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Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Jul 08, 2011
Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal Anonymous Hackers today leak some files of  IRC Federal via a tweet . They've gotten access to contracts, internal documents, development schematics, logins and more. The Download Link released by Anonymous is  https://www.mediafire.com/?twxc1nhiluwr126#1  ,106.91 MB. Mirror also available now on Torrent . Anonymous Said " If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy and start working against it. Stop aiding the corporations and a government which uses unethical means to corner vast amounts of wealth and proceed to flagrantly abuse their power. Together, we have the power to change this world for the better. ". The Complete Release on Pastebin as shown Below :                              ```  : h0 yyyh     `                                                          :0yyhhh   0  0  :   hhy00:  `                                              : 0hhh               ::     : y 0y   0000 :`        
Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

Mar 02, 2016
And the Winners of this year's Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman . The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" . Turing Award named after  Alan M. Turing , the British mathematician and computer scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of the German Enigma cipher and the German "Tunny" encoding machine in World War II. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the Turing Award the same day when FBI Director  James Comey  appeared before a congressional committee to discuss how  encryption has become Threat  to law enforcement. The ACM  announced the award on Tuesday, which includes the top prize of $1 Million that has been awarded to two men who invented the "public-key cryptography" – a technique that
Is Your Data Safe? Check Out Some Cybersecurity Master Classes

Is Your Data Safe? Check Out Some Cybersecurity Master Classes

Oct 18, 2021
Since cybersecurity is definitely an issue that's here to stay, I've just checked out the recently released first episodes of Cato Networks  Cybersecurity Master Class Series .  According to Cato, the series aims to teach and demonstrate cybersecurity tools and best practices; provide research and real-world case studies on cybersecurity; and bring the voices and opinions of top cybersecurity thought-leaders. Designed for security and IT professionals, C-level managers and security experts, each session contains both theory and hands-on examples about strategic, tactical, and operational issues on a wide range of topics.  The classes are hosted by industry-recognized cybersecurity researcher and keynote speaker, Etay Maor, who is also Senior Director of Security Strategy at Cato. Four out of the planned annual 8-10 episodes are currently available online.  Episode 1 , entitled  How (and Why) to Apply OSINT to Protect your Enterprise  takes an in-depth look at our era of data proli
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This cheat sheet covers best practices with actionable items in Infrastructure security, code security, secrets management, access and authentication, and monitoring and response.
How to Make Your Employees Your First Line of Cyber Defense

How to Make Your Employees Your First Line of Cyber Defense

May 01, 2024Security Awareness Training
There's a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security, you've got to remain prepared to confront those very same threats. As a decision-maker for your organization, you know this well. But no matter how many experts or trusted cybersecurity tools your organization has a standing guard, you're only as secure as your weakest link. There's still one group that can inadvertently open the gates to unwanted threat actors—your own people. Security must be second nature for your first line of defense For your organization to thrive, you need capable employees. After all, they're your source for great ideas, innovation, and ingenuity. However, they're also human. And humans are fallible. Hackers understand no one is perfect, and that's precisely what they seek to exploit. This is why your people must become your first line of defense against cyber threats. But to do so, they need to learn how to defend thems
Metasploit Framework v3.5.1 Updated Version Download !

Metasploit Framework v3.5.1 Updated Version Download !

Dec 17, 2010
Our favourite exploitation framework – The Metasploit Framework has been updated! We now have Metasploit version 3.5.1 ! "The Metasploit Framework is a penetration testing toolkit, exploit development platform , and research tool. The framework includes hundreds of working remote exploits for a variety of platforms. Payloads, encoders, and nop slide generators can be mixed and matched with exploit modules to solve almost any exploit-related task." This is the release log: Statistics : Metasploit now ships with 635 exploit modules and 313 auxiliary modules. 47 new modules have been added since the last point release. 45 tickets were closed and 573 commits were made since the last point release Metasploit is still about twice the size of the nearest Ruby application according to Ohloh.net (~500K lines of Ruby) New Modules : New Exploits and Auxiliaries Cisco Device HTTP Device Manager Access Cisco IOS HTTP Unauthorized Administrative Access Cisco I
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