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WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables

2011-08-26T06:16:00.000-07:00

(Reuters) - The WikiLeaks organization said Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified.

"We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to be controlled by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' controversial Australian-born founder and chief.

The cables which the website said it is dumping onto the public record appear to be from a cache of more than 250,000 State Department reports leaked to the group. WikiLeaks began releasing the cables in smaller batches late last year, but until now had made them public in piecemeal fashion.

Several news organizations around the world, including Reuters, have had complete sets of the cables for months. But for the most part, media outlets have only cited or published cables when publishing specific news or investigative stories based on them.

By late afternoon Thursday, the WikiLeaks website said it had published 97,115 of the 251,287 cables it possesses. It did not specify its motives for releasing such a large amount of material at once.

A person in contact with Assange's inner circle told Reuters the rationale behind the mass release of documents was dismay among WikiLeaks activists that media organizations had lost interest in publishing stories based on the material.

The source described Assange and his associates as "frustrated" at the lack of media interest.

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The document release began hours after WikiLeaks revealed on Twitter that Dynadot, a California Internet registrar which had hosted WikiLeaks, had received an order, generated by federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, requiring it to produce "information on Julian Assange."

WikiLeaks said Dynadot had complied with the order.

According to a copy of the document published by WikiLeaks, U.S. investigators want any "customer or subscriber account information" held by Dynadot since November 1 that relates to Assange, WikiLeaks or the domain name wikileaks.org.

Dynadot and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment.

It is unclear when or how WikiLeaks acquired a copy of the government order to Dynadot, which was dated January 4, 2011. A U.S. official indicated that the document, which was sealed by court order, had not been officially unsealed.

U.S. officials have indicated that prosecutors and a grand jury in Alexandria, have a long-running investigation into WikiLeaks, Assange and others associated with the website.

A few weeks earlier, the same prosecutors sent a similar request to Twitter seeking records of accounts held by Assange, WikiLeaks, and others. They include Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army private being detained for alleged unauthorized disclosures of classified information which was believed to have gone to WikiLeaks.

Last year WikiLeaks and Assange were celebrated after their release of State Department cables, tens of thousands of other secret U.S. files, and a classified video of a contested American military operation in Iraq.

Since then public interest in WikiLeaks has waned. It may have suffered from publicity related to Assange's flight to Britain after sexual misconduct allegations were made against him in Sweden and a subsequent protracted extradition fight. Assange has also publicly fueded with former collaborators.

A person close to Assange said a British appeals court is due to rule early next month on his appeal against Sweden's extradition request. The source was unaware of any link between the latest document dump and the anticipated court decision.

(Additional reporting by Jim Finkle; editing by Christopher Wilson)

(This story has been corrected in paragraph 16 to show Assange was subject to sexual misconduct allegations, not charges). [source]

Apple holic sad "Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO"

2011-08-25T11:40:00.000-07:00

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.

Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent in after-hours trade after the pancreatic cancer survivor and industry icon, who has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since January 17, announced he will be replaced by COO and longtime heir apparent Tim Cook.

Analysts do not expect Jobs' resignation -- which had long been foreseen -- to derail the company's fabled product-launch roadmap, including possibly a new iPhone in September and a third iteration of the iPad tablet in 2012.

"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come," he said in a brief letter announcing his resignation.

The 55-year-old CEO had briefly emerged from his medical leave in March to unveil the latest version of the iPad and later to attend a dinner hosted by President Barack Obama for technology leaders in Silicon Valley.

Jobs' often-gaunt appearance has sparked questions about his health and his ability to continue at Apple.

"I will say to investors: don't panic and remain calm, it's the right thing to do. Steve will be chairman and Cook is CEO," said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis.

Apple shares slid to $357.40 in extended trading after a brief halt. They had gained 0.7 percent to close at $376.18 on the Nasdaq.

Analysts again expressed confidence in the Apple bench, headed by longtime company No. 2 and supply-chain maven Cook.

"Investors are very comfortable with Tim Cook even though Jobs has been a driver of innovation and clearly an Apple success. Tim has shown Apple can still outperform extremely well when he's been acting as CEO," said Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross.

"I don't know if it's a health issue. I don't know if it is a shock. Most likely it was going to happen at some point. Why today versus another day? I don't know."

(Reporting by Poornima Gupta and Edwin Chan; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO, Is There an Apple Without Steve Jobs?

Of the various celebrities and pop stars who have achieved household name status, CEOs are hardly included on the list.

Steve Jobs was one of the exceptions.

During his tenure as the head of Apple, Jobs transformed the fledgling tech company into something of a pop sensation, with Jobs as its poster child. Jobs’ keynote speeches -- in which he announced revolutionary products such as the iPod or iPhone -- have long been events comparable to rock concerts, with thousands lining up for hours just to get a glimpse of Apple’s rock star CEO.

So it came as a bit of a shock to the tech world -- and the rest of America, for that matter – when they read the following lines from Jobs’ memo to the company:

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”

Now that Apple’s fearless leader is out of the hot seat, and his successor, Tim Cook, is gearing up to take over, many are now wondering -- will Apple be the same?

Many are scared that the answer is ‘no.’ But overall, the consensus from tech experts is mostly positive. At least for the time being.

“In the short run -- the next two to three years -- the Apple pipeline is so well defined, that I doubt much will change,” Noah Robischon, an executive editor of Fast Company, told FoxNews.com. “But the question is -- what happens to a company after you lose a visionary leader? Does the talent stay? Are you able to innovate the way you did before?”

Many in the tech world have their theories as to why Apple had the amount of success it has had, but the common thread usually involves Jobs’ ability to see his products from the customer’s perspective.

“A lot of tech companies forget that they’re trying to change people’s lives,” Mark Spoonauer, Editor-in-Chief of Laptop Magazine, told FoxNews.com. “Jobs more than any other, understood that. That’s why when you see things like the iPad being advertised, [Apple doesn’t] lead with clock speed or megahertz; it’s more about how it’s going to affect your life. That’s why they’ve been able to ‘out innovate’ the competition.”

And ‘out innovate’ it has.

It’s only appropriate that Steve’s surname is ‘Jobs’ because Apple has seen nothing but growth in the past decade. In September of 2006, Apple had over 20,000 full time and part time employees, a number that has continued to grow over the years with Apple having close to 50,000 men and women in its employ in September of 2010.

The success of the company has almost stood immune to the country’s economic turmoil. But will the loss of Jobs through throw off the momentum?

“I don’t feel like that will change, it’s ingrained in [Apple’s] DNA,” Spoonauer told FoxNews.com. “A lot of people criticize Apple for its closed, walled garden approach. But with Apple, one of the big benefits is that they control both the hardware and software components -- which gives them an advantage over the competition for years to come.”

Now, all eyes are turning to Cook, who took today to address Apple employees.

"I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change," Cook wrote in an email to employees that was leaked to several tech blogs.

"I cherish and celebrate Apple's unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that-it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do."

Industry analysts and fans alike will expect Cook keep the momentum going but the comparisons have already started pouring in. Spoonauer predicts that Apple will have to slightly shift its power structure.

“Personalities are going to take a backseat to the products,” Spoonauer told FoxNews.com. “Tim Cook is excellent in terms of his organizational structure. He’s highly analytical, but a lot of people worry he doesn’t have the charisma to follow in Steve Jobs’ footsteps. But Apple has a whole legion of top tier people.”

The key players who are still running the show include Jonathan Ives, the man behind Apple’s iconic design aesthetic, and Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software. Robischon says Cook needs to focus on keeping the intricate tapestry held together.

“It becomes part of Tim’s job to make sure those people stick around and continue to be the lead innovators,” Robischon told FoxNews.com. “Essentially, Tim doesn’t have the same visionary qualities as Jobs, but part of what he needs to do is foster those within the company.”

Overall, the loss of Jobs isn’t exactly something that other companies haven’t experienced before.

“Bill Gates no longer really runs Microsoft. Warren Buffet is more or less running Berkshire. This isn’t the first time that someone has moved on,” Robischon told FoxNews.com. “So it’s really a question of how the company manages to foster innovation. Building teams that are creative and that aren’t just centered around supply chain management.”

“That’s really a question that every business should be asking.”[source]

EarthQuake Dc become Trending Topic in facebook and twitter

2011-08-23T18:34:00.000-07:00

News in this area the 5.8 magnitude earthquake with the intention of shook Washington, D.C. On Tuesday and was felt in cities right through the East coast exploded online, diffusion speedily via social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Phrases and hashtags correlated to the earthquake, such as "5.8" and "#earthquake" quickly dominated Twitter's trending topics catalog.

Mashable clarification, "Tweets began pouring in from D.C. Near 30 seconds previous to we felt the shake by our center of operations in New York City and well previous to one reports in this area the shake emerged from the media." equally HuffPostLA reports, many West coast users furthermore took to Twitter to tease their East coast counterparts. "Really all this excitement ended a 5.8 shake??? Come on East Coast, we be inflicted with persons pro breakfast made known at this time!!!!" wrote lone user.

We've compiled approximately answer statistics with the intention of illustrate the spike in social media treatment at once following the earthquake.

Inside the minutes at once with today’s earthquake, millions of callers at once flooded the nation’s phone networks, leading to rife confusion as many of them encountered unavailable signals and spotty service.

Then, lone by lone, phone providers took to social media sites to apply their message."To friend loved ones following earthquake, please aid text msgs very than call. Call delays due to temporary bulk calling event," Sprint told its 85,000 followers on Twitter, a reduced amount of than an hour with the shake secure.

