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Attack by Kickasstor

2014-04-02T21:05:00.000-07:00

Attack by Kickasstor

Recently we have been doing an attack test on all websites and we found that kickasstor is attacking us using image virus.

This is a warning to all internet users.

Asylum for whistleblower

2013-12-26T10:47:00.000-08:00

Asylum for whistleblower

Edward Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena shows a copy of a temporary document allowing the whistleblower to cross the border into Russia. Photograph: AP

The White House expressed anger and dismay on Thursday after Russiagranted temporary asylum to the American whistleblower Edward Snowden and allowed him to leave the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for over a month.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US was "extremely disappointed" by the decision, almost certainly taken personally by President Vladimir Putin. He said Moscow should hand Snowden back and hinted that Barack Obama might now boycott a bilateral meeting with Putin in September, due to be held when the US president travels to Russia for a G20 summit.

Carney added that Snowden had arrived in both China and Russia carrying with him thousands of top secret US documents. He said: "Simply the possession of that kind of highly sensitive classified information outside of secure areas is both a huge risk and a violation.

"As we know he's been in Russia now for many weeks. There is a huge risk associated with … removing that information from secure areas. You shouldn't do it, you can't do it, it's wrong."

With US-Russian relations now at a cold war-style low, Snowden slipped out of Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday afternoon. His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said Russia's federal migration service had granted him temporary asylum for one year. Snowden had left the airport to stay at an undisclosed location with expatriate Americans, he added.

Putin made no immediate comment. But having weighed Russia's options for some weeks, he appears to have decided that Snowden's propaganda value outweighs any possible US repercussions. Obama's already floundering attempts to "reset", or improve, relations with Moscow are in effect over.

In a statement released by WikiLeaks, Snowden thanked the Russian authorities and accused the US of behaving illegally. He made no explicit mention of the trial of Bradley Manning, who this week was convicted of espionage and faces 136 years in jail.

Snowden said: "Over the past eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning."

He added: "I thank the Russian Federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations."

Snowden has been given a temporary Russian travel document, with his name in Cyrillic and a fresh passport photo. "This gave him the right to temporary asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation, Kucherena said, holding up a copy of the document. US authorities had cancelled his American passport.

Security officials said Snowden officially crossed the border into Russia from the airport's transit zone at about 3.30pm local time. Russia had apparently not informed the US of the move in advance. The state TV channel Rossiya 24 showed a photograph of Snowden's departure, as he clambered into a grey unmarked car.

Despite being pictured from behind Snowden was instantly recognisable wearing his trademark grey shirt and carrying a black backpack. Next to him was Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks representative who accompanied him last month on his flight from Hong Kong.

Kucherena declined to provide details on where Snowden was heading, citing safety concerns. "Since he is the most hunted person in the world, he will address the question of security today," he told journalists.

The former NSA employee will himself choose his place of residence and forms of protection, he added. Previously, some speculated that the Russian government was keeping Snowden hidden, although the whistleblower and his lawyer have denied that, adding that he has had no contact with Russian security services.

The whistleblower's father, Lon Snowden, had reportedly been planning to visit his son. Kucherena said on Wednesday that he was sending an invitation to Snowden's father so he could obtain a Russian visa. Kucherena told Rossiya 24 on Thursday that he would be speaking to the father later in the day to arrange his visit.

US authorities have repeatedly called on Moscow to return the fugitive to face charges in America. Last week America's attorney general, Eric Holder, sent a letter to Russia's justice minister promising that Snowden would not be tortured and that he would not face the death penalty if handed over to the US.

Russian officials previously said they had no jurisdiction to return Snowden, as he was not officially located on Russian territory, and that the US had not filed an official extradition request.

The Kremlin did not immediately comment on Snowden's temporary asylum. Putin has previously said repeatedly that to remain in Russia, Snowden must stop activities harming the United States. His lawyer suggested that fresh revelations published by the Guardian on Wednesday and Thursday had come from documents that Snowden had already given the paper before Putin made his comments.

Russia's decision has emboldened hawkish critics of the White House, who have long dubbed Obama's attempts to improve relations with Putin as naive and inappropriate. In a statement on his website, Senator John McCain said: "Russia's action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States. It is a slap in the face of all Americans. Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin's Russia."

He proposed in response to expand the Magnitsky Act list of banned Russian officials, push for Georgia's acceptance into Nato and implement US missile defence programmes in Europe.

At the White House, Carney made it clear that President Obama was frustrated by the decision by Russia to allow Snowden to enter the country, and that a planned presidential summit was now in jeopardy.

Obama is scheduled to travel to Russia in September for at meeting of G20 leaders in St Petersburg. He also planned to meet Putin for a bilateral summit during the trip in what would have been a sign of improving relations between the two powers.

That meeting is now under review. "Obviously this is not a positive development," Carney said. "We have a wide range of interests with the Russians. We are evaluating the utility of the summit."

