New Java Zero-Day Exploit Added to Metasploit and BlackHole Exploit Kit

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 id="htitle" style="background-color: white; color: #001f5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 34px; margin: 3px 0px 5px;">New Java Zero-Day Exploit Added to Metasploit and BlackHole Exploit Kit</h1><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Java zero-day exploit added to Metasploit and BlackHole" height="219" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/New-Java-Zero-Day-Exploit-Added-to-Metasploit-and-BlackHole-Exploit-Kit-2.jpg?1346139757" width="400" /> </div><div><br /></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Soon after the world learned about the existence of a new zero-day that affects all the latest Java run-time environment (<span style="color: #0054a6; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">JRE</span></span>) versions, researchers started analyzing the exploit, trying to figure out a solution to protect computers against it.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Security experts from Deep End Research have come up with a </span><a href="http://www.deependresearch.org/2012/08/java-7-0-day-vulnerability-information.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">patch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> that they’re willing to share with anyone who’s in charge of administrating company networks. In the meantime, until Oracle comes up with a permanent patch, users are advised to disable Java in their web browsers. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><div align="center" class="article_ad" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" replaced="true" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></ins></ins></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">In case they need Java, internauts are recommended to use two different browsers, but only one of them with Java enabled. The one with Java should be utilized for operations that require the component, and the browser without Java should be used for regular tasks, such as reading emails (the malicious exploit might arrive via email).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">These pieces of advice are very important for the following reasons: the exploit has become public and it has been added to Metasploit. Furthermore, </span><a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/attackers-pounce-on-zero-day-java-exploit/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Brian Krebs, it’s about to be added to the infamous BlackHole exploit kit as well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The developer of the BlackHole has told Krebs that the price for such an exploit would be around $100,000 (€80,000).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">There is one more noteworthy thing about the new exploit. According to Deep End Research, it doesn’t affect Chrome, but Rapid 7 experts – the ones who contributed to adding the exploit to Metasploit – </span><a href="https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/08/27/lets-start-the-week-with-a-new-java-0day" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">claim</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> that on Windows XP it works not only on Internet Explorer and Mozilla, but also on Google’s web browser.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">“Don't know, maybe Rapid 7 'improved' the exploit and you can send them your thanks if you wish, but the original exploit does not work on Chrome,” Andre M. DiMino and Mila Parkour of Deep End Research wrote in a post.</span> </div></div>

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Facebook Help Center Flooded with “Online Streaming” Spam

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 id="htitle" style="background-color: white; color: #001f5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 34px; margin: 3px 0px 5px;">Facebook Help Center Flooded with “Online Streaming” Spam</h1><br /><img alt="Facebook Help Center flooded with spam" height="167" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Facebook-Help-Center-Flooded-with-Online-Streaming-Spam-2.png?1346232369" width="400" /> <br /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Facebook’s Help Center is once again flooded with all sorts of shady messages which advertise live online streaming services.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Posts such as “Barcelona vs Real Madrid Live Stream Online EL Classico 2012 On HDTV” are all over the help center, but the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Search </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">section of the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Community Forum</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> appears to be the most affected.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br /><div align="center" class="article_ad" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" replaced="true" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></ins></ins></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Legitimate posts are almost impossible to identify among the tens of shady posts which attempt to lure users to website that allegedly offer free streaming for sporting events.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The promoted sites try to trick unsuspecting users into purchasing subscriptions for live streaming services that can worth as much as $50 (€40).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The payments are done via ClickBank Marketplace, a secure online retail outlet, and the payment page is actually well protected, vouched for by Symantec, McAfee and TRUSTe. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">However, this doesn’t mean anything else but the fact that the payment will safely make it to the crooks’ accounts. Users should know that a secure payment method doesn’t necessarily vouch for a service’s legitimacy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">A similar campaign was recorded </span><strong>back in November 2011</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> and judging by the fact that the same types of websites were advertised, it would be safe to say that the same group of spammers was behind the</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">flood</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, such incidents demonstrate that Facebook is still a long way from offering its customers a spam-free environment. Of course, in an era in which such campaigns can earn impressive amounts of money for those who launch them, the task is nearly impossible to accomplish. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">On the other hand, this particular spam campaign has been active for almost 24 hours now and Facebook representatives still haven’t managed to contain it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">While this is sorted out, customers of the social media network are advised to be cautious when navigating the Help Center’s Community Forum.</span> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 id="htitle" style="background-color: white; color: #001f5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 34px; letter-spacing: -2px; line-height: 34px; margin: 3px 0px 5px;">US Air Force Wants to Enhance Its Cyber Warfare Capabilities</h1><div><img alt="The US Air Force wants some serious cyber weapons" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/US-Air-Force-Wants-to-Enhance-Its-Cyber-Warfare-Capabilities-2.png?1346230858" /> </div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The US Military has been successfully using cyber weapons for quite some time now, a speech held by Marine Lieutenant General Richard P. Mills at the AFCEA TechNet Land Forces conference revealed the other day. As it turns out, the US Air Force is also looking to enhance its cyber capabilities.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">On August 22, 2012, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) posted an announcement, inviting researchers to submit research papers which could help the organization in enhancing its cyberspace warfare capabilities.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><div align="center" class="article_ad" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px;"><ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" replaced="true" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></ins></ins></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">“This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicits concept papers with the potential to enhance Air Force operations focused on Cyberspace Warfare capabilities access, position, maneuver, and strike within the adversary cyberspace domain in support of the Combatant Commanders (CCDR) and national objectives,” reads the </span><a href="https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=48a4eeb344432c3c87df0594068dc0ce" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0058bb; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">technical description.</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Last week we learned that DARPA was </span><strong>seeking help</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> with a program called Plan X. While Plan X appears to be more about strategies than creating cyber weapons, the picture is a whole lot different as far as the Air Force is concerned.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">They explicitly say that they’re interested in cyberspace technologies that could help them destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt or usurp the enemy’s ability to “use the cyberspace domain for his advantage.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">The concepts and technologies should address issues such as network mapping, accessing of information and systems, denial of service attacks, data manipulation, and the ability to control cyberspace effects at specified times.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">They also seek the ability to search, intercept, identify, locate and localize access points or vulnerabilities that could help them in conducting operations in cyberspace.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Of course, the US government is more than willing to pay for information that could help it achieve these goals. The total value of the awards – most likely split between multiple concept papers – can be as high as $10 million (€8 million).</span> </div></div>

