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Friday, August 27, 2010

Is Ankit Fadia really a Hacker ?

There are only few people in the hacking field who have never heard about Ankit Fadia ,the so called self declared  “India’s Best Ethical Hacker” ,There are lot of arguments and facts against him , Some people says  he is not a HACKER he is just a good businessman who knows how to make fool of the peoples . The thing that made him so much famous is only Media coverage nothing else. Now lets talk about Fadia's  claims and some facts about him .

Monday, August 23, 2010

Computer Hacking with CyberGATE

In this article I am going to discuss about a Remote Administrative tool CyberGate .CyberGate is a powerful, fully configurable and stable Remote Administration Tool .It was built to be a tool for various  possible applications, ranging from assisting Users with routine maintanence tasks, to remotely monitoring your Children, captures regular user activities and maintain a backup of your typed data automatically. It can also be used as a monitoring device for detecting unauthorized access. CyberGate achieves this though it's abundant array of features. A few of which are illustrated below .

India arrests hacker who exposed EVM vulnerability

Hari Prasad , a Computer Scientist and Security Researcher (Hacker ) has been arrested by police in Hyderabad . Hari Prasad is the same person  who exposed weakness in India's Computerized Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that could allow corrupt politicians to steal votes . According to the reports Prasad is arrested because he refused to disclose an anonymous source who provided an electronic voting machine.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Persistent XSS (Cross-site scripting) in Mail.com

Mail.com Media Corp. is an American digital media company controlled and operated by Jay Penske.The company owns and operates Mail.com, a free email service with over 14,434,646 registered accounts that competes with Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, and also serves as a news and topical web portal.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Vijay Mallya Website Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army

Official website of Vijay Mallya http://mallyainparliament.in/ was hacked by a Pakistan based group called Pak Cyber Army .The hackers have left three Pakistan flags on the website - www.mallyaparliament.in Mallya's office has now reported the matter to the Karnataka Police. The site has now been restored to normal . Here are the snaps of the site when hacked . And a video about Times Now report on Malllya site Defacing .

Indian Hackers Celebrate Independence day 1000+ Pakistani Websites Hacked

This Independence day was  a nightmare for some of the webmasters and website owners  of both India and Pakistan .  There has been cyber attacks on the websites of both India and Pakistan . A lot of websites were hacked and defaced . The attack was started by Pakistani hackers defacing some Indian websites on 14th August (Independence day of Pakistan ) , this was followed by counter attack from Indian Hackers .

Friday, August 13, 2010

Chinese Hackers Hijack Gmail

Chinese Internet users indicate that when Gmail is accessed, users are auto-forwarded to a replica site at a different address (http://124.117.227.201/web/gmail/) where they're asked to enter or re-enter their account information. users connect to this non-Google owned site if they use Google's browser toolbar or simply enter the address "www.gmail.com.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Independence day and Indo -Pak Hackers

Two hostile Asian countries Pakistan and  India will be cerebrating their independence day on 14th and15th august respectively. This will be a joyful moment for the citizens of both the countries. Except the webmaster and website owners of these countries as hackers of both the countries will also be celebrating this independence day in their own style.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

SMS Trojan Attacks Android Phones

First sms trojan called SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a has attacked the Google Android phones . It has already infected a number of mobile devices, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. once installed,this Trojan sends out SMS text messages without the users' knowledge or consent.

Monday, August 9, 2010

How to obtain a Root Shell via Metasploit

In this video, redmeat_uk demonstrates how to obtain a root shell from Metasploitable, a VMware machine of vulnerable applications and services. This example will demonstrate how to obtain a root shell via Metasploit auxiliary modules and the MySQL client

Saturday, August 7, 2010

XSS in Yahoo groups

XSS vulnerability in yahoo group , this video below show how xss and html scripts could be injected in yahoo groups .

Friday, August 6, 2010

India to make Cyber Army of Ethical Hackers.

No doubt this is a late step , Government of India has finally decided to build a network of ethical hackers to spy on the classified data of hostile nations by hacking into their computer systems Information Technology professionals and ethical hackers will be  hired for this  purpose .IT workers and ethical hackers who sign up for the ambitious project will be protected by law, says the proposal being discussed by senior government administrators.

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