Amnesty International called for the focus to switch from Snowden's asylum plight to the "sweeping nature and unlawfulness" of the US government's surveillance programmes.

Widney Brown, senior director for international law and policy at Amnesty, said in a statement: "Now that Edward Snowden has left the airport and has protected status in Russia, the focus really needs to be on the US government's surveillance programs. Snowden would not have needed temporary asylum but for revealing the sweeping nature and unlawfulness of a massive system of domestic and international surveillance by the United States government."

A survey showed that 43% of Russians supported granting Snowden asylum and 51% approved of his whistleblowing activities. Kucherena said he had received numerous letters from Russians offering Snowden lodging, protection and money, as well as from women interested in Snowden romantically.

Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte, invited Snowden to come work as a programmer at the network, in a post on his VKontakte page on Thursday.

Source: The Guardian

Anonymous hackers leak mafia and corruption documents from Italian Government

2013-11-30T07:36:00.002-08:00

Anonymous hackers leak mafia and corruption documents from Italian Government

Anonymous hackers claim to have breached the personal computer and mobile devices of Giuseppe Scopelliti, an Italian politician and a member of The People of Freedom party, currently the elected president of Calabria. This is allegedly only the first in a series of leaks targeting Italian regional governments.

The leak is part of a campaign called Operation Italy. The approximately 1,000 documents leaked on this occasion are related to the mafia, drugs and corruption, according to the hackers. The files include emails allegedly belonging to Scopelliti and members of his staff.

Anonymous accuses Scopelliti of not doing anything to stop the mafia’s activities in Calabria.

“This is just a beginning. People of Italia do have the right to know what the government is involved in, especially when it comes to mafia wars and corruption in the region,” the hacktivsts wrote oncyberguerilla.org.

The hackers say that the president of Calabria is only their first target. The leaders of regions such as Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia are next.

“While we are not that happy with the politics of many governors, especially when it comes to protecting mafia, corruption and economic downfall, it has come to this – we managed to infect most of the personal computers in regional administrations, mainly presidents of Calabria, Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia,” the hacktivists stated.

#Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website

2013-11-30T07:31:00.004-08:00

#Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website

After hacking up government websites last week, and the week before, Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. This time, they've leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives. And they did it all on a government site.

The leak which is still posted on the official Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center website as of this writing is another another arm of Operation Last Resort. Until now the project has involved plenty of threats but no actual leaks. The leaked info includes titles, addresses, phone numbers, emails, ID numbers, and hashed passwords of the affected bank executives, and while that may seem sort of tangentially related to computer crime reform, that's how Anonymous has been spinning it.

So far there's been no official response to the leak from the parties affected, but there's little reason to believe that all that information is fabricated. Anonymous has been on a pretty successful run of defacing government websites, and it looks like it isn't going to end any time soon. Sure, this hack isn't quite as happy-go-lucky as their last, but it's definitely a pretty serious accomplishment. And you can bet this isn't the end of it.

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Leaked document of 5000 Israeli Officials - #Anonymous #OpIsrael

2013-11-30T07:27:00.001-08:00

Leaked document of 5000 Israeli Officials - #Anonymous #OpIsrael

Greetings Citizens of the world, This is Anonymous. It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries. November 2012 will be a month to remember for the Israeli defense forces and internet security forces. Israeli Gov. this is/will turn into a cyberwar.

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We will not forgive.
We will not forget.
Israel, it is too late to expect us.
#OpIsrael #Anonymous

More: Current Internet, telecommunication and death toll situation/status in #Gaza | #OpIsrael:http://tmblr.co/ZNMTdvXOLg0b
Livestream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
Video: http://youtu.be/O6t9Kr2wWzE
Arabic: http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?89452a7861b4af1d#hFCbUSaOGM+ZBIgJPGEOBwxEjxV0lNNnbdPQnx0uQRw=
Arabic v2.0: http://www.mediafire.com/?hpnne29xvx1ceuv
Care Package: http://bayfiles.com/file/rPjj/a7ehrr/Op_Israel_Care_Package_For_Gaza.zip

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#Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead jailed for 18 months

2013-11-30T07:25:00.001-08:00

#Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead jailed for 18 months

Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead has been handed an 18-month jail sentence for carrying out a series of high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The 22-year-old was previously convicted of hacking into the websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, costing the latter an estimated £3.5 million, Sky News reports.

Fellow Anonymous members Ashley Rhodes and Peter Gibson were tried alongside Weatherhead at Southwark Crown Court, receiving seven months in jail and a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, respectively.

Rhodes, 28, was found guilty of conspiring with Weatherhead to impair the operations of the targeted businesses between 2010 and 2011, while 24-year-old Gibson was deemed to have played a lesser role, which he admitted to. Judge Peter Testar said: "It is intolerable that when an individual or a group disagrees with a particular entity's activities they should be free to curtail that activity by means of attacks such as those which took place in this case."