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Hackers Can Read Your Thoughts Inside Your Mind

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Hackers Can Read Your Thoughts. It’s like phishing, only it happens inside of your skull.</b><br /><br /> It’s hard to imagine something more futuristic than a helmet that lets you control machines with your mind. As if out of an X-Men comic, this technology became a reality about five years ago when not one but two devices, the NeuroSky MindWave and the Emotiv EPOC, that used brainwaves as an input hit the market. At first, the headsets were more or less novelties, a fun new way to play video games, but as the technology improved, all kinds of industries — from medicine to education, security to government — are looking for ways to take advantage of brain-controlled interfaces. We may never have to push a button again.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCuNVOkyt505BpKFnI8ofdGcc2OjSGr3sDnDLLcvXzozif64jfpilGzBbqEh3oMy5jl3rZDLAaI16pQ_lccCuFyr9Wrgw2fSZVgEEljXtBHx6KIdQcRIdKUza45Vr1kUfhGM9I-hVd-tx/s1600/mind+hacking.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCuNVOkyt505BpKFnI8ofdGcc2OjSGr3sDnDLLcvXzozif64jfpilGzBbqEh3oMy5jl3rZDLAaI16pQ_lccCuFyr9Wrgw2fSZVgEEljXtBHx6KIdQcRIdKUza45Vr1kUfhGM9I-hVd-tx/s320/mind+hacking.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /> Turns out there’s a downside to hooking your brain up to a computer. If you’re not careful, hackers could manipulate the game you’re playing or program you’re using and literally read your mind. (Sidenote: I’m pretty sure this was actually the horrifying premise of one of the latest X-Men movies and at least two Arnold Schwarzenegger flicks from the ‘90s.) A new study by a team of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, Oxford and the University of Geneva shows how these devices can give unwarranted access to your private thoughts. By taking some backdoor approaches to reading the electronic signals the brain machines pick up, the team gained access to subconscious thoughts, including the location of the subjects’ homes and their banking PIN numbers.<br /><br /> Hacking into someone’s brain isn’t exactly a straight-forward task. To find these private thoughts, By matching the EEG data of reactions from the first set with reactions from the second set, the researchers were able to when the subject recognized an image of something, say the location of their house on a map. It’s very basic mind-reading but mind-reading nevertheless.<br /><br /> This doesn’t mean that thought thieves can come at your in the middle of the night, hook you up to a machine and download the contents of your brain. It is an indication that these brain-control devices pick up more information than what it needs to accomplish the task at hand.<br /><br /> And, the researchers warned, the technology will improve over time and make it easier to identify and translate those signals. So you could look forward to hackers developing fake applications aimed at getting your brainwaves going.<br /><br /> “In this threat model, the attacker doesn’t need to compromise anything,” says Dawn Song, a Berkeley computer science professor who helped lead the study. “He simply embeds the attack in an app, such as a game using [brain-machine interface] that the user downloads and plays. In this case, the malicious game designs and knows the visual stimuli the user is looking at and also gets the brain signal reading at the same time.” It’s like phishing, only it happens inside of your skull.<br /><br /></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>

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Oil giant Saudi Aramco workstations hit by malware Restored

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Oil giant Saudi Aramco back online after workstations hit by malware.</b><br /><br /> Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, said on Sunday that the company was back in operation ten days after a massive malware outbreak hobbled 30,000 workstations at the company.<br /><br /> In a statement on the company’s Facebook page (content alert: Facebook page contains images of extremely phallic architecture), Aramco said that it had “restored all its main internal network services” that were affected by a malware outbreak on August 15.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8CUBohJkURBcmR4kubR1bv-HOhHYIHtoI1M5kvr_Qu0fmAXUytoIucQCLsPq0DbvBF4biqreUEeJ9COfY6zbbV1ue282-zrHZD3cq3BjxaacJuZtPLBh8RbPquNZJipPNCIvBrJ40l-k/s1600/oil-gas-cloud-computing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8CUBohJkURBcmR4kubR1bv-HOhHYIHtoI1M5kvr_Qu0fmAXUytoIucQCLsPq0DbvBF4biqreUEeJ9COfY6zbbV1ue282-zrHZD3cq3BjxaacJuZtPLBh8RbPquNZJipPNCIvBrJ40l-k/s320/oil-gas-cloud-computing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> The attack was attributed to “external sources.” It is just the latest against a national oil company, following reports of malware attacks on Iran’s oil infrastructure linked to the “Flame” malware in May.<br /><br /> The malicious Trojan horse, which Sophos named Troj/MDrop-ELD, attempts to overwrite the master boot record on infected systems, which would make it impossible to boot the machine.<br /><br /> Responsibility for the attack from a previously unknown group calling itself the “Cutting Sword of Justice.”<br /><br /> The group posted details of the hack on Pastebin, and said that Aramco was attacked in retaliation against the Al-Saud regime for the “crimes and atrocities taking place in various countries around the world, especially in the neighboring countries such as Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon (and) Egypt.<br /><br /> Pastie bin link:<br /><a href="http://pastebin.com/HqAgaQRj">http://pastebin.com/HqAgaQRj</a><br /><br /> We, behalf of an anti-oppression hacker group that have been fed up of crimes and atrocities taking place in various countries around the world, especially in the neighboring countries such as Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt and ..., and also of dual approach of the world community to these nations, want to hit the main supporters of these disasters by this action.<br /><br /> One of the main supporters of this disasters is Al-Saud corrupt regime that sponsors such oppressive measures by using Muslims oil resources. Al-Saud is a partner in committing these crimes. It's hands are infected with the blood of innocent children and people.<br /><br /> In the first step, an action was performed against Aramco company, as the largest financial source for Al-Saud regime. In this step, we penetrated a system of Aramco company by using the hacked systems in several countries and then sended a malicious virus to destroy thirty thousand computers networked in this company. The destruction operations began on Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM (Local time in Saudi Arabia) and will be completed within a few hours.<br /><br /> This is a warning to the tyrants of this country and other countries that support such criminal disasters with injustice and oppression. We invite all anti-tyranny hacker groups all over the world to join this movement. We want them to support this movement by designing and performing such operations, if they are against tyranny and oppression.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwm6-niI5EGA6uRK_cv-Eb-d54ykH9MRQcqQKpgfKafIWQe-X8L6b-PZ9jk3468BH7n110IRSAzfEEcIYFB3hRDo5zydPpVDEBDQUau6DdayJUaurl1Ouj3wMIHlo50wKJ8In6M-uA1fQ5/s1600/prof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwm6-niI5EGA6uRK_cv-Eb-d54ykH9MRQcqQKpgfKafIWQe-X8L6b-PZ9jk3468BH7n110IRSAzfEEcIYFB3hRDo5zydPpVDEBDQUau6DdayJUaurl1Ouj3wMIHlo50wKJ8In6M-uA1fQ5/s320/prof.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /> <b>Cutting Sword of Justice</b><br /><br /> Attacks against private and public energy-producing firms are nothing new. In addition to the “Flame” malware attacks against Iran’s oil refineries, the US Department of Homeland Security warned in May about ongoing cyber attacks aimed at firms operating natural gas pipelines within the United States.<br /><br /> In its Pastebin manifesto, Cutting Sword of Justice said its attack on Aramco was “a warning to the tyrants of this country and other countries that support such criminal disasters with injustice and oppression.” The group invited other “anti-tyranny hacker groups” to join the movement.<br /><br /></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>

Oil giant Saudi Aramco workstations hit by malware Restored

Oil giant Saudi Aramco back online after workstations hit by malware.  Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, said on Sunday that the ...

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No Pain No Gain

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No Pain No Gain (Inspirational Video)</span></b></span></u><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" src="http://p.videofy.me/v/642690" width="630"></iframe></div></div></div>

No Pain No Gain

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Easy DVD Creator v2.5.4

<br /><br /><br />Description Easy DVD Creator v2.5.4:<br /><br />Easy DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert AVI/DIVX/XVID/DIV, MPEG/MPG/DAT, WMV/ASF/ASX, RM/RMVB, MOV/QT, 3GP/3G2, MP4/M4V, FLV and TOD into DVDs that you can watch in your home DVD player.With Easy DVD Creator, you can easily turn the vacation, wedding and family movies into DVDs that you can burn and share with your friends and family! Easily

Easy DVD Creator v2.5.4

Description Easy DVD Creator v2.5.4: Easy DVD Creator provides you a handy tool to convert AVI/DIVX/XVID/DIV, MPEG/MPG/DAT, WMV/ASF/ASX, RM/...

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Linux Kernel 3.5.3 Is Available for Download

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Linux Kernel 3.5.3 Is Available for Download</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Linux kernel 3.5.3 is now available for download!" height="215" src="http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Linux-Kernel-3-5-3-Is-Available-for-Download.jpg?1346046799" width="400" /> </div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></strong></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a couple of days ago, August 25th, the immediate availability for download of the third<span style="font-weight: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">maintenance </span><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-weight: inherit !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">release</span></span> for the stable Linux 3.5 kernel series.</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 84, 166); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Linux </span><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 84, 166); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">kernel</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> 3.5.3 includes mostly updated drivers, especially for ATI Radeon and Intel i915 graphics cards, as well as some EXT4 filesystem changes.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em>I'm announcing the release of the 3.5.3 kernel. All users of the 3.5 kernel series must upgrade.</em></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">"</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em>The updated 3.5.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.5.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:</em></span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></em><a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><em>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary</em></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">" - said Greg KH in the </span><a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/25/203" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">email announcement</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">As usual, the </span><span style="position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Linux </span><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">kernel</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> 3.5.3 is a must-grab update for all </span><span style="position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">Linux </span><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">users </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;">who use the Linux 3.5 kernel. Therefore, upgrade as soon as possible!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Kernels/Linux-Kernel-Stable-1960.shtml" style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><strong>Download Linux kernel 3.5.3</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"> right now</span></span> </div>

Linux Kernel 3.5.3 Is Available for Download

Linux Kernel 3.5.3 Is Available for Download Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a couple of days ago, August 25th, the immediate availability fo...

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Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Enterprise Edition (Freely Available For 90 Days)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Enterprise Edition (Freely Available For 90 Days)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DCJPWjJuB-M1iddXDvXUj9rPXX1JPcia9SuTwQtYN6EoVU6GL6_DOS4lksbIKf_wG0X3PAEg1NsvAZ5qiH-Wt3wYBOxuvuvofbKGUATBy9Ke3AkEREWecR_wGZymC98Po633GOMAdkGp/s400/Windows+8+Enterprise+Edition.png" width="400" /> </div><br /><br /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Redmond based software giant <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Microsoft</b> has released the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation</b> version yet again making it available free for <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">90 days</b>. Before this Evolution version we have tested three different flavors of Microsoft's upcoming and long awaited operating system <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8</b>, and they are <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8</b>  <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Consumer Preview,  </b><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Developer Previe<a href="http://www.voiceofgreyhat.com/2011/09/microsoft-released-windows-8-preview.html" style="color: #034e9d; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">w</a> </b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">& </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Release Preview.</b>According to Microsoft - </span><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Enterprise features include all the capabilities that customers get with <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Pro*</b> plus premium features designed to provide the mobile productivity, security, manageability and virtualization needs of today’s businesses. Developers can write their own apps in widely used languages such as C#, C++, JavaScript, and Microsoft’s Visual Basic. </span><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows 8 Enterprise also includes a built-in print driver that supports “a wide range” of printers without the hassle of installing <nobr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">printer drivers</nobr> from CDs or the Web onto print servers or client devices.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some of the key features that will be available exclusively to Windows 8 Enterprise customers are:-</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Windows To Go</b><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 desktop on a bootable external USB stick. This will allow IT organizations to support the “Bring Your Own PC” trend and businesses can give contingent staff access to the corporate environment without compromising security.</span></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Direct Access</b><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> allows remote users to seamlessly access resources inside a corporate network without having to launch a separate VPN and helps IT administrators keep remote users’ PCs in compliance by applying the latest policies, software updates. When used with Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 makes Direct Access easier to deploy and implement with the existing IPv4 infrastructure.</span></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BranchCache</b><span style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> allows users’ PCs to cache files, websites, and other content from central servers, so content is not repeatedly downloaded across the wide area network (WAN). 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400+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By An0nym0uz17 Indonesian Hcker

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Indonesian hacker Name as An0nym0uz17 Hacked And Defaced 400+ Sites. <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> It is kind of huge hack. Server owned by hackers was really secure. This hack also point of lot of question for security experts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These kind of attacks are clearly showing how much awareness about security is need in cyber world.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6J8FnepQGQ7moOeiQRAYtaODdj7P8NILRI6HY-GjgF4XVVwE8Aw7MnlK6ddq2cRvWQpUqNf3kkHGux5yJ7o_-xToibljxxQNwgMdudFYP40APJfdraa4u9awpTh_MIbnRC-f1r0sZAHtX/s1600/a17+(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6J8FnepQGQ7moOeiQRAYtaODdj7P8NILRI6HY-GjgF4XVVwE8Aw7MnlK6ddq2cRvWQpUqNf3kkHGux5yJ7o_-xToibljxxQNwgMdudFYP40APJfdraa4u9awpTh_MIbnRC-f1r0sZAHtX/s400/a17+(2).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The list of impacted sites was published on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_691153152">Patebin</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://pastebin.com/LZTFjQQ4" target="_blank"> </a>yesterday, but at press time, most of them still weren’t restored.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Following as :</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://finitoservices.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://finitoservices.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://maypartners.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://maypartners.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://plumbob.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://plumbob.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://stonemark.net/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://stonemark.net/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://vrbpro.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://vrbpro.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://hawaii.nu/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://hawaii.nu/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://artnussbaum.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://artnussbaum.com/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://aberdeen.cc/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://aberdeen.cc/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://oceanshores.cc/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://oceanshores.cc/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://winthropvacationrentals.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>winthropvacationrentals.com/</a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://accessiblevacationrentals.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>accessiblevacationrentals.com/</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Full List:</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://pastebin.com/LZTFjQQ4">http://pastebin.com/LZTFjQQ4</a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Deface Page Says:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">... Y0o f**k1nG mo0th3r fvCk3r b1Tch ! ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">An0nym0uz17 was here</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">we hate india - israel - USA</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and all supporters :P</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.attacker-id.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.attacker-id.com</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"<br /><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>

400+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By An0nym0uz17 Indonesian Hcker

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Indian Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">India Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space and Pakistani hacker watching silently. We have confirm that hackers <span style="color: red;">attack on Pakistani cyber space increase 80% more in month of August</span>. According to Indians IRC channels they are willing to attack more.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yy0u92EWwBE9YS3gf3St0AxsVJXk9xCg3U7QFWcGLv6DM0cFn1pcQhphz8HFi90cZ8EKOSygPIGUt8xsh58uf-FeCWHczLk89gin7Yn5SIpJ9EN2RtbiPkicwWHG-RWO20ET4m5MZ2il/s1600/pak_india_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yy0u92EWwBE9YS3gf3St0AxsVJXk9xCg3U7QFWcGLv6DM0cFn1pcQhphz8HFi90cZ8EKOSygPIGUt8xsh58uf-FeCWHczLk89gin7Yn5SIpJ9EN2RtbiPkicwWHG-RWO20ET4m5MZ2il/s320/pak_india_400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />In the world of technology, it's not a war of drones and manual army between India and Pakistan but a war between the Cyber Army of both the nations since the eve of Independence that is still continued on Internet. Indian Hackers are united first time ever on Facebook claiming themselves as '<span style="color: red;">United Hackers of India</span>' and are constantly preventing the Pakistani hackers to hack Indian websites. Indian hackers had jumped recently to a void Pakistani hackers to fuel the communal fire in India by defacing Indian websites.<br /><br />On August 13, Indian hacker <span style="color: red;">Coded32 appears with an idea to retaliate against Pakistani hackers</span> - who were busy defacing Indian websites. Coded32 gathered all strong Indian hackers labeled as greyhats and whitehats.<br /><br />Major hacker teams named <span style="color: red;">Team OpenFire, Indian Cyber Force, IndiaShell, Indian Cyber Pirates </span>many other teams got united and everyone attacked Pakistan telecom departments, educational centers, Railway centers and vowed to put down the NIC (National Informatics Center), PKNIC, of Pakistan on same day.<br /><br />The United Indian hackers on their page uploads as, "We are Indian Hackers, it was not supposed to happen all the sudden this way, but hey who knew? We belong to India. We are one blood! We have one cause. STOP breaching Indian servers, you we bet, the whole Pakistan, Bangladesh, or whosoever breaches Indian Security will have to pay a big time that will be permanent, and irreversible."<br /><br />Hackers named as coded32, 64, Xhunthacker, and code injector revealed HT: "At this, Pakistani hackers forces discussed among themselves and called for a peace deal between India-Pakistan and the cyber war on both the sides got over on 16th August.<br /><br />But that was not the only end, Bangladesh, provoked up, and Indian hackers already knew most of the data were supplied by Pakistan Internally supporting them, to this current date Indian hackers are fighting with Bangladesh as cold war, attacking each other but with no direct terms and with negotiation."<br /><br />One more new Group appear name as <span style="color: red;">H2O</span>, They hacked some Pakistani facebook pages contain huge fan clubs, They also leak some data about about admins of those pages.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Today Offical Shahi Afridi sites was also hacked</span> by Indian Hacker <a bb8e2c9100587="true" href="http://www.shahidafridi.com.pk//" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.shahidafridi.com.pk/</a> . This was also a huge security flaw.<br /><br />In the End we try to find out the right number of hacked sites and came to result that yeah it is true that india hacked pakistani sites and it was about to 1,000 to 1500 and those server was already hacked by Indian hackers and only few mirror are made in zone-h. And the <span style="color: red;">real reason of this artical is to increase the awareness of Security in Pakistani Cyber Space</span>.<br /><br /></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>

Indian Hacker Playing with Pakistani Cyber Space

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70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By Sizzling Soul