"There was approximately arrangement congestion in the East with tremors. Continuing to watch," Verizon Wireless tweeted shortly with with the intention of, to in this area 35,000 followers. Along with AT&T and T-Mobile, which furthermore posted updates on the locate, the nation’s four biggest wireless carriers reached more than 300,000 customers in solely a topic of minutes. Sprint and T-Mobile furthermore posted unconnectedly on Facebook, success a further 1 million users here.

It was waterproof of how much businesses be inflicted with occur to rely on social media tools to instantly get to thousands of customers across uncommon locations, experts understood. When Hurricane Katrina secure six years past, Twitter didn’t exist. Today, it was abuzz with emergency updates from companies like PSE&G, NJ Transit, JetBlue and Amtrak.

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Hackers: ‘A 16-year-old can ruin your day now’

2011-08-18T05:42:00.000-07:00

Hot awesome News from www.financeasia.com Last week’s attack on the Hong Kong stock exchange’s news website was a wake-up call for the city’s financial community, with internet security vendors reporting a spike in interest from firms asking how they can better protect their systems from hackers.

As with most things, the simplest answer is to spend more money. Linda Hui, a managing director at F5 Networks in Hong Kong, estimates that companies in the city typically spend around 3% of their IT budget on security. “That’s too little,” she said in an interview with FinanceAsia this week. “A reasonable amount would be about 10%.”

The threat from hackers is on the rise, according to a report by Infonetics Research for the first quarter of 2011, with the awareness of threats at an all-time high in what the firm called a “hostile environment”.

“The volume, variety, and complexity of threats continues to grow, and the industry that now supports commercial development of threats is the most obvious culprit; from commercial toolkits to botnet rentals, the business infrastructure that supports attack creation and distribution is growing to support hacker demand,” said Jeff Wilson, principal analyst for security at Infonetics. “This increase in visibility translates into increased budget visibility for security solutions.”

Still, it is easy to ignore the risks. After all, under-spending doesn’t cause any problems — until it is too late. “Security is a journey,” said Hui. “You can never achieve 100%, so it’s hard to prove the value. You can’t measure it. Managers normally make decisions that help them to make more money or that save them money. Security doesn’t fall into either category.”

But the problems at the stock exchange have caused alarm, particularly among financial firms in the city. Hui said that she has since been contacted by banks, securities companies and insurers all asking for advice and reassurance that their systems are protected from a similar attack.

That is hard to guarantee because the kind of attack used against the stock exchange is crude but surprisingly effective — and often used against websites for no other reason than to cause disruption. These so-called denial-of-service attacks typically target a website’s server by overloading it with thousands of simultaneous requests, which can make it impossible for regular visitors to access the site. And, as the stock exchange incident showed, even the simple act of crashing a website can cause big problems.

Security systems, however, have traditionally focused on keeping intruders out of their networks with rule-based firewalls and intrusion prevention systems.

“A firewall will just allow people to come in through the front door, but not though the window or other doors,” said Hui. Sitting in front of the firewall, an intrusion prevention system is like a nightclub bouncer with a list of names, though in this case you can only get in if your name is not on the list.

Such systems offer little defence against sophisticated denial-of-service attacks, which do not happen at the network level. Hackers probe the site in search of information about the type of software and hardware used to serve the web pages, and then exploit known vulnerabilities to take the site down before the traffic even gets to a firewall.

Even so, these attacks have typically focused on obvious targets such as bank websites and credit card payment gateways rather than websites that simply provide information. “The attack on the stock exchange really shows that all websites are exposed to being hacked,” said Hui. “A 16-year-old can ruin your day now.”

To combat such attacks, vendors such as F5 place a switch between websites and the internet that manages traffic and offers security against most denial-of-service attacks at both the network and application level. But the battle against hackers is a constant one. Firms need to audit their security regularly and commit to investing in fixes for known vulnerabilities, said Hui.

On the upside, the high-profile nature of the attack on the stock exchange in Hong Kong has heightened awareness of the problem. Hui noted that the requests for advice she has received since the attack have come from senior managers, reflecting that the problem is being taken more seriously.

Chancellor was targeted by News of the World's hacker, says dominatrix

2011-08-18T05:33:00.000-07:00

Dirty tricks claims turn the spotlight on the man who helped bring Andy Coulson to Downing Street

A former dominatrix was targeted by the News of the World's phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire in a tabloid scramble to publish a picture of her posing with George Osborne in front of an alleged line of cocaine, The Independent can reveal.

Natalie Rowe, 47, a former madam who supplied prostitutes to a moneyed clientele, has been shown documents by Scotland Yard detectives showing that the hacker obtained details of her mobile phone number and information about at least one of Mr Osborne's circle of close friends, as newspapers investigated claims of drug use at the height of David Cameron's Conservative leadership bid in 2005.

The heavily redacted document raises the possibility that the mobile phone of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was managing Mr Cameron's successful campaign to lead the Tory Party, was also targeted by Glenn Mulcaire and raises fresh questions about Mr

Mr Coulson was editor of the NOTW when its story about Mr Osborne's friendship with Ms Rowe was published on 16 October 2005, including a strong denial from Mr Osborne that he had taken drugs with Ms Rowe. Two years later, the then Shadow Chancellor played a key role in the decision to recruit Mr Coulson as Mr Cameron's spin doctor following his resignation over the hacking scandal.

Mr Osborne was told by Scotland Yard in July that Mr Mulcaire had obtained his private home phone number but said he wanted police to concentrate on other potential victims of phone hacking. The Chancellor last night declined to answer questions from The Independent about whether he ever discussed with Mr Coulson the story he published about him in October 2005, or whether his personal experience of the editor as a tabloid attack dog played a role in the decision to recommend him for a job in Conservative ranks.

Mark Lewis, the lawyer acting for Ms Rowe who now works as a writer and has completed an autobiography which she says will make incendiary revelations about former clients in the upper echelons of the Conservative Party, is preparing a damages claims against News International after it became clear that she was targeted by Mr Mulcaire at a time when she was co-operating with the NOTW's chief rival, the Sunday Mirror.

She told The Independent: "It is clear the News of the World had no boundaries and they would resort to any measures to ensure they had my story. I have always wondered where they got their information. I thought I had a spy in my camp. Instead, it looks as if I was having my privacy invaded."

The former dominatrix found herself sucked into a louche and privileged world of Oxbridge-educated high fliers including Mr Osborne when she started going out with William Sinclair, one of the Tatton MP's university friends, in 1992. Mr Sinclair, the grandson of Winston Churchill's aristocratic air minister in the Second World War, went on to have a child with Ms Rowe in 1994 and was treated for drug addiction.

During the relationship, Ms Rowe regularly met her boyfriend's social set, including Chris Coleridge, the brother of Nicholas, head of Vogue publisher Conde Nast, and Mr Osborne, who was a freelance journalist and later began his journey to the top of British politics as a researcher in Conservative Central Office. More than a decade later, the former madam was the subject of a tabloid bidding war when she approached PR guru Max Clifford offering to sell her story of wild parties, sex and drug taking involving a wealthy fast set whose members included a fast-emerging star of the Conservative Party.

Mr Clifford initially reached a deal with the NOTW but in July 2005 he fell out with the Sunday tabloid, and Ms Rowe's account of her friendship with Mr Osborne was sold to the Sunday Mirror together with a photograph of the fresh-faced future Chancellor, then 22, with his arm around the sex worker. On the table in front of the pair is a roll of paper and a line of white powder which Ms Rowe, who had in the past taken cocaine but had stopped taking the drug because she was pregnant, insists is cocaine.

Mr Osborne has confirmed knowing Ms Rowe, who ran an agency called Black Beauties, supplying prostitutes to clients paying from £350 per hour, but has always been unequivocal in denying that he took cocaine with her. Describing the allegations as "defamatory and completely untrue", he said at the time: "Twelve years ago a friend of mine went out with a woman called Natalie and they had a child together. I met them together occasionally in the autumn of 1993, and it soon became clear that my friend had started to use drugs. He became more and more addicted and I saw his life fall apart. I tried to persuade him to seek treatment. Eventually he did ... That is, and always has been, the sum total of my connection with this woman."

On 16 October 2005, the Sunday Mirror and the NOTW published simultaneous first edition stories using the photograph. Ms Rowe had always wondered how the NOTW knew when her story was being published, as well as several details she had kept to herself, including the fact she used "naughties" as a codeword for cocaine. The answer, it seems, is that her mobile phone – and those of Mr Osborne's social set – were targeted by Mr Mulcaire at least 10 days before the NOTW article appeared.

The Independent understands the Mulcaire document is an A4 handwritten page which carries the date of 6 October 2005 and is headed with the name of Mr Coleridge. The rest has been blanked out by Weeting officers to protect the privacy of other individuals. There is no suggestion that Mr Coleridge was involved in any wrongdoing.

A spokesman for the Chancellor said last night: "We said at the time that the MPS met with George, that he had been notified that his name and home telephone number appeared on notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire. The MPS said they had no further evidence to suggest George's voicemail had been hacked or attempted to be hacked and there has been no subsequent contact."

Ms Rowe, who says she wants to use her case to shine light on the connections between News International and the Conservative Party, said: "I don't know what, if anything, passed between George Osborne and Andy Coulson after all this. But after the way the News of the World went after him, you would have thought he'd want nothing more to do with them or the editor who published the story."

A News International spokesperson said: "News Corporation's Management and Standards Committeeis co-operating fully with the Metropolitan Police and is facilitating their investigation into illegal voicemail interception and related issues at the News of the World."

