Hotmail New Features, Targeting Graymail

Microsoft's new Hotmail features are designed to remove clutter from users' email inboxes. Microsoft is tweaking Hotmail, aiming to remove endemic clutter from its users’ inboxes. These new tweaks, which are scheduled to roll out in coming weeks, target what the company called “graymail,” which include newsletters plus updates from social networks and Websites.
Hotmail’s latest graymail-killing features include a new newsletter-filtering function, which is paired with a one-click ability to have Hotmail tell various companies you no longer want to receive their daily or weekly email. (Hotmail will also eliminate that company’s emails currently residing in your inbox.)
“Despite the drastic decrease of true spam in the inbox, we found that most customers are still seeing newsletters, product offers, and other clutter,” Dick Craddock, group program manager for Hotmail, wrote in an Oct. 3 posting on The Windows Blog. “In fact, 75 percent of email identified as spam by our customers actually turns out to be unwanted graymail that they receive as a result of having signed up on a legitimate website.”
Hotmail’s other new features include a Schedule Cleanup, which will eliminate email from a specific address after three, ten, thirty or sixty days. A revamped flagging system automatically sorts important messages to the top of the inbox, and Custom Categories offer a way to personalize email sorting.
Over the past few quarters, Microsoft has worked to improve Hotmail on several different fronts. In July the company announced new security features designed to track down compromised user accounts and make passwords more secure, along with making it easier for users to reclaim their compromised accounts.
Microsoft’s “all in” cloud strategy has placed it on a head-on collision course with Google. In addition to Hotmail, Microsoft’s other consumer and business cloud services continue to battle the search-engine giant on several fronts, including search (Bing vs. Google’s core search franchise) and productivity (Office 365 vs. Google Apps).
Of course, the cloud comes with its own unique issues. Microsoft has wrestled with some outages for its cloud services over the past few months, including a significant one on the night of Sept. 8 that managed to knock out Hotmail, SkyDrive and other Live properties for a few hours.

-News Source (The Windows Blog & eWeek)

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Outlook.com -A New Email Service Introduced By Microsoft

Outlook.com -A New Email Service Introduced By Microsoft  

After successfully revamping it's popular mail service Hotmail through it's look and features with the name of 'Newmail', now the software giant Microsoft has launched a new email service that shares the name of its famed email software, Outlook. Outlook.com is accessible as a preview now, and anyone can sign up for an account. If you already have a Hotmail or Live email address, you can convert that to an Outlook.com address in the settings now. The old Hotmail/Live address remains active--users will still get mail sent to the old addresses--unless you explicitly choose to delete it. The interface is based on Metro, the user interface you see in Windows Phone and the upcoming Windows 8. This means you get a clean, uncluttered design and simple icons familiar to anyone who has used a Nokia Lumia smartphone. Microsoft is not requiring everyone that has a Hotmail account to switch to the new address, but it seems the plan is to eventually have everyone move over.

Research firm comScore says Hotmail has 41 million monthly unique visitors; AOL, 24 million. That makes them the No. 3 and No. 4 e-mail providers in the U.S., behind Yahoo Mail, with 84 million unique visitors, and Gmail, 68 million. Worldwide, more than 324 million people still use Hotmail monthly, making it the top provider globally. But Hotmail's user base is on the decline.

Like many email clients, you get a list of folders on the left navigation bar. What's interesting is the Quick Views dropdown below the folders, which lets you filter certain kinds of email. By default, it filters emails with documents or photos, flagged messages and those that give you shipping updates. That last one will be useful for those who frequently shop online and are always expecting packages. These categories can be customized to suit your needs.

With Outlook.com, you can also turn on a reading pane that lets you read the message either below or on the right of the email list. As a security measure, it shows a blank message by default, and not the first one in your inbox--you have to explicitly click on a message to show it, reducing the risk of being exposed to malicious emails by accident.

On the far right is an advertisement column. This shows a random selection, unlike Gmail, which uses targeted ads based on the content of your email messages. 

To find out more about the features and design of Outlook.com it will be best if you try it out yourself, just visit www.outlook.com and sign up for an account, or simply switch your current Hotmail/Live email to an Outlook.com one.