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Pakistani hacker Name as Sizzling Soul 70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced. Most of the hacked domain belong to <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">South Africa. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This hack also point of lot of question for security experts. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These kind of attacks are clearly showing how much awareness about security is need in cyber world.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;">The list of impacted sites and mirrors was published on <a href="http://www.paste.to/MTAwMTc2Mw==" target="_blank">Pastebin</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, 'Century gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"> , at press time, all of them still weren’t restored.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK_8Ij0CE0F1BeIK1CLKmA6Anet1MN_6Ey2ijtHSJTyYm3NE293AzvszRlRFFBldtx6KNLTcgzi8Ki4TDF4C-5bnI0j6Wk8bJg-CuRCTJKELOwbXSMxuortt5BukAKSxNIriZ1RrqClad/s1600/sizzleing.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK_8Ij0CE0F1BeIK1CLKmA6Anet1MN_6Ey2ijtHSJTyYm3NE293AzvszRlRFFBldtx6KNLTcgzi8Ki4TDF4C-5bnI0j6Wk8bJg-CuRCTJKELOwbXSMxuortt5BukAKSxNIriZ1RrqClad/s320/sizzleing.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Deface Page Says:</b><br />"<span style="color: red;">100 %</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Attempting Bypass...</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Code broken!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">=======================</span><br /><span style="color: red;">A message for Indians(indishell,ICH.ICP),Americans & All Others: </span><br /><span style="color: red;"> STOP messing with Pakistan, and the power! The lions are sleeping, they </span><br /><span style="color: red;">arent dead yet!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">FREE Kashmir, Kashmiris dont want violence, we all want peace! <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: red;">Gandhi once said: ''Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life'' </span><br /><span style="color: red;">Read your own law;</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Indian Penal Code(Act No. 45 of 1860) CHAPTER-II SEC 18:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'India'- “India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">=======================</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Do NOT mess with the Paki Lions or we will turn your life into LIVING HELL!</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    No hate for anyone</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    We want a world, full of PEACE, not WAR! We are a peacefull religion (Islam), a peacefull country (Pakistan) and peacefull humans</span><br /><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">###########################################</span><br /><span style="color: red;">  Theres always a silence before the storm, and youre enjoying the silence....   </span><br /><span style="color: red;"> ###########################################</span><br /><span style="color: red;"> #    The Land I Belong To, The Land I Will Die For, The Land That Defines My Identity. I will LIVE and I will DIE for PAKISTAN</span><br /><span style="color: red;">    If You Want Some Then Come And Get Some...</span>"<br /><br /></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>

70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced By Sizzling Soul

Pakistani hacker Name as Sizzling Soul 70+ Sites Hacked And Defaced. Most of the hacked domain belong to  South Africa.  This hack also poin...

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NSA top spy going to Defcon 2012

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), will speak at the Defcon conference, the Pentagon affirmed.<br />General Keith B. Alexander is also the current Commander, United States Cyber Command.<br />Defcon for those of you who don’t know is a community of “hackers.”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRqdMRiiJ3_jSY7jeUbD3WpnjBCidnLUC5IlF3rj5Ps28-TDvyHjrUJ8poLXjomi8lidH6pzKdSU4RwIuqItvZbpD8tJMMJRM6v1LbQTl6bb1Sxsd_kpV8m1CV2YFk1FVMUvXPAOFNXgO/s1600/Defconwall1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRqdMRiiJ3_jSY7jeUbD3WpnjBCidnLUC5IlF3rj5Ps28-TDvyHjrUJ8poLXjomi8lidH6pzKdSU4RwIuqItvZbpD8tJMMJRM6v1LbQTl6bb1Sxsd_kpV8m1CV2YFk1FVMUvXPAOFNXgO/s320/Defconwall1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Not to be confused with “crackers”.<br />Hackers, are a whole sub culture within American society.<br />They come to the conference to network, socialize and compete in hacking contests. They represent diverse demographics…<br />“Defcon is a self evolving group, constantly changing.”, said one hacker, who wished not to be identified<br />General Alexander may also be doing some intelligence gathering?<br />After all he spend most of his adult life in Army intelligence.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yeNEwCjUtQQ?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br />So as to be balanced, you should probably also watch a excellent scene in the movie Good Will Hunting before you decide to join NSA (see video: Why shouldn’t I work at the NSA (see video:)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UrOZllbNarw?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br />According to Defcon employees “We’re going to show him the conference. If he wants to wander around…”<br />“It should be really cool”, said Jeff Moss of Defcon.<br />Speaking in reference to the speech Moss said:<br />“Don’t you think it’s important to hear what the most senior person at the NSA has to say? I’m interested in hearing what he has to say.”<br />He may be right. I don’t know?<br />Its no secret that Defcon is promoting this speaker at the conference.<br />Despite what you may think there are some serious discussions go on at Defcon conferences.<br />The topics range ever year from everything from computer intrusion, viruses to protecting your credit card information from being scanned by people walking down the street.<br /><br />Reference: <a href="http://www.blacknewbieteam.org/2012/08/25/nsa-top-spy-going-to-defcon-2012/#" target="_blank">Link1</a><br /><br /></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>