The story behind the story

The story which appeared on the front pages of the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror on 16 October 2005 could not have come at a worse time for George Osborne and the then Conservative education spokesman, David Cameron.

The future prime minister, at the time bidding to lead the Tory party, had found himself increasingly dogged by challenges to state whether or not he had used drugs during his university days. The publication of a picture of his Notting Hill Set friend and campaign manager alongside a dominatrix and a claimed line of cocaine helped to further stoke the flames of controversy.

Within a few days, however, the two men had successfully batted away the issue as Conservative heavyweights, including Mr Cameron's leadership rival David Davis, offered their support for the right to remain silent. Commentators later suggested that the story about Mr Osborne, which he described as being part of a "smear campaign" against him, may have helped him by denting his image as an out-of-touch "Tory toff".

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2011-08-18T05:06:00.000-07:00

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Hackers gather in Germany for computing 'Woodstock'

2011-08-17T05:47:00.000-07:00

With hammocks hanging from trees and the smell of marijuana lingering in the air, the summer camp organised by Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) almost felt like Woodstock.

But instead of hippies it was computer hackers who had flooded this year's summer camp. And instead of flower power the talk was of the latest controversies in cyberspace, especially the legality of hacking and the role of famed whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

Organised by the CCC, which fights for freedom of information through hacking, the camp takes place every four years and is a venue for computer fans to meet, debate hacking issues and try out new technology.

Hosted over four days last week at a former Soviet base in Finowfurt, north of Berlin, the camp attracted an estimated 3,500 hackers from 50 countries, up from 2,300 people in 2007, CCC spokesman Frank Rieger said.

Mixing conferences with workshops with titles such as "Cyberpeace and datalove", the camp attracted a young and mostly male crowd, united by the CCC slogan "Protect private data, exploit public data".

But beyond the "peace and love" atmosphere, the hacking community was split on several issues.

"Hackers are very individualistic, they don't like being put in boxes," explained Rieger.

One hot-button topic was Julian Assange's controversial agenda, following the release of hacked US diplomatic cables this year which again divided opinion on the whistleblower site and its founder.

Former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, now a self-sworn enemy of Assange, used the Finowfurt event to announce the launch of his own platform, OpenLeaks, and challenged CCC members to hack it.

"He wants to use us as a credibility voucher," said the CCC's Andy Mueller-Maguhn, a close friend of Assange who stands out from the hacking crowd with his pressed shirt and briefcase.

"It's very annoying. By definition, our movement is an open one," he said, "but sometimes one has to set limits."

Another issue up for debate was the legality of hacking, where many agree the lines are blurred.

Samuel Lesueur of the French hacker group Ecolab said he has always chosen "the legal route" but admits that "out of the boundaries of the association, everyone does as they please".

"Anything that's illegal has no legitimacy to me," said Jeremie Zimmermann, from "La Quadrature du Net", a French group promoting Internet freedom.

But Zimmermann admits to campaigning against laws in France that ban downloading data from the Internet and downplayed spectacular hacking attacks by the groups Anonymous and LulzSec.

"Anonymous and LulzSec, that's not terrorism, that's merely vandalism," he said.

LulzSec claimed responsibility for a 50-day rampage earlier this year against international businesses and government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the US Senate and electronics giant Sony.

The group has since disbanded.

Last week another hacker group attacked the websites of numerous US police agencies in protest at the arrest of a number of their peers, including hackers from the group Anonymous.

But it was not all philosophical debate at Finowfurt.

"I want to hack my girlfriend's webcam in order to spy on her," confessed one young man, who did not want to give his name.

"But I couldn't find anyone to tell me how to do it," he added, looking dejected.

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Hackers Attack Two BART Websites Following Prevented Protest

2011-08-17T05:30:00.000-07:00

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system is finding itself in hot water after a cell phone service was shut down last Thursday, Aug. 11, in order to stop a planned protest from occurring. BART acknowledged the report that the cell phone towers were taken down shortly after the incident.

“Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices to coordinate their disruptive activities and communicate about the location and number of BART Police,” a statement the website of BART said. “A civil disturbance during commute times at busy downtown San Francisco stations could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions for BART customers, employees and demonstrators. BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform.”

The cell phone network runs from Balboa Park Station through Transbay Tube. BART is receiving criticism for blocking the service and the incident was even compared to recent Middle Eastern tactics where dictators stopped broadcasting Internet services in order to stop protests from happening.

“All over the world, people are using mobile devices to protest oppressive regimes, and governments are shutting down cell phone towers and the Internet to stop them,” Michael Risher, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said. “It’s outrageous that in San Francisco, BART is doing the same thing.”

Organizers had planned to protest the July 3 shooting of Charles Blair Hill, who was carrying a knife in a downtown BART station before he was shot by police.

Since the incident in question, the hacker group Anonymous have hacked into the BART train service website and have released sensitive customer data in what many are calling “their retaliation” to preventing the protest and their first amendment rights.

The information leaked contains information such as the names of passwords of more than 2,000 people that use the service, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In a statement, the computer hacking group noted that the website had no security and that an “8-year-old with an Internet connection” could have been able to hack it. “We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency,” the hackers said.

Following the incident, BART spokesman Jim Allison issued the following statement: “We’re going to take steps to make sure our customers are safe. The interruption of cell phone service was done Thursday to prevent what could have been a dangerous situation. It’s one of the tactics we have at our disposal. We may use it; we may not. And I’m not sure we would necessarily let anyone know in advance either way.”

Since hacking their first website earlier in the week, the hacking group has also hacked into the database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association, with sensitive database information from that website also being posted online. Full names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, and passwords were leaked.

“These people are criminals and we’re going to forward this information to the FBI,” BART union president, Jesse Sekhon, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “These people need to be brought to justice. They can’t be terrorizing people.”

“BART police officers are used to working in dangerous situations, but they aren’t used to having their family members exposed to danger,” BART’s Deputy Police Chief Ben Farrow told Bay City News.

On Monday, many took part in what was described as a civil protest following the prevented protest last week. Four San Francisco subway stations were closed because of it and people that were going to use the service had to find an alternative station or another way home.

The @OpBART Twitter account notes that a second round of protests will take place this upcoming Monday at 5PM at the Civic Center station.

A Writer's Reference with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

2011-08-15T10:20:00.000-07:00

A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.

A Writer’s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
A Writer’s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
A Writer’s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.

About the Author

DIANA HACKER's handbooks, used at almost half of the colleges and universities in the country, are the most widely adopted in America. A member of the English faculty at Prince George's Community College in Maryland for almost 35 years, Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students. Diana Hacker's other handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include The Bedford Handbook (2006); Rules for Writers (2004); andA Pocket Style Manual (2004).

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

NANCY SOMMERS, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well-known for her research and publications on student writing. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of undergraduate writing. Nancy Sommers is co-author of Fields of Reading, Ninth Edition (2010) for Bedford/St. Martin’s.

TOM JEHN teaches composition and directs the writing across the disciplines program at Harvard University. A recipient of numerous teaching awards both at Harvard and at the University of Virginia, he also leads professional development seminars on writing instruction for public high school teachers through the Calderwood Writing Fellows Project.

JANE ROSENZWEIG, a published author of fiction and non-fiction, teaches composition and directs the writing center at Harvard University. She has also taught writing at Yale University and the University of Iowa.

MARCY CARBAJAL VAN HORN, assistant professor of English and ESL at Santa Fe Community College (FL), teaches composition to native and nonnative speakers of English and teaches the Advanced ESL Writing course. She has also taught university-level academic writing and critical thinking at Instituto Technológico y de Estudios Superiores in Mexico.

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Of the more than 500 experienced composition instructors who reviewed the new edition, a core group served as an editorial advisory board — carefully reviewing all new material in depth, making sure the book would work as well for their students as it always had.
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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

2011-08-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws. This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications.

The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results.

The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger", Dafydd developed the popular Burp Suite of web application hack tools.

"If you have an interest in web application security, I would highly recommend picking up a copy of this book, especially if you’re interested in being able to audit applications for vulnerabilities".
—Robert Wesley McGrew, McGrew Security

Reader'a Review :

This is the most important IT security title written in the past year or more. Why? Custom web applications offer more opportunities for exploitation than all of the publicized vulnerabilities your hear about combined. This book gives expert treatment to the subject. I found the writing to be very clear and concise in this 727 page volume. There is minimal fluff. While everything is clearly explained, this is not a beginners book. The authors assume that you can read html, JavaScript, etc... Usually with a book like this there are a few really good chapters and some so-so chapters, but that's not the case here. Chapters 3-18 in this book rock all the way through. Another huge plus is the tools in this book are free.

The first few chapters provide context and background information. Chapter 3 on Web Application Technologies provides particularly useful background info. The next 666 pages of the book are all about attacking the applications.

There next five chapters cover mapping application functionality, client side controls, authentication, sessions, and access controls. The coverage is comprehensive. I'm not new to these topics, but I learned so much in every chapter. The depth of coverage is amazing.

The next six chapters are the heart of this book. They cover injection, path traversal, application logic, XSS and related attacks, automating attacks, and information disclosure. You'll find full treatment of attacks we're all familiar with like SQL injection and cross site scripting as well as many that most of us haven't heard of before. The danger is real and these chapters need to be read.

The final next four chapters cover attacks against compiled applications, application architecture, web servers, and source code. The final two chapters are more useful as a quick reference. They provide an overview of the tools covered throughout the book and describe attack methodology discussed throughout the book for exploiting each technology.

