BackTrack 5 R3 Released For Download

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The time has come to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">refresh</span> our <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">security tool</span> arsenal – BackTrack 5 R3 has been released. R3 focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over<span style="color: red;"> <strong>60 new tools</strong> </span>– several of which were released in<strong> BlackHat and Defcon 2012</strong>. A whole new tool <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">category</span> was populated – “Physical Exploitation”, which now includes tools such as the Arduino IDE and libraries, as well as the Kautilya Teensy payload <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">collection</span>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTQ2QEzUeug2S9gggO8mOmAKffvdlJE92KHI8wvplrxebArXNZBYZG64XTlIXuQ-iu5YAgpQSPdeGR6yMP9E-xOaeTKB9DC3UcZ3DY6v-9useZowkDuwBlUmZcIwsGbQqtRs3LhCCI1CE/s1600/BT5-R3-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTQ2QEzUeug2S9gggO8mOmAKffvdlJE92KHI8wvplrxebArXNZBYZG64XTlIXuQ-iu5YAgpQSPdeGR6yMP9E-xOaeTKB9DC3UcZ3DY6v-9useZowkDuwBlUmZcIwsGbQqtRs3LhCCI1CE/s400/BT5-R3-blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />For the insanely impatient, you can download the BackTrack 5 R3 release via torrent right now. Direct ISO downloads will be available once all our HTTP mirrors have synched, which should take a couple more hours. Once this happens, we will update our BackTrack Download page with all links.<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/torrents/BT5R3-GNOME-64.torrent" title="BackTrack 5 R3 Gnome 64 bit torrent">BT5R3-GNOME-64.torrent</a> (md5: 8cd98b693ce542b671edecaed48ab06d)</li><li><a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/torrents/BT5R3-GNOME-32.torrent" title="BackTrack 5 R3 Gnome 32 bit torrent">BT5R3-GNOME-32.torrent</a> (md5: aafff8ff5b71fdb6fccdded49a6541a0)</li><li><a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/torrents/BT5R3-KDE-64.torrent" title="BackTrack 5 R3 KDE 64 bit torrent ">BT5R3-KDE-64.torrent</a> (md5: 981b897b7fdf34fb1431ba84fe93249f)</li><li><a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/torrents/BT5R3-KDE-32.torrent" title="BackTrack 5 R3 KDE 32 bit torrent ">BT5R3-KDE-32.torrent</a> (md5: d324687fb891e695089745d461268576)</li><li><a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/torrents/BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.torrent" title="BackTrack 5 R3 Gnome 32 bit VMWARE image torrent ">BT5R3-GNOME-32-VM.torrent</a> (md5: bca6d3862c661b615a374d7ef61252c5)</li></ul><div><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

BackTrack 5 R3 Released For Download

The time has come to refresh our security tool arsenal – BackTrack 5 R3 has been released. R3 focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over 60 new tools – several of which were released in Blac…

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Hackers attack Australian spy agency website

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Australia's national intelligence agency acknowledged Friday that its public website may have encountered problems after hackers said they had subjected it to a sustained campaign of cyber attacks.<br /><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />The Australian Security Intelligence Organization "is aware that there may have been some technical issues with its public website," a spokesman for the organization said.<br /><br />But the site "does not host any classified information and any disruption would not represent a risk to ASIO's business," the spokesman added, using the agency's abbreviated name.</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglv9AABXT4Gk6WOtY4bfLsPJQu5m902zreJDiddrHDYFNDPoBydadOzB09frlKuUbJRKuEnnpFPbXFPmwqZF2xbnmNdYE2qlLNbYSYkneLwXvcvxvuGe3SXFWS1GPW-suD6KTGsSI8Mrw2/s1600/hackersmedia.com.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglv9AABXT4Gk6WOtY4bfLsPJQu5m902zreJDiddrHDYFNDPoBydadOzB09frlKuUbJRKuEnnpFPbXFPmwqZF2xbnmNdYE2qlLNbYSYkneLwXvcvxvuGe3SXFWS1GPW-suD6KTGsSI8Mrw2/s320/hackersmedia.com.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />The hackers, who appeared to have links to the loose collective Anonymous, said they had been launching attacks on the ASIO site and those of other Australian government agencies over the past few days, according to Twitter accounts under the names Anonymous Australia and OperationAustralia.<br /><br />The ASIO site "has been down for some time now, And will be for the rest of the day!" OperationAustralia tweeted Friday morning, Sydney time. The site appeared to be functioning normally about seven hours later.<br /><br />The OperationAustralia account, which uses the Twitter handle @Op_Australia and has about 400 followers, suggested the attacks were motivated by controversial proposals by the Australian authorities to have Internet users' web histories stored.<br /><br />In recent years, Anonymous has been involved in some of the most high-profile cyberattacks on the Web -- hobbling the websites of governments and businesses, hacking into sites to reveal private data and, along the way, getting dubbed cyberterrorists by the authorities in the United States and elsewhere.<br /><br />The network's motto is "We are Legion," and it describes itself as "a decentralized network of individuals focused on promoting access to information, free speech, and transparency."</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Hackers attack Australian spy agency website

Australia's national intelligence agency acknowledged Friday that its public website may have encountered problems after hackers said they had subjected it to a sustained campaign of cyber attacks.T…

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Tasmania Police Site + 8 Others Attacked for #OpAustralia by Anonymous

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When a user entered the #OpAustralia IRC channel on anonops.com and started taking down Australian based websites.<br /><br />As well as this the operation has taken sight to Tasmanian police <a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.police.tas.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.police.tas.gov.au/</a> to night with all “fire power” going towards them which has resulted in the website being offline for the past hour or so.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonEFa_22Y9aLRNUgZ8YayYLsTK2ASqLclFZbF49BPNolHgdW5axMyCbOaoL23u_BY7DrcObhQBv3KlRnJxBKX6mwrpteTeC_coFp_Y3LYgVcRDHNAijM9_jXtY3vsek8gWnci5LuTTvIr/s1600/419972_438992809486124_1216229058_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgonEFa_22Y9aLRNUgZ8YayYLsTK2ASqLclFZbF49BPNolHgdW5axMyCbOaoL23u_BY7DrcObhQBv3KlRnJxBKX6mwrpteTeC_coFp_Y3LYgVcRDHNAijM9_jXtY3vsek8gWnci5LuTTvIr/s320/419972_438992809486124_1216229058_n.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />The user that took down the other sites started out the attack by showing everyone that the sites was up and active and then within a few minutes all 9 sites had been taken offline for a very short period of time before the user left the irc.<br /><br />List of other sites that were attacked<br /><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.durachrome.com.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.durachrome.com.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="durachrome.com.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.pyrosteel.com.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.pyrosteel.com.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="pyrosteel.com.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.leeclarke.com.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.leeclarke.com.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="leeclarke.com.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.act.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.act.gov.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="www.act.gov.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.canberraconnect.act.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.canberraconnect.act.gov.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="canberraconnect.act.gov.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fccprod.stg.hyro.net.au%2F&h=6AQHHykbf&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://ccprod.stg.hyro.net.au/</a><br /><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="ccprod.stg.hyro.net.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"></div><br /><a dfd8c90dce80="true" href="http://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/</a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><div d91a9b9d6d36e7706c4="moretonbay.qld.gov.au" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px;"><br /></div></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Tasmania Police Site + 8 Others Attacked for #OpAustralia by Anonymous

When a user entered the #OpAustralia IRC channel on anonops.com and started taking down Australian based websites.As well as this the operation has taken sight to Tasmanian police http://www.police.ta…

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