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Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers’ personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said personal information for more than 92,000 of its customers was illegally sold to a third party. The information exposed included the names, account numbers addresses, phone numbers birthdates, and sex of 92,408 credit card holders, Citi Cards Japan warned in an advisory (PDF) issued Friday . The personal identification numbers and card security codes were not accessed. Citi Cards Japan did not mention how customer information was obtained as the sale of such information is currently under investigation. “ While the risk of fraud is minimal due to the absence of security information, CCJ has placed internal fraud alerts and enhanced monitoring on all accounts identified, and no unusual...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the government understand technology? Or, with new successes in the Indian economy, maybe the nation is feeling the need to flex a few muscles. India's communications ministry has been asked by the home ministry to monitor social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook amid fears that the services are being used by terrorists to plan attacks. The request suggests that the Indian government is trying to broaden the scope of its online surveillance for national security. Telecommunications service providers in India provide facilities for lawful interception and monitoring of communications on their network, including communications from social networking websites such as Facebook...

#DefCon 19 : Presentations from the Defcon Conference for Download Defcon 19 presentations available for download, Go check out the presentations from this year’s defcon conference here:  http://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ For folks that don't have time to click: curl -silent http://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ | grep -i 'pdf' | cut -d '"' -f 8 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | grep -v '/' > dc19pdf.txt; for i in $(cat dc19pdf.txt); do curl --location "http://THIS-DOWNLOAD-WOULD-BE-FASTER-WITH-A-PREMIUM-ACCOUNT-AT-good.net" -L "http://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/$i" > $i; done

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots Hacking crew team TriCk – TeaMp0isoN today hack and deface the blog website of BlackBerry against London riots, One of the leading Mobile Company. They post a message also on homepage, as given below . Also There were calls on Tuesday to shut down the BlackBerry Messenger service which is thought to have helped mobilise looters in the riots in London. Mirror of Hack can be seen here . Message posted by TeaMp0isoN on Blog site : This hack is a response to this statement by RIM: “We feel for those impacted by this weekend’s riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can. As in all markets around the world Where BlackBerry is available, we cooperate with local telecommunications operators, law enforcement and regulatory officials. Similar to other technology providers in the UK we comply with The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and co-operate fully with the Home ...

Tweaking Facebook Status with HTML button Have you thought that Facebook status updates that can be modified ? Yes we have a tweak for you :  One is a Button Tag.  One of our Hacker Friend " Acizninja DeadcOde " , admin of  http://blog.cyber4rt.com sharing such cool tweaks with The Hacker News readers : Here's the concept: 1. Log in to your Facebook account. 2. Copy and paste the url code below into the Address Bar and press the Enter key: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=209403259107231&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww..facebook.com&message&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehackernews.com%2F&name=<center><button>Visit+:+The+Hacker+News<%2Fbutton><%2Fcenter> 3. After that just press the button SHARE, and see your Facebook profile.You can also send them to friends, Fans Page & Events. NOTE : app_id=209403259107231 ( App ID on Facebook, Keep it same ) Redirect_uri = http://www.facebook.com ( This Wil...

Official Website of Will Smith's Daughter Willow Smith Hacked Today a Hacker with name  BLaCk SPECTRE hack and Deface the  Official Website of Willow Smith .Willow is the daughter of musician-actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith. May be this attack is just for fun, as no message is posted on site.

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website , a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus (http://anonplus.com/), the site Anonymous set up last month when it was booted off Google+ — did not include the name of the group responsible. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, however, credited the AnonPlus defacement to the ' Syrian Electronic Army ' in a message posted to Twitter. ' In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website ,' the defacement read Where as Anonymous Claim that, AnonPlus is not their any Official site. Lulzsec leader Sabu tweet  " Turns out people were correct: anonplus.com was a troll domain. Belongs to "fro" aka "cnap...

EC-Council is launching " CyberLympics " - Olympic games for Cyber Security Global CyberLympics is conceptualized and organized by EC-Council. The goal of the CyberLympics is to raise awareness towards increased education and ethics in information security. The mission of the Global CyberLympics is Unifying Global Cyber Defense through the Games. EC-Council’s Global CyberLympics , the world’s first ethical hacking championship will be held this September across six continents. The Global CyberLympics is endorsed by the U.N.‘s cybersecurity executing arm. The mission behind the games is to foster better cooperation and communication on cybersecurity issues among countries. Global CyberLympics is a series of ethical hacking games comprised of both offensive and defensive security challenges that will take place starting from September across six continents. Teams will vie for regional championships, followed by a global hacking championship round to determine the world’s b...

TeaMp0isoN : NASA forum is Vulnerable SQL injection, Admin Hacked ! TeaMp0isoN Hackers crew today Reveal on twitter that the discussion forum on NASA website at  https://worldwind35.arc.nasa.gov/forum/ is Vulnerable to SQL injection. The discussion Forum script is Powered by Vbulletin. According to hacker, He use Vbulletin 4.0.x => 4.1.3 (messagegroupid) SQL injection Vulnerability Exploit for hacking the Database of Forum . Hacker also expose the Login details of Admin of website on Pastie .