This book scores five easily based on the relevance and value of the information.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

2011-08-14T09:18:00.000-07:00

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution , This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers.

Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.

Amazon.com Exclusive: The Rant Heard Round the World
By Steven Levy

Author Steven Levy

When I began researching Hackers--so many years ago that it’s scary--I thought I’d largely be chronicling the foibles of a sociologically weird cohort who escaped normal human interaction by retreating to the sterile confines of computers labs. Instead, I discovered a fascinating, funny cohort who wound up transforming human interaction, spreading a culture that affects our views about everything from politics to entertainment to business. The stories of those amazing people and what they did is the backbone of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

But when I revisited the book recently to prepare the 25th Anniversary Edition of my first book, it was clear that I had luckily stumbled on the origin of a computer (and Internet) related controversy that still permeates the digital discussion. Throughout the book I write about something I called The Hacker Ethic, my interpretation of several principles implicitly shared by true hackers, no matter whether they were among the early pioneers from MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club (the Mesopotamia of hacker culture), the hardware hackers of Silicon Valley’s Homebrew Computer Club (who invented the PC industry), or the slick kid programmers of commercial game software. One of those principles was “Information Should Be Free.” This wasn’t a justification of stealing, but an expression of the yearning to know more so one could hack more. The programs that early MIT hackers wrote for big computers were stored on paper tapes. The hackers would keep the tapes in a drawer by the computer so anyone could run the program, change it, and then cut a new tape for the next person to improve. The idea of ownership was alien.

This idea came under stress with the advent of personal computers. The Homebrew Club was made of fanatic engineers, along with a few social activists who were thrilled at the democratic possibilities of PCs. The first home computer they could get their hands on was 1975’s Altair, which came in a kit that required a fairly hairy assembly process. (Its inventor was Ed Roberts, an underappreciated pioneer who died earlier this year.) No software came with it. So it was a big deal when 19-year-old Harvard undergrad Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen wrote a BASIC computer language for it. The Homebrew people were delighted with Altair BASIC, but unhappy that Gates and Allen charged real money for it. Some Homebrew people felt that their need for it outweighed their ability to pay. And after one of them got hold of a “borrowed” tape with the program, he showed up at a meeting with a box of copies (because it is so easy to make perfect copies in the digital age), and proceeded to distribute them to anyone who wanted one, gratis.

This didn’t sit well with Bill Gates, who wrote what was to become a famous “Letter to Hobbyists,” basically accusing them of stealing his property. It was the computer-age equivalent to Luther posting the Ninety-Five Theses on the Castle Church. Gate’s complaints would reverberate well into the Internet age, and variations on the controversy persist. Years later, when another undergrad named Shawn Fanning wrote a program called Napster that kicked off massive piracy of song files over the Internet, we saw a bloodier replay of the flap. Today, issues of cost, copying and control still rage--note Viacom’s continuing lawsuit against YouTube and Google. And in my own business—journalism--availability of free news is threatening more traditional, expensive new-gathering. Related issues that also spring from controversies in Hackers are debates over the “walled gardens” of Facebook and Apple’s iPad.

I ended the original Hackers with a portrait of Richard Stallman, an MIT hacker dedicated to the principle of free software. I recently revisited him while gathering new material for the 25th Anniversary Edition of Hackers, he was more hard core than ever. He even eschewed the Open Source movement for being insufficiently noncommercial.

When I spoke to Gates for the update, I asked him about his 1976 letter and the subsequent intellectual property wars. “Don’t call it war,” he said. “Thank God we have an incentive system. Striking the right balance of how this should work, you know, there's going to be tons of exploration.” Then he applied the controversy to my own situation as a journalism. “Things are in a crazy way for music and movies and books,” he said. “Maybe magazine writers will still get paid 20 years from now. Who knows? Maybe you'll have to cut hair during the day and just write articles at night.”

So Amazon.com readers, it’s up to you. Those who have not read Hackers,, have fun and be amazed at the tales of those who changed the world and had a hell of time doing it. Those who have previously read and loved Hackers, replace your beat-up copies, or the ones you loaned out and never got back, with this beautiful 25th Anniversary Edition from O’Reilly with new material about my subsequent visits with Gates, Stallman, and younger hacker figures like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. If you don’t I may have to buy a scissors--and the next bad haircut could be yours!

Read Bill Gates' letter to hobbyists

About the Author

Levy is a senior writer for Wired. Previously, he was chief technology writer and a senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written six books and had articles published in Harper's, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Premiere, and Rolling Stone. Steven has won several awards during his 30+ years of writing about technology, including Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best Sci-Tech book written in the last twenty years and, Crypto, which won the grand eBook prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book festival.

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Hackers Can Attack the Human Body

2011-08-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

Hackers Increasingly aggressive exploit vulnerabilities in cyberspace. In the future hackers can invade the human body.

At a security conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Jay Radcliffe showing how to stop the function of two medical devices commonly used to treat diabetes that can harm patients. All of this activity is done via an Internet connection.

Equipment susceptible to such attacks is the insulin pump, which can be controlled remotely. In this instrument gauges paired wireless glucose monitors blood sugar levels, continuous glucose meter (CGM). Every five minutes this information is passed on to insulin pumps attached to the arm.

"Wireless communications to wireless pump was not safe. This equipment is not designed to patch security holes," he said. "These devices are most vulnerable to attack hackers."

Wireless electronic devices, such as smart cellular phones or tablet computers, generally have a security system provided by the vendor patches regularly. This firmware update process to make hackers work harder to penetrate the security system.

Radcliffe tried to understand the technical specifications of CGM. He found the communication between the body sensors and monitors can be done without having to identify who the recipient of the data. He also found the chip inside the device the same as those used on computer networks used in the world auto industry.

A virus designed and inserted into the USB devices that communicate on radio frequency and can be purchased easily through eBay for $ 20. Virus Radcliffe experimental results can lead to blood sugar monitors stopped working at once deadly insulin pump.

Without enough insulin, diabetics will suffer from blurred vision and kidney damage in the long run. If it continues, the patient began to sweat and loss of motor function, respiratory system failure, and death.

Radcliffe artificial virus is only to show security holes in devices which support human health. "The danger is always lurking, we can not simply ignore," he said. "Nobody wants to pave the insulin pump 15 years ago, but many smart people out there who can do it."

Hong Kong returned to normal yesterday after a hacker attack

2011-08-11T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., operator of the largest stock exchange by market value, yesterday suspended trading in shares of several companies, including HSBC Holdings Plc after the bourse website is burglarized hackers.

Europe's biggest bank by market capitalization, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., and five other stock trading halted after a malicious attack on the bourse website on the disclosure of information. Hacker attacks came after the Hong Kong bourse rebounds.

"The situation is very worrisome because the attacks targeting the mechanisms of information disclosure," said Charles Mok, head of the Internet Society.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspended trading in issuers who publish information that is sensitive to stock price, including the matter of performance and acquisitions. HSBC said its stock stopped trading yesterday as the statement on the sale of units of credit card and retail services in the United States.

Wednesday afternoon, the stock convince investors that these investors have equal access to information. Hong Kong's chief executive Charles Li said the exchange would put up an online bulletin board as an alternate and will advertise in print media to tell where investors can access the data issuers. "Based on our investigation, this is an attack from outside hackers," Li said yesterday (10 / 8) in a press conference.

Li added that the current stock is looking to know where the hacker. Hong Kong Exchange Commissioner Ronald Arculli said the bourse was reviewing its technology infrastructure. Arculli said today, Hong Kong's return to normal operation.

Technology Crime Division of the Hong Kong Police are currently investigating the burglary case of this stock. Similarly, the stock regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission.

First in Defcon, Hacker Classes for Children

2011-08-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

Defcon, the world-level conference for the hackers (hackers) held a Kids Defcon, hackers classes specifically for children. This performance is the first time in 19 years organizing Defcon.

Class discussions and tutorials are intended for children ages 8 to 16 years. Demand no less, 60 children attend classes that took place during the 6 to August 7, 2011 last. Defcon is itself a convention attended by some 10,000 hackers to share their knowledge about the techniques to penetrate and secure the computer and other devices.

In the event that was held in Las Vegas, USA, 4-7 August 2011, these children were divided into two classes. Here they met the veteran hackers, security experts from the Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. They also listened to the history of hacking and cryptography lesson.

The participants also had the opportunity to follow demonstrations and workshops with various themes such as learning to unlock the Masters, Google Hacking, Making Electronics, Social Engineering, Coding in Scratch and Communicating in Code. The committee provides work space for kids who want to participate in hacking activities, including codebreaking Museum, Makerbot and Hardware Hacking Station.

Children are welcome to participate in a hacking competition that was held specifically for them. One is the competition reveals the key to be used for example when they forget the key combination of storage cabinets. They are also challenged to find vulnerabilities in a number of devices, ranging from games to computer devices.

Race committee require that parents accompany children who follow this particular class. "Defcon Kids not childcare. Children are the responsibility of the parents so they must be accompanied throughout the session in both the classroom and work space," reads a warning in the official website Defcon Kids.

Participants of this particular class of mostly children who were born and raised in environments that are very familiar with the computer world. Some even already have a certificate in information technology. One of Xavier, a man 14 years already have two certificates in IT. Xavier is the son of Rey Ayers, 42, an information security specialist from one company in San Francisco, and won the Defcon.

To participate in this class, parents and children must have Defcon badge, which can be obtained at registration at a cost of $ 150.

