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Roger Ebert Email ID got hacked by Rapt0r - Anonymous Operation #AntiSec

Roger Ebert Email ID got hacked by Rapt0r - Anonymous Operation #AntiSec

Jul 06, 2011
Roger Ebert Email ID got hacked by Rapt0r - Anonymous Operation #AntiSec Roger Joseph Ebert's Email ID answerman@gmail.com hacked by  Rapt0r for Anonymous Operation #AntiSec.  Roger Joseph Ebert  is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Hacker Get access to his email ID and Email us ( The Hacker News ) from his ID with a message as shown " I am NOT Roger Ebert the famous film critic but I AM a Hacker who got inside his E-Mail account. In fact I have downloaded all his messages, and I am writing this to you from inside his G-Mail account. For full details of this intrusion go to www.HackerLeaks.com where everything will be revealed. ". Hacker claim to download all his emails and offering to expose all data on  www.HackerLeaks.com . We check the given site, but its not working right now. We check the Facebook page of Roger Ebert to verify that is    answerman@gmail.com is the real id of Rog
Hackers posts fake celebrity stories on Sony site

Hackers posts fake celebrity stories on Sony site

Jul 06, 2011
Hackers posts fake celebrity stories on Sony site From last three months Sony becomes favorite victim to hackers. This time A hacker post fake celebrity stories on Sony Music's Ireland site . These Fake Stories was : 1.) Scientists have proved that the X Factor TV show is for the stupid. 2.) Two members of the Irish pop band "The Script" were found dead in their backstage dressing room. 3.) Rebecca Black (the teenage singer who became an internet meme after her phenomenally bad "Friday" video became a YouTube hit) has married R Kelly in Disneyland As of 7:10 a.m. Wednesday (Manila time), visitors to Sony Music Ireland were redirected to Sony Music Ireland's Facebook page .
10 Critical Endpoint Security Tips You Should Know

10 Critical Endpoint Security Tips You Should Know

Apr 26, 2024Endpoint Security / IT Security
In today's digital world, where connectivity is rules all, endpoints serve as the gateway to a business's digital kingdom. And because of this, endpoints are one of hackers' favorite targets.  According to the IDC,  70% of successful breaches start at the endpoint . Unprotected endpoints provide vulnerable entry points to launch devastating cyberattacks. With IT teams needing to protect more endpoints—and more kinds of endpoints—than ever before, that perimeter has become more challenging to defend. You need to improve your endpoint security, but where do you start? That's where this guide comes in.  We've curated the top 10 must-know endpoint security tips that every IT and security professional should have in their arsenal. From identifying entry points to implementing EDR solutions, we'll dive into the insights you need to defend your endpoints with confidence.  1. Know Thy Endpoints: Identifying and Understanding Your Entry Points Understanding your network's
Lulzsec Releases Final Message to the friends around the globe

Lulzsec Releases Final Message to the friends around the globe

Jul 06, 2011
Lulzsec Releases Final Message to the friends around the globe Anonymous Tweet  Video message as " Lulzsec Last Message ". In 10minutes the Video get 200 Likes and 7000 Views. Every message of Anonymous/ Lulzsec is spreading like Fire. The Video Message is here : Lulzsec Message is : Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us. For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love.
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Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments

Jul 06, 2011
Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments Anonymous Hackers leaks Nimbuzz data via the twitter account  of AnonymousIRC which included a link to their latest leak from Nimbuzz  https://pastebin.com/TvSxycCf . About thirty minutes later, that twitter account posted a link for download named " antibuzz " along with an invitation for everyone to join Anonymous IRC . Nimbuzz is a Dutch company that provides services similar to Skype, Including text and video communication.The pastebin release claims that Nimbuzz is " capable and self-admittingly willing to co-operate with governments to help censor the public's use of the very services they offer. " Anonymous Says " People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraidof their people. ".
PayPal UK Twitter account hijacked by angry customer

PayPal UK Twitter account hijacked by angry customer

Jul 06, 2011
PayPal UK Twitter account hijacked by angry customer Second high-profile hack of the week against Twitter accounts, Yesterday  FOX News Twitter Account was Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S & then sent false tweets saying that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead. Today an  angry customer of Paypal hijack the Twitter account of PayPal UK. In PayPal's Hacking case, the attackers sent out messages promoting paypalsucks.com , a site devoted to what it says is " exposing the nightmare of doing business 'the PayPal way' ". Another tweet sent from the hacked account read, " PayPal can freeze your funds for no reason, do not use PayPal!! " The account's photo and description was changed before being taken down by Twitter. The Tweets were removed within a few hours of the hijacking. " Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended ," Twitter said on its page for the PayPalUK feed. A spokesman for PayPal UK said that the company is
Video Demonstration : Vsftpd backdoor discovered by Mathias Kresin

