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Twitter releases data to Law Enforcements   for criminal inquiry Twitter handed over subscriber information yesterday for one Twitter account indirectly tied to the Occupy Boston protest, ending a court battle fought behind closed doors as Boston law enforcement investigated hacking attacks on the Police Department and a police union. as reported by Boston . According to Twitter spokesman Matt Graves, the company provided the subscriber information for @pOisAnON, an account that is associated with the name of Guido Fawkes. "We provided information on a single user,'' Graves said in a telephone interview yesterday. Twitter ignored the Suffolk D.A.'s request for secrecy, and forwarded the subpoena to @pOiSAnOn in accordance to Twitter's Guidelines for Law Enforcement . A spokesman for the Suffolk County D.A. told The Boston Herald it was satisfied with the information received this week." We are not interested in the information of a large number of people who have used t

GCC 4.6.3 Released with 70 bug-fixes The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.3 has been released. Jakub Jelinek of Red Hat announced the release this morning of GCC 4.6.3. Over GCC 4.6.2 there's over 70 bug-fixes and other work. However, all of the exciting work meanwhile is going into what will become GCC 4.7. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain. As well as being the official compiler of the unfinished GNU operating system, GCC has been adopted as the standard compiler by most other modern Unix-like computer operating systems, including Linux, the BSD family and Mac OS X. GCC 4.7 will offer some performance improvements, new CPU support, language enhancements, mature Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge support, and initial Intel Haswell support. GCC 4.7 should be officially released in March or April. Read More here

Over the past two years, a shocking  51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack.  Yes, over half.  And this, in a world where enterprises deploy  an average of 53 different security solutions  to safeguard their digital domain.  Alarming? Absolutely. A recent survey of CISOs and CIOs, commissioned by Pentera and conducted by Global Surveyz Research, offers a quantifiable glimpse into this evolving battlefield, revealing a stark contrast between the growing risks and the tightening budget constraints under which cybersecurity professionals operate. With this report, Pentera has once again taken a magnifying glass to the state of pentesting to release its annual report about today's pentesting practices. Engaging with 450 security executives from North America, LATAM, APAC, and EMEA—all in VP or C-level positions at organizations with over 1,000 employees—the report paints a current picture of modern security validation prac

BackTrack 5 R2 Released, New Kernel, New Tools Hacker are your Ready ? Backtrack 5 R2 finally released with bug fixes, upgrades, and the addition of 42 new tools. With the best custom-built 3.2.6 kernel, the best wireless support available at maximum speed. This release have included Metasploit 4.2.0 Community Edition, version 3.0 of the Social Engineer Toolkit, BeEF 0.4.3.2, and many other tool upgrades. Backtrack also added the following new tools to R2: arduino bluelog bt-audit dirb dnschef dpscan easy-creds extundelete findmyhash golismero goofile hashcat-gui hash-identifier hexorbase horst hotpatch joomscan killerbee libhijack magictree nipper-ng patator pipal pyrit reaver rebind rec-studio redfang se-toolkit sqlsus sslyze sucrack thc-ssl-dos tlssled uniscan vega watobo wcex wol-e xspy Along with this, Backtrack added Wiki about Building a Pyrit Cluster, Creating a John the Ripper Cluster, Enabling PAE in BT5 R2 and Installing VMware P

#THN Monthly ( February ) News Archive,If you miss Something ! # Censorship - Global Concern, THN Magazine March Edition :  https://goo.gl/bktRz # Forget terrorists attacks here are 2012's Most Vulnerable Cities At Risk for Cyber Crime (Idiots) : https://goo.gl/4VYGf # Slum Dog India demands Real time monitoring on Indian Gmail & Yahoo Emails. Do they really have nothing better to do?   https://goo.gl/iYO5H # Iran will probably drop nuclear development cause they think they need to Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution, they might suggest banning the Burka too! : https://goo.gl/QVheH # Three Greek Anonymous hackers arrested for defacing Government Sites. They couldn't make the street protest! : https://goo.gl/EyMux # Facebook Hacking - Student jailed for eight months. They ought to jail Facebook for having such a stupid site : https://goo.gl/PwkHt # FAQ : DNSChanger Trojan, Impact and Solutions :   https://goo.gl/IE2Qh # How Hackers can Tr

Siemens and Canon 's Databases exploited by Team INTRA Recently a hacker known as " JoinSe7en " from Team INTRA claims to have hacked into subdomains of Canon and Siemens. Apparently, the hacker has found and exploited a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Canon's website and a Error based SQL Injection in Siemens. He published a full disclosure on both of the databases on pastebin: Siemens : https://pastebin.com/HBL966wh Canon : https://pastebin.com/fbL0s9aS These pastebin notes include the vulnerable links of respective sites and extracted database info with usernames and passwords of Siemens Users & Canon forum, sites user credentials.

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition It is March Madness at The Hacker News as we release the latest edition of our magazine which gives internet security a thorough look and and a fascinating read. Pierluigi Paganini gives a great interview on the woes of internet security and Mourad Ben Lakhousa provides you with a comprehensive guide on what tools are available to keep your web activity private. Check out Lee Ives opinion piece on the plethora of DDOS attacks and stand firm with our Editor, Patti Galle as we tell the world we won't stand for internet piracy. Laugh with us as we take a hilarious look at recent internet security news and we promise you won't be disappointed in all the articles touching on matters important to us all. Enjoy! RAR Format  |  PDF Format