Source : National Geographic

Hackers Threaten Manufacturers BlackBerry

2011-08-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

London - Chaos in England gave birth to a "war" between the manufacturer of BlackBerry versus new hackers. After the manufacturers of BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), the British promised to help police control riots, hackers (hackers) got angry. A hacker calling himself Trick-TeamPoison retaliated by attacking the official blog of RIM. They changed the front page of the blog.

Hacker also claims the employees pocketed RIM data. According zdnet.co.uk page, if RIM is continuing its plan to help the police then the hacker team will present its information-sensitive information RIM employees. "We have access to your database, including address, name, phone number, if you continue to assist the police, we will make this information available to the public and present it to the rioters," wrote the message.

Trick-TeamPoison also threatened if RIM is helping the police with a track record of conversation data BlackBerry users who allegedly associated with the British riots, RIM would regret.
RIM had promised to expose the location (based on GPS data) those related riots.

Riots swept through London. The unrest which started last Saturday at Tottenham Hale, London, England, has also been extended to a number of areas. Currently London is conducive conditions, but places like Manchester actually started to increase their damaging action. Widespread rioting that began with the shooting of Mark Duggan is growing rapidly because of the role of the BlackBerry messaging service or BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

TeamPoison also mocking Twitter BlackBerry in the UK. One chirp TeamPoison to account @ UK_blackberry is "Now we sit and laugh, see the BlackBerry repair his blog."

BlackBerry's official blog yesterday had an addressable blogs.blackberry.com down between 17.00 local time. RIM Center in Canada has declined to comment on the condition of their blog.

RIM's threat against vandals london raises a lot of rumors circulating in the fuel forums and Twitter. Rumor is called the RIM BlackBerry messaging service will be shut down to prevent communication between the rioters.

Reasons Hackers Getting Close Facebook Account

2011-08-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

The hackers who are members of the group "Anonymous" calls upon all owners of a Facebook account to close their accounts on 5 November. The reason, Blogger will attack and 'destroy' social networking site owned by Mark Zuckerberg on that day.

According to Wikileaks supporters hacker groups, they were determined to bring down the prestige of having violated the privacy of Facebook users. According to Anonymous, Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and providing confidential access to corporate information security so they can spy on everyone around the world.

"Although you have deleted the account, but the data you keep stored on Facebook," wrote Anonymous, as quoted by the Daily Mail, Thursday, August 11, 2011.

Anonymous chose November 5 to carry out the mission 'Operation Facebook' because on that day occurred when Guy Fawkes event tried to blow up parliament in 1605.

"Someday you will all realize what we are doing is the right step and you will thank me," he said. "We actually save you."

Facebook, which was established in 2004 now has more than 750 million members spread throughout the world. Estimated value of the company led Zuckerberg is estimated to reach U.S. $ 13.5 billion.

The movement to close the account up on November 5 has been deployed since last month. When that Anonymous uses Twitter and send the video to YouTube to build support.

Anonymous is a group of hackers who spread through the Internet in secret. This group was first established in 2003 with the name of 4chan. Beru But he is widely known in late 2006.

Several attacks have been carried Anonymous in between breaking into various bank accounts, the Pentagon, and News Corp.. Last year, the group attacked PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa because it has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks.

Not everyone responded to the invitation Anonymous to close his Facebook account on that date. Eugene Kaspersky, for example. Through Twitter account, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab is also a cyber security expert, said: "The attacks on Facebook on November 5, it might be fake."-DAILY MAIL-

Guy Fawkes Night cyber attack on Facebook threatened in video

2011-08-11T09:17:00.000-07:00

Facebook hacked, Anonymous could be planning a Nov. 5 cyber attack agianst the world's largest social networking site, Facebook.

A single video was published to a YouTube account called FacebookOp, claiming to be from Anonymous that said the group would be hacking into Facebook and taking the site down.

"We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows: Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," reads a written statement posted in the YouTube description of the video. "If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy."

Whoever posted the video -- whether actually from members of Anonymous or someone claiming to be affiliated with the group -- said the reasoning behind the planned attack was allegations of Facebook selling its users' personal information to government agencies "so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria. "

Facebook officials were unavailable for comment on the video or the allegedly planned attack.

The video was shared on Twitter on July 16, the day the video first hit YouTube, by a user going by the name of Op_Facebook. The tweet to share the video has been the only message sent from that account so far and no other videos have been uploaded to YouTube.

"You cannot hide from the reality in which you, the people of the internet, live in," the statement paired with the video reads. "Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.

"The riots are underway. It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. It's unfolding because people are being raped, tickled, molested, and confused into doing things where they don't understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is 'free,' it really means they're making money off of you and your information."

Anonymous has about a dozen Twitter and YouTube accounts and has a loose structure with no one leader or spokesperson representing the group, which has in the past claimed hacks into the Iranian government, PayPal, Visa and tech companies working for the FBI and other government agencies. The group also used its YouTube and Twitter pages to post video created by those in Tunisia who revolted against their government in January.

It's clear the group's philosophy is one that isn't big on governments or police agencies as they currently exist.

But given the largely undefined barriers as to what Anonymous is or isn't, it's difficult to gauge how much weight is or isn't behind this seemingly ignored threat made against Facebook.

One piece of the puzzle that is, however, easy to decipher is the Nov. 5 date on which the cyber attack could take place. Nov. 5 is Guy Fawkes Night, the night in 1605 in which Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives beneath London's House of Lords in an attempt to kill numerous politicians and King James I.

Members and supporters of Anonymous adopted the Guy Fawkes mask, as depicted in the comic book and film "V for Vendetta," as a symbol for the group.

Lately, however, Anonymous members have been more active as members of AntiSec, a mash-up of Anonymous and members of LulzSec, a hacking group that has said it hacked more for entertainment than over political philosophy.

[Updated 10:31 a.m.: A spokeswoman for Facebook, Gwen Belomy, said the Palo Alto company is declining to comment.]

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Anonymous attack again! Syrian Ministry of Defenses Website Redesigned - What Blows My Mind

Malware increases by 46% in only one year

2011-06-01T21:18:00.000-07:00

There is a steady growth of threats to mobile platforms, according to a new McAfee report.

The number of pieces of new mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009. The report also uncovered 20 million new pieces of malware in 2010, equating to nearly 55,000 new malware threats every day.

Of the almost 55 million total pieces of malware McAfee Labs has identified, 36 percent was created in 2010. Concurrently, spam accounted for 80 percent of total email traffic in Q4 2010, the lowest point since the first quarter of 2007.

Threats to mobile platforms are not new. However, as more consumers use mobile devices and tablets in their daily lives and at work, cybercriminals have taken note. During the last several years, McAfee Labs has seen a steady growth in the number of threats to mobile devices.

Some of the most interesting mobile threats of Q4 2010 were SymbOS/Zitmo.A and Android/Geinimi. SymbOS/Zitmo.A was a high-profile threat that struck early in the quarter. The creators of the Zeus botnet repurposed an old version of a commercial spyware package.

Android/Geinimi, a Trojan inserted into legitimate mobile applications and games for the Android platform, was one of the most important threats of the quarter.

With the adoption of so many new mobile platforms, combined with the lack of security awareness and mobile safeguards, McAfee Labs expects cybercriminals to use botnet infections to target mobile devices.

In Q4 2010, Cutwail was dethroned as the global leader in botnet activity, with Rustock the most prevalent in many parts of the world, and Bobax closely trailing behind the two.

The onslaught of malware seems to have no end, and the proliferation of both handled and IP-enabled devices’ affect on this growth remains to be seen. The top malware threats in Q4 2010 were very different in various geographies, due in part to the larger trend that threats now tend to match the types of users, habits and events that are specific to a region.

Favorites for cybercriminals worldwide this quarter consisted of AutoRun malware (Generic!atr), banking Trojans and downloaders (PWS or Generic.dx), as well as web-based exploits (StartPage and Exploit-MS04-028).

Spam hitting its lowest levels in years can be attributed to a “transition period,” with several botnets going dormant during a time of year when spam volumes are usually on an upward path.

In Q4, McAfee Labs learned the Bredolab botnet had been closed along with parts of the Zeus botnet. Around the Christmas holiday, spam from the Rustock, Lethic, and Xarvester botnets all disappeared, while the spam leaders this quarter were the Bobax and Grum botnets.

As more users access the Internet from an ever-expanding pool of devices—computer, tablet, smartphone or Internet TV—web-based threats will continue to grow in size and sophistication. In Q4, some of the most active threats included Zeus-Murofet, Conficker and Koobface, and the number of potentially malicious domains grew at a rapid pace.

Phishing URLs in the form of the IRS, gift cards, rewards accounts, and social networking accounts were also among the most popular. McAfee Labs found that within the top 100 results of the top daily search terms, 51 percent led to malicious sites, and on average each of these poisoned results pages contained more than five malicious links.

McAfee Labs expects attacks using the techniques of search-engine abuse and trend abuse to focus more specifically on new types of devices in 2011.

In 2009, McAfee Labs predicted that vulnerabilities in Adobe product would become the clear choice of malware authors and cybercriminals for distribution malware and compromising systems and networks. This prediction has come true. Throughout 2010 malware developers have heavily exploited weaknesses in both Flash and especially PDF technologies.

McAfee Labs databases reveal that malicious PDFs targeting Adobe Acrobat topped the number of unique samples by a wide margin, making them the favorite target of client-side exploitation. McAfee Labs is certain that the “Adobe” trend will continue this year, as more mobile devices and non-Microsoft operating systems support various Adobe technologies.

