Al-Qaeda Network Hacked (Terrorists terrorised)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 05:21:00 pm

Computer hackers have disrupted al-Qaeda's ability to communicate via internet by  interrupting the flow of videos and messages of the outfit, an anti-terror expert said.The attack was reportedly carried out by unknown hackers in the past few days.

"Al-Qaeda's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted distribution channel available on the Internet," Evan Kohlmann of Flashpoint Global Partners, which monitors the outfit's communication said.
It was "well coordinated and involved the use of an unusual cocktail of relatively sophisticated techniques," Kohlmann said.
"My guess is that it will take them at least several days more to repair the damage and get their network up and functioning again," he said.

British newspapers reported earlier this month that the UK government had also hacked into al-qaeda's online magazine - Inspire - and replaced instructions to make bombs with instructions to make cupcakes.

It reportedly took the terrorist organization two weeks to get back the original posting.

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New Cyber Security Degree to be offered By LCC

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 04:54:00 pm


To address this emerging global threat, Laredo Community College will launch a new, two-year degree in Network and Cyber Security Technology in the fall.“Frankly, most law enforcement agencies are ill-equipped to deal with this new era and sophistication of technology crime,” Robert Moore, chair and instructor for LCC’s Computer Technology Department, said.“There’s currently a shortage of computer security specialists, and we’re doing our part to fill this gap.”For several years now, LCC’s CT department has been offering an associate degree in network technology.But, because “the skill sets of the modern day network administrators have expanded, we’re enhancing the curriculum to add cyber security courses to train traditional students and professionals in the industry who want to update their computer networking skills,” Moore added.No similar program is being offered within a 150-mile radius of Laredo. “Every business uses a computer, and every business has a potential to be targeted,” Steven Moncivais, a cyber detective for the Laredo Police Department, said.“A hacker can break into a computer system via cyber space and steal information from thousands of credit cards. Doing this criminal act in this manner provides a blanket of anonymity, and the chances of getting caught are pretty slim.”Hacking, malware, identity theft, and phishing are terms associated with a new wave of technology crimes that can damage a person’s financial history or cripple a company’s network (parallelism).
According to Moncivais, cyber criminals can open a credit card account, or even a loan. We had an incident a few years ago where a local restaurant was targeted from another city via the web and stole hundreds of clients’ credit card information, and another incident where someone purchased a $100,000 home under someone else’s name,” Moncivais added.

“The threat is there, but if a company really wants to protect their customers’ information, they do need someone who is knowledgeable in this field.”
Robert Herrera, Management Information Systems Liaison officer with LPD and one of several committee members for the program, agreed. “There is a huge need for experts like these,” Herrera said.
On a daily basis, Herrera and his team meticulously view surveillance videos or browse through computer hard drives to solve various crimes.

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Apple's Developer Site is Under Phishing Attacks

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 04:54:00 pm



With all the news about Anonymous, LulzSec, Anti-Sec, and so on, you'd almost forget there are more ethical hacking groups out there as well. One such group, YGN Ethical Hacker Group, informed Apple of several weaknesses in its developers website on April 25. Apple acknowledged the flaws, but so far, hasn't done anything about them. YGN Ethical Hacker Group has now stated they will fully disclose the vulnerabilities if Apple doesn't fix them in the coming few days.
The hacker group claims to have found three separate security flaws in Apple's developer website - arbitrary URL redirects, cross-site scripting, and HTTP response splitting. Especially the arbritry URL redirects are problematic, since it would make it quite easy to lead a phishing attack to obtain login credentials from Apple's third party developers. Developers use Apple IDs to login, so this would give malicious folk access to developers' iTunes accounts.
YGN Ethical Hacker Group isn't a new group - they've already identified similar security issues at other websites. Java.com, for instance, suffered from similar URL redirect issues, but Oracle fixed it within a week, and thanked the hacker group. They also found issues with McAfee's website, but McAfee refused to fix anything until the hacker group went for full disclosure.
Apple has been given the same two months to fix their issues, but Apple has so far refused to do so. The issues were reported to Cupertino April 25, and Apple confirmed they had received the information two days later. We're two months down the line now, and nothing has been fixed, according to the hacker group. As such, they will now take the same steps they took with McAfee

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Arizona Police are Still in the Target of Hackers

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 06:02:00 am



A computer-hacking group posted Wednesday personal details of officers allegedly taken from an Arizona police department, stepping up its campaign of attacks against government agencies and officials.
"AntiSec," a hacking campaign that includes elements of the Anonymous vigilante group and the Lulz Security hacking collective, posted emails, photos and other personal information it said was from at least 14 officers at the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Hackers had targeted the same police department earlier and released training manuals, emails and intelligence documents last week as part of a political protest against a controversial state immigration law.
A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety declined to comment. Wednesday's release appears to step up the attack, focusing on officers rather than the department more broadly.
"We're not stopping until every prisoner is free," the hackers said in a statement. Earlier, some of the hackers said they had targeted Arizona's police department to protest Arizona's SB1070, a controversial state law that critics say is anti-immigration. A key provision of the law has been frozen because of legal challenges.
The hack comes amid a two-month long rampage of digital break-ins targeting governments and corporations including Sony Corp. (SNE, 6758.TO), the U.S. Senate, AT&T Inc. (T) and other high-profile targets. The attacks had been headed by Lulz Security, which said it had disbanded four days ago. The group's six main members joined a larger Internet campaign called AntiSec, or "Anti-Security," along with members of the online vigilante group Anonymous.
Together, the groups have released passwords and user data stolen from a Universal Music affiliated website, as well as details of Viacom Inc.'s (VIA) computer networks. 

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41 Web Sites (Including UK Govt) Defaced By Syrian Electronic Army

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 05:46:00 am

Lulzsec may be Officially Disbanded, But FBI is In Search of Lulzsec

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/30/2011 05:27:00 am


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US military personnel's Magazine's database Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/29/2011 05:19:00 pm


A magazine subscriptions database which held personal information of members of the US armed forces has been hacked into, according to an American media company. The Gannett Government Media Corporation holds information about subscribers to Defense News, one of the world's most widely read publications on the military, and other publications aimed at serving US army, navy, air force and marines personnel. The company discovered the breach on 7 June and notified subscribers via email.
It said that names, passwords and email addresses had been hacked, and that other details, such as duty status, pay grades and type of service, were also obtained by the hackers. Emails can be used by cyber criminals for so-called phishing scams, where recipients receive an email purportedly from a trusted sender that is then used to gain control of their computer. One fear is that hackers could go on to take control of a government computer system.
Other targets for hackers in recent weeks have included the US banking group Citigroup. IBGE, the Brazilian statistics agency which saw its site hacked on 24 June, found the front page of its website replaced with a human eye in the colorscolours of the Brazilian flag. A note left on IBGE's website read "there's no room for groups without an ideology such as LulzSec or Anonymous in Brazil", in ab attempt to distance the group from other prominent hackers.

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