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SP Toolkit - Open Source Phishing Education Toolkit A new open source toolkit makes it ridiculously simple to set up phishing Web sites and lures. The software was designed to help companies test the phishing awareness of their employees, but as with most security tools, this one could be abused by miscreants to launch malicious attacks. The spt project is an open source phishing education toolkit that aims to help in securing the mind as opposed to securing computers. Organizations spend billions of dollars annually in an effort to safeguard information systems, but spend little to nothing on the under trained and susceptible minds that operate these systems, thus rendering most technical protections instantly ineffective. A simple, targeted link is all it takes to bypass the most advanced security protections. The link is clicked, the deed is done.spt was developed from the ground up to provide a simple and easy to use framework to identify your weakest links so that you can patc...

Indian BJP Politician 's bank accounts hacked A local News paper today reported that ,The four axis bank accounts belonging to city's Ganesh Shipping firm were hacked by unknown persons and Rs 4, 00,100 was transferred to a different account of Moradabad and Sind Bank. Following a complaint by Shetty, Bunder North Police Inspector Vinay Goankar ensured that the Moradabad account was frozen by informing bank authorities there. Investigation in Process.

The Cloud Security Rules Book - Technology is your friends & Enemy Well-known security experts decipher the most challenging aspect of cloud computing-security.  The Cloud Security Rules book is available on Amazon.com and selected book stores from October 2011. According to Description available on official site " This book targets decision makers in organizations worldwide. Whether you run a small company, is the president of a global NGO, or the CISO of a well-known brand - this book brings you relevant knowledge about security in the Cloud.This book helps you to understand the differences and the similarities between cloud computing and traditional networking - which in essence is the same, yet different. If you are considering moving to the cloud, or are looking for a higher level of security for your existing appliance, The Cloud Security Rules help you to choose the right level of security - based on your needs and understanding ." As the most current and comp...

No Turning Back ~ 2012 by Patti Galle Patti Galle , from The Hacker News Editorial Staff wrote an Article in THN Magazine January Edition . We would like to share this read with all of our site readers. Rebellions are most always rooted in a call for justice, decency and morality. World history is full of countless rebellions against despots and others who did not conform to the will of the people. And as inequality grows to absurd new heights around the world and institutions of power are considered fundamentally dishonest, corrupt, and leaders no longer command the respect and confidence of the people then you have societies where social upheaval is inevitable. Rebellions spring up against fraudulent power and authority, and it is grounded in real outrage against mass murder (neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism), violation of human rights (torture, war crimes), widespread lying and hypocrisy, endemic political corruption, unrestrained thirst for money and power, and unprecedented ...

Wireless Penetration Testing Series Part 2: Basic concepts of WLANs This blog post is in continuation of the Wireless Penetration Testing and Hacking series we started ( Part 1: Getting Started with Monitoring and Injection ) on the basis of the "SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert" ( SWSE ) course which is based on the popular book " Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing ". In the third video, the instructor talks about some of the basic concepts of WLANs. We learn that communication over WLAN's happens over frames. There are mainly 3 types of WLAN frames which are Management frames, Control frames, and Data frames. These types of packets also have different subtypes . We learn that an SSID is a name given to an Access point or a network consisting of multiple Access points. We then learn about Beacon frames which are broadcast frames sent out periodically by Access point to broadcast their presence in the current RF (Radio frequency) vicinity. The instructor then starts wire...

Saudi hacker target Israeli stock exchange and National air carrier Saudi cyber Hacker OxOmar  struck again on Monday. This time disrupted the websites of Israel's stock exchange and National air carrier. Last week he had leaked private information about more than 400,000 Israelis. Credit card companies said around 25,000 numbers, some of them expired, had been posted . The pro-Palestinian group is referring to itself as " Nightmare ." The site of El Al crashed but officials at Israel's flag carrier would not confirm or deny the incident was the work of hackers. A person familiar with the situation at El Al Israel Airlines says the carrier took down its website Monday after the alleged Saudi hacker network behind previous attacks warned that both sites would be targeted. " There has been an attack by hackers on the access routes to the (TASE) website. The stock exchange's trading activities are operating normally ," said Orna Goren, deputy manager of the excha...

Nigerian Army Education site hacked by Nigerian Hacktivists Today the official website of Nigerian Army Education Corps ( NAEC ) got defaced by some Nigerian Hacktivists, He tweeted . The Complete message posted by Hackers as shown below:

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday A hacker with code name of ' Yama Tough ' announce via Twitter that on Tuesday he will leak the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software which is 1,7Gb src. Last week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers. Yama Tough is trying to prove that Indian government was snooping on America and China. YamaTough said via Twitter " Pass it on to forensics and win the lawsuit ,".He has offered support to an American man who filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corp by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software program at the heart of the legal dispute. It was not immediately clear how the source code might help the case. A Symantec spokesperson commented on the incident: " We are still gathering information on ...