A fourth man, 18-year-old Jake Birchall, has also admitted to playing a part in the conspiracy and will be sentenced at a later date. DDoS attacks overload computer systems by hitting them with an impossible number of requests simultaneously.

Victims of the Weatherhead-led attacks, referred to as Operation Payback, received the following message: "You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung." The ring leader is believed to have targeted Paypal after it refused to process transactions for the Wau Holland Foundation, a group attempting to raise funding for WikiLeaks.

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#OpMaryville

2013-11-30T07:13:00.000-08:00

Greetings, citizens of the internet, we are Anonymous - #OpMaryville

#O
#OpMaryville script,Click here to view

"On October 14, we demanded that Daisy's case be reopened and justice be brought to the boys. And even though our press release has been removed by YouTube for spam and other supposed 'community violations,' fear us as the Hydra; cut off one head, and two more will rise up to take its place. Our demands will be met. It's time for the 'good old boys club' to come to an end in Maryville."

Source: Anonymous member

#OpNorthkorea

2013-11-30T07:10:00.000-08:00

#OpNorthKorea

Anonymous Hackers started their #OpNorthKorea and websites are going down and after a recheck many of the websites still down and the major websites down, they are mostly related with the Media websites of Korea.

http://country.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html

chosonsinbo.com (The Choson Sinbo (Chosun Shinbo) is a newspaper based in Japan, published in both Korean and Japanese)

http://ryomyong.com

http://ksf.com.kp ( Korea Sports Fund)

http://www.airkoryo.com.kp (state-owned national flag carrier airline of North Korea)

http://www.kcna.kp (Korean Central News Agency)

http://procp.tok2.com/

http://www.rodong.rep.kp (Digital edition of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper)

http://www.nosotek.com

http://www.store.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html

http://www.pust.kr) Pyongyang University of Science and Technology

http://korea-dpr.com (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
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*http://zhc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zztjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jgbz.shaoxing.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ga.10.gov.cn/home.html

LEAKS Disclosure of some uriminzokkiri charge members, Rest will be on Wiki-leaks:

UPDATE:

1 More Govt. website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://xzzf.cgjsw.gov.cn/index.htm

UPDATE: 28-06-2013

Lanzhou Jiaotong University Website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://tmgcxy.lzjtu.edu.cn
1 More Education Website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://rsc.xupt.edu.cn/
http://gc.mau.edu.cn/
http://biolab.fjnu.edu.cn/
http://law.zjgsu.edu.cn/
http://hljei.hrbcu.edu.cn/
http://www.ltx.cdut.edu.cn/index.html

NOTE:

Above websites may be recovered in the meantime

'Anonymous' hacks Singapore Prime Minister's website

2013-11-27T09:10:00.003-08:00

'Anonymous' hacks Singapore Prime Minister's website

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's official website has been hacked by people claiming to be members of the hacking group Anonymous.

The attack comes a day after Mr Lee said he would track down the group.
He made the comments after a person claiming to be part of the group posted an online video in which he threatened to hack government websites.

Singapore's internet and phone regulator said part of the website had been "compromised" late on Thursday.
"The PMO main website is still working, and we are working to restore the page that has been compromised," the Infocomm Development Authority said in a statement.
The hackers had posted an image of a Guy Fawkes mask - the symbol of the Anonymous group - on the PM's website with the words: "It's great to be Singaporean today."
Media rules Under new rules, unveiled by the Media Development Authority earlier this year, sites "that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and have significant reach among readers" require individual licences.
The video, which was posted last month, had protested against the government's new rules for news websites.

The website of Singapore's main paper was hacked earlier this month

Earlier this week, Mr Lee said his government would "spare no effort to try and track down the culprits".
"If we can find him, we will bring him to justice and he will be dealt with severely. You may think you're anonymous but we will make that extra effort to find out who you are," he added.
Earlier this month, a hacker - dubbed The Messiah and claiming to be a part of Anonymous - hacked the website of Singapore's main paper, The Straits Times.

He had left a message saying the paper's report on the video was misleading.
According to reports, The Messiah also claimed responsibility for hacking the website of the Ang Mo Kio Town Council last week, the municipal branch of the prime minister's district.
Hackers linked to Anonymous have defaced dozens of websites belonging to Australian businesses and Philippine government agencies during the past week.

Anonymous Indonesia hacker claims to have shut down RBA, AFP websites

2013-11-27T09:07:00.001-08:00

Anonymous Indonesia hacker claims to have shut down RBA, AFP websites

A member of hacking group Anonymous Indonesia has claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on the websites of the Australian Federal Police and the Reserve Bank.

