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A group of hackers, claiming to be from Kashmir, on Thursday night hacked a website dedicated to the Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bacchan. The group calling itself 'Cyber Stone Pelters Force or Cyber Sangbaaz Force' hacked www. amitabhbachchanonline.com last night and posted pro-independence, anti-India, anti-Israel and anti-United States content on the home page. The hackers have also uploaded a song of Roushan Illahi, popularly known as MC Kash, a Kashmir youth who created ripples on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter with his track "I protest ", which deals with the death of over 113 people, mainly teenagers in government forces' action during pro-freedom demonstrations last summer. "Hello Mr admin, you got owned by Cyber Sangbaaz Force, Cyber Stone pelters Force from Indian Occupied Kashmir," reads the introductory message on the website. Slogans like "Down with America," "Down with Israel," "Down with India," "Free Palestine," "Free Kashmir," "Go India Go ...

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fights poverty around the world and promotes healthcare, even ran a lottery - let alone that I had entered. But clearly, I did and now one of their representatives has been in touch to tell me the good news. Bill and Melinda Gates are renowned around the world for their incredible generosity - they're not only planning to give millions away to me, but they're also happy to employ staff who spells the boss's surname incorrectly. It's great that Bill and Melinda are not adverse to employing people with literacy problems. Counting isn't this emailer's strong point either. He's managed to attach a grand total of 69 files to this email telling me about my windfall. Eventually...

The Korean Times reports the arrest of a pair of hackers over the weekend on DDoS charges. According to prosecutors, the pair, Lee and Park, operated a gambling website on behalf of a crime gang. In an effort to boost traffic to their own site, they used a 50,000-strong botnet to overload 109 rival sites during November and December 2010. A botnet, of course, is a collection of malware-infected computers (often called "zombies") which can remotely be instructed to initiate network-related activity. Sending spam is a common criminal task for which zombies are used; visiting targeted websites deliberately to waste their bandwidth is another. Since most web requests look alike, distinguishing the web hits of malevolent time-wasters from those of potential customers can be tricky. Sites which don't usually get a large number of simultaneous requests often aren't built to sustain heavy load. Prosecutors also allege that Lee, who runs a server rental company - ironically th...

Evidence, leaked accidentally, points to Chinese based miscreants' knowledge, and potential exploitation, of the latest  Microsoft Corporation  (NasdaqGS:  MSFT )  Internet Explorer  zero day, via a recently released  Google Inc.'s  (NasdaqGS:  GOOG ) researcher's( Michal Zalewski ) fuzzer application… Ooops. More, after the jump. A renowned Google researcher who this week released a new free fuzzer that so far has found around 100 vulnerabilities in all browsers says Chinese hackers appear to have gotten their hands on one of the same bugs he discovered with the tool. Google's Michal Zalewski unleashed the so-called cross_fuzz tool on New Year's Day and announced the fuzzer to date uncovered more than 100 vulnerabilities, many of them exploitable, in all browsers. In a bizarre twist, Zalewski says an accidental leak of the address of the fuzzer prior to its release helped reveal some unexpected intelligence, namely that "third parties in China" ...

Angel Found Venerability in Alnasir.com.pk ! Link to site :  https://alnasir.com.pk/ News Source : Angel via Email

A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking the e-mail account of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign has begun his one-year sentence in an unfenced federal prison camp in Kentucky, authorities said Thursday. According to a statement issued by spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 23-year-old David Kernell reported at the minimum security camp in Ashland, Kentucky on January 10 to begin serving out his sentence. Kernel's imprisonment at the Kentucky prison camp came despite a recommendation by sentencing Judge Thomas Phillips that he should serve out his term at a halfway house to reflect the "unique circumstances" of the case. In his ruling made in November, Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips had recommended that David Kernell be allowed to serve out his time at the Midway Rehabilitative Center on Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville, a half way house located near the college where Kernell took classes this summer. In...

5 websites hacked by Pak Cyber Combat Squad ! Hacked List : https://www.4lifecostarica.net/Ibrarz.html https://www.abisdentalcare.com/Ibrarz.html https://www.churchcomplements.com/Ibrarz.html https://www.lafuentedelosmariscos.com/Ibrarz.html https://www.germanruiz.com/Ibrarz.html News Source : Pak Cyber Combat Squad 

Selena Gomez  has warned fans to ignore a series of hateful messages posted on her  Twitter  and  Facebook. com pages, after her online accounts were targeted by hoaxers. The Wizards of Waverly Place star's pages on the social networking sites were taken over by hackers earlier this week. Imposters confused fans with a series of profanity-riddled messages, including, "THE KID ON 4CHAN.ORG IS A LIEN F**KER HE DIDNT HACK S**T!!!!," and, "This message is for puha, YOU SUCK B**CH!!!" The unauthorized posts have since been deleted. And Gomez has taken to her Facebook page to warn fans to ignore the mean messages, assuring them the problem is being fixed. She wrote, "Sorry everyone. My Facebook Page and Twitter account has been hacked and we are cleaning it up." News Source : Om Rathore