Turning Firefox to an Ethical Hacking Platform

2011-05-31T21:13:00.000-07:00

Turning Firefox to an Ethical Hacking Platform

Internet is an amazing virtual world where you can "virtually" do anything: gambling, playing, watching movies,

shopping, working, “VoIPying”, spying other people and for sure auditing remote systems.

The security testers’ community has a large panel of security tools, methodologies and much more to perform

their pentests and audit assessments. But what happens if you find yourself weaponless.

No more Top 100 security tools, no more LiveCDs and no more exploitation frameworks. A security auditor

without toolbox is like a cop without gun.

Nevertheless, there is maybe a way to rescue yourself from this nightmare situation.

The magical solution could be Firefox and its extensions developed by ethical hackers and coders.

This article comes as an update for what we posted previously about how to switch your Firefox to more than an

usual simple browser. It was about application auditing

Here is an updated list of useful security auditing extensions:

Information gathering

● Whois and geo-location

o ShowIP : Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying

custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois,

netcraft.

o Shazou : The product called Shazou (pronounced Shazoo it is Japanese for mapping)

enables the user with one-click to map and geo-locate any website they are currently

viewing.

o HostIP.info Geolocation : Displays Geolocation information for a website using hostip.info

data. Works with all versions of Firefox.

o Active Whois : Starting Active Whois to get details about any Web site owner and its host

server.

o Bibirmer Toolbar : An all-in-one extension. But auditors need to play with the toolbox. It

includes (WhoIs, DNS Report, Geolocation, Traceroute, Ping). Very useful for information

gathering phase

● Enumeration / fingerprinting

o Header Spy : Shows HTTP headers on statusbar

o Header Monitor : This is Firefox extension for display on statusbar panel any HTTP

response header of top level document returned by a web server. Example: Server (by

default), Content-Encoding, Content-Type, X-Powered-By and others.

● Social engineering

o People Search and Public Record : This Firefox extension is a handy menu tool for

investigators, reporters, legal professionals, real estate agents, online researchers and

anyone interested in doing their own basic people searches and public record lookups as

well as background research.

● Googling and spidering

o Advanced dork : Gives quick access to Google’s Advanced Operators directly from the

context menu. This could be used to spider a site or scan for hidden files (this spider

technique is used via scroogle.org)

o SpiderZilla : Spiderzilla is an easy-to-use website mirror utility, based on Httrack from

www.httrack.com.

o View Dependencies : View Dependencies adds a tab to the "page info" window, in which it

lists all the files which were loaded to show the current page. (useful for a spidering

technique)

Security Assessment / Code auditing

● Editors

o JSView : The ’view page source’ menu item now opens files based on the behaviour you

choose in the jsview options. This allows you to open the source code of any web page in

a new tab or in an external editor.

o Cert Viewer Plus : Adds two options to the certificate viewer in Firefox or Thunderbird: an

X.509 certificate can either be displayed in PEM format (Base64/RFC 1421, opens in a new

window) or saved to a file (in PEM or DER format - and PKCS#7 provided that the

respective patch has been applied - cf.

o Firebug : Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your

fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

live in any web page

o XML Developer Toolbar : Allows XML Developer’s use of standard tools all from your

browser.

● Headers manipulation

o HeaderMonitor : This is Firefox extension for display on statusbar panel any HTTP response

header of top level document returned by a web server. Example: Server (by default),

Content-Encoding, Content-Type, X-Powered-By and others.

o RefControl : Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referrer on a per-site basis.

o User Agent Switcher : Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the

browser

● Cookies manipulation

o Add N Edit Cookies : Cookie Editor that allows you add and edit "session" and saved

cookies.

o CookieSwap : CookieSwap is an extension that enables you to maintain numerous sets or

"profiles" of cookies that you can quickly swap between while browsing

o httpOnly : Adds httpOnly cookie support to Firefox by encrypting cookies marked as

httpOnly on the browser side

o Allcookies : Dumps ALL cookies (including session cookies) to Firefox standard cookies.txt

file

● Security auditing

o HackBar : This toolbar will help you in testing SQL injections, XSS holes and site security. It

is NOT a tool for executing standard exploits and it will NOT teach you how to hack a site.

Its main purpose is to help a developer do security audits on his code.

o Tamper Data : Use “tamper data” to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post

parameters.

o Chickenfoot : Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that puts a programming environment in

the browser’s sidebar so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web

browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of JavaScript that includes

special functions specific to web tasks.

Proxy/web utilities

● FoxyProxy : FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s

proxy configuration. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy,

ProxyTex, etc

● SwitchProxy : SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations

quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes

● POW (Plain Old WebServer) : The Plain Old Webserver uses Server-side JavaScript (SJS) to run a

server inside your browser. Use it to distribute files from your browser. It supports Server-side JS,

GET, POST, uploads, Cookies, SQLite and AJAX. It has security features to password-protect your

site. Users have created a wiki, chat room and search engine using SJS.

Misc

● Hacks for fun

o Greasemonkey : Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of

JavaScript (scripts could be download here)

● Encryption

o Fire Encrypter : FireEncrypter is a Firefox extension which gives you encryption/decryption

and hashing functionalities right from your Firefox browser, mostly useful for developers or

for education & fun.

Malware scanner

● QArchive.org web files checker : Allowing people to check web files for any malware (viruses,

trojans, worms, adware, spyware and other unwanted things) inclusions.

● Dr.Web anti-virus link checker : This plugin allows you to check any file you are about to download,

any page you are about to visit

● ClamWin Antivirus Glue for Firefox : This extension scans every downloaded file automatically with

ClamWin.

Anti Spoof

● refspoof : Easy to pretend to origin from a site by overriding the URL referrer (in a http request). —

It incorporates this feature by using the pseudo-protocol spoof:// .. Thus it’s possible to store the

information in a "hyperlink" - that can be used in any context... like html pages or bookmarks

Besides, we keep watching new extensions and we are on the way to develop a new extension for Nmap and Nessus.

Thank You

INDIAN CYBER SQUAD TEAM

“Scenarios and Impacts of Cyber Terrorism”

2011-04-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

We are currently living in Cyber age, where Internet and computers have major impacts on our way of living, social life and the way we conduct businesses. and owing to this the new kind of crime has evolved that troubles users with the computer more precisely, criminal exploitation of the Internet.

▬ The trafficking, distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important Cyber crimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to humanity can hardly be amplified. This is one Cyber crime which threatens to undermine the growth of the younger generation as also leave irreparable scars and injury on the younger generation, if not controlled

▬ Cyber terrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorize the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website.
▬ Corporate espionage has shifted grounds — it has now become digital and certainly more dangerous.
Planting a mole in a rival company to get sensitive data or hiring a detective firm to get access to company secrets are passé.
Take for instance, the case of a Delhi-based software firm whose sensitive source code data was stolen. The company that was working on one of its software lost its data to hackers.

Cyber criminals target trade secrets and product planning documents that they later sell to rival firms, many people have access to a computer whether at home, school, or a local coffee shop. As a result, cyber crime can be committed from almost anywhere. And for those that aren't computer savvy, falling victim may be easier than you would think. But there are some precautions you can take to help guard you and your family against cyber crime, Antivirus And Anti spyware Software which are used to restrict backdoor program, trojans and other spy wares to be installed on the computer then there are firewalls which protect a computer network from unauthorized access.

Also there are Cyber ethics and cyber laws are being formulated to stop cyber crimes. It is a responsibility of every individual to follow cyber ethics and cyber laws so that the increasing cyber crimes shall reduce.

Besides these there are several steps you can take to protect your computer from cyber crime.

First, keep your computer's operating system and software updated. Manufacturers will regularly send out patches and fixes to defend your computer from problems. Secondly, install a firewall and make sure that it is turned on at all times. The firewall prevents hackers from gaining access to your computer as well as passwords that you've created. In some cases, when you install new software you need to turn off the firewall briefly. If you do, be sure to turn it back on immediately after installation. Thirdly, install anti-virus software and update it regularly. For best results, have it perform a daily scan to check for computer threats as well as any new software that may need to be installed. Lastly, be careful what you download. Many email attachments contain computer viruses which can be launched upon opening. If you don't know the sender, don't bother opening it. It's not worth the risk of an email virus.
E-mail Scams

• Today's cyber criminals are sophisticated, they can send e-mails that look like they are from reputable companies asking for your personal information. If you aren't aware of how they operate you may unwittingly send them information, which will give them access to your personal account information. Once they have this, they can drain your account of all available funds. Likewise, some criminals will send e-mails posing to be from foreign countries and asking for help with moving money from their country to America. The rule of thumb is, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Why would someone you don't know contact you with help moving money and offer you a cut of it? It doesn't add up and your best bet is to delete these e-mails immediately
Peer Sharing
• While it may seem great to swap files over the Internet there are many risks associated with it. Because all parties involved must download software, which allows them to access each others computers, it opens up opportunity for computer hackers to attack your system. Hackers can then release viruses and worms onto your hard drive. And if you didn't properly download the file sharing software, hackers may be able to see the entire contents of you hard drive, not just the drives where your shared files are stored. In addition, file sharing can make your computer the target of child pornography images. It can also result in copyright infringement violations. It's best to not share information with those you don't know, especially over an open connection on the computer. Instead, opt for sharing with those who are your friends and put the information on a flash drive. Also, don't share information that is copyrighted as it opens you up for being sued.

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Crack Wifi Network's WEP password with backtrack

2011-02-03T10:04:00.000-08:00

You already know that if you want to lock down your Wi-Fi network, you should opt for WPA encryption because WEP is easy to crack. But did you know how easy? Take a look.

