The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the "Year of the Hack" or "Epic Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for...

Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses

Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses Company that was attacked earlier this week by Anonymous Hackers, again yesterday by leaking 75,000 names, credit cards, addresses and passwords of every customer of STRATFOR's and about 860,000 usernames, emails and passwords for anyone that has...

Kuwait Government will suspend Twitter accounts of Anonymous Users

Kuwait Government will suspend Twitter accounts of Anonymous Users In Kuwait, the Ministry of Interior is in the process of enforcing a rule of their own on Twitter which prevents Kuwaiti users from using anonymous accounts. The ministry said in a press statement that such measure comes in order ...

Specialforces.com Says Hack Of Customer Data Is Six Months Old

Just days after a successful attack on the security think tank Stratfor, Anonymous, the anarchic hacking collective, is getting headlines again for an attack on Specialforces.com, a Web site used by members of the armed forces law enforcement officers and gun enthusiasts. However, an employee...

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked Sensitive information about the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and other New Zealand agencies can be the next target after US host was hacked. US intelligence firm Stratfor had its website hacked by activist group Anonymou...

2011: Wait, What?

The security industry can be a giant repetitive, follow-the-loser echo chamber of unoriginal thoughts, familiar flaws and copycat theories. But if ever there was a year in which folks could stand back and look at what’s gone on and say, what in the hell just happened, 2011 was it. So rather than...

Anonymous Hacks Security Think Tank STRATFOR

Hackers with Anonymous have struck a well-known security and intelligence think tank based in Texas and made off with some 200 GB of credit card data and other information. Members of the loosely-affiliated collective announced the attack on STRATFOR on Twitter. Among the items reportedly pilfere...

ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released

ANONdroid v. 00.00.008 : JonDonym proxy client for Android released ANONdroid is a JonDonym proxy client for Android smartphones. This nice piece of software is under ongoing development by the AN.ON project of the university Dresden. Project leader is Dr. Stefan Köpsell. ANONdroid uses the core...

Stratfor hacked by Anonymous Hackers for #AntiSec

Stratfor hacked by Anonymous Hackers for AntiSec Stratfor who provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs just now has been defaced by Anonymous Group of Hackers. Mirror of Hack is available here. Lulzsec Leader, SABU tweeted that "Over 90,000...

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group

Corporate fraud vs Anonymous Analytics Group A new financial research group, Anonymous Analytics has released a report accusing Chinese firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture of "11 years of deceit and corporate fraud". The company is one of China's largest fruit and vegetable suppliers. A faction within...

What will 2012 bring? We can't know for sure

Stuxnet and the specter of sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks were still dominating the news a year ago, as 2010 ended and we welcomed the New Year. Soon enough, however, there would be a new phenomenon to contend with: hacktivists. As the attack on HBGary Federal and Sony showed, faceless...

Alleged Anonymous Affiliate Accused of DDoS on Gene Simmons Site Arrested

An alleged member of the Anonymous hacker collective was arrested Tuesday in connection with an attack on the Website of KISS front-man and reality television star Gene Simmons. Reuters identifies the suspect as a 24 year-old Connecticut man named Kevin George Poe. Poe is accused of orchestrating...

Coalition of Law Enforcement Hacked & Agents Information Leaked

Coalition of Law Enforcement Hacked & Agents Information Leaked The Official Website of Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail Hacked by Exphin1ty, Claiming himself from Anonymous Team. The Database has been hacked using SQL Injection on the website. Passwords, Email ID's, Address & Phone Number...

President of Guyana's Website defaced by Hackers

President of Guyana's Website defaced by Hackers The Official Website of President of Guyana's Website defaced by some hackers belongs to Group called "The Hackers Army" ."To the ignorant observer Israel may appear modern, vigorous and democratic largely thanks to the outrageous bias in Western...

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked !

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked ! Hackers of Team Sector 404 have breached the Spanish Web site for the United Nations Refugee Agency ACNUR. Group claims to be working with Anonymous. Hackers was able to breach site with SQL Injection vulnerability. They leaked...

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked !

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked ! Hackers of Team Sector 404 have breached the Spanish Web site for the United Nations Refugee Agency ACNUR. Group claims to be working with Anonymous. Hackers was able to breach site with SQL Injection vulnerability. They leaked...

OpenSSH >= 2.3.0 AllowTcpForwarding Port Bouncing

According to its banner, the remote host is running OpenSSH, version 2.3.0 or later. Such versions of OpenSSH allow forwarding TCP connections. If the OpenSSH server is configured to allow anonymous connections e.g. AnonCVS, remote, unauthenticated users could use the host as a proxy. C Tenable,...

Serv-U FTP Server - Jail Break

I m better than TESO! CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE MATERIALS! ---------------------------------------------------- Serv-U FTP Server Jail Break 0day Discovered By Kingcope Year 2011 ---------------------------------------------------- Affected: 220 Serv-U FTP Server v7.3 ready... 220 Serv-U FTP Server v7....

#OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN

OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to the people. TeaMp0isoN toda...

#OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN

OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to the people. TeaMp0isoN toda...