Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Consultant Edition v8.0.2012.08.08

<br />Description Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Consultant Edition v8.0.2012.08.08: Website security is possibly today’s most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization. Hackers are concentrating their efforts on web-based applications – shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content, etc. Web applications are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Consultant Edition v8.0.2012.08.08

Description Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Consultant Edition v8.0.2012.08.08: Website security is possibly today’s most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in an…

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Hackers Create Bogus Microsoft Services Agreement Email To Exploit Users

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.9em; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Hackers create bogus Microsoft Services Agreement email to exploit users</h1><div class="article_summary_left" style="background-color: white;"><div class="article_summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.4em;"><span class="red_highlighted_text" style="color: #db1900; font-weight: bold;"></span>Installs malware based on an exploit in Oracle's Java software</div><div class="article_summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.4em;"><br /></div><div class="article_summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.4em;"><img alt="malware virus security threat scam" src="http://www.theinquirer.net/IMG/759/228759/malware-virus-security-threat-scam-270x167.jpg?1346054414" /> </div><div class="article_summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.4em;"><br /></div><div class="article_summary"><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">HACKERS are using a recent Microsoft email notification regarding changes in its Services Agreement to trick people into installing malicious programs based on an exploit in Oracle's Java software.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre issued warnings about the rogue emails at the weekend, saying that they are based on a 27 August communication from Microsoft about popular products such as Hotmail and Skydrive.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"We're receiving multiple reports of a phishing campaign using the template from a legitimate Microsoft email regarding Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement and Communication Preferences," SANS Internet Storm Centre security incident handler Russ McRee said in a blog post.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"The evil version of this email will subject [the] victim to a hyperlink that will send them to a Blackhole-compromised website, which will in turn deliver a fresh Zeus variant."</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">McRee said that this type of attack is effective because it requires no user interaction to achieve its goal.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Security firm <a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/03/java-security-hole-microsoft/">Sophos said in a blog post</a> that the attacks have prompted "renewed calls for internet users to disable Java on their systems" as they await an update from Oracle to fix the Java vulnerabilities.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Microsoft acknowledged the malware when responding to a user question regarding the fake email, and advised users not click on any links.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"If you received an email regarding the Microsoft Services Agreement update and you're reading your email through the Hotmail or Outlook.com web UI, the legitimate email should have a Green shield that indicates the message is from a Trusted Sender," Microsoft representative Karla L said on the firm's Answers website.</span></span></div><div class="article_summary"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"If the email does not have a Green shield, you can mark the email as a Phishing scam. Do not click through the links in the email if you are not sure it is safe."</span></span></div></div></div></div>

Hackers Create Bogus Microsoft Services Agreement Email To Exploit Users

Hackers create bogus Microsoft Services Agreement email to exploit usersInstalls malware based on an exploit in Oracle's Java software HACKERS are using a recent Microsoft email notification regarding…

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Oracle's Java Patch Not Enough to Stop Hackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 28px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle's Java Patch Not Enough to Stop Hackers</h1><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="oracle logo" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/333932-oracle-logo.jpg?thumb=y" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite Oracle's recent Java security patch, hackers found a way into the program and conducted email phishing campaigns directed at Microsoft and Amazon users.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Researchers at the SANS Institute's Internal Storm Center (ICS) and security firm Websense this weekend issued separate reports about the vulnerability, which became public late last month.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">ICS focused on <a href="http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=14020" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fake Microsoft Services Agreement emails</a> that claimed to contain information about "Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement and Communication Preferences." The phishing email copied a <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-services-agreement" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">legitimate, Aug. 27 email</a> from Redmond, but replaced one of the hyperlinks with a virus.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, hackers used <a href="http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2012/09/03/amazon-order-email-campaign-lead-to-blackhole-utilizing-new-java-vulnerability.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">illegitimate "Amazon order" emails</a> to deliver malicious links intended to access personal and financial data, according to Websense. On Sept. 1, the security site intercepted more than 10,000 emails with the subject "You Order With Amazon.com," which urged recipients to click on a hyperlink that sent the victim to a Blackhole exploit kit hacking tool.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This email campaign further illustrates the ingenuity and speed at which cyber-criminals package and propagate malicious content along with social-engineering techniques in order to exploit both recent software vulnerabilities and the trusting nature of end-users," Websense said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oracle released an out-of-band fix last week, but didn't patch the hole entirely. Polish firm Security Explorations <a href="http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Aug/225" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said Friday</a> that the update contains a bug that allows hackers to bypass and exploit the system. Security Explorations alerted Oracle to the problem on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Based on Oracle's four-month update cycle, which rolls around again on Oct. 16, a full fix could be on its way next month. In the meantime, PCMag's lead analyst for security, Neil Rubenking, suggested disabling Java altogether.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this year, the Flashback Trojan infected more than 550,000 Macs when websites exploited the Java flaw that allows Flashback.K to download itself onto Apple computers without warning.</div></div></div>

