The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Cybersecurity News Site — Index Page

Derbycon 2011 Videos Talks The idea behind DerbyCon was developed by Dave Kennedy (ReL1K), Martin Bos (PureHate), and Adrian Crenshaw (Irongeek). Their motivation stemmed from a desire to see more of the old-style talks and events of the conventions of the past. DerbyCon was hosted by some specialized two-day training courses from 30th Sep-2nd Oct 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky. DerbyCon isn't just another security conference. They have taken the best elements from all of the conferences. DerbyCon is a place you can call home, where you can meet each other, party, and learn. Their goal is to create a fun environment where the security community can come together to share ideas and concepts. Whether you know Linux, how to program, are established in security, or a hobbyist, the ideal of DerbyCon is to promote learning and strengthen the community. Day 1 Adrian, Dave, Martin: Welcome to DerbyCon 2011 – Intro to the con and events KEYNOTE ~ HD MOORE – Acoustic Intrusions Johnny Long

Hash Code Cracker V 1.2 Released ~ Password Cracking from BreakTheSecurity BreakTheSecurity is proud to release the Hash Code Cracker Version 1.2. Our latest release supports Online Cracking function. Description: This password cracker is developed for PenTesters and Ethical hackers. Please Use this software for legal purposes(Testing the Password Strength). Features: This software will crack the MD5, SHA1,NTLM(Windows Password) hash codes. No need to install. Supports All platforms(windows XP/7,Linux,..). V1.2 Changelog : Included Online cracking Support Minimum Requirements: Java Runtime Environment: JRE 1.6 should be installed.(you can get it from oracle.com) How to Run the Application? Download the .zip file and extract. Extract the zip file. Open the Terminal or command prompt. Navigate to the path of Extracted zip file (i mean HashCodeCracker Folder) in Terminal/CMD. Type this command "java -jar HashCodeCracker.jar". Now the application will run. Pro

Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access. As we depend on multi-factor authentication and passwords to safeguard human identities, a pressing question arises: How do we guarantee the security and integrity of these non-human counterparts? How do we authenticate, authorize, and regulate access for entities devoid of life but crucial for the functioning of critical systems? Let's break it down. The challenge Imagine a cloud-native application as a bustling metropolis of tiny neighborhoods known as microservices, all neatly packed into containers. These microservices function akin to diligent worker bees, each diligently performing its designated task, be it processing data, verifying credentials, or

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers,                          We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think Hacking is going anywhere and neither are we!! Your feedback is very important to us. Feel free to send us your thoughts and desires for Hacking news. If you want to write an editorial, let us know. We'd love to include it next month. For now, we will see you in our daily and best wishes for a great month. Content of October Edition: Linux - Means Freedom How to make my Linux Secure ? Hackathon Insider Threads Vs Hackers Linux : How to Series by Alok Srivastav Window 8 - Touch the Future The Security Model of Window 8 Server Microsoft Security Development Cycle September Cyber Attacks Download PFD version of Magazine Download Compressed rar ver

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks  (Born : 4th Oct 2006) The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been " founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa ". The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified. It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assange and others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board. News reports in The Australian have called Assange the " founder of WikiLeaks ". According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier, and all the rest". 2006–08 WikiLeaks posted its fi

Contest Winners Announcement : Wireless Penetration Testing Guide book We ran a competition for the book " Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing " last week. Today, Vivek Ramachandran, the author of the book and Founder of SecurityTube.net is announcing the winners in the video below. We will be contacting the winners via email soon. Two Best Comments Selected by Author are : Scott Herbert : For me it's the "man-in-the middle" and other cutting edge wireless attacks that make it a book worth getting (even if I don't win). neutronkaos : What interests me most about this book is that it is dedicated to wireless hacking. In an age where almost everybody is rocking a wireless AP, this book could do alot in offense and defense. I have been a Backtrack fan since Backtrack 3 and I have seen several of Mr. Ramachandran's primers on security tube. I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I am working towards a degree in Network Security. I would love to have this boo

Apache killer exploit modified for better Results " 4L4N4 K!LL3R " or Killapache  DDOS tool exploit, previously coded by kingscope 's , re-edited and coded by " S4(uR4 " , which kills apache and still many websites are vulnerable. S4(uR4 rewrite this exploit on php/curl (web based) with agressive mode. Exploit Consist of 2 part : 1) Test Part (for test u need use static content of site, maybe images, text, html, doc file, etc) 2) Xploiting Part Difference B/w Old and New Modified Exploit: 40c40 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; --- > $p = "HEAD ".($ARGV[2] ? $ARGV[2] : "/")."HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; 56c56 < $p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"; ---