The AFP and the Reserve Bank have confirmed their sites were attacked overnight, though both say the hacker did not gain access to any sensitive information.
The attack comes amid a diplomatic row between Australia and Indonesia, sparked by revelations spies tried to tap the phones of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.
The AFP website was still down about 10.30am AEDT but is now running again, and Commissioner Tony Negus says the agency is investigating the attack.
"We have had an attack on the open source website, not connected to secret networks, but there has been an attempt on our website this morning which is being dealt with," he told reporters.
"I am not sure who is the perpetrator but we are investigating that."
An AFP spokesperson had earlier told the ABC the agency takes any attack "very seriously" and warned hacking is a criminal activity, not "harmless fun".

"All information on the AFP website is publically available. No sensitive information is hosted on the AFP website," the spokesperson added.
The Reserve Bank has also confirmed its website was "the subject of a denial of service attack" about 2.00am.
"There has been no outage, but the bank's website may have been slow for some users," a spokesman said.
The spokesman says protective measures were "effectively deployed" and that the bank's systems remain secure.
The hacker used a series of Twitter posts to claim the sites were successfully shut down, adding: "I'm ready for this war."

Anonymous Indonesia has previously claimed to have hacked more than 150 Australian sites to protest against allegations that Australia used its Jakarta embassy as a spy base.

Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs

2013-11-26T11:29:00.001-08:00

Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released an emergency software fix on Tuesday after it learned that hackers had exploited a previously undiscovered security flaw in its widely used Office software to infect the PCs of its customers with tainted Word documents.
The software maker said on its website that it had released the software, known as a "Fix It," as a temporary measure until it provides an update that will automatically patch computers to protect against the new threat.
Microsoft said that it had learned of a "very limited" number of attacks that exploited the newly discovered vulnerability, mainly in the Middle East and South Asia. The company did not identify the victims, who received emails asking them to open the tainted Word documents.
The vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
The attacks took advantage of an undiscovered flaw, or "zero day" vulnerability in industry parlance, which is usually only used on a limited number of high-value targets in a bid to keep the flaws a secret.

Typically, when makers of widely used software programs issue a warning about a zero-day bug, groups of hackers rush to reverse-engineer the Fix Its so they can build computer viruses that also exploit the same vulnerabilities.
Stuart McClure, chief executive officer of the cybersecurity firm Cylance Inc, said that businesses using vulnerable versions of Office should install the Fix It to prevent attacks.
"I definitely think it is something that needs to be patched," he said.
Fix Its are pieces of software for remediating security flaws that must be manually downloaded and installed on PCs. They are designed to protect customers while Microsoft prepares official updates, automatically delivered via the Internet to be installed on computers.
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Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: 'My days of hacking are done'

2013-11-26T11:23:00.000-08:00

Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: 'My days of hacking are done'

Hammond calls his 10-year sentence a 'vengeful, spiteful act' by US authorities eager to put a chill on political hacking

Jeremy Hammond, the Anonymous hacktivist who released millions of emails relating to the private intelligence firm Stratfor, has denounced his prosecution and lengthy prison sentence as a “vengeful, spiteful act” designed to put a chill on politically-motivated hacking.
Hammond was sentenced on Friday at federal court in Manhattan to the maximum 10 years in jail, plus three years supervised release. He had pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) flowing from his 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known as Stratfor. In an interview with the Guardian in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, conducted on Thursday, he said he was resigned to a long prison term which he sees as a conscious attempt by the US authorities to put a chill on political hacking.
He had no doubt that his sentence would be long, describing it as a "vengeful, spiteful act". He said of his prosecutors: "They have made it clear they are trying to send a message to others who come after me. A lot of it is because they got slapped around, they were embarrassed by Anonymous and they feel that they need to save face.”
Most pointedly, Hammond suggested that the FBI may have manipulated him to carry out hacking attacks on “dozens” of foreign government websites. During his time with Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers working alongside WikiLeaks and other anti-secrecy groups, he was often directed by a individual known pseudonomously on the web as “Sabu”, the leader of the Anonymous-affiliated group Lulzsec, who turned out to be an FBI informant.
Hammond, who is under court orders restricting what he says in public, told the Guardian that Sabu presented him with a list of targets, including many foreign government sites, and encouraged him to break into their computer systems. He said he was not sure whether Sabu was in turn acting on behalf of the FBI or other US government agency, but it was even possible that the FBI was using Sabu’s internet handle directly as contact between the two hackers was always made through cyberspace, never face-to-face.
“It is kind of funny that here they are sentencing me for hacking Stratfor, but at the same time as I was doing that an FBI informant was suggesting to me foreign targets to hit. So you have to wonder how much they really care about protecting the security of websites.”
In the interview, conducted in a secure prison meeting room hours before the 28-year-old Chicagoan was sentenced, he was sanguine about his prospects. “I knew when I started out with Anonymous that being put in jail and having a lengthy sentence was a possibility. Given the nature of the targets I was going after I knew I would upset a lot of powerful people.”
Dressed in a brown prison jump suit, and with a long wispy goatee and moustache (he planned to shave both off before the sentencing hearing), Hammond was scathing about the way the CFAA was being twisted in his view for political ends. “They are widening the definition of what is covered by the Act and using it to target specifically political activists,” he said.
He invoked the memory of Aaron Swartz, the open-data crusader who killed himself in January while awaiting trial under the CFAA for releasing documents from behind the subscription-only paywall of an online research group. “The same beast bit us both,” Hammond said. “They went after Aaron because of his involvement in legitimate political causes – they railroaded charges against him, and look what happened.”
Hammond has been in custody since March 2012 having been arrested in Chicago on suspicion of the Stratfor leak of millions of emails that were eventually released by WikiLeaks as the Global Intelligence Files. His sentence is an indication of the aggression with which prosecutors have been pursuing political hackers in the US – other Anonymous members in Britain involved in the breach of Stratfor were sentenced to much shorter jail terms.