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Microsoft Fixed The Password Reset Vulnerability in Hotmail

Microsoft Fixed The Password Reset Vulnerability in Hotmail  

Recent security issue I mean the 0-day vulnerability on hotmail, which was allowing users to reset passwords remotely has been fixed. The vulnerability existed in Hotmail's password reset feature. Hackers were able to use a Firefox add-on called Tamper Data to intercept the outgoing HTTP request following a password reset request and modify the data, locking out the account holder and gaining access to their inbox.

 Microsoft security team said in a tweet on Friday that it had "addressed a reset function incident to help protect Hotmail customers", and that no further action was needed on the customer's part. "The vulnerability allows an attacker to reset the Hotmail/MSN password with attacker chosen values. Remote attackers can bypass the password recovery service to setup a new password and bypass in place protections (token based) … Successful exploitation results in unauthorised MSN or Hotmail account access," the researchers wrote on Thursday. Although public disclosure only came on Thursday, reports had already been circulating of the flaw's exploitation.  The WhiteC0de blog noted a week ago that the exploit had "spread like wildfire across the hacking community", with victims losing money and, in some cases, valuable usernames. The Whitec0de report also noted rumours of a separate "critical vulnerability" in Hotmail that is also being exploited by hackers, but stressed that there was no evidence yet of these rumours' veracity.

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XSS on Hotmail highlights personal e-mail risk to business

A vulnerability in the Hotmail site has enabled hackers to steal an unknown number of messages from users' accounts, according to security firm Trend Micro.The attack highlight the underrated and often-ignored risk of allowing employees to check their personal e-mail accounts at work, the company says. Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a common security vulnerability in web applications that enables attackers to inject client-side script into web pages viewed by other users, but rarely found in prominent sites such as Hotmail. The vulnerability enabled hackers to display a message that looked like a Facebook notification warning the victim's account had been accessed from a new location. Embedded in the message was a script that forwarded the victim's e-mail messages to the hackers. The attack would launch if the victim was logged into Hotmail and either read or previewed the booby-trapped fake Facebook warning message. "The script triggers a request that is sent to the Hotmail server. The said request sends all of the affected user's e-mail messages to a certain e-mail address," Trend Micro said in a blog post. The attack exploits a script or a CSS filtering mechanism bug in Hotmail (CVE-2011-1252), which Microsoft has fixed in an update to Hotmail.

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'Newmail' -Microsoft Revamped & Renamed Hotmail To Rival Gmail

'Newmail' -Microsoft Revamped & Renamed Hotmail To Rival Gmail

While aiming to bring back millions of users software giant Microsoft is reportedly revamping its popular mail service Hotmail through it's look and features and preparing to re-launch it with the name of 'Newmail'. According to Daily mail- Microsoft is doing so to compete Google's Gmail service which has reached on the second position after Hotmail. It has reached up to 350-million users which was only 260 million in last October while Hotmail has some 360-millions. Microsoft has claimed it has a 'fluid and interactive design', which is expressly designed to work well on mobile devices such as phones or tablets. Newmail is understood to have a 'clean look' when it comes to the font that has been used for the labels in the inbox, which resembles its Google adversary. Newmail will initially be available on an opt-in basis to existing Hotmail customers, but Microsoft has not ruled out making it compulsory in future. The new email service will also be linked to Facebook and Twitter and will allow users to keep their contacts automatically in sync and see what their friends are doing on the service. The new name Newmail, however, appears to be just the title for the service and users will still have @hotmail email addresses.

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New Hacking Alert System Introduced By Hotmail

Microsoft on Thursday introduces a hacking alert system to its Windows Live Hotmail email service alongside banning common passwords. "When someone's account gets hijacked, their friends often find out before they do, because the hijacker uses their account to send spam or phishing email to all their contacts," said Microsoft in a blog post.

The new security feature adds a "My friend's been hacked!" option in the "mark as" menu in Hotmail and also enables users to report hacked accounts via the junk mail filing screen. Then an alert will be sent to Microsoft, which will "make sure the account can no longer be used by spammers and activates an account recovery process to allow the owner to take back control the accounts." Users can report any email account as compromised and Hotmail will provide the information to other email providers like Yahoo! and Gmail, said the blog. Meanwhile, Microsoft said Hotmail will roll out a feature to prevent users from choosing commonly used and weak passwords, such as "123456," "ilovecats" and "gogiants." Users who currently use a weak password will be asked to change to a stronger one in the future.

