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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...

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files " Give me liberty or give me death " is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, the Internet based publisher making headlines around the world by releasing secret or suppressed information revealing government and corporate misconduct.Assange and WikiLeaks have, in the words of 60 Minutes " Rattled the worlds of journalism, diplomacy, and national security. " In December 2011, WikiLeaks released the documents from a database containing hundreds of documents from contractors in what WikiLeaks calls the "mass surveillance industry." or " Spy Files ". 1.) According to Spy Files released by WikiLeaks, intelligence agencies, military forces and police authorities "silently... and secretly intercepted calls and had taken over computers without the help ...

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for   #OpMegaupload Megaupload.com , one of the world's most popular sources of online piracy, has been shut down by a federal indictment issued Thursday, which seized and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on internet piracy. Online piracy by the two companies - Megaupload Ltd and Vestor Ltd - generated more than $ 175 million in criminal proceeds and caused more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners Hacking group Anonymous said Thursday it knocked out the websites of the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, and several entertainment industry sites as retribution for anti-piracy efforts by both the government and the entertainment industry. Anonymous said it was " the largest attack ever ," with 5,635 participants involved in bringing down the sites. The two government sites were up and running again after several hours. Megaupload stood as...

#SOPA - The Hacker News say " NO WAY " Get mad and take action as you read how your internet privacy and freedoms are about to be taken away in our editor Patti Galle 's article on SOPA…….coming to your personal rights soon. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced on October 26, 2011 in the United States House of Representatives, by right-wing Texas Republican, Representative Lamar Smith and twelve initial co-sponsors. The Stop Online Piracy Act dramatically broadens the capacity of United States law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Proponents of bill H.R. 3261 state SOPA protects the intellectual property market and related industry, jobs and revenue, and is essential to reinforce and strengthen enforcement of copyright laws particularly against foreign websites. Opponents of the bill forcefully deem that the bill infringes on First Amendment rights, is e...

Giveaway: Win a Backtrack or iPhone book After the huge success of our earlier giveaway we have again teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a giveaway where Three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of their choice between two great selling books i.e iPhone Applications Tune-Up or BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing.  Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winner.  The contest will close on 05/FEB/2012. Overview of the first book: iPhone Applications Tune-Up Tune up every aspect of your iOS application for greater levels of stability and performance. Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter here Overview of the second book: BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing • Learn the black-art of penetration testing with in-depth coverage of BackTrack Linux distribution. Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter here How to Enter? 1) Tweet this article – you ca...

Multiple Cross Site Scripting ( #XSS ) Vulnerabilities in Forbes Ucha Gobejishvili ( longrifle0x ) , A Georgian Security Researcher Discover two Cross Site Scripting ( XSS ) Vulnerabilities on the Official website of Forbes , an American publishing and media company. Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an attacker can send a malicious script to a different user by relaying the script from an otherwise trusted or innocuous server. These flaws are extensive on the Web and allow an attacker to place malicious code that can execute attacks against other users in the security context of the web servers of the trusted host. 1.) First Vulnerable Link : Click Here 2.) Second Vulnerable Link : Click Here Cross-Site Scripting typically involves executing commands in a user's browser to display unintended content, or with the intent of stealing the user's login credentials or other personal information. This information can then be used by the attacker to access web sites and ser...

WOL-E : Wake on LAN - Explorer WOL-E is a suite of tools for the Wake on LAN feature of network attached computers, this is now enabled by default on many Apple computers. These tools include: Bruteforcing the MAC address to wake up clients Sniffing WOL attempts on the network and saving them to disk Sniffing WOL passwords on the network and saving them to disk Waking up single clients (post sniffing attack) Scanning for Apple devices on the network for WOL enabling Sending bulk WOL requests to all detected Apple clients. Download

SOPA in US and Censorship in India : A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom ! As US senators mull over the SOPA(Stopping Online Piracy Act) and PIPA(Protecting Intellectual Property Act) bills, the world stands witness to a historic moment. Almost all big IT companies like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Mozilla, Godaddy, etc are speaking in one unanimous voice against SOPA and Internet Censorship. The draconian provisions of SOPA/PIPA are bound to create the deathbed of internet freedom and free speech, and if a careful reading of the proposed legislation is done, one realizes that it is likely to have the same impact on India. In the disguise of protecting copyrights and stopping piracy its completely clear that the US government is trying to assert its control over the free flow of information on internet which is some time uncomfortable to them. Giving power to Attorney General to direct search engines like Google to filter particular search results, or asking an ISP to manipulat...