Oracle's Java Patch Not Enough to Stop Hackers

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Madisonville Police Officer Arrested for Breach of Security

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; font-family: arial; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px;">Madisonville Police Officer Arrested for Breach of Security</h2><div><img src="http://media.graytvinc.com/images/300*187/DAVID+AARON+SIMS+OFFICIAL+MUG.jpg" /> </div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">A Madisonville Police Officer -- recently accused of hacking into a department computer -- has turned himself in for breach of security; a state jail felony.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Holding criminals accountable for their actions is a standard that's always upheld at the Madisonville Police Department -- even if it involves -- one of their own.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The tables were turned Friday after eight-year Madisonville Police veteran David Aaron Sims turned himself in to a Texas Ranger for the crime he's accused of committing in July.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The 46-year old peace officer allegedly hacked into a Madisonville Police sergeant's desktop computer where he allegedly removed confidential electronic files from the system. While the department cannot comment on the open investigation -- after learning of the alleged crime, the Madisonville Police Chief tells News 3 aTexas Ranger was called in to assist.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Sims has since been terminated pending the outcome of the investigation.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">We spoke to Texas Ranger Steve Jeter who tells News 3 Sims was indicted Thursday; he then turned himself in Friday. He was booked inside the Madison County Jail on $1,500 bond. Furthermore, Jeter says the investigation has been turned over to the Madison County District Attorney's Office.</div></div></div>

Madisonville Police Officer Arrested for Breach of Security

Madisonville Police Officer Arrested for Breach of Security A Madisonville Police Officer -- recently accused of hacking into a department computer -- has turned himself in for breach of security; a s…

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What Apple UDID’s? FBI Denies Being Hacked By AntiSec

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="inner_title" style="border: 0px; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: CallunaBlack, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font: inherit; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What Apple UDID’s? FBI denies being hacked by AntiSec</h1><h1 class="inner_title" style="border: 0px; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: CallunaBlack, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; font: inherit; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington: </strong><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px; text-indent: -0.375px;">The FBI on Tuesday disputed a computer hacker group’s claim that it stole personal identification data on millions of Apple device owners from an FBI agent’s laptop.</span></h1><div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">FBI officials said the bureau never asked for and never possessed the database that the group, which calls itself AntiSec, is posting on a website.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">The group has released a link to a database of more than 1 million unique identification numbers for Apple devices, which could include iPhones and iPads. AntiSec said the data is just a piece of the more than 12 million unique identification numbers and personal information on the device owners that it got from a laptop used by an FBI agent.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">The FBI denied that it ever had that information. But officials there said they could not verify the validity of the data that AntiSec released. Federal officials also warned that computer users should be careful when clicking on such links because they sometimes may contain malware that can infect computers.</div><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_443786" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; float: left; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 390px;"><a href="http://www.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AppleLogo_Reuters_NEW.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; color: #11537c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-443786" height="285" src="http://www.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AppleLogo_Reuters_NEW.jpg" style="border: 0px none; display: inline; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="AppleLogo_Reuters_NEW" width="380" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in-out; background-image: url(http://www.firstpost.com/wp-content/themes/firstpost/images/bg.png); background-position: 0px -200px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; bottom: 0px; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; opacity: 75; padding: 7px 5px; position: absolute; text-indent: -0.025em; vertical-align: baseline; width: 370px;">FBI says it never had access to the Apple info. Reuters</div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe Stewart, a security researcher with Atlanta-based Dell SecureWorks, said, however, that he tested the link and did not find any connection to malware.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple did not respond to repeated requests for comment Tuesday.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple assigns unique device identification numbers (UDIDs) — a string of numbers and letters — to all of its devices. The numbers let iTunes and application developers know which device is running which apps. As an example, the numbers allow game developers to keep track of users’ high scores.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Besides the identification numbers, the information posted by AntiSec has the name that a person chooses to name their device and a description of whether the device is an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">If linked with other information such as a name or address, the numbers could be used as a way to get at other more sensitive data. But knowing the number doesn’t enable the FBI to track or eavesdrop on people.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">In its posting, AntiSec said it got the file by hacking into the laptop of an agent who was on one of the bureau’s cyber action teams. And it said part of the file’s name on the laptop was “NCFTA,” referring to the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance. The NCFTA is a nonprofit group made up of experts from the public and private sectors to share information on cyber threats.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Internet post, it said the FBI was “using your device info for a tracking people project.”</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">A group known as Anonymous and its offshoot Lulz Security have been linked to a number of high profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants. They have been connected to attacks that took data from FBI partner organization InfraGard and they’ve jammed websites of the CIA and the Public Broadcasting Service.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier this year, FBI agents arrested several hackers tied to the group, and in the process revealed that LulzSec’s reputed leader, known as Sabu, was an FBI informant.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; text-indent: -0.375px; vertical-align: baseline;">Law enforcement officials said that linking the Apple data theft to an FBI agent may have been done, in part, as retribution for the arrests.</div></div></div>