Hotmail, first launched in July 1996, is one of the first free email providers, and was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated 400 million U.S. dollars. According to statistics released by comScore last August, Hotmail was then the world's largest web-based email service with around 364 million users, followed by Yahoo! Mail (280 million) and Gmail (191 million).

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Spear phishing attacks spread to Hotmail and Yahoo Mail

Security researchers have uncovered a new set of targeted phishing attacks on users of the Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail services.
Trend Micro is reporting a set of targeted attacks which the company believes are part of a larger campaign to compromise systems and access user data. The company said that the attacks included both malicious file attachments, as well as attempts to exploit flaws in the webmail services themselves to harvest user credentials. Trend Micro senior threat researcher Nart Villeneuve told V3.co.uk that the attackers attempted to exploit cross-site scripting (CSS) flaws in both platforms, as well as use specially-crafted Word documents containing malware. In the case of Yahoo Mail, however, things did not go quite as planned.
"They were trying to exploit a CSS vulnerability in Yahoo Webmail to steal the cookies, so they could have access to that session, but their code didn't actually work," he explained.
Trend's report comes just days after Google reported a series of attacks on its Gmail service, which targeted the accounts of both government officials and political activist groups.
Villeneuve said that while there was similarity in the attacks, the company could not find evidence directly linking the Hotmail and Yahoo Mail operations to the Gmail incident.
In a statement provided to V3.co.uk, Microsoft safety services general manager John Scarrow said that the company did not find any evidence that Hotmail was being targeted by the operation.
"Microsoft is not aware of any Hotmail customers being targeted by the specific phishing attacks that occurred earlier this week," Scarrow said.
"However, phishing attacks and other forms of abuse are a persistent industry challenge."
At the time of publication, Yahoo had yet to respond to a request for comment on the report.
To help prevent users from falling victim to targeted attacks, Villeneuve suggested that users keep a careful eye on emails which claim to be from colleagues. He noted that clues such as grammatical errors and unusual data requests will often give away a phishing attempt.
"Once users are aware that these attacks do happen they can look for things that don't exactly make sense," he said.
"Little tricks like that can help users initially decide to treat an email with a little bit of suspicion."

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Microsoft Updates Hotmail with more Signature Options & Keyboard Shortcuts

It's not as titillating as the time Microsoft added conversation view to Hotmail, but the outfit didjust freshen up its email service with a handful of helpful tweaks. Topping the list is an assortment of shortcuts, including the ability to right click a message to reply, reply all, or forward (you could already do this for other things, like marking something as unread). Hotmail also now responds to some additional Gmail- and Yahoo Mail-specific keyboard shortcuts, such as "#" for deleting messages -- a Gmail trick. And the company is none too subtle about admitting it wants the service to be user-friendly for folks if -- or when -- they switch from Google or Yahoo. Rounding out the batch of improvements, you get an easy way to recover deleted emails, an improved back button, HTML5-fueled speed improvements, and the option of changing your default font signature -- something we can't believe Hotmail has been missing until now. Hit the source link for the full spill, and find a short demo video after the break. 

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National Telecommunication Authority of Nepal Hacked By w3bdf4c3r & n3ll4!h4ck3r

National Telecommunication Authority of Nepal hacked by w3bdf4c3r & n3ll4!h4ck3r. According to the hacker there was SQL-i vulnerability on their site, using that they hacked the entire Database exposed including admin details 

Website:- 

www.nta.gov.np

Vulnerable Link:-  
www.nta.gov.np/en/aboutus/index.php?id=7

 

Exposed DB & Admin Credentials:-

##############ADMIN DETAILS#####################
USERNAME : Administrator
PASSWORD : cWccBbcbcLPCAYtMBA+c9jz6Q/Gvgn5FEPWxuwewFwY

##############SERVER DETAILS####################
web server operating system: Linux Debian or Ubuntu 6.0 (unstable sid or testing squeeze)
web application technology: Apache 2.2.16
back-end DBMS: MySQL 5.0

available databases [2]:
[*] dbase_nta
[*] information_schema

#########DATABASE NAMES############
Database: dbase_nta
[29 tables]
+----------------------+
| ajaxim_chats         |
| ajaxim_users         |
| poll_answers         |
| poll_options         |
| poll_questions       |
| tblaboutus           |
| tbladmin             |
| tblarticles          |
| tblemailtemplate     |
| tblemployee          |
| tblflashnews         |
| tblgroup             |
| tblindustry          |
| tbllicenselist       |
| tbllink              |
| tbllinktype          |
| tblmenu              |
| tblmisreport         |
| tblnewsnevents       |
| tblperformanceform   |
| tblperformancereport |
| tblpublicnotice      |
| tblsettings          |
| tblsitecontent       |
| tblsitedefinition    |
| tblsubscriber        |
| tblsuccessstory      |
| tbltestimonials      |
| tblwhatsnew          |
+----------------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: tbladmin
[8 columns]
+--------------------+-------------+
| Column             | Type        |
+--------------------+-------------+
| account_created_on | datetime    |
| admin_id           | int(11)     |
| fullname           | varchar(90) |
| last_logged_on     | datetime    |
| logged_times       | int(11)     |
| password           | varchar(90) |
| user_type          | int(11)     |
| username           | varchar(90) |
+--------------------+-------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: tbladmin
[7 entries]
+---------------+
| username      |
+---------------+
| Administrator |
| newadmin      |
| License       |
| skhatiwada    |
| employee      |
| shiva         |
| hiranya       |
+---------------+

Database: dbase_nta                                                                                                                                                                             
Table: tbladmin
[7 entries]
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| password                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| cWccBbcbcLPCAYtMBA+c9jz6Q/Gvgn5FEPWxuwewFwY=        |
| kDe+yWtg8ig1c7u/xUFGUNW346lxji9dULxj0zEgDpo=        |
| dbeHX/VJnZX/k1WWX1/PgNtQ9J3vOAH4wRbOknMZpmM=        |
| Cgvlz3lhqdQjnJme8mPyPbIz4aAcNrbcBrbG+qng10I=        |
| ktvKe8xBnYQSdYdCXXqsUe1NPdyxubXuDiZqZhOc8U8=        |
| b12d9c7d622fbf7c4d1ed40a3b13ada1ab342c5a (newworld) |
| tR2rHWvfuW1jUXZmetwRs+ggUx4D5ROXqBwOqG87Mos=        |
+-----------------------------------------------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: tbladmin
[7 entries]
+-------------------+
| fullname          |
+-------------------+
| Udaya Raj Regmi   |
| new admin         |
| License Section   |
| Sunil Khatiwada   |
| employee          |
| shiva ram         |
| HIiranya Bastkoti |
+-------------------+
Database: dbase_nta
Table: ajaxim_users
[7 columns]
+-----------+---------------------+
| Column    | Type                |
+-----------+---------------------+
| buddylist | text                |
| email     | text                |
| id        | bigint(20) unsigned |
| is_online | int(11)             |
| last_ping | text                |
| password  | text                |
| username  | text                |
+-----------+---------------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: ajaxim_users
[3 entries]
+-------------+
| username    |
+-------------+
| sumanshakya |
| testuser    |
| admin       |
+-------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: ajaxim_users
[3 entries]
+-----------------------+
| email                 |
+-----------------------+
| nqholder@hotmail.com  |
| test@test.com         |
| nqholdesr@hotmail.com |
+-----------------------+

Database: dbase_nta                                                                                                                                                                             
Table: ajaxim_users
[3 entries]
+-------------------------------------------+
| password                                  |
+-------------------------------------------+
| 0e02d54612f4e7e959aea25c5a43a2ea          |
| 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6 (test)   |
| 21218cca77804d2ba1922c33e0151105 (888888) |
+-------------------------------------------+



Database: dbase_nta
Table: tblemployee
[9 columns]
+----------------+---------------+
| Column         | Type          |
+----------------+---------------+
| department     | tinytext      |
| dt_appointment | date          |
| email          | varchar(200)  |
| emp_id         | int(11)       |
| fullname       | varchar(300)  |
| grp_id         | int(11)       |
| isenable       | enum('Y','N') |
| post           | text          |
| qualification  | text          |
+----------------+---------------+

Database: dbase_nta
Table: tblemployee
[5 entries]
+------------------+
| fullname         |
+------------------+
| Shakya

Suman |
| ss               |
| Suman Shakya     |
| Sam Shrestha     |
| Suresh Shrestha  |
+------------------+


Database: dbase_nta
Table: tblemployee
[5 entries]
+-------------------------+
| email                   |
+-------------------------+
| nqholder@hotmail.com    |
| suman.nta.com.np        |
| nqholder@hotmail.com    |
| sam@nta.com.np          |
| sureshthedude@gmail.com |
+-------------------------+

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Hotmail.com Compromised, Mail Servers Hacked by Th3 Dir3ctorY & ThEta.Nu

Hotmail.com compromised, mail servers of hotmail has been hacked by

Th3 Dir3ctorY & ThEta.Nu of Kosova Hacker's Security. This phenomena happens on the last night and still hotmail is down.  

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7K+ Israeli Credit Card Details Exposed By Kosovo Hackers Security (KHS)

Few days ago we have covered that hackers from Saudi Arabia named Group-XP has hacked more than 400K Israeli credit cards and they have openly posted on a pastebin release names, passwords, addresses, phone numbers and government ID numbers and so on. 0xOmar a hacker from Group-XP told "We decided to give the world a new year gift". Later Israel govt took this matter very seriously and vows to treat hackers like terrorists. But this threat of Govt. seems valueless to hackers. Today well known hacker group KHS aka Kosovo Hackers Security has did exactly same what Group-XP has done before. They have hacked more than 7000 Israeli credit cards.  Th3 Dir3ctorY, ThEtA.Nu, & X|CRIPO, three hackers from KHS openly posted all the credentials including full name of the card holder, CCV, card no, expiry date and so in tinypaste. Earlier this group has hacked many high profile websites including President of the Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine Govt. sites and many more. One of their major attack was taken place when hacker named Th3 Dir3ctorY has hacked the Hotmail server, and he managed to stop the entire Hotmail for more than 12 hrs. Today again they have proved their capability after leaking more than 7K credit card details. 

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Personal Data of 35,000 Israeli People Leaked By Kosovo Hackers Security (KHS)

Personal Data of 35,000 Israeli People Leaked By Kosovo Hackers Security (KHS)

More hackers taking part in the Israeli rampage dubbed Operation Israel. As soon as the story of bombing and air strike in Gaza get spotted on the social networks, we have seen immediate protest coming from almost every part of the world. In case of digital bombing, then it was first Anonymous who called Operation Israel, then hackers from different part of the world joined and contributed in this combined protest. So far we have seen along with Anon, Pakistani hacker Hitcher from Muslim Liberation Army, Indian hacker Godzilla have played vital role in this rampage. According to sources more than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday. Attempts on defense related sites have been the highest, while 10 million attempts have been made on the site of Israel's president, 7 million on the Foreign Ministry and 3 million on the site of the prime minister.

But its yet not over, many more to come, as another very popular hacker collective group named Kosovo Hackers Security (KHS) have taken part in #OpIsrael. At the very first phase of their attack Kosovo Hacker's Security Group has attacked many servers belongs to Israeli govt, corporate & other major sectors. Thus the hacker group has gathered documents of more that 35,000 Israeli people including full name, email-id, postal address, phone number, passwords, fax & so on. According to KHS those leaked data belongs to Israeli citizen, along with Govt employs, police and several other sensitive personalities. All those leaked data are made public by the hacker group and can be found in 1337.al. KHS leader & Hotmail hacker, Th3 Dir3ctorY vows to engage more cyber attack against Israel while saying "Israel is attacking Gaza without any proper reason, so if they don't stop doing that we will attack in the energy sector & nuclear area of Israel and we will attack Israel with very bad viruses..." Before this leak, earlier in this year KHS also exposed more than 7 thousand credit card details of Israeli people. Also this hacker group was behind several attacks against Ukraine, Greece, Hotmail, IBM and so on.

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Permanent Internet Ban in Iran, Govt Launching National Intranet Service

Permanent Internet Ban in Iran, Govt Launching National Intranet Service  

The Iran Government has announced its plans to establish a National Intranet within five months. As a result millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web (WWW) and cut off from popular social networking sites, email services & so on. The government is set to roll out the first phase of the project in May, following which Google, Hotmail and Yahoo services will be blocked and replaced with government Intranet services like Iran Mail and Iran Search Engine. At this stage, however, the World Wide Web, apart from the aforementioned sites, will still be accessible. Iran government has already started the registration procedure to apply for procuring Iran Mail ID, which mandates authentic information pertaining to a person's identity, including national ID, address and full name. Registration will be approved only after verifying it against the government data on the particular applicant. The second and final stage of the national Intranet will be launched in August, which will permanently deny Iranians access to the Internet. "All Internet Service Providers (ISP) should only present National Internet by August," Taghipour said in the statement. Iranian ISPs already face heavy penalties if they fail to comply with the government filter list. By establishing the Intranet, the government control is set to become stricter. Foreign sites can still be accessed over the Intranet provided they are mentioned in a "white list" set up by the government. The government is also believed to be planning for better control on proxy servers which allow users to access banned sites. Accordint to statement of Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced the setting up of a national Intranet and the effective blockage of services like Google, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo and Hotmail, in line with Iran's plan for a "clean Internet."

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Iran Accused of Carrying out Cyber Attacks Against US Banks Over Anti Islamic Movie Issue

Iran Accused of Carrying out Cyber Attacks Against US Banks Over Anti Islamic Movie Issue

Since last few days, the conspiracy with the 'Anti Islamic Movie' was the headline in every where. We have seen global violence and a mass protest mainly came from Muslim brotherhood. This protest was also touched the internet, and as expected Muslim hackers joined the movement, which cost many damages for the cyber fence. Thousands of websites became victim of cyber attack, and among them several US banks also faced huge disturbance. This protest takes a new direction when Govt of Iran announced the blockage of Google Inc's search engine and its email service. "Google and Gmail will be filtered throughout the country until further notice," an official identified only by his last name, Khoramabadi, said, without giving further details. The Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) said Google ban was connected to the anti-Islamic film posted on the company's YouTube site which has caused outrage throughout the Muslim world. 

This stand of Iran Govt created a controversy, which make them responsible for carrying out cyber attacks against US banks. According to NBC news report US National Security officials accused the Iranian government for engaging cyber attacks against US Banks mainly Bank of America. But when the ball goes to Iran's side then they completely denies the blame, while saying "We officially announce that we haven't had any attacks," This statement came from the Head of Iran's civil defense agency Gholam Reza Jalali when he was asked about the report. The western media reports alleged on Friday that Muslim hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc over the past year as part of a broad cyber campaign targeting the United States. Security sources told Chicago Tribune and NBC News that the attacks on the three largest US banks originated in Iran, but it is not clear if they were launched by the state, groups working on behalf of the government, or "patriotic" citizens. 

Here we want to refresh your memory while digging up a story, when Iran Govt decided a permanent Internet ban in Iran, where Iran Government has announced its plans to establish a National Intranet within five months. The Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced the setting up of a national Intranet and the effective blockage of services like Google, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo and Hotmail, in line with Iran's plan for a "clean Internet." And that five months is almost over, so may be the blockage of Google came due to that reason, or may be not. We suggest our readers that, it will be better if you ask yourself, that whether Iran was indeed responsible for the cyber attack or not??!!

-Source (Reuters, NBC & FARS News Agency)

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Brazilian ISP Under Massive DNS Poisoning Attack, Redirecting Users To Malicious Sites

Major Cyber Attack on Brazilian Internet Services Provider. The attackers are performing massive DNS poisoning attack to redirect their account holders into the malicious websites. 

According to Kaspersky's SecureList:-

"In the past few days several Brazilian ISPs have fallen victim to a series of DNS cache poisoning attacks. These attacks see users being redirected to install malware before connecting to popular sites. Some incidents have also featured attacks on network devices, where routers or modems are compromised remotely. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official statistics suggest the country has 73 million computers connected to the Internet, and the major ISPs average 3 or 4 million customers each. If a cybercriminal can change the DNS cache in just one server, the number of potential victims is huge.
Last week Brazil’s web forums were alive with desperate cries for help from users who faced malicious redirections when trying to access websites such as YouTube, Gmail and Hotmail, as well as local market leaders including Uol, Terra and Globo. In all cases, users were asked to run a malicious file as soon as the website opened..."'

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#ProjectWhiteFox -Team GhostShell Hacked 1.6 Million Accounts of NASA, ESA, Pentagon & FBI

#ProjectWhiteFox -Team GhostShell Hacked 1.6 Million Accounts of NASA, ESA, Pentagon & FBI

After the devastating "Project Blackstar" now the hacktivist group calling them selves "Team GhostShell" announced another big hack, where the hackers have targeted several big organizations. This round of cyber attack was going under the banner of #ProjectWhiteFox, in which GhostShell has posted log-in details of 1.6 million accounts they claim are taken from a series of attacks on organizations including NASA, FBI, European Space Agency and Pentagon, as well as many companies that partner with these organizations. The Anonymous subsidiary group has posted the details on Pastebin, while describing the aim of the hack; as part of their #ProjectWhiteFox campaign to promote hacktivism and freedom of information on the internet. The hacker group claimed that the leaked information contained log-in names, passwords, email addresses, CV & several other sensitive information. In their release GhostShell said - "For those two factors we have prepared a juicy release of 1.6 million accounts/records from fields such as aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education, government, military, all kinds of wacky companies & corporations working for the department of defense, airlines and more."

GhostShell members also said that they have messaged security bosses about the insecurity a number of organizations they targeted during attacks throughout 2012, describing it as "an early Christmas present." 

In a Pastebin file, GhostShell features a list of 37 organizations and companies, including The European Space Agency, NASA’s Engineers: Center for Advanced Engineering, and a Defense Contractor for the Pentagon. GhostShell sets itself apart from other hacktivist groups by targeting more than just one company or organization, and then releasing the results of its attack all at once. This set of hacks is spread out across 456 links, many of which simply contain raw dump files uploaded to GitHub and mirrored on paste sites Slexy.org and PasteSite.com.

The uploaded files contain what appears to be user data that looks to have been obtained from the servers of the various firms (likely via SQL injection). The entries include IP addresses, names, logins, email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and even home addresses. Email accounts include the big three (Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo), as well as many .gov accounts. There are also various documents and material related to partnerships between companies and government bodies, as well as sensitive information for the aforementioned industries. 

Furthermore, the group says it has sent an email to the ICS-CERT Security Operations Center, Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), Lessons Learned and Information Sharing (LLIS), the FBI’s Washington Division and Seattle location, Flashpoint Intel Partners, Raytheon, and NASA. In it, they say to have detailed “another 150 vulnerable servers from the Pentagon, NASA, DHS, Federal Reserve, Intelligence firms, L-3 CyberSecurity, JAXA, etc.”

-Source (TNW)

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Hackers Claimed - Google Under Cyber Attack (i-Google Server Down)

Hackers Claimed - Google Under Cyber Attack (i-Google Server Down) [#OpArmenianGenocide]

Few days ago Anonymous called Operation Armenian Genocide later another hacker group named Teamgreyhat has hacked more than 7K websites for this protest. But its not enough now hackers from Kosova Hackers Security and Teamgreyhat in association with hackers from Anonymous performed a DNS Distributed Denial of Service attack of i-Google Ireland on the 4th February. The hackers have claimed that they have hacked into a network of iGoogle , making it the most successful cyber attack. The Google Webmaster responded to the attack by shutting down part of its computer system from the office of Thomas Masood, the Google Defense Secretary. The network was taken down for over a week in order to determine the points of weakness.

It's been noted that hackers from various locations in Kosova, Albania, India, Portugal, Brazil and so on have spent months probing the Google system, and unfortunately succeeded in finding a vulnerability. The attackers also took responsibility to collapse the maximum bandwidth of i-google and later sent it offline for some time. Earlier hackers form KHS and TGH performed such similar attack on Hotmail and they sent the mail server offline for a log time. 

Press Release By The Hacker:- 

"Greeting World 
All you are aware of how cruel your Govt is behaving with us…… it’s been a decade past but still common people are suffering. Our question is what democracy we have achieved??? Still the fuckers are ruling the humanity and they have made the entire system a crap.  
I want to ask everyone, how much longer are we gonna let our governments control us? How many freedoms will have to be removed before we realize that this is not how man is supposed to live. And how much longer will we let our governments operate behind closed doors? The idea of a Government by the people for the people has died out and its time we fought for its resurrection 
Earlier we have raise our voice against injustice, inhumanity while blowing 12K websites all over the world for free education and free health to all our brothers and sister world wide. Later we again vows against ACTA and then 7K sites get penetrated by TGH 
But did we do a lot??? No not at all. Again we are standing against injustice, cruelty & inhumanity.  the govt wants to censor the entire WWW. So we decide yet again to stop them. As a result on the 4th February 2012 we sent offline  i-Google from the WWW.  
#OpArmenianGenocide Engaged
#OpMegaupload Engaged
#OpFreeEducation Free Health Engaged


We are KHS We are TGH
We are Warriors
We are Achilles of Cyber World
we do not forgive.
we do not forget.
to the governments of the world. 
you should have expected us. "

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FBI Draws Interest on Gmail Hacking

 

The computer phishing scam that Google says originated in China was directed at an unknown number of White House staff officials and set off the FBI inquiry that began this week, according to several administration officials. It is unclear how many White House staff members - or those of other departments in the executive branch - might have been targeted, according to two officials with knowledge of the investigation. But the intended victims ranged across different functions in the White House, and were not limited to those working on national security, economic policy or trade areas that would be of particular interest to the Chinese government.  Administration officials said they had no evidence any confidential information was breached, or even that many people fell for the attack by providing information that would allow a breach of their Gmail accounts. White House classified systems run on dedicated lines and information on those systems, the officials said, cannot be forwarded to Gmail accounts. But investigators are trying to determine if the attackers believed that some staff members or other officials used their personal email accounts for sensitive government communications.

"Right now," said one senior official, "that's a theory, not a fact."
Google disclosed the attack this week and said it targeted not only U.S. government officials, but also human right activists, journalists and South Korea's government. Google tracked the attack to Jinin, China, which is the home to a Chinese military school.
But that does not necessarily mean the attackers were Chinese or related to the government. The Chinese government denied any involvement.
The attack used emails that appeared to be tailored to their targets to better fool their victims, a technique known as spear phishing. Recipients were asked to click on a link to a phony Gmail login page that gave the hackers access to their personal accounts.
The attacks come as the U.S. government considers expanding its use of Web-based software for email, along with word processing, spreadsheets and other kinds of documents. Google is one of the many companies vying for the business with its Apps product, as is Microsoft . Web based email would be vulnerable to hackers who steal login information through phishing attacks. But Web-based systems are not necessarily any easier to hack than traditional email, which a government agency would usually manage using its own servers, said Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute, a computer security company in Traverse City, Mich.
Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said Thursday that all White House-related electronic mail was supposed to be conducted on work email accounts to comply with the Presidential Records Act, which governs how those communications are protected and archived. Carney said there was no evidence that any White House accounts were compromised.

White House employees are permitted to have private email accounts, he said, but cannot use them for work purposes. Officials at the White House and other agencies often keep two computers in their offices, one for unclassified work and another for classified. Very senior officials sometimes have a "secure facility" in their homes, in which computers and telephones are on dedicated lines and communications are encrypted.
Given its size, Google and its Gmail system will always make an attractive target.
Other personal email services, including Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail, have faced similar attacks, according to Trend Micro , a computer security company in Cupertino, Calif. "The types of attacks that are happening against Web mail users aren't confined to Gmail alone and extend to other email platforms," said Nart Villeneuve, a senior threat researcher for Trend Micro.

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Colombiaweb Server Rooted More Than 2K Websites Hacked By Teamgreyhat (TGH)

Well known hacker group Teamgreyhat strikes again. In this attack they have rooted the colombiaweb's web server and thus they hacked into more than 2000 websites. TGH released a pastebin notes where they have mentioned all the hacked sites and their message. If you dig the decent past you will find out that TGH has already made their unique reputation on the web. This black-hat group is specially expert is rooting servers. Earlier they have rooted Mochahost Web Server, Guyana Server, Theexpert Server, Malaysian Web-host, Cybertek Web-Server, 5gbfree.com and many more. Also one of their big blow was that they have hacked the Hotmail mail servers. Again this 2000 sites hacking proves the capabilities of TGH. 

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