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Brazil Under Anonymous Attack - Tangara da Serra city site defaced ! Anonymous Hackers attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city on Sunday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. The attacks this week, which they call " #opmegaupload " shut down the websites of the FBI and US Justice Department for several hours to protest the closure of Megaupload.com. Hackers succeed in shutting down the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes . They posted the image of a grim-faced joker with a message saying, " If Megaupload is down, you are down too ." It was signed " GhostofThreads ". Anonymous use DDoS attacks tools like so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon  which is a piece of software that volunteer hacktivists download to their PCs and choose to run, whereby it then starts blasting the target website with traffic. Stats says that , in last 7 days LOIC downlo

For Protest Against #SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson Dinelson deface 68 Websites for Protest Against SOPA and PIPA. List of all Hacked site is posted here . A protest to a Congressional bill called SOPA caused quite a stir on Wednesday as thousands of websites protested SOPA with blacked-out pages. Megaupload, a hugely popular website for sharing files, was a major SOPA target, because it allegedly disobeys copyright laws and legislation. After the SOPA protest, the Department of Justice issued a release stating that federal officials had taken the site down. Following this announcement, a hacking collective called Anonymous launched several attacks on government and entertainment industry websites, including those for the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Universal Music. 2 days back SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress . Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo an

It comes as no surprise that today's cyber threats are orders of magnitude more complex than those of the past. And the ever-evolving tactics that attackers use demand the adoption of better, more holistic and consolidated ways to meet this non-stop challenge. Security teams constantly look for ways to reduce risk while improving security posture, but many approaches offer piecemeal solutions – zeroing in on one particular element of the evolving threat landscape challenge – missing the forest for the trees.  In the last few years, Exposure Management has become known as a comprehensive way of reigning in the chaos, giving organizations a true fighting chance to reduce risk and improve posture. In this article I'll cover what Exposure Management is, how it stacks up against some alternative approaches and why building an Exposure Management program should be on  your 2024 to-do list. What is Exposure Management?  Exposure Management is the systematic identification, evaluation,

Third Security breach at Core Security Technologies Possible Security Breach in Website of Core Security Technologies by sncope Hacker. This is 3rd time when sncope hack and Leak the Passwords of Core Security Technologies. The details of Pentest done by  sncope is available on Pastebin . It include the Login details with hashed passwords and IP address of Users as shown below. Last Time Core Security was Hacked in September 2011 by sncope. That time Hacker defaced the Homepage of Site. Update : According to Core Security Technologies Hacker breached an old Server which is not in use from last 8 Years and there is no sensitive or confidential Information stored on it.  Core Security 's Response about above Attack " There is nothing of importance posted here. Core's active servers, websites or networks were not compromised nor did the information recently posted contain information residing on those systems. In fact, the information is from a third-party server with

Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked The Official Website of  King Saud University (KSU) Got hacked by some unknown Hacker.is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Database of 812 Users hacked from  https://printpress.ksu.edu.sa/  and dumped on Internet by Hacker on a file sharing site  including Mail address list, mobile phones and passwords. Passwords are not encrypted in any hashes. Most of the Students using same Email ID and Password for Facebook and Other Sites. Its not clear weather its Part of Cyberwar b/w of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

DreamHost Hacked - Change Your Passwords Now ! All Dreamhost customers should read this post immediately and change all related passwords (including WordPress ones). Dreamhost said " Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. " They say there's " no evidence that customer passwords were taken ", but they''re pushing out password changes to everyone just to be safe. In addition, you should change any of your other passwords just to be safe that is, if they're at all similar to your DreamHost password.  To edit your password in the panel, please log into the web panel and go to Manage Users . Click edit next to the FTP/shell user on the right and you can change your password there.  This is the second time within week, when hackers targeted to these big websites, Dreamhost don't give any clue of the hack.

Book Review : Defense against the Black Arts How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It Ben Rothke  write a review of a   new book on hacking " Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It ". Authors are Jesse Varsalone, Matthew Mcfadden, Michael Schearer and Sean Morrissey. " If there ever was a book that should not be judged by its title, Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It, is that book. Even if one uses the definition in The New Hackers Dictionary of 'a collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area', that really does not describe this book. The truth is that hacking is none of the above. If anything, it is a process that is far from mysterious, but rather aether to describe. With that, the book does a good job of providing the reader with the information ne

Woohooo! After #SopaBlackout , Congress Postpones Action on #SOPA, #PIPA A big hurrah to you!!!!! We've won for now SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today. The votes we've been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability. Google Inc. said today it collected more than 7 million signatures from the U.S. for its online petition to Congress during an Internet protest against anti- piracy legislation backed by Hollywood. Visitors to Google, the world's most popular search engine, were greeted yesterday by a black box covering the company's familiar icon, and a message that read " Tell Congress: Please don't censor the Web! " The message linked to a page outlining Google's opposition and an option to join a petition urging Congress to reject the legis

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files " Give me liberty or give me death " is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, the Internet based publisher making headlines around the world by releasing secret or suppressed information revealing government and corporate misconduct.Assange and WikiLeaks have, in the words of 60 Minutes " Rattled the worlds of journalism, diplomacy, and national security. " In December 2011, WikiLeaks released the documents from a database containing hundreds of documents from contractors in what WikiLeaks calls the "mass surveillance industry." or " Spy Files ". 1.) According to Spy Files released by WikiLeaks, intelligence agencies, military forces and police authorities "silently... and secretly intercepted calls and had taken over computers without the help

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for   #OpMegaupload Megaupload.com , one of the world's most popular sources of online piracy, has been shut down by a federal indictment issued Thursday, which seized and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on internet piracy. Online piracy by the two companies - Megaupload Ltd and Vestor Ltd - generated more than $ 175 million in criminal proceeds and caused more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners Hacking group Anonymous said Thursday it knocked out the websites of the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, and several entertainment industry sites as retribution for anti-piracy efforts by both the government and the entertainment industry. Anonymous said it was " the largest attack ever ," with 5,635 participants involved in bringing down the sites. The two government sites were up and running again after several hours. Megaupload stood as one of th

#SOPA - The Hacker News say " NO WAY " Get mad and take action as you read how your internet privacy and freedoms are about to be taken away in our editor Patti Galle 's article on SOPA…….coming to your personal rights soon. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced on October 26, 2011 in the United States House of Representatives, by right-wing Texas Republican, Representative Lamar Smith and twelve initial co-sponsors. The Stop Online Piracy Act dramatically broadens the capacity of United States law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Proponents of bill H.R. 3261 state SOPA protects the intellectual property market and related industry, jobs and revenue, and is essential to reinforce and strengthen enforcement of copyright laws particularly against foreign websites. Opponents of the bill forcefully deem that the bill infringes on First Amendment rights, is e