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20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital Last month Stanford University's hospital discovered a massive privacy breach when 20,000 emergency room records appeared online. The records included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, dates of admission and discharge, and billing charges. Social Security numbers, birth dates, credit card accounts or other information that could potentially result in identity theft was not exposed. Even so, the hospital is offering free identity-protection services to all affected patients. The Hospital released the following statement: " An electronic file that an outside vendor’s sub-contractor created and caused to be posted to a website contained limited information about patients seen in the Emergency Department of Stanford Hospital & Clinics between March 1 and August 31, 2009. The Hospital discovered this on August 22, 2011, and immediately took action to ensure removal of the file from the website, which was done within 24...

Hacker Halted USA 2011 - 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend Hacker Halted is a global series of Computer and Information Security conferences presented by EC-Council. The objective of the Hacker Halted conferences is to raise international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT Security. The event is currently in its 14th year. Also present at Hacker Halted is EC-Council's H@cker Halted | Academy, trainings and workshops led by EC-Council instructors and trainers. Hacker Halted returns to Miami for the 3rd year in a row will be held in Miami on 25th and 27th October 2011. Participate and be part of one of the world’s most recognized information security conference. Gain perspective through keynote addresses on the current state of information security as well as emerging trends and threats. An information security conference with a comprehensive agenda. Choose from the various focused tracks covering critical domains of information security. Match your informati...

winAUTOPWN v2.7 – Windows Autohacking Tool This version covers almost all remote exploits up-till mid-July 2011 and a few older ones as well. This version incorporates a few new commandline parameters: -perlrevshURL (for a PERL Reverse Shell URL), – mailFROM (smtpsender) and -mailTO (smtpreceiver). These are the commandline arguments required for a few exploits which require remote connect-back using a perl shell and email server exploits requiring authentication respectively. This version also tackles various internal bugs and fixes them. A complete list of all Exploits in winAUTOPWN is available in CHANGELOG.TXT A complete list of User Interface changes is available in UI_CHANGES.txt Also, in this version : BSDAUTOPWN has been upgraded to version 1.5. In this release you will also find pre-compiled binaries for : FreeBSD x86 FreeBSD x64 DragonFly BSD x86 Download winAUTOPWN v2.7

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, formerly the director of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, will join Sony in the newly created position of chief information security officer and a senior vice president. The new hire signals a heightened seriousness by Sony in the aftermath of an intrusion into its online videogame service earlier this year. The breach compromised the personal information of more than 100 million accounts from its online networks, including the possible loss of some credit card information. Sony said there have been no reports of any credit card data theft. Sony shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming video and music network on April 20...

12 Pakistan Government departments websites & Benazir Bhutto  Hacked by Mr52 An Indian Hacker " Mr52 " strike back to Pakistan Government departments. He hack and deface about 12 Government departments websites including Pakistan Navy, Maritime Security Agency, NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, Benazir Bhutto, Ministry of Foreign Affairs websites are hacked. List of defaced sites are : http://www.paknavy.gov.pk/securite/default.html http://www.paknavy.gov.pk/default.html http://www.msa.org.pk/default.html http://www.neas.gov.pk/default.html http://www.nfdc.gov.pk/default.html http://www.niopk.gov.pk/default.html http://www.szab.pk/default.html http://www.benazir.pk/default.html http://www.mopw.gov.pk/default.html http://www.dfp.gov.pk/default.html http://www.erapixels.com/default.html http://www.mofa.gov.pk/default.html

Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE) - Forensics tool to expose all your online activity Researchers " Elie Bursztein " from Stanford University in California have managed to bypass the encryption on a PC's hard drive to find out what websites a user has visited and whether they have any data stored in the cloud. " Commercial forensic software concentrates on extracting files from a disc, but that's not super-helpful in understanding online activity ," says Elie Bursztein, whose team developed the software. " We've built a tool that can reconstruct where the user has been online, and what identity they used. " The open-source software, Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE), was launched at the Black Hat 2011 security conference and works with PCs running on the Windows operating system. OWADE is in alpha version and is only available by checking out the code directly as we update it very frequently. Note th...

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security (LulzSec) have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online nicknames on the internet or IRC. 20-year-old Christopher Jan Weatherhead, from Northampton, cannot use the internet nickname ' Nerdo ', Ashley Rhodes, 26, from London, is banned from calling himself ' NikonElite ' online. Two other men, aged 24 and 20, have been released on bail following their arrest last week as part of the Metropolitan police investigation into Anonymous and LulzSec. They are due to return to a London police station in November.The two men were arrested separately in South Yorkshire and Wiltshire . They are charged with conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Cyberwar between Israel  and Turkish  Hacker Turkish hacker " TurkGuvenligi " hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on at least seven high-profile websites including The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone as well. Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was “ World Hackers Day. " Hackers calling themselves the " TurkGuvenligi group " calimd the cyber-attack. "TurkGuvenligi translates as " Turkish security. " " The hack represents a 10%-15% spike compared to the average number of daily hacks of Israeli websites ," Shai Blitzblau, head of Maglan-Computer Warfare and Network Intelligence Labs, explained. Israel's military and security establishment has invested significantly in cyber-warfare programs in recent years and is considered one of the most advanced cyber-warfare forces in the world, both in attack and defense modes.T...