The Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) hacked and complete database dumped

The Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) hacked and complete database dumped Hacker With Name snc0pe claim to hack official website of The Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL). He post a message on pastebin , along with the database download link (1.88M...SHARE THIS NEWS WITH YOUR FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK/TWITTER/FORUMSThe Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) hacked and complete database dumped : The Hacker News ~ http://th...

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Anonymous releases 25,000 records of the Austrian police

Anonymous releases 25,000 records of the Austrian police Anonymous Austria post via the official Twitter account about 25,000 records Austrian police officers. Observers suspect that the data from the Austrian section of the "International Police Association" could come. Meanwhile, the far-right Freedom Party tries to take advantage of the data leak. "This violation of the privacy of our policemen have become fair game for possible revenge...

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700,000 sites on Inmotion Hosting Server hacked by TiGER-M@TE in one shot !

700,000 websites hosted on InMotion Hosting network hacked by TiGER-M@TE including Trinity FM, Blast Magazine. It was not just a server hack, actually whole data center got hacked. List of all hacked 700000 sites are available here. Hackers copied over the index.php in many directories (public_html, wp-admin), deleted my images directory and added index.php files where they weren’t needed. 2,00,000 websites...

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Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET)

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET) The Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET) is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) product that assists organizations in protecting their key national cyber assets. It was developed under the direction of the DHS National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) by cybersecurity experts and with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This tool provides...

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Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science....

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Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced by Zombie_Ksa

Supreme Court of Pakistan website defaced by Zombie_Ksa The official website of Pakistan's Supreme Court has been hacked.Visitors to the website found derogatory and abusive remarks about the court and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Earlier the Supreme Court website was hacked by two boys also in the month of September last year to whom the court had granted bail on April 11 as they were less than 18 years of age. The hacker declared...

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Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks

Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks Firefox developers searching for a way to protect users against a new attack that decrypts sensitive web traffic are seriously considering an update that stops the open-source browser from working with Oracle's Java software framework. Johnath, the alias for Firefox Director of Engineering Johnathan Nightingale, weighed in: “Yeah - this is a hard call. Killing Java means disabling user functionality...

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"SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert" (SWSE) online certification Launched

"SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert" (SWSE) online certification Launched SecurityTube released their first fully online certification today - "SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert" (SWSE) . The most interesting thing and key difference from other certifications, is that they are giving out the entire course material free of charge! You only pay if you need the certification. If you are a hobbyist or a causal security enthusiast, the course material...

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Atlanta IT Worker Hacked Ex-Employers Database

Atlanta IT Worker Hacked Ex-Employers Database An Atlanta man could receive up to five years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to hacking into a former employer’s patient database, stealing information and then wiping the database clean. Federal prosecutors said Eric McNeal, 37, used the patient information from a firm identified as “A.P.A.” for a direct marketing campaign at his new employer in the same building. McNeal was an...

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JonDo 00.16.001 Released - Automatic error recognition and easier usability

JonDo 00.16.001 Released - Automatic error recognition and easier usability JonDos publishes a new version of the JonDo-Software, an IP changer and IP anonymization program, that you can use for anonymous surfing in the Internet with high security anonymous proxy servers. What is JonDo? JonDo is an open source and free-of-charge program for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. It hides the user's IP adress behind an anonymous IP address. In contrast to other...

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Microsoft eyeing deal for Yahoo (again)

Is "MicroHoo" actually going to happen at last? Rumor has it that Microsoft is back in the hunt to acquire Yahoo, according to a report published by Business Insider on Friday. The site quotes an unnamed source affiliated with Microsoft's MSN portal as saying "definitely, people are talking about" a deal for struggling Yahoo, which dumped Carol Bartz as chief executive earlier this month and...

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Pretect yourself with a new type of security suite

Children off the streets and in the classroom? Shorter days? New security suites? Yes, it's that time of year again when most computer security suite makers implore you to update to the latest version. We've looked at nine new premium suites so far. Some have made only incremental changes, and others were so eager to ditch their dirty bathwater that they almost lost the baby, too. Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 Note that as other suites gets released, we'll be updating this story. And for those of you who like the wayback machine, here's last year's roundup. So far this year, we've looked at nine premium suites: Panda Global Protection...

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AMD chips top 8.4 GHz, a new speed record

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HP introduces new enterprise security suite

HP has expanded its Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio to protect businesses from security risks emanating from cloud computing and increased use of mobile devices and social media. HP says the new security suite will help enterprises manage risks with a balanced approach and systematically review the persistent security threats.HP says it has merged its security products and acquisitions into modules “"designed to help enterprises establish...