NSA top spy going to Defcon 2012

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Becoming Hackers Aren’t Tougher, You Just Have All The Right Tool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">These days, hacking seems so common. It’s like a week won’t pass without hearing news about another site being hacked or passwords being leaked. So the situation begs the<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">questions, “Are passwords getting weaker or are hackers getting tougher?”<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVKWQGYiAvsanD1gCofKTovnz3OlrnOZdP5L-Dqn3UGXiRmbvn417z_3DVa37jJG3ZtUGbWc-JptOqK6DhyphenhyphenKBibD_1bNNsffj0MdA1Qtrv8eTB9rqxsk8K3A6TNKBWziBQmnbVlH_6gvc/s1600/bt5-g0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVKWQGYiAvsanD1gCofKTovnz3OlrnOZdP5L-Dqn3UGXiRmbvn417z_3DVa37jJG3ZtUGbWc-JptOqK6DhyphenhyphenKBibD_1bNNsffj0MdA1Qtrv8eTB9rqxsk8K3A6TNKBWziBQmnbVlH_6gvc/s320/bt5-g0.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />To be vigilant in choosing and keeping passwords secured. There are a lot of techniques in doing this like periodically changing your passwords, not telling everyone what your password is, using capital letters interchangeably with characters, numbers, etc. But all these efforts will be for naught if the site doesn’t salt your passwords. Salting passwords means they’re encrypting them so that it can’t be easily acquired. Most sites these days encrypt their users’ passwords but there are still some sites who do without salting. So how come passwords still get hacked if they’re encrypted? The answer is simple: hacking is now made easy.<br /><br />It’s just that hackers these days have more hacking tools to aide them in their mission. Before, when hacking wasn’t that popular and computers aren’t that fast, hackers used a small list of passwords to guess user passwords. But as the time changed, the list grew. You’d think that hackers would have a tougher time cracking passwords since there’s now a bigger list to go through but you must not forget that computers these days are faster and can churn millions of data at the blink of an eye. Plus the fact that there are a lot of cracking software available these days, acquiring passwords may just be a walk in the park some.<br /><br />There are two things you need to remember if you want to acquire passwords. First, if you do manage to get passwords of a certain site, there’s a huge possibility that it won’t be of any use to you since it’s hashed. Remember, sites encrypt passwords. So if a user uses the word “password” the hacker won’t see “password” but a code like “dzportsjd342nse9339f93qnnfgk134nsk4g” (not actual code) so he then needs to figure out what the code means before the password can be of any use to him. This is the reason why security companies often remind consumers to use an alphanumeric password, or inject some characters into them and avoid using obvious ones like your name and birthday, so hackers won’t easily access your account. Another thing to remember is to use different passwords for every site so in case one of your accounts gets compromised, your other accounts will still be secured.<br /><br />The point is, users aren’t to blame if their accounts get hacked, it also doesn’t mean that the security measures of the service you are using is not commendable, hackers just have all the tools they need to do the task. So don’t beat yourself up. Still, it wouldn’t hurt if you make your passwords tougher.<br /><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>

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US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The U.S. military has been launching cyber attacks against its opponents in Afghanistan, a senior officer said last week, making an unusually explicit acknowledgment of the oft-hidden world o<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">f electronic warfare.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaqoSeIRUQ6SJCLjdQlgBlSbyY5QOpstM0nZ7GB5tIKOytsOSev5hN3QYxIdg1LcPvE5BO5zNAhkmEMM6T0f50kRnWcGhhbbP4erGz-sXsYio7qBazeQv2QfTT1tfsKg_87rtKsDEg1Mf/s1600/atc1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaqoSeIRUQ6SJCLjdQlgBlSbyY5QOpstM0nZ7GB5tIKOytsOSev5hN3QYxIdg1LcPvE5BO5zNAhkmEMM6T0f50kRnWcGhhbbP4erGz-sXsYio7qBazeQv2QfTT1tfsKg_87rtKsDEg1Mf/s400/atc1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Marine Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills' comments came at a conference in Baltimore during which he explained how U.S. commanders considered cyber weapons an important part of their arsenal.<br /><br />"I can tell you that as a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact," Mills said. "I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations."</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>

US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan

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357 arrested in massive cybercrime sting in Philippines

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines—More than 300 foreigners, suspected members of a cybercrime and human trafficking syndicate, were arrested in simultaneous raids in Quezon City, Marikina City, and<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">Cainta and Antipolo City in Rizal province on Thursday.<br /><br />The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said among those arrested were the two suspected financiers of a group involved in credit card fraud and human smuggling in Taiwan and China.</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/AVvXsEiY-bz-v6Zpz-GvGAwtiocn0_UrQpXCYVNoiRHbv3Y4hs20CwAy1HKFPzYfUJenctH5XBkTcp46Mza2xfRnevHfnG3ffy1z8qBs6HjU6S5hBGd8zoWyuncpUjTkefU0vR4nL-DQdZKaihbT/s1600/crime-scene-law-enforcement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-bz-v6Zpz-GvGAwtiocn0_UrQpXCYVNoiRHbv3Y4hs20CwAy1HKFPzYfUJenctH5XBkTcp46Mza2xfRnevHfnG3ffy1z8qBs6HjU6S5hBGd8zoWyuncpUjTkefU0vR4nL-DQdZKaihbT/s400/crime-scene-law-enforcement.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />“[This is] the biggest and most resolute operation carried out by law enforcement units in the history of anticyber crime drive [in the Philippines],” Director Samuel Pagdilao Jr., CIDG chief, said in a statement.<br /><br />“The raids … demonstrate the strong will of the authorities to [run after] these foreigners who have made the country their base of criminal operations,” he added.<br /><br />Pagdilao said a total of 357 Chinese and Taiwanese were taken into custody during the raids conducted by the CIDG, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the Naval Intelligence and Security Force. <br /><br />At about 6:30 a.m., he said the operatives headed by Senior Superintendent Ranier Idio, PAOCC deputy chief, simultaneously raided 20 houses in Metro Manila and Rizal province.<br /><br />Arrested during the operations, which were covered by search warrants issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Marino de la Cruz Jr., were Chinese-Filipino Maria Luisa Tan and Jonson Tan Co, said to be the financiers of the group, Pagdilao said.<br /><br />The raiding team also confiscated various telecommunications gadgets and equipment which the syndicate purportedly used in their illegal activities.<br /><br />Chief Supt. Reginald Villasanta, PAOCC executive director, said the suspects, who were charged with violation of the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998, were taken to the Police National Training Institute in Camp Vicente Lim in Calamba City, Laguna province.<br /><br />Because of the sheer number of those arrested, Villasanta said the police training school’s gym had to be turned into a makeshift detention facility.<br /><br />“This is undoubtedly one of the largest antifraud stings in the Philippines in recent years,” Villasanta said.<br /><br />“Using the Internet, members of the syndicate [would] claim to represent [the Chinese] police, prosecutor’s office, courts, insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions when they call their victims,” he said.<br /><br />Villasanta said the suspects would tell their unsuspecting victims that their personal bank accounts were under investigation for supposedly being used in money laundering and terrorist activities.<br /><br />After threatening them, he said the syndicate would order their victims to deposit their money in a “safe account that the syndicate would provide.”<br /><br />According to the CIDG’s deputy director for operations, Senior Supt. Keith Singian, the group’s modus operandi “is a classic example of the operations of criminal syndicate in China, only this time, the suspects who are foreigners have used the Philippines as base of operations.”<br /><br />At least P20M a day<br /><br />“Many of the victims agreed [to transfer their money] out of fear and anxiety,” Villasanta said. “The syndicate made at least P20 million a day through this kind of modus [operandi].”<br /><br />He said the Chinese police discovered that the syndicate had transferred to the Philippines when they traced the Internet Protocol address that the suspects had used to contact their victims.<br /><br />Villasanta said the group had been victimizing residents of Taiwan and mainland China since 2007.<br /><br />Credit card fraud<br /><br />“An initial investigation revealed that the arrested suspects have links with an international fraud syndicate that operates in the Philippines and abroad,” Villasanta said.<br /><br />“They are involved in credit card fraud, large-scale human trafficking and international long-distance call bypass operations,” he said.<br /><br />Senior Supt. Keith Singian, CIDG operations chief, said the modus operandi of the arrested foreigners was similar to the activities of 37 Chinese nationals who were arrested in May by the CIDG for hacking international gateway facilities and engaging in financial fraud. <br /><br />“Following the crackdown on the group by the Chinese authorities in 2010, [the syndicate] moved their operations outside China and continued … victimizing Chinese nationals through the Internet,” Singian said.<br /><br />In Marikina City, Senior Supt. Gabriel Lopez, chief of police, told the Inquirer that 18 males and four females were arrested in a house on Moscow Street in Loyola Grand Villas.<br /><br />Like a call center<br /><br />The house, he said, was owned by a Filipino, but he refused to reveal his identity. The foreigners, Lopez said, were paying monthly rent to the owner.<br /><br />Lopez said the house was made to look like a call center, with numerous phone lines and telephones inside. “You know how legal call centers are. This one is obviously not legal since they use the phone lines of other people,” he said.<br /><br />In Antipolo City, Supt. Rodino Elfa, chief of police, said the CIDG and the local police raided two houses in Vermont Park, Barangay Mayamot. Twenty-five individuals were arrested.</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>

