The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE

The Hacker News Magazine September Issue - NO ONE IS SECURE Well folks, after this issue and the obvious intensity of the insecurity of the net, I have a few thoughts on the unfettered access to knowledge. It is more than apparent we all live in a time where the extensive dissemination of opinion...

Biggest ISP in Kuwait Qualitynet Side-Server Database Leaked

Biggest ISP in Kuwait Qualitynet Side-Server Database Leaked AnonKuwait claim to hack the Biggest ISP in Kuwait "Qualitynet " and leaked 14MB of data in sql format server-side database. Penetration of one of Qualitynet servers working for Ministry of Education having a database containing high...

8 China Website Government Defaced By Bekasi0d0nk (Indonesian Hacker)

8 China Website Government Defaced By Bekasi0d0nk Indonesian Hacker Bekasi0d0nk an Indonesian Hacker deface and Hack 8 China Government websites. Hacked sites list : https://www.bzcg.gov.cn/66.html https://www.ahgjj.gov.cn/66.html https://sggl.gov.cn/66.html https://www.bzcg.gov.cn/66.html...

100 Million Member LinkedIn Drives Into Privacy Ditch, Hits Reverse

LinkedIn is responding to user complaints about its new social advertising model, which asked its 100 million users to ‘opt-out’ if they didn’t want advertisers to pair their message with content – including photographs – from users’ profiles. In a blog post on Thursday, Ryan Roslansky, the...

Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk

Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk A Android user complain that , All passwords are stored in plane text on Disk via a message on discussion board of Android. He said "The password for email accounts is stored into the SQLite DB which in turn stores it on the phone's file system i...

Stevens Institute of Technology database leaked by p0keu for #Antisec

Stevens Institute of Technology database leaked byp0keu for Antisec Stevens Institute of Technology database leaked by Anonymous - p0keu for Antisec on pastebin, the leaks are a MySQL database and a cms database, usernames/passwords, this leak comes from the same source as the 4 random leaks and...

NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked !

NATO Server Hacked by1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked ! Team Inj3ct0r 1337day claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty...

U.S. Playing Catch Up in Security for Contactless Devices

AMHERST, MASS.– The U.S. may boast the world’s largest economy, richest technology companies and a lion’s share of its top research universities. But when it comes to the subject of security of RFID Radio Frequency ID and other contactless technologies, America is still playing catch-up. The U.S....

ThePiratebay removes 50 Days Of Lulz

ThePiratebay removes 50 Days Of Lulz Yesterday Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done.The group confirmed its retirement. With this they also Released a Torrent file : https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50DaysofLulz...

Experts Converge at RFIDsec to Discuss NFC Security Implications

RFID security problems have been biting at the ankles of users and companies that deploy the technology for several years now, but they’ve been mostly on the fringes of mainstream security concerns. But now, as the technology becomes more widespread and pervasive, that is beginning to change...

Black Ice Cover Page ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download

Blackice Cover Page SDK insecure method DownloadImageFileURL exploit arg1="http://www.google.com/robots.txt" arg2="C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\robots.txt" target.DownloadImageFileURL arg1 ,arg2 MSF Module $Id: blackicecoverpagedownload.rb 12540 2011-06-20...

WebFileExplorer 3.6 - 'user' / 'pass' SQL Injection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48233/info WebFileExplorer is prone to multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to compromise the application, acce...

PlayStation Network Full Restoration by End of Week, Except in Japan

More than a month after suffering an “external intrusion” that shut down the PlayStation Network PSN, Sony announced today that it will fully restore PSN services by the end of the week in most countries. However, PSN users in Sony’s native Japan will have to wait, as the Japanese government awai...

Report: Facebook To Offer Bounties For Bugs

Social networking giant Facebook will soon begin paying security researchers for information on vulnerabilities in its platform, according to a report from the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam. Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan told Softpedia that the company would so...

Hacking Demo On Facebook Photos Leads To Arrest and Privacy Questions

A public demonstration of a weakness in Facebook’s account security has attracted the attention of law enforcement in Australia and raised questions about the ability of social networks to protect user data. Security researcher Christian Heinrich conducted a brute force attack against the Faceboo...

Japan Keeps PlayStation Network Dark, Citing Security Concerns

Sony’s PlayStation Network began a gradual restoration process on Saturday following a hack that brought about nearly a month of downtime. But in Sony’s home country of Japan, an official says the government will keep the network dark until it is convinced that the company has taken adequate step...

Apple, Google to Testify at Smart Phone Tracking Hearing

After a bruising series of revelations about location tracking features on mobile devices running their operating systems, Apple and Google will send executives to Capitol Hill to talk to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law about cell phone privacy. Guy L. “Bud”...

Bin Laden's Hideout On Google The Whole Time?

UPDATED: Osama bin Laden may have been the U.S.’s most wanted fugitive for the last decade, but his comfortable mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan was there for all to see – providing they had Google Earth and knew where to look. In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise...

Dozens of SCADA Exploits, Proof-of-concept Code Published

Exploits for scores of vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisition software SCADA were made public on Monday, according to a report by The Register. 34 holes were published on Seclists.org’s Bugtraq mailing list for programs by Siemens, Iconics, 7-Technologies, Datac and Control...

RSA 2011: Winning the War But Losing Our Soul

There was lots of noise and distraction on the crowded Expo floor of the RSA Security Conference this year. After a grueling couple of years, vendors were back in force with big booths, big news and plenty of entertainment designed to attract visitor traffic. Wandering the floor, I saw – variousl...