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Chrome Web Store gets desi, with India-specific content and apps

Not long after kickstarting its YouTube Partner program in India, Google has officially brought the Chrome Web Store to the country, along with 23 others across the world. While users globally had access to the Chrome Web Store before this (it was launched back in December 2010), users in India will now find local content on the web app store, such as regional music and infotainment, as well as themes, and extensions.To begin with, the India’s...

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Cyberoam launches NetGenie router with inbuilt internet security and controls

Cyberoam has launched its NetGenie range of internet access control products for the home, small office, and home office. Essentially 3G and Wi-Fi routers with built-in internet access controls, internet security, firewalls and antivirus mechanisms, the NetGenie appliances have been ‘entirely developed in India.' NetGenie is available in two editions, with varying degrees of administrator control – NetGenie Home is priced at Rs. 7,999, and...

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Google tells Iranians to Change their Gmail password

Google is advising all its users in Iran to change their Gmail passwords, and check that their Google accounts have not been compromised.In a blog post, Google said that it was directly contacting users in Iran who may have been hit by a man-in-the-middle attack. The move follows the compromise of Dutch SSL certificate authority DigiNotar. Hackers created fake SSL certificate credentials for Google.com and many other domains. These fake...

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Norton Cybercrime Report 2011

For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually.Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time lost due to their cybercrime experiences, an additional $274 billion was lost. With 431 million adult victims globally in the past year and at an annual price of $388 billion globally based on financial losses and time lost, cybercrime costs the world significantly more than the global black...

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FBPwn : A Cross-Platform Facebook Profile Dumper tool

FBPwn is an open source, cross-platform, Java based Facebook profile dumper. It can send friend requests to a list of Facebook profiles, and poll for their acceptance notification. Once the victim accepts the invitation, it dumps all their information, photos and friend list to a local folder. It supports a lot of modules that can expand its current functionalities. It has a well documented Wiki page explaining the process of building...

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Google Web History vulnerable to new Firesheep Addon

Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot lies with what is called a Session ID (SID) cookie, used to identify a user to each service they access while logged in to one of Google’s...

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Microsoft's Hotmail, other cloud services go offline due to a technical snag

Millions of users of Hotmail and other Microsoft services across the world could not access their online accounts Friday morning after the firm's cloud services suffered a major technical snag. Microsoft's Office 365, Hotmail, SkyDrive and other Live cloud-based products remained offline for several hours before the company restored the access. While Microsoft analyses the reason behind the glitch, it is being speculated that the problem occurred...

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Twitter accomplishes 100 Million active users milestone

Twitter has announced that it has now 100 million active users across the world. The micro-blogging site says half of its users log on to the site everyday and 40 percent of them simply read what others are posting, without tweeting themselves. Twitter also discloses that nearly five billion tweets are posted every month and that the site gets 400 million unique visitors every month. It further revealed that half of its active users are mobile...

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Nokia to Update its Symbian Belle Platform with Microsoft Apps

Nokia will soon update its Symbian Belle platform with a suite of business-based applications called Microsoft Apps. The Microsoft Apps suite is free and features Microsoft PowerPoint and OneNote. Nokia believes the update will “add some serious business productivity tools” for those buying Symbian Belle device or those seeking to upgrade from Symbian Anna to Symbian Belle. The Microsoft Apps suite includes Microsoft Lync 2010 Mobile, Microsoft...

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Google brings its Music Beta to iOS devices via Safari browser

Google's cloud-based music service Music Beta is now available on iOS devices as well. The app can be accessed via Safari browser at music.google.com. The advent of Google Music Beta on iOS gives Google a chance to impress the iOS users before Apple launches its own cloud-based music service called iCloud. Google made the announcement via its Twitter feed.  The Music Beta runs music in the ...

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Persistent XSS vulnerability in eBuddy Web Messenger Discovered By Warv0x

Persistent XSS vulnerability in eBuddy Web Messenger Discovered By Warv0x A team member from Virtual Luminous Security, Russian Federation, has discovered a persistent XSS vulnerability in eBuddy (the biggest web IM solution in the world) by transmitting messages with embedded encoded javascript code. In-depth detail eBuddy Web Messenger suffers from an encoded-Persistent XSS vulnerability in the messaging function. (while sendingA message...

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