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Microsoft Changed there Logo after 25 Years

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">In advance of one of the most significant waves of product launches in Microsoft’s history, today we are unveiling a new logo for the company.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-bb6mHAado3bjhUJHKvbV1VY_r-4-XmaPpO6JqdWak7KxO8fDb77q6LUHoJkXspxs_i5NZDZJGs4opquPw6_vk9faJ5ZWw9cAD9xtQtfRtPcwdtu_gFaH8ZI5t2gGKXbYujqBmyfDwFd/s1600/4048.MSFT-Logo-RGB-450x165_LogoOnly.jpg-450x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-bb6mHAado3bjhUJHKvbV1VY_r-4-XmaPpO6JqdWak7KxO8fDb77q6LUHoJkXspxs_i5NZDZJGs4opquPw6_vk9faJ5ZWw9cAD9xtQtfRtPcwdtu_gFaH8ZI5t2gGKXbYujqBmyfDwFd/s320/4048.MSFT-Logo-RGB-450x165_LogoOnly.jpg-450x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It’s been 25 years since we’ve updated the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/imagegallery/logos/logoguidelines.aspx" style="color: #00749e; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft logo</a> and now is the perfect time for a change. This is an incredibly exciting year for Microsoft as we prepare to release new versions of nearly all of our products. From Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8 to Xbox services to the next version of Office, you will see a common look and feel across these products providing a familiar and seamless experience on PCs, phones, tablets and TVs. This wave of new releases is not only a reimagining of our most popular products, but also represents a new era for Microsoft, so our logo should evolve to visually accentuate this new beginning.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Microsoft brand is about much more than logos or product names. We are lucky to play a role in the lives of more than a billion people every day. The ways people experience our products are our most important “brand impressions”. That’s why the new Microsoft logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand values, fonts and colors.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OzkZWvAJUr0?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, we are using the Segoe font which is the same font we use in our products as well as our marketing communications. The symbol is important in a world of digital motion (as demonstrated in the video above.) The symbol’s squares of color are intended to express the company’s diverse portfolio of products. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjQyhXq-5h1apzXi1AMU_sV75rnd7rrZSZoVP-nl56B7X9VeadW3ys0lzK7kSUV0y8RM2SDGaeIetTVFhdtBXmf0qeOey_cub_2B8YutE5KXIBcmgqm17VC57SNi-daV12Dkzf0oBCHN-/s1600/0066.MSFT-Logo-RGB-450x165_LogoParts.jpg-450x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjQyhXq-5h1apzXi1AMU_sV75rnd7rrZSZoVP-nl56B7X9VeadW3ys0lzK7kSUV0y8RM2SDGaeIetTVFhdtBXmf0qeOey_cub_2B8YutE5KXIBcmgqm17VC57SNi-daV12Dkzf0oBCHN-/s320/0066.MSFT-Logo-RGB-450x165_LogoParts.jpg-450x0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></div>Starting today, you’ll see the new Microsoft logo being used prominently. It will be used on Microsoft.com – the 10th most visited website in the world. It is in three of our Microsoft retail stores today (Boston, Seattle’s University Village and Bellevue, Wash.) and will shine brightly in all our stores over the next few months. It will sign off all of our television ads globally. And it will support our products across various forms of marketing. Fully implementing a change like this takes time, so there may be other instances where you will see the old logo being used for some time.<br />We’re excited about the new logo, but more importantly about this new era in which we’re reimagining how our products can help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.<br /><br /></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>

Microsoft Changed there Logo after 25 Years

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Malaysian Institute of Management ( MIM ) Hacked By An0nym0uz17