What You'll Need

Unless you're a computer security and networking ninja, chances are you don't have all the tools on hand to get this job done. Here's what you'll need:

A compatible wireless adapter—This is the biggest requirement. You'll need a wireless adapter that's capable of packet injection, and chances are the one in your computer is not. After consulting with my friendly neighborhood security expert, I purchased an Alfa AWUS050NH USB adapter, pictured here, and it set me back about $50 on Amazon.Update: Don't do what I did. Get the Alfa AWUS036H, not the US050NH, instead. The guy in this video below is using a $12 model he bought on Ebay (and is even selling his router of choice). There are plenty of resources on getting aircrack-compatible adapters out there.
A BackTrack 3 Live CD. We already took you on a full screenshot tour of how to install and use BackTrack 3, the Linux Live CD that lets you do all sorts of security testing and tasks. Download yourself a copy of the CD and burn it, or load it up in VMware to get started. (I tried the BackTrack 4 pre-release, and it didn't work as well as BT3. Do yourself a favor and stick with BackTrack 3 for now.)
A nearby WEP-enabled Wi-Fi network. The signal should be strong and ideally people are using it, connecting and disconnecting their devices from it. The more use it gets while you collect the data you need to run your crack, the better your chances of success.
Patience with the command line. This is an ten-step process that requires typing in long, arcane commands and waiting around for your Wi-Fi card to collect data in order to crack the password. Like the doctor said to the short person, be a little patient.

Crack That WEP

To crack WEP, you'll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack's built-in command line. It's right there on the taskbar in the lower left corner, second button to the right. Now, the commands.

First run the following to get a list of your network interfaces:

airmon-ng

The only one I've got there is labeled ra0. Yours may be different; take note of the label and write it down. From here on in, substitute it in everywhere a command includes (interface).

Now, run the following four commands. See the output that I got for them in the screenshot below.

airmon-ng stop (interface) ifconfig (interface) down macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 (interface) airmon-ng start (interface)

If you don't get the same results from these commands as pictured here, most likely your network adapter won't work with this particular crack. If you do, you've successfully "faked" a new MAC address on your network interface, 00:11:22:33:44:55.

Now it's time to pick your network. Run:

airodump-ng (interface)

To see a list of wireless networks around you. When you see the one you want, hit Ctrl+C to stop the list. Highlight the row pertaining to the network of interest, and take note of two things: its BSSID and its channel (in the column labeled CH), as pictured below. Obviously the network you want to crack should have WEP encryption (in the ENC) column, not WPA or anything else.

Like I said, hit Ctrl+C to stop this listing. (I had to do this once or twice to find the network I was looking for.) Once you've got it, highlight the BSSID and copy it to your clipboard for reuse in the upcoming commands.

Now we're going to watch what's going on with that network you chose and capture that information to a file. Run:

airodump-ng -c (channel) -w (file name) --bssid (bssid) (interface)

Where (channel) is your network's channel, and (bssid) is the BSSID you just copied to clipboard. You can use the Shift+Insert key combination to paste it into the command. Enter anything descriptive for (file name). I chose "yoyo," which is the network's name I'm cracking.

You'll get output like what's in the window in the background pictured below. Leave that one be. Open a new Konsole window in the foreground, and enter this command:

aireplay-ng -1 0 -a (bssid) -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 -e (essid) (interface)

Here the ESSID is the access point's SSID name, which in my case is yoyo. What you want to get after this command is the reassuring "Association successful" message with that smiley face.

You're almost there. Now it's time for:

aireplay-ng -3 -b (bssid) -h 00:11:22:33:44:55 (interface)

Here we're creating router traffic to capture more throughput faster to speed up our crack. After a few minutes, that front window will start going crazy with read/write packets. (Also, I was unable to surf the web with the yoyo network on a separate computer while this was going on.) Here's the part where you might have to grab yourself a cup of coffee or take a walk. Basically you want to wait until enough data has been collected to run your crack. Watch the number in the "#Data" column—you want it to go above 10,000. (Pictured below it's only at 854.)

Depending on the power of your network (mine is inexplicably low at -32 in that screenshot, even though the yoyo AP was in the same room as my adapter), this process could take some time. Wait until that #Data goes over 10k, though—because the crack won't work if it doesn't. In fact, you may need more than 10k, though that seems to be a working threshold for many.

Once you've collected enough data, it's the moment of truth. Launch a third Konsole window and run the following to crack that data you've collected:

aircrack-ng -b (bssid) (file name-01.cap)

Here the filename should be whatever you entered above for (file name). You can browse to your Home directory to see it; it's the one with .cap as the extension.

If you didn't get enough data, aircrack will fail and tell you to try again with more. If it succeeds, it will look like this:

The WEP key appears next to "KEY FOUND." Drop the colons and enter it to log onto the network.

Problems Along the Way

With this article I set out to prove that cracking WEP is a relatively "easy" process for someone determined and willing to get the hardware and software going. I still think that's true, but unlike the guy in the video below, I had several difficulties along the way. In fact, you'll notice that the last screenshot up there doesn't look like the others—it's because it's not mine. Even though the AP which I was cracking was my own and in the same room as my Alfa, the power reading on the signal was always around -30, and so the data collection was very slow, and BackTrack would consistently crash before it was complete. After about half a dozen attempts (and trying BackTrack on both my Mac and PC, as a live CD and a virtual machine), I still haven't captured enough data for aircrack to decrypt the key.

So while this process is easy in theory, your mileage may vary depending on your hardware, proximity to the AP point, and the way the planets are aligned. Oh yeah, and if you're on deadline—Murphy's Law almost guarantees it won't work if you're on deadline.

Protect Your Facebook,gmail,Twitter account from Hackerz

2011-01-25T05:31:00.000-08:00

Now a days everybody uses Email accounts and social networking like Facebook , Twitter etc . . Lots of personal Information is associated with such social networking sites .. So this is important to protect such data from Hackers . . Because Hackers ( Black Hat Hackers ) always try to get others important data , information and use it for wrong purpose . . So please always try to be safe from hackers . .

Below i am telling u simple steps which you should follow :-

Never share your password to anyone.

1) Don't use password as your nick name, phone no. or pet names.
2) Use the combination of lower case, uper case, numbers and special characters for passwords.
3) Never click on any suspected link comes in a mail from unknown sender
4) Never give your passwords to any 3rd party websites for any service.
5) Use different passwords for different accounts.
6) Check the website url every time before login. EX: check url to be

http://www.facebook.com/

before login to face account. Never login to website such as

http://www.facebook.otherwebsit.com/

( Most Important )
7) Use secondary email address and mobile phone numbers with secret questions for account recovery.
8) Never use any javascript code in url while login to any of your email or any other website account. It may be a cookie stealer script.
9) use latest antivirus and antimalware softwares with firewall on.

These are some things which you should follow for safe surfing on Internet

I hope you like it . . Any queries just contact me anytime !!

Thanks . .

India Develops Android Lapatop at 1500 for School

2011-01-01T09:41:00.000-08:00

Gadget Guru, the gadget show by NDTV had interviewed Kapil Sibal, the Human Resource and Development minister about their very much rumored tablet PC that they were developing for a very low price. And its now confirmed that the product is going to be released soon, as the prototype presented by them was perfectly working. And Kapil Sibal said that it’s going to cost just $35 i.e. INR 1500.

Here are a few things about the tablet device -

Its based on android platform, and the performance is excellent, with all the features similar to the android devices presently sold in the market.
It has a virtual keyboard on the screen itself, which says it has a touchscreen with the resistive interface.
The connectivity is through Wi-fi
Camera – There is a camera on the back side of the device, which can help in capturing videos and taking pics.
The apps in android supports documents and plays videos and presentations.
There is a SIM card slot, along with a Flash card reader, and 2 USB slots, which are all the advantageous features when you compare to one of the biggest tablet devices around – iPad.

These tablet PCs are being made for students of various universities in India initially, and later would be available globally. But they are not going to be sold in the retail market. Around 1 million pieces would be launched and distributed in the colleges. Right now its with Android but later it might come in with Windows CE as Kapil says, Microsoft were interested in the project too.
Unlike many other rumors, this was a real news as the NDTV guys had tested the prototype and it has worked well with no bugs.

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Change Your Facebook Profile colour

2011-01-01T04:53:00.000-08:00

Firstly you have to download Greasemonkey (Needs Mozilla Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748

Restart Firefox (close app and open again)

Download Facebook Auto Colorizer http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/3626.user.js

And your’e done!

Go to Facebook, and you will definitley see a change!

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Malware Removal Software Free Download: Norman Malware Cleaner

2010-12-25T03:54:00.000-08:00

Malware Removal Software Free Download: Norman Malware Cleaner

Norman Malware Cleaner 1.8.2 Portable [13/11/2010] | 90.08 Mb

Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware). Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.