Hammond stressed that he had not benefitted personally in any way from the Stratfor email release, that exposed surveillance by private security firms on activists including Anonymous members themselves, Occupy protesters and campaigners in Bhopal, India involved in the push for compensation for victims of the 1984 industrial catastrophe. “Our main purpose in carrying out the Stratfor hack was to find out what private security and intelligence companies were doing, though none of us had any idea of the scale of it.”
Paradoxically, Hammond insists that he would never have carried out the breach of Stratfor’s computer system had he not been led into doing it by Sabu – real name Hector Xavier Monsegur – the fellow hacker who is himself awaiting sentencing having pleaded guilty to 12 hacking-related criminal charges. “I had never heard of Stratfor until Sabu brought in another hacker who told me about it. Practically, I would never have done the Stratfor hack without Sabu’s involvement.”
Hammond discovered that Monsegur was an FBI informant the day after his own arrest. As he was reading the criminal complaint against him, he saw quotes marked CW for “co-operating witness” that contained details that could only have come from Sabu.
“I felt betrayed, obviously. Though I knew these things happen. What surprised me was that Sabu was involved in so much strategic targeting, in actually identifying targets. He gave me the information on targets.”
Part of Sabu’s interest in him, he now believes, was that Hammond had access to advanced tools including one known as PLESK that allowed him to break into web systems used by large numbers of foreign governments. “The FBI and NSA are clearly able to do their own hacking of other countries. But when a new vulnerability emerges in internet security, sometimes hackers have access to tools that are ahead of them that can be very valuable,” he said.
Looking back on his involvement with anonymous, the Chicagoan said that he had been drawn to work with Anonymous, because he saw it as “a model of resistance – it was decentralised, leaderless.” He grew increasingly political in his hacking focus, partly under the influence of the Occupy movement that began in Wall Street in September 2011 and spread across the country.

Chelsea Manning, the US soldier formerly known as Bradley who leaked a massive trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks now serving a 35-year sentence in military jail, was a major influence on him. Manning showed him that “powerful institutions – whether military or private security firms – are involved in unaccountable activities that the public is totally unaware of that can only be exposed by whistleblowers and hackers”.
Hammond has often described himself as an anarchist. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the anarchy symbol with the words: “Freedom, equality, anarchy”. Another tattoo on his left forearm shows the Chinese representation of “leader” or “army”, and a third tattoo on his right forearm is a glider signifying the hacking open-source movement that is drawn from the computer simulation Game of Life .
He says he plans to use his time in prison “reading, writing, working out and playing sports – training myself to become more disciplined so I can be more effective on my release”. As to that release, he says he cannot predict how he will be thinking when he emerges from jail, but doubts that he would go back to hacking. “I think my days of hacking are done. That’s a role for somebody else now,” he said.

Indian Hackers attack Pakistan Wesite!!!

2013-11-26T10:25:00.001-08:00

Indian Hackers attack Pakistan Wesite!!!

Cyber warrior shortage hits anti-hacker fightback

2013-11-26T10:15:00.001-08:00

Cyber warrior shortage hits anti-hacker fightback

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture.

Credit: Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files

(Reuters) - For the governments and corporations facing increasing computer attacks, the biggest challenge is finding the right cyber warriors to fight back.
Hostile computer activity from spies, saboteurs, competitors and criminals has spawned a growing industry of corporate defenders who can attract the best talent from government cyber units.
The U.S. military's Cyber Command is due to quadruple in size by 2015 with 4,000 new personnel while Britain announced a new Joint Cyber Reserve last month. From Brazil to Indonesia, similar forces have been set up.

