Chinese Hackers DDos Wordpress.com

Wordpress.com was under severe DDos attack yesterday .  This has been the largest Distributed Denial of Service Attack in the history with multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second . Today morning Wordpress.com said they have recovered from the attack and finally stabilizing its service .

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Iran Cyber Army Hacks Voice of America

Iran Cyber Army has Hacked into US Government controlled broadcasting agency Voice of America. Hackers replaced the landing page with their own page .The Voice of America is the official external radio and television broadcasting service of the United States .

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44 000 Mozilla Passwords Leaked

Around 44 000 usernames and passwords associated with the accounts registered on Mozilla add ons websites were  made public accidentally The partial database of user accounts was mistakenly left on a Mozilla public server . Mozilla says there is nothing to panic as they were accessed by no one except a security researcher who found them .

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How to Trace IP address from Gmail ,Yahoo ,Hotmail

If you deal with Computer Security and Penetration testing , you must be knowing the importance on IP address . To perform any kind of penetration testing or hacking you first need to know the IP address . Here I am going to discuss how to obtain IP address from Gmail , Yahoo and Hotmail .

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7 Ways to Protect your Orkut Profile from Bom Sabado

Another XSS worm has attacked Google's Social Networking site Orkut . This time the worm is Bom Sabado . This virus Bom Sabado attacked Orkut this morning .“Bom sabado” is a Portuguese world it means “Good Saturday” in English.

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Top 10 Security Threats of 2010

OWASP has released the list of top 10 web security threats of 2010 . The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to the enhancement of all kinds of web and computer security . These are the threats which has caused the maximum damage to cyber world in 2010 . Here are these security risks .

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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 .

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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XSS in Yahoo groups

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

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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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How to scan for open ports using netcat and superscan

Most of the times there is a need to know the open ports for the analysis of system security . A attacker can get into your system through the open ports . To fix it you need to know which ports are open , so than you can take the necessary steps . Here is how you can check those open ports using netcat , superscan and strobe applications .

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Google engineer unveils bug that attacks Windows XP

Google engineer Tavis Ormandy has exposed the bug that attacks the Windows XP systems. Now he is finding himself under trouble over making the bug public just five days after informing Microsoft about the vulnerability.Microsoft is now investigating the issue and is expected to release a fix for it relatively soon.

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