What Apple UDID’s? FBI Denies Being Hacked By AntiSec

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Aljazeera Official News Website Hacked By Al Rashedon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Aljazeera Official News Website Hacked By Al Rashedon<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><img height="266" src="http://aljazeera.net/al_jazeere02.jpg" width="400" /> <br /><br /><br /><div class="story-intro" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.883333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><strong>AL-JAZEERA'S website was hacked overnight apparently by Syrian government loyalists accusing the news service of spreading lies.</strong></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">Hackers replaced the home page of al-Jazeera's Arabic site with a statement that said the cyberattack was a protest against its coverage of the Syrian conflict.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">"This is in response to your position against Syria (people and government) and for special support of militant terrorism," read a statement posted in Arabic, underneath a red stamp reading "hack" in English.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">In the background was a scene from al-Jazeera's English website.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">Al-Jazeera's TV broadcasts in Arabic and English were not affected.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">In a statement, the channel said that some of its external servers were compromised.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">While the company resolved the disruptions, it said, "some users may continue to experience issues for a while longer".</div><div class="story-promo story-promo-middle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.883333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">The Qatar-based channel has extensively covered the 17-month-long Syrian conflict.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">Al-Jazeera has been an influential factor in covering "Arab Spring" uprisings across the region.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">Qatar is a harsh critic of the Syrian regime and a leading backer of the rebels.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">It is the second Syria-related hacking incident on a news organisation in the past month after Reuters was hacked in August with false reports from Syria.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 455px; padding: 0px;">The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 26,000 people have been killed in Syria since the revolt began in March last year - more than two-thirds of them civilians.<br /> </div><br />Hacked By Al Rashedon Mirror: <a href="http://mirror-ma.com/mirror/id/69289/">http://mirror-ma.com/mirror/id/69289/</a></div>

Aljazeera Official News Website Hacked By Al Rashedon

Aljazeera Official News Website Hacked By Al Rashedon AL-JAZEERA'S website was hacked overnight apparently by Syrian government loyalists accusing the news service of spreading lies.Hackers replaced t…

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WikiLeaks Supporters Hack Swedish Government Websites