DarkComet-RAT v4.2 fwb (Firewall bypass) This version is firewall bypass it will inject to web browsers and bypass firewall rules. Targets are in this order : Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Explorer if all fails (normally never) then it runs normally. Notice now you can use remote computers as SOCKS5 proxies changelog: - Now server module doesn't melt each times - SOCKS5 Server added – Multithread. - Camera streaming is now more stable - Camera capture interval added - Camera disable streatch enabled/disabled added - File Manager doesn't crash on transfer anymore - Sound capture more stable and a bit faster - New process manager GUI and more user friendly - Process Dump added to the new process manager - Screen capture totally recoded, faster in Vista and Seven than before - Screen capture control more stable - No more black screen in screen capture on resize (avoid using 16bit colors in some systems) Most performant is 8Bit. - New password reco

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The final post read: " If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country? " Authorities vowed to prosecute the guilty parties. Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said an investigation found the hacker used a prepaid phone card and an iPhone to access the accounts. He denied a report that an arrest was imminent, but said details from the investigation would be announced today.Ms. Yingluck won a clear victory in July, but is accused by her critics of being a puppet of her brother, former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra who was thrown out of office in a 2006 military coup. " This country is a business. We work for

Proof of Concept : PuttyHijack - Hijack SSH/PuTTY Sessions PuttyHijack is a POC tool that injects a dll into the Putty process to hijack an existing, or soon to be created, connection. This can be useful during penetration tests when a windows box that has been compromised is used to SSH/Telnet into other servers. The injected DLL installs hooks and creates a socket in guest operating system for a callback connection that is then used for input/output redirection. PuttyHijack does not kill the current connection, and will cleanly uninject if the socket or process is stopped. Leaves no race for further analysis. How to run/install PuttyHijack Start a nc listener on some fully controlled machine. Run PuttyHijack specify the listener ip and port on victime machine (Some socail engg skill may be helpfull) Watch the echoing of everything including passwords (grab it for further analysis) Help commands of PuttyHijack !disco – disconnect the real putty from the display !reco –

HTC Android Vulnerability - Exposes Phone numbers, Gps, SMS, Emails etc If you are running a HTC Android smartphone with the latest updates applied, chances are your personal data is freely accessible to any app you have given network access to in the form of full Internet permissions.This vulnerability isn't a backdoor or some inherent flaw in Android, it is instead HTC failing to lock down its data sharing policies used in the Tell HTC software users have to allow or disallow on their phone. The problem being, not only is your data vulnerable when Tell HTC is turned on, it's just as vulnerable when it is turned off. In brief, any app on affected devices that requests a single android.permission.INTERNET (which is normal for any app that connects to the web or shows ads) can get its hands on: the list of user accounts, including email addresses and sync status for each last known network and GPS locations and a limited previous history of locations phone numbers from the phon

Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their Android smart phones. Kaspersky's SecureList blog has a report of a malicious QR code on a web site which when scanned directs the user to a URL; the linked site doesn't have a file matching the name in the URL, but it does redirect the browser to another site where the file jimm.apk is downloaded.  The file is a trojanized version of the Jimm mobile ICQ client, infected with Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Jifake.f which sends a number of SMS messages to a $6 a message premium rate service. Once installed, the Trojan will send a number of SMS messages to premium-rate numbers, which will end up costing the victim some money, depending on how quickly she is able to find and remove the Trojan. Kaspersky's Denis Maslennikov reports that the malware itself is a Trojanized Jimm application (mobile ICQ client) which sends several SMS messages to premium rate number 2476 (US$6.00 e

Open Source Awards 2011 launched - "Recognizing excellence in open source" The 'Packt Open Source Awards 2011' have been announced. Formerly the Open Source CMS Award, the contest has been running since 2006 and, according to a press release sent to .net, is "regarded as one of the most established platforms for recognising excellence amongst Open Source Software". The aim of the Open Source Awards is to encourage, support and reward open source projects, in part through cash prizes, which have topped $100,000 since 2006. This year, the categories up for awards are: Open Source CMS, Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries, Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source Business Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries, and Open Source Multimedia Software. To identify excellence, the public votes for finalists within each category are combined with ratings from a panel of judges. Packt itself notes that it has no input nor say in the finalist