But demand for specialists has far outpaced the number of those qualified to do the job, leading to a staffing crunch as talent is poached by competitors offering big salaries.
"As with anything, it really comes down to human capital and there simply isn't enough of it," says Chris Finan, White House director for cyber security from 2011-12, who is now a senior fellow at the Truman National Security Project and working for a start-up in Silicon Valley.
"They will choose where they work based on salary, lifestyle and the lack of an interfering bureaucracy and that makes it particularly hard to get them into government."
Cyber attacks can be expensive: one unidentified London-listed company incurred losses of 800 million pounds ($1.29 billion) in a cyber attack several years ago, according to the British security services.
Global losses are in the range of $80 billion to $400 billion a year, according to research by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies that was sponsored by Intel Corp's McAfee anti-virus division.

There is a whole range of attacks. Some involve simply transferring money, but more often clients' credit card details are stolen. There is also intellectual property theft or theft of commercially sensitive information for business advantage.
Victims can also suffer a "hacktivist" attack, such as a directed denial of service to bring a website down, which can cost a lot of money to fix.
Quantifying the exact damage is almost impossible, especially when secrets and money are not the only targets.
While no government has taken responsibility for the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed centrifuges at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility, it was widely reported to have been a U.S.-Israeli project.
Britain says it blocked 400,000 advanced cyber threats to the government's secure intranet last year while a virus unleashed against Saudi Arabia's energy group Aramco, likely to be the world's most valuable company, destroyed data on thousands of computers and put an image of a burning American flag onto screens.

Adobe data breach more extensive than previously disclosed

2013-11-26T10:11:00.001-08:00

Adobe data breach more extensive than previously disclosed

(Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc said on Tuesday that the scope of a cyber-security breach disclosed nearly a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining data on more than 38 million customer accounts.
The software maker also said that hackers had stolen part of the source code to Photoshop editing software that is widely used by professional photographers.
The company disclosed the breach on October 3, saying attackers took credit card information and other data from nearly 3 million customers' accounts.
Adobe also said that the hackers accessed an undisclosed number of Adobe IDs and encrypted passwords that were stored in a separate database. On Tuesday, it revealed that about 38 million records from that database were stolen.

On October 3, the company also reported that the attackers stole source code to three other products: Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder.
Adobe spokeswoman Heather Edell said the software maker believes the attackers also obtained access to "many invalid Adobe IDs, inactive Adobe IDs, Adobe IDs with invalid encrypted passwords and test account data."
She said the company is still investigating to determine how much invalid account information was breached and is in the process of notifying affected users.
Even though the company believes the stolen passwords were encrypted, the attackers may have been able to access them in plain text by one of several methods, including breaking the algorithm that Adobe used to scramble them, said Marcus Carey, a security researcher and expert on cyber attacks, who formerly worked as an investigator with the National Security Agency.
They could likely use those passwords to break into other accounts because many people use the same passwords for multiple accounts, he said.
"This is a treasure trove for future attacks," Carey said.
Adobe spokeswoman Heather Edell said that the company was not aware of any unauthorized activity on Adobe accounts as a result of the attack.
Yet Edell said she could not say whether stolen credit cards or passwords had been used to launch follow-on attacks against Adobe customers or conduct other types of cyber crimes.
"Our investigation is still ongoing," she said. "We anticipate the full investigation will take some time to complete."

Chicago hacker tied to Anonymous given 10 years in prison

2013-11-26T10:06:00.000-08:00

Chicago hacker tied to Anonymous given 10 years in prison

(Reuters) - A Chicago computer hacker tied to the group known as Anonymous was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for cyber attacks on various government agencies and businesses, including a global intelligence company.
Jeremy Hammond, 28, was handed the maximum term for the December 2011 hacking of Strategic Forecasting Inc, an attack his lawyers contend was driven by concern about the role of private firms in gathering intelligence domestically and abroad.
Prosecutors say the hack of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, resulted in the theft of 60,000 credit card numbers and records for 860,000 clients, which were then uploaded online. Hammond admitted being behind it in May.
He also admitted to hacking several law enforcement agencies and organizations, including the Arizona Department of Public Safety, releasing personal details of officers as part of an attack by the Anonymous-affiliated group LulzSec.

Hammond's lawyers argued their client should be sentenced to only time he had already served since his March 2012 arrest, portraying him as a political activist and whistleblower.
As part of the Stratfor attack, Hammond's lawyers said he turned over company emails to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, which has since selectively released documents revealing the firm's dealings with clients including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Coca-Cola Co.
"As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known," Hammond said in court.
But Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan imposed the 10-year term followed by three years of supervised release, citing his "total lack of respect for the law."
"There was certainly nothing high-minded or public spirited about his hacking," Preska said.
The sentence was the maximum allowed under the single charge of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking that Hammond pleaded guilty to in May.
Hammond's sentencing drew more than 250 letters of support from family, friends and activists, including Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the top secret report on the United States' role in the Vietnam War

Exclusive: FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers

2013-11-26T10:01:00.000-08:00

Exclusive: FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers

The word 'password' is pictured on a computer screen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin May 21, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski

(Reuters) - Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc's software to launch a rash of electronic break-ins that began last December, then left "back doors" to return to many of the machines as recently as last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a memo seen by Reuters.
The memo, distributed on Thursday, described the attacks as "a widespread problem that should be addressed." It said the breach affected the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and perhaps many more agencies.
Investigators are still gathering information on the scope of the cyber campaign, which the authorities believe is continuing. The FBI document tells system administrators what to look for to determine if their systems are compromised.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to elaborate.
According to an internal email from Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz' chief of staff, Kevin Knobloch, the stolen data included personal information on at least 104,000 employees, contractors, family members and others associated with the Department of Energy, along with information on almost 2,0000 bank accounts.
The email, dated October 11, said officials were "very concerned" that loss of the banking information could lead to thieving attempts.

Officials said the hacking was linked to the case of Lauri Love, a British resident indicted on October 28 for allegedly hacking into computers at the Department of Energy, Army, Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Sentencing Commission and elsewhere.
Investigators believe the attacks began when Love and others took advantage of a security flaw in Adobe's ColdFusion software, which is used to build websites.
Adobe spokeswoman Heather Edell said she was not familiar with the FBI report. She added that the company has found that the majority of attacks involving its software have exploited programs that were not updated with the latest security patches.
The Anonymous group is an amorphous collective that conducts multiple hacking campaigns at any time, some with a few participants and some with hundreds. In the past, its members have disrupted eBay's Inc PayPal after it stopped processing donations to the anti-secrecy site Wikileaks. Anonymous has also launched technically more sophisticated attacks against Sony Corp and security firm HBGary Federal.
Some of the breaches and pilfered data in the latest campaign had previously been publicized by people who identify with Anonymous, as part of what the group dubbed "Operation Last Resort."
Among other things, the campaigners said the operation was in retaliation for overzealous prosecution of hackers, including the lengthy penalties sought for Aaron Swartz, a well-known computer programmer and Internet activist who killed himself before a trial over charges that he illegally downloaded academic journal articles from a digital library known as JSTOR.
Despite the earlier disclosures, "the majority of the intrusions have not yet been made publicly known," the FBI wrote. "It is unknown exactly how many systems have been compromised, but it is a widespread problem that should be addressed."

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2013-11-22T07:21:00.000-08:00

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Google building Spark, a Web-based development tool

2013-11-22T04:46:00.000-08:00

Google building Spark, a Web-based development tool

The online programming tool, still in its early stages, is for writing Web apps within a Web browser. The open-source tool itself is built with Google's new Dart language.

Spark is a Google developer tool for writing Web apps from within a Web browser.

(Credit: Francois Beaufort)

Google likes Web apps, but one area where native software remains dominant is programming tools. A Google project called Spark that came to light Thursday could change that.
Spark is a Web-based IDE (integrated development environment) that runs in a browser for developers writing Chrome apps, according to Google's Francois Beaufort, who tracks Chrome developments closely. That means, among other things, that Chromebook coders would have a way to be productive without having to move to a Windows, Mac, or Linux box.
"This is still the very beginning," Beaufort said on Google+. "There's not much we can do for now."

Intriguingly, Spark is built using Dart, Google's Web programming language that the company hopes will improve upon JavaScript. Google just released Dart 1.0 and now faces the challenge of persuading other browser makers to support it, but Dart programmers can use a utility called dart2js to convert their software into JavaScript. That means Spark should run on any modern browser.
What's a Chrome app? In short, it's a Web app that runs on Chrome. That means it can take advantage of Chrome abilities, such as Native Client, and be distributed through the Chrome Web Store. It's a concept that's somewhat antithetical to the cross-platform philosophy of the open Web, but it brings some order to a chaotic, fast-changing world.
Spark isn't the first such effort. Mozilla toyed with a project called Bespin; other online IDEs include Shiftedit and Cloud9.

Chrome beta disses plug-ins, speeds tapping on Android

2013-11-22T04:01:00.001-08:00

Chrome beta disses plug-ins, speeds tapping on Android

Google released a beta of Chrome 32 on Thursday, fulfilling a promise to block many plug-ins and speeding up some tap operations on Android.
And Imgur fans will be eager to know that the new release also brings support for animated WebP images, a feature already added to Google's image format but that had to overcome hurdles before finding a place in Chrome, too. Some advocated for a shift to plain old video, but animated GIFs have attained newfound popularity. Google promises smaller file sizes with animated WebP as an alternative, said Urvang Joshi, the Google programmer who championed animated WebP support for Chrome, in a blog post Thursday.
In September, Google announced that it will ban plug-ins that use the NPAPI technology for interfacing with the browser and giving it extra abilities. The ban doesn't affect Adobe Systems' Flash Player, by far the most widely used plug-in, and will only affect several other widely used plug-ins after a more graceful phase-out period.