Video Demonstration : Vsftpd backdoor discovered by Mathias Kresin

Jul 05, 2011
Video Demonstration : Vsftpd backdoor discovered by Mathias Kresin 2.3.4 of vsftpd's downloadable source code was compromised and a backdoor added to the code. Evans, the author of vsftpd . This module exploits a malicious backdoor that was added to the VSFTPD download archive. This backdoor was present in the vsftpd-2.3.4.tar.gz archive sometime before July 3rd 2011. The bad tarball included a backdoor in the code which would respond to a user logging in with a user name ":)" by listening on port 6200 for a connection and launching a shell when someone connects. Read more here Affected versions : vsftpd-2.3.4 from 2011-06-30 Metasploit demo : use exploit/unix/ftp/vsftpd_234_backdoor set RHOST localhost set PAYLOAD cmd/unix/interact exploit id uname -a Video Demonstration :
NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked !

NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked !

Jul 04, 2011
NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked ! Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO .  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. They Leak a Backup of Random 2,646 files from Server as Proof of Hack . The archive uploaded by hackers is available at  https://www.mediafire.com/?s2chp1v2jqsf52z  . We talk to Team Inj3ct0r about this hack They said : 1.) The Reason of Hacking is "Nuclear weapons. its development and financing" 2.) They hack Tomcat 5.5 Server using 1337day privat exploit (0day) . 3.) They get the root privilege to the Server. 4.) They are able to Deface the website of NATO also, but they will not do this. They have just take the backup of server and trying to distribute that on Internet. This archive contains various configurations XML/Batch/Bash files. Some of them as l
RedHack deface 1000 sites for Turkey #AntiSec

RedHack deface 1000 sites for Turkey #AntiSec

Jul 04, 2011
RedHack deface 1000 sites for Turkey #AntiSec RedHack Hackers Group deface more than 1000 websites today. The complete list of hacked sites are here  . The hack is done in support of Anonymous and Operation Antisec. The hackers also release a press Release as below with Reason of this hack.  Press Release By Redhack : Our people from all nationalities and Revolutionary, Democrat, Patriotic and Opposition Comrades, Since 1997 our objective is, to be the "common voice" of revolutionaries in digital arena and have carried out our actions according to this strategy. On the anniversary of Sivas Massacre which took place on 2nd July 1993 and resulted in death of thirty-five intellectuals, singer, authors and poets; we have hacked hundreds of websites belongs to Adnan Oktar also known as Harun Yahya bigot and collaborating fascist websites in order to announce that we have not forgotten this massacre and will not let it be forgotten.  We have also taken opportunity to highlight the
FOX News Twitter Account Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S

FOX News Twitter Account Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S

Jul 04, 2011
FOX News Twitter Account Hacked by 5CR1PT K1DD3S Fox News Politics Twitter account @foxnewspolitics  hacked last night.  The account's icon had been changed from the Fox News Politics logo and featured the following new description: " H4CK3D BY TH3 5CR1PT K1DD3S. " Hacker's Personal account was  @TheScriptKiddie on twitter, but After hack, Twitter has suspended his account. Then hacker made another announcement via  Fox News Politics Twitter account  that " twitter has suspended TheScriptKiddie please follow @ScriptKiddi3 for future releases. we have confirmed Fox News is aware of the attack. " THN talk with " The Script Kiddies " Group. They Reply : " We are a new group called The Script Kiddies. As i have stated in past interviews we do have connections to anonymous, however this does not represent them in anyway. personally I have been part of many hacks leading back to HBgary and #operationPyaback with anonymous . we will not
Microsoft.com.br (Brasil) hacked by TG hacker

Microsoft.com.br (Brasil) hacked by TG hacker

Jul 04, 2011
Microsoft.com.br (Brasil) hacked by TG hacker Microsoft Brasil https://microsoft.com.br/ Got defaced by Hacker named " TG ". Hacker redirect  server address microsoft.com.br  to the page of Microsoft Brazil. Instead of being sent to the developer page of Windows, the Internet user that accesses the address is faced with a message published by hackers as  " Ms Brazil 0wn3d by TG " .  The forwarding service is hosted on an external server.
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