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Hackers leak Citigroup CEO’s personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests
Hackers leak Citigroup CEO‘s personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street demo. The hackers said in a statement […]
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iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes
iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer researchers from […]
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Artillery 0.1 alpha – New tool for Linux Protection by ReL1K
Artillery 0.1 alpha – New tool for Linux Protection by ReL1K A new Tool “Artillery” – for Linux Protection has been Released by ReL1K (Founder DerbyCon, Creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit). It’s written in Python and completely open-source. Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, file monitoring and integrity, alerting, and brute force prevention tool. […]
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Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars
Pperation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man,Christopher Chaney and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe dubbed “Operation Hackerazzi”. Twitter was ablaze earlier today with messages claiming to link to […]
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Sony admits another 93000 PSN/SOE accounts just got hacked
Earlier this year Sony suffered major embarrassment and the wrath of its customers when the PlayStation Network got hacked. 77 million accounts were stolen, and Sony was forced to take its servers offline, do a system reset, and get everyone to select new passwords. Eventually PSN came back online with Sony’s promise of new security […]
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Sony hacked again – 93,000 accounts compromised with brute-force attack
Sony hacked again – 93,000 accounts compromised with brute-force attack Sony has warned users against a massive bruteforce attack against PlayStation and Sony network accounts. The attack – which used password and user ID combinations from an unidentified third-party source – succeeded in compromising 60,000 PlayStation Network and 33,000 Sony Online Entertainment network accounts. These […]
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REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware
REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering MalwareREMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser. REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part […]
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Hash Code Cracker V 1.2 Released ~ Password Cracking from BreakTheSecurity
Hash Code Cracker V 1.2 Released ~ Password Cracking from BreakTheSecurity BreakTheSecurity is proud to release the Hash Code Cracker Version 1.2. Our latest release supports Online Cracking function.Description:This password cracker is developed for PenTesters and Ethical hackers. Please Use this software for legal purposes(Testing the Password Strength).Features:This software will crack the MD5, SHA1,NTLM(Windows Password) […]
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Open Source Awards 2011 launched – “Recognizing excellence in open source”
Open Source Awards 2011 launched – “Recognizing excellence in open source” The ‘Packt Open Source Awards 2011’ have been announced. Formerly the Open Source CMS Award, the contest has been running since 2006 and, according to a press release sent to .net, is “regarded as one of the most established platforms for recognising excellence amongst […]
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Second LulzSec hacker ‘Neuron’ could be tracked down via UK VPN …
LulzSec: members allegedly used the HideMyA$$ proxy service to disguise their IP addresses At least one more member of the hacking group LulzSec, known online as “Neuron”, may be arrested if traced by their use of a British anonymous VPN (virtual private network) proxy service, following a similar arrest last week. Hackers have already expressed […]