Fedora 16 Will be Available On This October with Grub2, GNOME 3.2 and KDE 4.7

The range of features in Fedora 16, which is scheduled to be released at the end of October, is becoming clearer now that the deadline for submitting new features has passed. Late submissions are accepted on rare occasions, but the "feature freeze" is planned for next Tuesday – by then, all major advancements on the Linux distribution's feature list are planned to be largely complete and ready for testing. The first and only alpha version is to be released three weeks later – on 16 August.

The feature list contains 40 items, including GNOME 3.2 and KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7. The developers are planning to switch to using Grub2 for the boot loader. Having switched to systemd, as an alternative to sysvinit and upstart, in Fedora 15, the project plans to replace further sysv init scripts with systemd units in version 16. Furthermore, Fedora is to offer everything that's required for Xen virtualisation, as version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, which is now expected to be released on Friday, will include all the necessary components.

However, the Fedora project may well discard some of the features, or postpone their inclusion until Fedora 17, if they prove to be not mature enough. This could potentially happen with the planned use of Btrfs as the distribution's standard file system, which the Fedora project had decided on in early June. One of the stipulated criteria for switching from Ext4 to Btrfs was the availability of a decent program for checking and repairing Btrfs file systems – such a program was expected to become available in May, but has yet to be released.

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Anonymous Releases More than 1 GB Restricted Document of NATO

The hacking collective Anonymous released a document on Thursday marked "restricted" from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The 36-page document, which is dated Aug. 27, 2007, appears to be budget and equipment outlays for what was termed a new "HQ ISAF JOINT CIS CONTROL CENTRE." NATO's press office could not be immediately reached.
Anonymous claimed on its "AnonymousIRC" Twitter handle that it has 1GB of material from NATO but said that most would not be published because it would be "irresponsible."
In another Tweet, Anonymous said that the data was harvested via "simple injection," which usually refers to inputting malformed data in Web-based forms and seeing if the back-end database responds with information.

The group prefaced its release of the NATO document with an earlier comment on Twitter about its alleged trove of e-mail from the British tabloid The Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media group that is under investigation for voicemail interception and paying police officers for information.

"We think actually we may not release emails from The Sun, simply because it may compromise the court case," according to a Twitter post from Anonymous.
LulzSec, known as LulzSecurity, claimed credit on Twitter on Monday for that attack, but the two groups are somewhat aligned. Although LulzSec said it was going dormant after a string of highly successful attacks against the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, PBS.org and Fox.com, among others, it appears to be back in action. LulzSec hit The Sun's website on Monday, posting a fake news story that Murdoch had died.

The two groups also posted a statement on Pastebin directed at Steven Chabinsky, a deputy assistant director in the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyberdivision.
"Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea," the statement said. "Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir."

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The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.5.3 Released

The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed

What is new in SET v1.5.3 :-

• Large menu rehaul and things moved to different places and code cleaned up
• Fixed the logging problem that would not generate log messages for errors insrc/logs/
• Added print_status, print_error, and print_input in the core modules, all menus should now use this from now on
• Added some alignment to some menus and made it flow better

This release primarily focuses bug fixes and menu enhancements!

Download The Social Engineering Toolkit v1.5.3 (set.tar.gz) here.

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BackTrack 5 R1 Will be Available on 10th of August,2011

 

After the huge success of BT 5 now Famous Security Distribution Back Track Linux will decide to release BackTrack 5 R1 on the 10th of August,2011. This will complete the first 3 month cycle since the last release. With over 100 bug fixes, numerous package updates and the addition of over 30 new tools and scripts – BackTrack 5 R1 will rock. We will have a pre-release event of BackTrack 5 R1 at the BlackHat  / Defcon Conference  a few days earlier. 

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Chinese Govt Site Hacked By ErroR (TGH)

Chinese Government Site Hacked By ErroR of Team Greyhat (TGH)

Hacked Site:-

http://www.jssjj.gov.cn

 

Mirror Link:-

http://k0-ka.in/attack/?id=25435

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Middle-aged Woman get Busted in LulzSec Hacking Case

Hackers are always characterized as teenage boys, but two of the hackers arrested for Anonymous/LulzSec crimes in the States are women. One of them is a middle-aged woman, 42 year-old Tracy Ann Valenzuela. The other is 20 year old Mercedes Renee Haefer.

Both of them have Hispanic-sounding names and are from California, according to this piece. Can anyone confirm any more details?
The FBI have apparently arrested 16 people in the US. There has been one arrest in London and several arrests in Holland as well. The charges seem to relate to the attacks on PayPal which were retaliation for the service ditching Wikileaks.
So, women in hacking. We knew there must be some. In some ways I'm quite pleased by the news, it's given me the opportunity to draw some hair onto the LulzSec icon. Though I'd love to know more about how she got involved and why.
They've popped up before - see the mysterious Kayla of Anonymous boards - who may or may not be a 16 year old girl. Iowa woman Laurelai Bailey was questioned by the police about her conversations on Anonymous message boards.

This is the list of names of people arrested so far:

 

Christopher Wayne Cooper, 23, aka "Anthrophobic"

 
Joshua John Covelli, 26, aka "Absolem" and "Toxic"

Keith Wilson Downey, 26

Mercedes Renee Haefer, 20, aka "No" and "MMMM"

Donald Husband, 29, aka "Ananon"

Vincent Charles Kershaw, 27, aka "Trivette," "Triv" and "Reaper"

Ethan Miles, 33; James C. Murphy, 36

Drew Alan Phillips, 26, aka "Drew010"

Jeffrey Puglisi, 28, aka "Jeffer," "Jefferp" and "Ji"

Daniel Sullivan, 22

Tracy Ann Valenzuela, 42

Christopher Quang Vo, 22

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Anonymous Strikes Uribe & Defense Ministry (Official Facebook & Twitter Compromised)

 

The hacker group "Anonymous" on Wednesday took control of the Facebook page of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the Twitter account of ex-President Alvaro Uribe, and caused a shut-down the website for Colombia's Ministry of Defense. The hackers' offensive took place around 2PM on Colombia's Independence Day.
On Santos' Facebook page, Anonymous posted a link to a YouTube video proclaiming that Colombia was celebrating a "false independence." The video listed what the authors thought was wrong with Colombia. At 5PM, Santos' account was still under control of the hackers, who announced that "surprises" would continue until 6PM. Santos tweeted that he regretted "the interference on the Facebook account on my name and the messages that have been published from there."
Uribe's Twitter account was similarly hacked and featured a link to the same video as well as a new background featuring the Anonymous logo. Uribe tweeted that "my account has been penetrated by terrorists."

The former president's choice of words led to hundreds of Twitter comments under #uribepenetradoremarking on how Anonymous "had penetrated his flower."
The messages posted by Anonymous on the former president's Twitter page were removed within hours while Uribe called Twitter for help, but the politician failed to replace the background which kept showing the hacker collective's logo. Anonymous also appears to have hacked or attacked the Ministry of Defense website. An image of the website with an Anonymous logo has been posted on their twitter account and the website of the ministry was down in the afternoon.

Earlier in the day, the presidential website was also down, although Anonymous did not claim an attack on that website.
The hacker collective had announced an "independence offensive" on Tuesday, the day before Colombia celebrated its 201st birthday.
Earlier this year, Anonymous hacked the Colombian Senate's website.

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