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Android mobile internet tethering become undetectable by carriers When the idea that your smartphone's data connection would be able to be shared by your laptop with no additional charge, everyone seemed to be on board over the past year, carriers have started up extra costs for this and have struck down all attempts by apps to sidestep the process , until now. What one of the most well-known hacker/developers in the world Koushik Dutta, aka Koush, has done is to create a non-market app that allows you to use your smartphone as an internet hotspot, doing so without adding costs to you beyond what that data would cost to you on your smartphone on its own. And it's completely (nearly) undetectable by carriers. " Over the last month, I've been working on a new app. Tether Alpha is a USB[2] tether solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that allows you to use your phone's data connection to get internet access on your desktop or laptop. " Koushik Dutta said. " I am

Japan developing cyber weapons for Counter Attack Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is developing a ' seek and destroy ' virus which could identify and combat hacking and other cyber threats in a more effective way. The weapon is the culmination of a 179 million yen three-year project entrusted by the government to technology maker Fujitsu Ltd to develop a virus and equipment to monitor and analyse attacks, the daily said. The chief snag for the plan is that Japanese law currently forbids the manufacturing of computer viruses. However, we would suspect that a compromise can be reached in due course, given the project is being carried out in the interest of national security. Japan was a notable victim of hacking in 2011, which proved to be a year in which cyber crimes and threats rose to prominence.  Japan's parliament had its computer system hacked into, while a number of cyber espionage campaigns including one targeting almost 50 US companies were waged on governments and firms a

Fully automated MySQL5 boolean based enumeration tool Blackhatacademy Developers  releases Fully automated MySQL5 boolean based enumeration tool. By default, this script will first determine username, version and database name before enumerating the information_schema information. When the -q flag is applied, a user can supply any query that returns only a single cell If the exploit or vulnerability requires a single quote, simply tack  %27  to the end of the URI. This script contains  error detection : It will only work on a mysql 5.x database, and knows when its queries have syntax errors. This script uses perl's LibWhisker2 for IDS Evasion (The same as Nikto). This script uses the MD5 algorithm for optimization. There are other optimization methods, and this may not work on all sites. GET TOOL SCRIPT HERE .

Permissions in SaaS platforms like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft 365 are remarkably precise. They spell out exactly which users have access to which data sets. The terminology differs between apps, but each user's base permission is determined by their role, while additional permissions may be granted based on tasks or projects they are involved with. Layered on top of that are custom permissions required by an individual user.  For example, look at a sales rep who is involved in a tiger team investigating churn while also training two new employees. The sales rep's role would grant her one set of permissions to access prospect data, while the tiger team project would grant access to existing customer data. Meanwhile, special permissions are set up, providing the sales rep with visibility into the accounts of the two new employees. While these permissions are precise, however, they are also very complex. Application admins don't have a single screen within these applications th

Zero Day Reflected Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress 3.3 Two Indian Security Experts : Aditya Modha & Samir Shah from from Net-Square Solutions reveals Zero Day Reflected Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in latest version of wordpress 3.3 ! Vulnerability exploit the comment feature of Wordpress Blog. Following two Steps mentioned in Exploit . Step 1: Post a comment to the target website. Step 2: Replace the value of author tag, email tag, comment tag with the exact value of what has been post in the last comment. Change the value of comment_post_ID to the value of post (which can be known by opening that post and checking the value of p parameter in the url). For example the if the url is https://192.168.1.102/wordpress/?p=6 then the value of comment_post_ID is 6. Get Complete Exploit  Here

Wait ! It's not just Stuxnet or DuQu , Kaspersky reveals 5 more cousins Russian computer security outfit Kaspersky Lab said that the Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear programme was likely to be one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform. The viruses have never been seen 'in the wild' - and it's unclear whether they, like Stuxnet, would be built to cause failures at nuclear plants, or engineered for another purpose. Both Stuxnet and Duqu appear to have been created back in late 2007 or early 2008, and other pieces of malware with similar capabilities were built on the same platform, Gostev said.  Gostev examined two key drivers and variants that were used in both Stuxnet and Duqu, as well as two previously unknown drivers that were similar to the ones used. Not only did the same group of people develop Stuxnet and Duqu, but they likely worked simultaneously on multiple variants, Gostev said. The other pieces may be in the wild an