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Wifi Protector - Protect Your Android From Wi-Fi Sniffing Attacks The only app that is able to countermeasure " Man In The Middle " attacks on Android platform - Wifi Protector . No other app provides this type of high network security. Protects your phone from tools like FaceNiff, Cain & Abel, ANTI, ettercap, DroidSheep, NetCut, and all others that try to hijack your session via "Man In The Middle" through ARP spoofing / ARP poisoning. WifiKill can't take you offline with this app installed. The "Immunity" feature is the only one that requires root, all other features work without root access. Features - Uses very few resources - Uses no resources if Wi-Fi is disabled - Nearly zero battery consumption - Requires very few permissions. Requests only absolutely necessary permissions - Undetectable by the bad guy - 100% silent and passive inside the network. Generates no noise - Highly customizable notifications - Plays ringtone on atta

DEF-CON Chennai Group DEF-CON Chennai Group 4th meet successfully was held this past weekend on 29th Jan at Le Waterina Resort, Chennai. Team THN also join this Event, It was a nice setup.  " We like to thank each and everyone who attended this meet and made it a success story. We like to thank all the speakers for giving wonderful presentations and speech . Blog post by DCG. List of people who made a difference at DCG Chennai (DC602028) 1) Mr. Hari Krishnan (Organizer) 2) Mr.Viknesvaran (Organizer) 3) Mr. Prateek Dwivedi 4) Mr. Adithya Gupta 5) Mr. Ravi 6) Mr. Kaushal Sharma 7) Mr.Amrinder Singh 8) Mr. Abhinab 9) Mr. Pranav Sharma 10) Mr.Karthick 11) Arush sal For DEF-CON Chennai (DC602028) Official photos:

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

Syrian president 's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers According to report received to THN editorial, A hacker based out of Saudi Arabia, identified as Salman Al Anzi, claims to have hacked the private email account of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. He also hack a number of Syrian ministries, the Al-Arabiya TV Channel. The hacker threatened to reveal Assad's personal correspondence containing scandalous facts if the president doesn't meet his requirements. According to the city Saudi Arabia, the hacker threatened to Bashar al-Assad download scandals and scandals of his aides and Iran's support for him, and copies of e-Bashar by secret ballot, with said hacker to the size of these scandals, 4 GB, gave the hacker the Saudi ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad for the implementation of conditions, and only carried out what threatened him. The wave of threats from the hacker, Israeli sources said that a Saudi, and announced several thwarted attempts to penetrate the sites

NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year's breach of NASA's servers , Royal Navy, The European Space Agency and MySQL.com. The 20-year-old man, named as Razvan Manole Cernaianu , allegedly attacked Pentagon and NASA computer systems, revealed security holes, and published information about SQL injection vulnerabilities he had discovered, the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorist (DIICOT) said in a press release . He also posted a video on his blog demonstrating an attack he carried out against the U.S. government, and created and offered for sale a computer program used to hack Web sites. Through his exploits, Cernaianu blocked access to systems and seriously disabled their proper functioning, authorities said. Currently, Cernăianu is being taken to Bucharest

Glances v1.3.7 released - System monitoring tool for Linux Glances is a system monitoring tool for GNU/Linux distributions. It grabs information from your system and display its in a CLI curses screen.Glances can monitor CPU, average load, memory, network interface, disk IO, file system space and processes. When a alert is detected, stat is automatically colored and the processes list sorted by CPU or memory.The latest version (1.3.7) displays a log history in the bottom of the screen with the latests alerts. Glances use a standard GNU style installer: $ tar zxvf glances-1.3.7.tar.gz $ cd glances-1.3.7 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install Get More info from  Documentation  and  Official site . Download Glances v1.3.7 from Here .

HBGary Federal One Year Later ! Doug Vitale sharing and interesting read with our Readers from his Blog  About HBGary Federal. In February 2011, the loosely knit collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous successfully compromised the corporate network of HBGary Federal (HBG Fed), a company that provided information security services to the federal government of the United States. This attack brought down the HBGary Federal website, compromised the Twitter and LinkedIn accounts of HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr, and resulted in the public release of thousands of internal documents and emails. Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code.In a private e-mail to a colleague at his secu

Penetration Testing Oriented Browser - Sandcat Browser The fastest web browser combined with the fastest scripting language packed with features for pen-testers.  Sandcat Browser is a freeware portable pen-test oriented multi-tabbed web browser with extensions support developed by the Syhunt team, the same creators of the Sandcat web application security scanner. The Sandcat Browser is built on top of Chromium, the same engine that powers the Google Chrome browser, and uses the Lua language to provide extensions and scripting support. This first Sandcat Browser release includes the following pen-test oriented features: Live HTTP Headers Request Editor extension Fuzzer extension with multiple modes and support for filters JavaScript Executor extension -- allows you to load and run external JavaScript files Lua Executor extension -- allows you to load and run external Lua scripts Syhunt Gelo HTTP Brute Force, CGI Scanner scripts and more. Download SandCat Browser

Code 2600 : A Hacking Documentary Following the success of his debut documentary feature, Land of Confusion, award winning Pittsburgh filmmaker Jeremy Zerechak is already garnering early accolades for his newest project, CODE 2600. The film—a no-holds-barred look at the ramifications of the Information Technology era—has been selected from to have its world premiere at the 2012 CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL (February 28th – March 11th) in San Jose, CA. Appropriately located in the heart of silicon valley, CINEQUEST is one of the country's top film festivals—a 13-day event of 200 international films with over 600+ film artists, technologists, and professionals from 44 countries in attendance. CODE 2600 documents the rise of the Information Technology Age as told through the events and people who helped build and manipulate it. The film explores the impact this new connectivity has on our ability to remain human while maintaining our personal privacy and security. As we struggle to co

Application Security With Apache Shiro : Java security framework Are you frustrated when you try to secure your applications? Do you feel existing Java security solutions are difficult to use and only confuse you further? Les Hazlewood is the Apache Shiro PMC Chair and co-founder and CTO of Katasoft, a start-up focusing on application security products and Apache Shiro professional support. Apache Shiro, a Java security framework that provides a simple but powerful approach to application security. Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management and can be used to secure any application - from the command line applications, mobile applications to the largest web and enterprise applications. Shiro provides the application security API to perform the following aspects : Authentication - proving user identity, often called user 'login'. Authorization - access control Cryptography - pr

Honda Thailand Defaced By Spydevilz / Mr. Paparosse Honda Thailand sub domain ( https://dog.honda.co.th/images/ ) got hacked by Hacker called Spydevilz and Mr. Paparosse . The team of Hackers include  3spi0n, Mr.PaPaRoSSe, ExDeaTH, Legend Coder, x-Leader, t0wN, JiHAD Hackers. Message posted by Hackers on page that " Do not stop your voice in your home all the lights are off, they're going back more damaged than before ." The mirror of also available on  Legend-h .