers have just released the first beta version of Secunia PSI 3.0 for Windows. A new version of the Personal Software Inspector (PSI) tool from vulnerability management firm Secunia automates the updating of third-party programs that don’t already have auto-updaters built-in. When you start the program for the first time after installation, you are asked to run a scan on the system. Secunia compares the list of installed software with the latest versions stored in their database. A list of outdated programs are then displayed in the program interface. Though most software vendors release patches, its tedious for users to find these updates and download them, where Secunia inspector tool identifies vulnerable programs and plug-ins in your Computer, download and installs all t...

Irongeek 's Shared hosting MD5 Change Detection Script Adrian Crenshaw aka  Irongeek  just release another great tool for web admins that will monitor the files on a website, and report any changed via email. Actually " irongeek.com " was hacked few days back which is hosted on a shared hosting. There is an awesome article posted by him on his blog " How I Got Pwned: Lessons in Ghetto Incident Response ". I think after that  Adrian decide to make a handy tool/script to help web admins so that they can easily monitoring there files on a shared server. This simple shell Script user can run on a shared server. Let suppose once hackers get into your website either by exploiting known vulnerabilities in any of the installed programs OR by getting FTP access to your server, the first thing they usually do is to plant backdoor scripts to log them in again at a later date. They need some executable script on the server to gain access to MySQL passwords, installatio...

r00tw0rm leak United Nations Environment Programme database r00tw0rm group of Hackers hack and leak the complete 82.8 MB database from The united nations environment programme ( UNEP ), which is the voice for the environment in the united nations system. Via a tweet, r00tw0rm shout ," United nations environment programme http://pastebin.com/pXXNv2rH @inj3ct0r @AntiSecOp @sanjar_satsura @Oblivi0u5 @AnonymousIRC @OpCensorThis_ " Hackers leaks data on various file hosting sites such as rapidshare . According to leak, 5 databases and 100's of tables with admin logins and users data.  The united nations environment programme ( UNEP ) website is currently down while writing this post. Other Hacks by r00tw0rm can be seen here .

Occupy Obama’s Google+ ,Chinese Internet Users Flood G+ Page Many Chinese have taken up a call to “ Occupy Obama’s Google+ ” over the weekend in the style of Occupy Wall Street in order to feel “close” to the popular world leader as well as air some of their views. Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China's censorship system to post about human rights and green cards. At first glance, it looks like the official Google+ page is being spammed, but taking a look at some of the comments left in English, you’ll realise that it’s Chinese citizens who have taken to the social network to decry their government’s appalling human rights track record. Some netizens urged Obama to help free activists such as blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is currently under house arrest, or Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner. Some comments left by the Chinese called for free speech and human rights. Other...

Ascend D quad : World's fastest Android by Huawei Huawei has introduced what it calls the world's fastest quad-core smartphone, the Huawei Ascend D quad. Powered by Huawei's K3V2 quad-core 1.2GHz/1.5GHz processor the beast comes with Android 4.0. In an aggressive presentation at the Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona, Huawei repeatedly compared its new product to Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus and Apple’s latest iPhone. Huawei also unveiled the Ascend D quad XL and Ascend D1. Both devices include 32-bit true color graphic processors, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p full HD video capture and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera with 720p video capture. The phone also has Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and Audience earSmart voice technology and an 8-megapixel BSI rear-facing camera, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, and 1080p full HD video-capture and playback capabilities. Ascend D Quad is much faster, too- 20 percent to 30 percent faster, in fact, than one running...

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012 A spokesman for the Nobel Peace Prize jury says 231 nominations have been submitted for this year's award, with publicly disclosed candidates including WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, rights activists say. Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of leaking a video showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also charged with sharing the documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and embarrassing US diplomatic cables, with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The video and documents have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy. Among th...

#WikiLeaks publishes millions of Hacked Stratfor E-mails #gifiles WikiLeaks today began publishing more than five million confidential e-mails from US-based Intelligence firm Stratfor.  About 5.5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence gathering firm with about 300,000 subscribers and has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor, which counts Fortune 500 companies among its subscribers. Stratfor in a statement shortly after midnight said the release of its stolen emails was an attempt to silence and intimidate it. The Online organisation claims to have proof of the firm's confidential links to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co and Lockheed Martin and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency....