Two Romanian Hackers Pleaded Guilty on Credit Card Hack & Faced 7 Years Imprisonment

Two Romanian Hackers Pleaded Guilty on Credit Card Hack & Faced 7 Years Imprisonment  

According to the U.S. Department of Justice two Romanian hacker- Iulian Dolan & Cezar Butu have pleaded guilty to participating in a US$10 million scheme to hack into the computers of hundreds of Subway restaurants in the U.S. and steal payment card data. Iulian Dolan, 28, of Craiova, Romania, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and Cezar Butu, 27, of Ploiesti, Romania, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, the DOJ confirmed. Dolan and Butu were two of four Romanians charged in December in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire with hacking Subway point-of-sale computers. In his plea agreement, Dolan has agreed to be sentenced to seven years, and Butu has agreed to be sentenced to 21 months in prison. The two men, in their guilty pleas, acknowledged participating in a Romanian-based conspiracy, lasting from 2009 to 2011, to hack into hundreds of U.S. point-of-sale (POS) computers. Co-conspirator Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea is in U.S. custody and awaiting trial in New Hampshire. The group used stolen payment card data to make unauthorized charges or to transfer funds from the cardholders' accounts, the scheme involved more than 146,000 compromised payment cards and more than $10 million in losses.  

During the conspiracy, Dolan remotely scanned the Internet to identify vulnerable POS systems in the U.S. with certain remote desktop software applications (RDAs) installed on them. Using these RDAs, Dolan logged onto the targeted POS systems over the Internet. The systems were often password-protected and Dolan attempted to crack the passwords to gain administrative access. 

He then installed keystroke logging software onto the POS systems and recorded all of the data that was keyed into or swiped through the POS systems, including customers' payment card data. Thus Dolan managed to steal payment card data belonging to approximately 6,000 cardholders. Dolan received $5,000 to $7,500 in cash and personal property from Oprea for his efforts.

In his plea agreement, Butu said he repeatedly asked Oprea to provide him with stolen payment card data and that Oprea provided him with instructions for how to access the website where Oprea had stored a portion of the stolen payment card data. Butu later attempted to use the stolen payment card data to make unauthorized charges on, or transfers of funds from, the accounts. He also attempted to sell, or otherwise transfer, the stolen payment card data to other co-conspirators. Butu acquired stolen payment card data from Oprea belonging to approximately 140 cardholders. 

While talking about Romanian Hackers then one name definitely comes in mind and that is Razvan Manole Cernaianu aka "TinKode" who get busted earlier in this year, on charges of hacking into Pentagon and NASA servers, stealing confidential data. Also last year another 26 year aged Romanian hacker faced imprisonment for hacking into NASA servers. 

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Russian Hacker 'Dmitry Zubakha' Arrested For DDoS Attacks on Amazon, eBay & Priceline

Russian Hacker 'Dmitry Zubakha' Arrested For DDoS Attacks on Amazon, eBay & Priceline

A twenty five years old hacker from Russia get arrested for allegedly perforimg two massive DDoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks on one of the most popular online shopping site Amazon.com and eBay in 2008. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha also known as "Cyber bandit" in most of the hacker's underground community was indicted in 2011, but he was just arrested in Cyprus on Wednesday. The arrest of Zubakha took place under an international warrant and  currently he is in custody pending extradition to the United States. According to the indictment unsealed on Thursday said- Zubakha, with the help of another Russian hacker planned and executed DDoS attacks against Amazon.com, eBay, and Priceline in the middle of 2008. Zubakha and his co-conspirator launched the attack with the help of a DDoS botnet to generate a large number of traffic which interrupts the normal service of those online shopping sites. According to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the attacks made it "difficult for Amazon customers to complete their business on line."

He has been charged by law enforcement for stealing more than 28,000 credit cards in 2009 for that reason, Zubakha and his partner are also charged with aggravated identity theft for illegally using the credit card of at least one person. At present the charges in the indictment conspiracy, intentionally causing damage toa protected computer resulting in a loss of more than $5000, possession of more than 15 unauthorized access devices (credit card numbers), and aggravated identity theft are just allegations. Zubakha faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy, up to teh years in prison and a $250,000 fine for intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine for possessing unauthorized access devices, and an additional two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. 

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Anonymous Hacker "Havittaja" Bring-down CIA & Department of Justice

Anonymous Hacker "Havittaja" Bring-down CIA & Department of Justice Website

Hacker from infamous Anonymous claimed to take down the official website of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) & Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Here also hackers followed their older tradition by engaging massive denial of service (DoS) attack to send the target offline. Due to large number of traffic CIA website was inaccessible for 45 mins. A Brazilian hacker code named "Havittaja" took responsibility of this attack by saying saying it was done for the "lulz", which refers to the popular online abbreviation "for laughs".

We have seen similar attack on CIA in last February, there also Anonymous took responsibility of that cyber attack and also claimed that this is yet another biggest denial of service attack of this year. We would also like to refresh your memory while saying not only Anonymous but also a hacker group named "CyberZeist" has revealed some classified information regarding the official website of CIA. He also exposed server details, DNS information, administrator login panel and so on. Even the hacker group leaked certain information about five undercover CIA agent's including real name, age, full postal address, banking details, credit card information, email-id & passwords. If you dig the history we will find that in 2011 Lulzsec hit CIA & SOCA with massive DDoS attack which immediately sent the website offline for a certain period of time.

If you talk about Department of Justice then we need to dig the 1st page of Operation Megaupload where hacktivist shutdown the official website of DOJ & FBI. 

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Federal Judge Opened The Gate For 14 Anonymous Members To Use Twitter

Federal Judge Opened The Gate For 14 Anonymous Members To Use Twitter Freely

A Federal judge in San Jose, Calif. Has opened the gates for 14 alleged members of anonymous to continue using Twitter as one of the "principle tools through which the members of the Anonymous hacking group planned and coordinated their criminal activities," according to prosecutors opposing the decision. The first question came up in January as a motion from Vincent Kershaw, indicted along with 13 other alleged Anon members for attacking PayPal following the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Kershaw could have simply argued that preventing him from Tweeting about issues having nothing to do with his legal situation or the charges against him was a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech. Even in court, where current events, fashions and politics are supposed to be banished from legal decisions, requests go over much more easily when they hit the issues that are big today rather than when the Constitution was written.
Despite arguments that the dangerous, subversive hackers of Anonymous use the overly public Twitter to plan their misdeeds, Judge Paul Grewal ruled prosecutors hadn't sufficiently linked specific Twitter accounts to their assumption that every key-press by an Anonymous sympathizer was necessarily a felony or act of treason.
Therefore Kershaw and his fellow defendants are free to Tweet themselves or participate in Twitter Town Halls and other online events. They're not allowed to use IRC, however, which Anonymous actually does use to plan and coordinate its various activities, not to mention gossip about each other, engage in private flame wars that break out into public doxings, swap files, swap pictures and do all the other social things people do online, especially when their physical liberty is limited.
Kershaw is a 28-year-old foreman for a Colorado landscaping company, was arrested along with 15 others for a DDOS attack the DoJ charges they participated in and which was organized by Anonymous. He was released July 2 on a bond of $10,000 on condition he not access the Internet from any computer and that he allow a probation officer to verify he had not done so.

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Kim Dotcom - Megaupload Founder Released On Bail

Kim Dotcom - Megaupload Founder Released On Bail 

Kim Dotcom Founder of one of the most popular file shearing websites Megaupload finally released on bail. Due to lack of money judge grant his bail on Wednesday. He was arrested for violating anti piracy act. Last month, U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload's websites and announced indictments against Dotcom and six other people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an "international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works." All these stuffs took place as an output of the recently issued Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). They say Megaupload generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships. The New Zealand police arrested Dotcom, a German citizen who has residency in New Zealand and Hong Kong, and the other three at the U.S. government's request. 

Hactivist Anonymous performed massive cyber attack (Claimed one of the largest attack ever) while protesting against Megaupload shutdown issue. They have declared operation Megaupload and engaged cyber attack to DOJ, FBI, & many other fedral authorities websites & Govt websites. But Megaupload's lawyers have denied the charges which online hacktivist have rallied to the site's defense.

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Cyber-Crime Prevention Act (Bill No. 2796) Approved By The Senate

Cyber-Crime Prevention Act (Bill No. 2796) Approved By The Senate

The Senate has approved on third and final reading the Cyber-crime Prevention Act of 2012 or Senate Bill No. 2796, which seeks to establish a legal framework for the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of cyber-criminals. Sen. Edgardo Angara, author of the measure, lauded the Senate for acting quickly on the measure which seeks to establish a legal framework for the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of cyber-criminals.
“Their approval sends out a clear message that the Philippines is taking decisive steps not only in safeguarding its digital space, but also in ensuring its transition into a full-fledged knowledge-based economy,” Angara said. The measure calls for an initial appropriation of P50 million for its implementation. The bill also seeks to protect children from pornography. Under the measure, the Office of the President (OP) and two other government agencies are also required to create an anti-cybercrime office that would deal with matters on web crimes. These agencies include the Department of Justice (DoJ), and the Department of Science and Technology (DoST)’s Information and Communications Technology Office (DoST-ICTO). Other than that, Angara said the measure aims to ensure that the public has access to adequate Internet security in the face of a rapidly changing technology. He said Internet usage has become more prominent, especially in social networking. 

“A large chunk of human activity nowadays is no longer merely physical — it occurs in the Internet. Crime and harm is thus no longer merely physical — they can occur online as well. There is a need for us to innovate security measures and enact laws that will help protect us in the digital world,” Angara said.

 

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Anonymous Retaliates For Megaupload Shutdown & Bring Down DOJ & FBI (#OpMegaupload)

Federal authorities shut down one of the Web’s most popular sites Thursday on charges that it illegally shared movies, television shows, e-books and so on. In the payback hacktvist Anonymous called #OpMegaupload performed "The Largest Attack Ever" where 5,635 Anon people bring down the websites of Universal Music, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Recording Industry Association of America while using one of the world's most popular and vastly used DDoSer LOIC. 

"The government takes down Megaupload? 15 minutes later Anonymous takes down government and record label sites,"  Tweeted by Anonymous. That note was followed shortly by this one: "Megaupload was taken down w/out SOPA being law. Now imagine what will happen if it passes. The Internet as we know it will end. FIGHT BACK." The tweet referred to the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet piracy bill being considered in the U.S. Congress. 

Detailing the attacks, which are being dubbed as the largest performed by the group, via numerous Twitter feeds, @YourAnonNews said: "You cannot censor the internet. You cannot subpoena a hashtag. You cannot arrest an idea. You CAN expect us #OpMegaupload"

The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). When activated, LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic. Judging from a Twitter search, the link is being shared at a rate of about 4 times a minute, mostly by Spanish-speaking users, for some reason. (Here's a link to the Twitter search, just don't click the PasteHTML link.)

The thing is, DDoSing is a criminal offense that could earn you 10 years in prison, if you do it intentionally. With previous versions of LOIC, participants had to acknowledge this risk and press a button labeled "fire." But now, it appears some enterprising anonymous member has retooled it so that it automatically fires if you click an unassuming link and leave a window open.

Megaupload.com distributed a variety of digital content, including music and movies. Investigators say Megaupload’s executives made more than $175 million through subscription fees and online ads while robbing authors, movie producers, musicians and other copyright holders of more than $500 million. “This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States,” the Justice Department and FBI said in a statement.

On Thursday, the U.S. DOJ announced that it had charged seven people who allegedly were affiliated with the site with running an organized criminal enterprise responsible for worldwide online piracy of copyrighted content. The DOJ worked with authorities in New Zealand, who arrested four of the seven people.

#OpMegaupload Press Release By Anonymous:- 

"Twitter - @AnonymousWiki
January 19th, 2012
Popular file-sharing website megaupload.com gets shutdown by U.S Justice - FBI and charged its founder with violating piracy laws. Four Megaupload members were also arrested. The FBI released a press release on its website which you can view here: 
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement
We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us.
#OpMegaupload 
The following sites were taken down in response to the FBI shutting down megaupload.com
:) TANGO DOWN


justice.gov
universalmusic.com
riaa.org
mpaa.org
copyright.gov
hadopi.fr
wmg.com
usdoj.gov
bmi.com
fbi.gov
..."

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Anonymous Exposed The Private Information of The Special Agent, Officers, Cyber Crime Investigators Of Department Of Justice

The hacktivists claim to have hacked into Baclagan's Gmail account and to have accessed his voicemails and SMS message logs using unspecified techniques as part of their ongoing campaign against law enforcement officials and their "allies" in the computer security industry.

The email dump, released as a torrent last Friday in part of what has become the group's regular FuckFBIFriday release, is also said to contain personal information including Baclagan's home address and phone number. The cache of emails – which according to AntiSec are from the account of Fred Baclagan, a retired special agent supervisor of the Californian Department of Justice – includes 38,000 emails detailing various computer forensic techniques and cybercrime investigation protocols. 

Baclagan told that he was nobody special in the Justice Department ... which is what he would say, of course. He said that he had specialised in identity theft before he retired last year. "I'm really just a nobody," he told the Post, "just a local investigator, not involved in anything dynamic or dramatic

In the Press Release Anon Said:-

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#        ANTISEC LEAKS DOJ SPECIAL AGENT SUPERVISOR'S PRIVATE EMAILS,         #

#               IACIS CYBERCRIME INVESTIGATOR COMMUNICATIONS                              #

#         care of the #OCCUPYWALLST CRACKDOWN RETALIATION TASK FORCE         #       

################################################################################

Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting #FuckFBIFriday release.

As part of our ongoing effort to expose and humiliate our white hat enemies, we

targeted a Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice in charge of

computer crime investigations. We are leaking over 38,000 private emails which

contain detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well

as highly embarrassing personal information. We are confident these gifts will 

bring smiles to the faces of our black hat brothers and sisters (especially 

those who have been targeted by these scurvy dogs) while also making a mockery 

of "security professionals" who whore their "skills" to law enforcement to 

protect tyrannical corporativism and the status quo we aim to destroy.

We hijacked two gmail accounts belonging to Fred Baclagan, who has been a cop

for 20 years, dumping his private email correspondence as well as several dozen 

voicemails and SMS text message logs. While just yesterday Fred was having a 

private BBQ with his CATCHTEAM high computer crime task force friends, we were 

reviewing their detailed internal operation plans and procedure documents. We 

also couldn't overlook the boatloads of embarrassing personal information about 

our cop friend Fred. We lulzed as we listened to angry voicemails from his 

estranged wives and ex-girlfriends while also reading his conversations with 

girls who responded to his "man seeking woman" craigslist ads. We turned on his 

google web history and watched him look up linux command line basics, golfing 

tutorials, and terrible youtube music videos. We also abused his google 

voice account, making sure Fred's friends and family knew how hard he was owned.

Possibly the most interesting content in his emails are the IACIS.com internal

email list archives (2005-2011) which detail the methods and tactics cybercrime 

units use to gather electronic evidence, conduct investigations and make 

arrests. The information in these emails will prove essential to those who want 

to protect themselves from the techniques and procedures cyber crime 

investigators use to build cases. If you have ever been busted for computer 

crimes, you should check to see if your case is being discussed here. There are 

discussions about using EnCase forensic software, attempts to crack TrueCrypt 

encrypted drives, sniffing wireless traffic in mobile surveillance vehicles, how 

to best prepare search warrants and subpoenas, and a whole lot of clueless 

people asking questions on how to use basic software like FTP. In the end, we

rickrolled the entire IACIS list, causing the administrators to panic and shut

their list and websites down.

These cybercrime investigators are supposed to be the cream of the crop, but we

reveal the totality of their ignorance of all matters related to computer

security. For months, we have owned several dozen white hat and law enforcement

targets-- getting in and out of whichever high profile government and corporate

system we please and despite all the active FBI investigations and several

billion dollars of funding, they have not been able to stop us or get anywhere

near us. Even worse, they bust a few dozen people who are allegedly part of an

"anonymous computer hacking conspiracy" but who have only used 

kindergarten-level DDOS tools-- this isn't even hacking, but a form of

electronic civil disobedience. 

We often hear these "professionals" preach about "full-disclosure," but we are

sure these people are angrily sending out DMCA takedown notices and serving

subpoenas as we speak. They call us criminals, script kiddies, and terrorists, 

but their entire livelihood depends on us, trying desperately to study our 

techniques and failing miserably at preventing future attacks. See we're cut 

from an entirely different kind of cloth. Corporate security professionals like

Thomas Ryan and Aaron Barr think they're doing something noble by "leaking" the

public email discussion lists of Occupy Wall Street and profiling the "leaders"

of Anonymous. Wannabe player haters drop shitty dox and leak partial chat logs

about other hackers, doing free work for law enforcement. Then you got people 

like Peiter "Mudge" Zatko who back in the day used to be old school l0pht/cDc 

only now to sell out to DARPA going around to hacker conventions encouraging 

others to work for the feds. Let this be a warning to aspiring white hat 

"hacker" sellouts and police collaborators: stay out the game or get owned and 

exposed. You want to keep mass arresting and brutalizing the 99%? We'll have to 

keep owning your boxes and torrenting your mail spools, plastering your personal 

information all over teh internets.

Hackers, join us and rise up against our common oppressors - the white hats, the 

1%'s 'private' police, the corrupt banks and corporations and make 2011 the year 

of leaks and revolutions! 

We are Anti-Security,

We are the 99%

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect Us!

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CNAIPIC Hacked & More 8Gb Data Leaked (#Antisec)

National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection hacked By Anonymous and Lulzsec community.

The Official Statement Of the Hackers are:-

"...

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+Legion of Anonymous Doom+ Release Zero1+
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Heynow,
This is a prerelease of a series we are going to make to reveal the biggest in history of European LE cyber operation Evidence exploitation and abuse. Thing's gonna get published and twittered all over anonymous and lulzsec community.

 Today we were granted with the Italian law enforcement Pandora box, we really think it shall be a new era of “regreaissance” to the almighty Homeland Security Cyber Operation Unit in EU.
So we decided to leak everything they got since they were established as a full scale cyber taskforce named CNAIPIC.

 This corrupted organization gathered all the evidence from the seized property of suspected computer professional entertainers and utilized it over many years to conduct illegal operations with foreign intelligence agencies and oligarchy to facilitate their lust for power and money, they never used obtained evidence to really support ongoing investigations.

 Today we reveal a whole Load of stuff (estimated leak would be over 8Gb) from such owned institutions, just to make it clear all of this stuff was stored on CNAIPIC evidence servers for years while people are doing time in jail waiting for the trial while CNAIPIC used the evidence in the global spy game galore:
  Egypt: Ministry of Transport and Communication
  Australia: Ministry of Defence
  Russia: Atomstroyexport, Diaskan, Sibneft, Gazprom etc.
  Ukraine: several embassies and consulates on it’s territory
  Nepal: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Belarus: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belneftehim, Belspetzexport
  Gibraltar, Cyprus, Cayman Islands etc: Tecno Develp, Line Holdings,    Dugsberry Inc, Alpha Prime, Alpha Minerals etc.
Vietnam: PetroVietnam (PTSC), Ministry of Natural Resources (MONRE)
  USA: EXXON MOBIL, US Department of agriculture and hundreds of attorneys and DOJ accounts including: McCallion & Associates LLP, Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, LLP, and hundreds of bullshit agencies we don’t even know why we pay taxes to support all of them.

 So to cut the crap let’s get it over with fellaz…

http://imgur.com/a/tkFdY#UTByw  
Is the image preview to get a glimpse on what is meant to be said.

http://depositfiles.com/files/tm7zeqiq9 
first of 2 preview archives with preview documents to get a general idea.

http://depositfiles.com/files/nn6dbleyv
2nd preview archive

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ta62tk  
CNAIPIC file structure and listing Part 1


Thank you all,
Stay tuned...4 update on this one.
NKWT LOAD  .."

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Google CEO Larry Page said G+ Hit 10M Users in 2 Weeks

Google's Facebook competitor Google Plus grew to 10 million users in just two weeks, the company announced Thursday.
That's only a bit more than 1 percent of Facebook's 750 million global users, but it still represents staggering growth for Google's infant social network, which isn't yet open to the public. The site remains in a "limited" trial phase.
"Growth on Google has been great," Google CEO Larry Page said on a conference call with analysts. 

"Over 10 million have joined. That's a great achievement for the team. There has been a ton of activity."

Page said more than 1 billion items are being shared on the network every day. The " 1" button, which populates search results with friends' recommendations, has been clicked 2.3 billion times a day.
Google represents a part of the new CEO's grand vision for the 13-year old company. Despite Google's position as the worldwide leader in search, Page has opted to treat the company as a startup, increasing hiring and starting several new initiatives. 