By downloading and running the program below it will clean an infected system completely:

* kill running processes that are infected
* remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
* reveal and remove rootkits
* restore correct registry values
* remove references created by malware in hosts file
* remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs

Switches to Norman Malware Cleaner

/iagree Agree to license agreement (popup window suppressed)
/scan Specify file/folder to scan
/norecurse Do not recurse into subfolders. Only valid when used with /scan
/exclude Specify file/folder to exclude
/run Start scanning automatically
/autoboot Reboot automatically after scan if needed
/quiet Do not display GUI
/log Specify log file
/noclean Skip the cleaning process
/nops Skip process scanning
/nounpack Skip archive scanning
/nosysvol Do not scan for changes to system restore after deleting a file
/List switches

Home Page - http://www.norman.com/support/support_tools/58732/

Download:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/mf96rMN/Norman_Malware_Cleaner.rar

Mirror 1 :

http://www.filesonic.com/file/32469417/Norman_Malware_Cleaner.rar

Mirror 2 :

http://hotfile.com/dl/82753423/bb4bfbb/Norman_Malware_Cleaner.rar

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TRACING AN EMAIL ADDRESS

2010-12-17T22:26:00.000-08:00

Hello Guys Nowadays spamming is the Most common .. Out of the 5 emails you receive 2 are spams... And Out of 5 spam Mails 1 contains Virus or Botnet.. Its hard to believe but its truth... So Today I am Going to share with you HOW TO TRACE THE EMAIL ADDRESS AND ORIGINAL SENDER?? .. So guys Read On..

TRACING AN EMAIL ADDRESS

The purpose of this guide is to show the process involved in tracing an email. The first step required to tracing an email is finding out the headers of the email. What are headers? Email headers are lines added at the top of an email message that are used by servers as the email goes on route to get delivered. Generally email clients only show the standard To, From, and Subject headers, but there are more.

1) Enabling Email Headers

Enabling Email Headers For Gmail
Step 1:Once Logged into your Gmail Account open the Email whose headers you want to view. Click on the “More Options” link in the message next to the date of the email.

Step 2: Now click the “Show Original” link.

Step 3: This link will popup a new window the headers and the body of the message.

Enabling Email Headers For Hotmail

Step 1:Once logged in, click on the "Options" link in the upper navigation bar.

Step 2: Now click on the "Mail Display Settings" link.

Step 3: Change the "Message Headers" option to "Full" and click ok.

Step 4: Go to your inbox and open any one of your email. You emails show now contain additional headers.

Enabling Email Headers For Yahoo

Step 1:Once logged in, click on the "Options" link in the upper navigation bar.

Step 2: Now click on the "General Preferences" link.

Step 3: In the paragraph titled Messages and locate the "Headers" heading and select "All".

Step 4: Go to your inbox and open any one of your email. You emails show now contain additional headers.

2) Understanding Email Headers

In this example the “Sender” located at sender@exampleuniversity.edu want to send an email to “Receiver” located at receiver@exampleisp.com. The sender composes his email at his workstation in the university’s computer lab (lab.exampleuniversity.edu). Once completed the email message is passed to the university’s mail server called mail.exampleuniversity.com. The mail server seeing that it has a message for receiver@exampleisp.com, contacts someisp.com mail server and delivers the email to it. The email is stored on someisp.com server until Receiver logs on to check his/her inbox.

In this example, four headers will be added to the email message. This first header is generated by email client on lab.exampleuniversity.edu when forwarding it to the mail server at mail.exampleuniversity.edu.

The following header is added when mail.exampleuniversity.edu transmits the message to mail.exampleisp.com.

The following header is added when mail.exampleisp.com stores the message on the server for Reciever.

The following header is added when Reciever downloads the email from home machine called reciever.local.

3) Tracking The Orginal Sender

The easiest way for finding the original sender is by looking for the X-Originating-IP header, this header is important since it tells you the IP Address of the computer that had sent the email. If you can not find the X-Originating-IP header then you will have to sift through the Received headers to find the sender's ip.

Once the email sender's ip is found go to http://www.arin.net/ to begin a search.

Now click on the "NET-24-16-0-0-1" link.

Scroll down the page untill you find the OrgAbuseEmail field.

Remember to include all the headers of the email along with an attached copy when filling a complaint

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How to Disable and Re-enable USB Ports

2010-12-17T22:00:00.000-08:00

Do you want to know how to Disable and Re-enable USB StorageDevices? It can be done through the Windows Registry.

To disable the access to USB port, in windows XP and 2000, follow the steps below
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
4. In the right pane, double-click on Start.
5. In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

To re-enable a disabled port, follow these steps below
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
4. In the right pane, double-click on Start.
5. In the Value data box, type 3, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
6. Quit Registry Editor.

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How to Block Programs or Application on Windows OS

2010-12-17T05:16:00.000-08:00

There are several ways to block programs from being run on the windows system. We can use registry or using software blocker to block a software in windows OS. Unhappily most of the software blocker not free, we must buy a few dollars to use full version of the software. The free solution for software blocker you can use AppAdmin.

AppAdmin is free software to restrict an application from being run in windows OS. This software can be used on windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. AppAdmin no require installation because this is portable software.

What is the benefit using blocking program to block application from being run on the windows OS? If you have a small children and often use your computer or the computer used in business, and don’t want the user install the program or use a few program installed in the computer you may need software blocker.

How to Block Programs from being run using AppAdmin

Download AppAdmin, you can download the software from this link: AppAdmin – Free software blocker. Extract the downloaded file and run the AppAdmin software.
Click the block button (with plus icon) to add the application to be blocked or you can drag and drop an application to AppAdmin.
Click “Restarts Explorer” button. Once clicked the button the program in the AppAdmin list will be blocked. If there are use to run the program, the windows system will show this message.

Any user cannot break the restriction although uses gpedit.msc or anything else. The program also have a password to prevent blocked programs are easily unlocked by any user.

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Beginner Tutorial:-How to setup a Keylogger

2010-12-13T07:35:00.000-08:00

*FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY*

First of all you'll need to download the keylogger build. (Cure is included in the winrar archive.)

Link : http://adf.ly/6ACN

Extract the archive and then run the BUILD

It will look like this

Next you will need to fill out the boxes, heres my template.

Then click Test Error Message to see if you like it like that.
Then click Test Gmail just to make sure it works,
Then click build!

You have build your first Keylogger ! Now when you run it, it will disappear and send all logs to your gmail adress.
If you check "add to startup", the keylogger will run each time, even if you reboot your computer

What is Keylogger??

2010-12-12T09:57:00.000-08:00

INTRODUCTION-

A keylogger, sometimes called a keystroke logger, key logger, or system monitor, is a hardware device or small program that monitors each keystroke a user types on a specific computer's keyboard. As a hardware device, a keylogger is a small battery-sized plug that serves as a connector between the user's keyboard and computer. Because the device resembles an ordinary keyboard plug, it is relatively easy for someone who wants to monitor a user's behavior to physically hide such a device "in plain sight." (It also helps that most workstation keyboards plug into the back of the computer.) As the user types, the device collects each keystroke and saves it as text in its own miniature hard drive. At a later point in time, the person who installed the keylogger must return and physically remove the device in order to access the information the device has gathered.

A keylogger program does not require physical access to the user's computer. It can be downloaded on purpose by someone who wants to monitor activity on a particular computer or it can be downloaded unwittingly as spyware and executed as part of a rootkit or remote administration (RAT)Trojan horse. A keylogger program typically consists of two files that get installed in the same directory: a dynamic link library (DLL) file (which does all the recording) and an executable file (.EXE) that installs the DLL file and triggers it to work. The keylogger program records each keystroke the user types and uploads the information over the Internet periodically to whoever installed the program.

Although keylogger programs are promoted for benign purposes like allowing parents to monitor their children's whereabouts on the Internet, most privacy advocates agree that the potential for abuse is so great that legislation should be enacted to clearly make the unauthorized use of keyloggers a criminal offense.

Use Trial Version Software Forever Without Expiration

2010-12-10T22:26:00.000-08:00

You can use any software forever you want. You can download trial version, right. Trial version expires after some days. You can stop that expiration. You can tell trial version of the software to not count days or do not bother about time. The software will stay and keep working like original software forever and will not expire or cease to work. You do not have to change your system clock. This little software does it all.

Time Stopper is the software which can stop the time for try out version software. When you stopthe time you can use your try-out versions forever. When you stop the time of a try-out version using this Time Stopper it works via this Time Stopper. Real time and date run normally on your system. You can use any number of try-out version softwares with this software.

How it Works

Open Time Stopper

Browse and select .exe of required trial software

Choose the new date (Any date which occurs in between your trial software time period before expiration, suggestion: set it to two days before trial software expiration date.)

Choose any time

Click open software on your selected date

If you wish to create an icon for your modified trial software and do not want to open Time stopper every time then use last button in software to create new icon. open that trial software after that from that newly created icon always otherwise it can expire.

Size: 844 KB

DOWNLOAD TIME STOPPER

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Alternative Software: Run As Date

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Email Forging

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1) EMail Forging :- Email forging allows an attacker to disguise the source of an email and send it to the victim. Most attackers use this technique to fool the victim into believing that somebody else has send the particular email.
The SMTP protocol makes it extremely easy for an attacker to send forged emails to a remote user.
Typically an attacker carries out email forging by following steps:

1) Start Command Prompt and type the following command-
c:/>telnet smtp.mailserver.com 25 or c:/>telnet mail.domain.com 25
example:- c:/>telnet smtp.gmail.com 25
The above command opens a telnet connection to the specified remote mail server on port-25. Where port-25 is the default SMTP port on which outgoing mail daemon runs.

2) Once you are connected to the mail daemon of remote mail server, you would be greeted with a message similar to following:-

If you are not familiar with the smtp mail daemon commands then enter the keyword 'help' at daemon which may reveal all the supporting commands as shown below.

3) The correct sequence of commands to be executed is:-
a) helo mailserver1.com
b) mail from:abc@mailserver1.com
c) rcpt to:xyz@mailserver2.com
d) data
e) .(dot command represents end of mail body)
This all as shown in figure below:

EMail forging by this technique does not possible, if mail relying is disabled by it's service provider.

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