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 style="color: #729c09; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 25px !important; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WikiLeaks supporters hack Swedish government websites</h1><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u46168/WikiLeaks-540x304.jpg" /> </div><div><br /></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The hacked websites include the Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden.se and the Swedish Institute.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Several Swedish government websites have been hacked and jammed by some supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with some of them claiming responsibility for this on Twitter.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The hacked websites include the Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden.se, the Swedish Institute, and the Swedish Courts.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The service provider for the Swedish Institute said that the attack is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which caused the site to collapse from too many requests.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A government spokeswoman Anna Dahlen was quoted by AFP saying that, "I can confirm that the government site had problems today, but for security reasons, I cannot say more."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Swedish Armed Forces head of digital media Niklas Englund said that it was unclear who was behind the so-called DDoS attacks, in which websites are overwhelmed with bogus traffic.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Englund noted that an unidentified group urging Sweden to take its "hands off Assange" claimed responsibility on Twitter.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The latest attack is the second attack on government web sites in Assange's support in the last two weeks.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last week, a UK's Hertfordshire Police website had been hacked by a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who posted login details, passwords, phone numbers and IP addresses of officers online.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In August 2102, WikiLeaks was back online following a week of downtime caused by a prolonged DDoS attack.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Currently Assange has taken shelter in Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19 to avoid extradition to Sweden.</div></div></div>

WikiLeaks Supporters Hack Swedish Government Websites

WikiLeaks supporters hack Swedish government websites The hacked websites include the Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden.se and the Swedish Institute.Several Swedish government websites have been hacked and…

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Hackers Obtain Millions of Apple Users' Information From FBI Laptop

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="slb-post-title" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="color: #006699;">Hackers Obtain Millions of Apple Users' Information From FBI Laptop</a></h2><div><a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="color: #006699;"><div class="parbase image slate_image section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sl-art-illo-cntr" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 568px;"><img alt="Apple UDID" class="cq-dd-image sl-img-no-new-tab sl-art-illo" height="346" src="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/04/apple_udid_hack_antisec_steals_iphone_ipad_user_info_from_fbi_laptop/1346769547440.png.CROP.rectangle3-large.png" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="1346769547440" width="568" /><div class="sl-art-illo-cap" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font: inherit; line-height: 1.154em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every Apple device has a unique identifying number. A hacker group claims the FBI has been compiling a database of those numbers, perhaps to keep tabs on users.</div><span class="sl-art-illo-cred" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 10px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Screenshot / WhatsMyUDID.com</div></span></div></div></div></a><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="color: #006699;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></a><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="slb-post-title-link" href="" style="color: #006699;">The hacker group </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_AntiSec" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AntiSec</a> claims the FBI has compiled a database of 12 million Apple UDIDs—the unique numbers that identify every Apple device, including iPhones and iPads—many of them complete with the device owner's personal information. To prove it, the Anonymous-affiliated group on Monday published one million of the IDs, along with the type (e.g. iPhone) and name (e.g. Jane Doe's iPhone) of each device. In <a href="http://pastebin.com/nfVT7b0Z" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a post accompanying the data dump</a>, the group says it withheld other personally identifying information, including names, mobile phone numbers, and addresses. There's no indication that bank account numbers or passwords were included.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How did the group obtain the information? In its own words (and its own lackadaisical grammar):</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The group suspects the FBI was using, or planned to use, the information to track Apple users. The FBI has yet to comment on the apparent breach, and it's unclear how it obtained the Apple IDs.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a twist, the agent whose laptop AntiSec claims to have hacked appeared in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=512364171294" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a 2009 FBI recruiting video</a>, urging hackers to join the bureau as cybersecurity experts. To AntiSec, which views cybersecurity experts as, essentially, tools of The Man, that makes him an ideal target.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, some security researchers are pouncing on Apple for hard-coding unique identifiers onto every device in the first place. In a post titled, "<a href="http://corte.si/posts/security/udid-leak.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe</a>," security consultant Aldo Cortesi catalogs several of his own past blog posts warning about the potential for the device numbers to be misused.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 17.983333587646484px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wondering whether your device was among those compromised? The Next Web has built<a href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/heres-check-apple-device-udid-compromised-antisec-leak/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a quick tool</a> that lets you check whether your UDID matches any of the one million that AntiSec included in its data dump. The Next Web assures users that it isn’t storing the numbers they enter. You can find your UDID by following the easy steps outlined <a href="http://whatsmyudid.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. (Note: Even if yours isn't a match, it could still theoretically be among the other 11 million that AntiSec says it has but didn't publish.)</div></div></div></div>

Hackers Obtain Millions of Apple Users' Information From FBI Laptop

Hackers Obtain Millions of Apple Users' Information From FBI LaptopEvery Apple device has a unique identifying number. A hacker group claims the FBI has been compiling a database of those numbers, per…

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