"Today, I see more opportunities for Google than ever before; we're just at the beginning of what we want to do," Page said. "We're only at 1 percent of what's possible. Google's just getting started."

Accordingly, Google continued its hiring spree in the second quarter, upping its headcount by nearly 9 percent, or 2,500 employees -- including 450 from the acquisition of flight data company ITA .
The company also has spent freely, putting more than $900 million into its infrastructure during the quarter, including expanding its massive data centers. The company says it expects to continue to make "significant" capital expenditures going forward.
Google says all that spending will keep the company ahead of its rivals.

The past quarter has been a busy one. In addition to Google , the company started selling its Chromebook line of laptops aimed at current Microsoft corporate clients and launched its Music application to compete with Apple's iTunes and Amazon's Cloud Drive.
The company also unveiled Google Wallet, which will allow customers to pay for items using their smartphones, and it launched Google Offers, a Groupon competitor.
But Google also shut down several products that weren't working, such as Google Health and PowerMeter.
"Our focus is more wood behind fewer arrows," said Page. "I'm very happy with our progress."
Still, the free spending has made some stock analysts cautious. Page lashed back at that criticism, noting that when Google started its search engine, no one believed the company could monetize that besides the occasional banner ad.

"Fast forward to today, it seems like we're playing the same movie all over again," he said.

The world's online search leader said its net income in the second quarter rose to $2.5 billion, up 36 percent from a year earlier.
Results included one-time charges totaling $1.06 per share. Without the charges, Google said it earned $8.74 per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who typically exclude one-time items from their estimates, had forecast earnings of $7.85 per share.
Profit rose as both the number of clicks on Google's ads and the amount that advertising partners pay per click increased substantially: Paid clicks surged 18 percent and cost per click grew 12 percent compared to last year.

Sales for the Mountain View, Calif., company rose 32 percent to $9 billion. Excluding advertising sales that Google shares with partners, a figure also known as traffic acquisition costs, the company reported revenue of $6.9 billion, which topped analysts' forecasts of $6.6 billion.
Shares of Google jumped 12 percent after hours.
Still, not all the news has been positive for Google, which has recently landed in antitrust crosshairs.

The Federal Trade Commission began investigating the company for evidence of abusive practices, and a federal judge rejected Google's planned settlement deal in its attempt to create a universal online book library.
The Department of Justice also heavily scrutinized the company's recent purchase of flight data software company ITA, and Google set aside $500 million for a potential settlement with the DOJ regarding the company's advertising practices. The DOJ is currently studying Google's proposed $400 million purchase of digital advertising toolmaker Admeld.
Late last month, French search company 1plusV said it would seek $423 million in damages from the American search giant over alleged anti-competitive practices.

-The News Source (Chicago Tribune)

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Anonymous Exposed full Details of IRCFederal.com

Hacker group Anonymous Exposed full details and sensitive data of IRCFederal 

According to Anon:-

"Today we release the ownage of another government-contracted IT company, IRC Federal. They brag about their multi-million dollar partnership with the FBI,
Army, Navy, NASA, and the Department of Justice, selling out their "skills" to the US empire. So we laid nuclear waste to their systems, owning their pathetic windows box, dropping their databases and private emails, and defaced their professional looking website.
In their emails we found various contracts, development schematics, and internal documents for various government institutions including a proposal for the FBI to develop a "Special Identities Modernization (SIM) Project" to "reduce terrorist and criminal activity by protecting all records associated with
trusted individuals and revealing the identities of those individuals who may pose serious risk to the United States and its allies". We also found
fingerprinting contracts for the DOJ, biometrics development for the military, and strategy contracts for the "National Nuclear Security Administration
Nuclear Weapons Complex".
Additionally we found login info to various VPNs and several Department of Energy login access panels that we are dumping *live* complete with some URLs
to live ASP file browser and upload backdoors - let's see how long it takes for them to remove it (don't worry we'll keep putting it back up until they pull
the box ;D)
 
Before we begin the drop, a personal message to the employees of IRC Federal:
 
If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy and start working against it. Stop aiding the corporations and a government
which uses unethical means to corner vast amounts of wealth and proceed to flagrantly abuse their power. Together, we have the power to change
this world for the better.
 
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
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h0no, phrack high council, ~el8 and all you kick-ass motherfuckers
we've never even heard of. Thank you...."

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