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A hacker from Indonesia, code name "An0nym0uz17" has hacked Malaysian Institute of Management ( MIM ).</b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">MIM is the professional association of managers and organisations, independent, non-political and non-profit seeking. It is also a development centre to enhance and maintain management standards. It serves as a bridge between the private and public sectors, institutions of higher learning and the world of management practice and also as a platform for the free exchange of management knowledge and experience. The primary activities of the institution are the provision of education, training and development courses and seminars in the field of management. MIM is among the first of the professional bodies to be accredited with the ISO9002 certification.MIM, IPM, MESB, MTT, Malaysian, Malaysia, Institute, Management, Membership, Management, Development, Educations..<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW73hfqTQTp_oOgDaFVWKfVe6Wj1r9k2FuU0t7nzPhL8v0Iy1cEMT1CPOu1zOAXgg3-xaIiuYTOnrojocA5GLZzM-J8eP-jCOLCgtrkmjNSnyFrx-Icpfkoa9qQLTv39qsjJdluJuHP05e/s1600/a17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW73hfqTQTp_oOgDaFVWKfVe6Wj1r9k2FuU0t7nzPhL8v0Iy1cEMT1CPOu1zOAXgg3-xaIiuYTOnrojocA5GLZzM-J8eP-jCOLCgtrkmjNSnyFrx-Icpfkoa9qQLTv39qsjJdluJuHP05e/s320/a17.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>The hackers had added this message below :</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">.::: Security Low 0,00% :::.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">0wnerd bY 1NDoNeSiaN LoVerS</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">-- Message --</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">... Y0o f**k1nG mo0th3r fvCk3r b1Tch ! ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">your country stupid , residents licker ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">your country is thief ,, can only acknowledge other people's...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">great country but the people they are all losers ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">your country is blind, always published not theirs...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">your country dont have ethics,, your country dont have brain,,</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">your country dont have manners,, your country dont have shame,,,</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">you are a loser, you thief, you can not be creatives ..</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">... Y0o fvCk1nG mo0th3r f**k3r b1Tch! ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">... Sp3c14L Fuck ...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">INDIA - ISRAEL - USA - and all supp0rters :P</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Site Hacked :</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><a href="http://www.mim.org.my/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.mim.org.my/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.zone-hack.com/mirror/id/101950" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.zone-hack.com/<wbr></wbr>mirror/id/101950</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://membership.mim.org.my/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://membership.mim.org.my/</a></div><div><a href="http://arab-zone.net/mirror/189217/membership.mim.org.my/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://arab-zone.net/mirror/<wbr></wbr>189217/membership.mim.org.my/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://training.mim.org.my/fvCk_maLingsit.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://training.mim.org.my/<wbr></wbr>fvCk_maLingsit.html</a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://arab-zone.net/mirror/189218/training.mim.org.my/fvck_malingsit.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://arab-zone.net/mirror/<wbr></wbr>189218/training.mim.org.my/<wbr></wbr>fvck_malingsit.html</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><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>

Malaysian Institute of Management ( MIM ) Hacked By An0nym0uz17

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Social Engineering Threat Affects All

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Social engineering is becoming more sophisticated and difficult to spot, and now it is targeting not only users but IT administrators and call center staff too. This complicates protecting customer dat<br /><div class="text_exposed_show">a, and companies need to be nimbler in spotting attempts to steal information, observers urge.<br /><br />Two weeks ago, former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan discovered his Google, Twitter, and iCloud account breached within an hour. The hacker sidestepped the usual password security by targeting Apple’s tech support instead, using “clever” social engineering to persuade staff he is the owner of the iCloud account and gaining access to the other passwords and deleting all of Honan’s data, according to his blog post.</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/AVvXsEhlW69i7mqfiLuc3UnllX7RCqme8KbQlWYKYeXSDRXhri27Tur6l4xpZ_sYCGmoI6cGydqovpRhhy36qzJEuwt0Rqz3Z08SwkHu50iE9XJLOtuOMvgICh6ZlLbnI-SRMZITitTY4ChwYW9B/s1600/adsdad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlW69i7mqfiLuc3UnllX7RCqme8KbQlWYKYeXSDRXhri27Tur6l4xpZ_sYCGmoI6cGydqovpRhhy36qzJEuwt0Rqz3Z08SwkHu50iE9XJLOtuOMvgICh6ZlLbnI-SRMZITitTY4ChwYW9B/s400/adsdad.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />On this, Mark Bower, vice president at Voltage Security, pointed out that social engineering has certainly moved from targeting end-users to companies’ IT administrators. This has been happening for the past few years now, he said.<br /><br />As hackers become savvier, they realize that people are the weakest link in any organization’s IT security and conducting social engineering is an effective method in gaining access to customers’ data, Bower explained.<br /><br />Joseph Steinberg, CEO of Green Armor, added that many questions used to “authenticate” customers during by call center staff can often be found rather quickly by hackers who do their research using Google’s search engine. Data such as social security numbers can be discovered then used to bypass gatekeepers and administrators on various platforms, he said.<br /><br />Paul Ducklin, Asia-Pacific head of technology at Sophos, built on Bower’s point, saying that cybercriminals are now targeting “anyone and anything that has the data they need”. These include administrators and even family and friends of the user by claiming the person is in trouble and the information they disclose will help save him, he explained.<br /><br />If attackers are unable to get through a particular staff at the contact center, they will try to bypass the other staff, Ducklin added. In the process, hackers can build up information about the organization and its security policies so they can plan a way to bypass it, he said.<br /><br />“It’s easier to reach the staff in bulk, which means crooks may even be able to target everyone in a company–users and administrators alike,” the Sophos executive stated.<br /><br />Adhere to best practices<br />For companies to better come to grips with this security landscape, Ducklin suggests they provide a platform where users and employees can turn to report suspicious information-gathering attempts. Such systematic efforts to learn about a company or user can be more easily spotted and picked up on with the platform, he said.<br /><br />Call center staff should also be trained to be firm without being rude when dealing with a caller they are unable to identify and who asks questions they are not comfortable in answering, he added. Employees should not answer the questions, but take down the caller’s details and call them back after checking their identities. Those who do not provide contact details tend not to be trusted, he said.<br /><br />Michael Sutton, vice president of Security Research at Zscaler ThreatLabZ, called on users to exercise better security practices to protect themselves too.<br /><br />Citing Honan’s case as an example, Sutton said: “While Apple, Google, and others can always implement tighter controls, had Mat followed best practices, this attack would not have been as successful as it was, if at all. Data obtained from one account opened the door to another–never a good idea.”</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>

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