On Android, the Chrome 32 beta ditches a 0.3-second delay that bogged down the process of tapping on a link. The delay was necessary to make sure people weren't double-tapping to reformat a Web page for a mobile device. The delay is disabled for Web pages that Chrome judges to be designed specifically for mobile screens -- another incentive for Web developers to adjust to the mobile market.
The new browser also supports the Vibration interface, which lets Web apps buzz your phone the way native apps already can. That's one small step of the laborious process of trying to bring Web apps up to parity with those written directly for Android and iOS apps.

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Google finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy

2013-11-22T04:00:00.000-08:00

Google finishes 2,048-bit security upgrade for Web privacy

Never again are you going to get a Google Web site whose security certificate is protected with comparatively weak 1,024-bit encryption.
The Net giant has secured all its certificates with 2,048-bit RSA encryption keys or better, Google security engineer Dan Dulay said in a blog post Monday. Certificates are used to set up encrypted communications between a Web server and Web browser.
That means two things. First, traffic will be harder to decrypt since 1,024-bit keys aren't in use at Google anymore. Second, retiring the 1,024-bit keys means the computing industry can retire the technology altogether by declaring such keys untrustworthy.

Google has been aggressively moving to stronger encryption because of U.S. government surveillance by the National Security Agency. According to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency gathered bulk data off Internet taps, including unencrypted data sent between company data centers on its own network, and actively worked to undermine encryption.
Google said it beat its internal end-of-year deadline for the 2,048-bit move. It's also moved to encrypt its internal data transfer between data centers, a move that Yahoo also is making.
In other words, the Net's technology giants are working actively to make surveillance, authorized or not, significantly harder.

"Worry in Silicon Valley/Puget Sound: furor over NSA will cost billions cuz foreign customers fear US companies can't guarantee security," tweeted Strobe Talbott, president of analyst firm Brookings Institution, referring to the geographic regions where tech powers such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, LinkedIn, and Amazon are located.
There's a lot of work to be done yet, though. Google also supports a standard called "forward secrecy," which uses different keys for different sessions so that decrypting a single message doesn't mean previous messages can likewise be decrypted using the same key. But many other Net giants don't support forward secrecy -- though that's changing, too.

Google pays those who find Android security glitches

2013-11-22T03:50:00.001-08:00

Google pays those who find Android security glitches

Those who pinpoint vulnerabilities in Google's mobile operating system can earn cash rewards, similar to those paid out for identifying bugs in Chrome.

Google has expanded its bug-bounty program to cover vulnerabilities uncovered in Android.
The program began with Chrome and expanded to Google Web sites and other open-source software projects. Under the program, people who find security holes get paid bounties. That often equates to a few hundred dollars, but particularly skilled attacks can mean big money -- $50,000 last week for one expert who goes by the name Pinkie Pie, for example.
The broader expansion, called the Patch Reward Program, now includes Android, Google security team member Michal Zalewski said in a blog post Monday.
The program also includes three widely used Web server packages: Apache's http, Nginx, and Lighttpd, Zalewski said.

Battle brews as tech companies attempt to fend off NSA hacking

2013-11-22T03:45:00.001-08:00

Battle brews as tech companies attempt to fend off NSA hacking

The NSA allegedly gathered millions of records from Google and Yahoo data centers around the world, but soon, the agency might have a much harder time trying to collect this type of data.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, and other prominent technology companies are investing heavily in stronger, 2048-bit encryption. Due to computing power constraints, it's expected to be more than a decade before this type of encryption can be easily overcome.
Google, one of the leaders in the effort, announced in May that it would switch over to 2,048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. Yahoo recently confirmed to Bloomberg, which spoke with several tech companies that are investing in new encryption, that it will make 2048-bit encryption standard by January 2014 for all its Mail users. Facebook also plans to move to 2048-bit encryption, a spokeswoman told Bloomberg, and will roll out "perfect forward secrecy," a feature that prevents snoopers from accessing user data even if they can access the company's security codes.

Microsoft and Apple are also reportedly ramping up their data-security efforts.
The technology companies' renewed interest in data security and encryption comes after several reports have suggested that the NSA has been accessing their data and using it for spying purposes. Those firms have gone on the record saying they comply with legal requests where appropriate, but are doing everything they can to keep user data safe. The investment in 2048-bit encryption is the next step in protecting the privacy of users.
Still, encryption is just one small piece of a broader puzzle the technology companies have yet to solve.
The NSA has the ability to overcome a wide array of security protocols. Last month, in fact, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said that the US employs "every intelligence tool available" to cull data from national security threats, according to Bloomberg. Whether those efforts are applied to technology company servers has been debated, though leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and others suggest they are.
Even so, the improved encryption efforts could lengthen the time at which it takes the NSA and other spying agencies around the world to access user information. And that's at least something.

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Senators criticize NSA snooping as unnecessary to US security

2013-11-22T03:41:00.004-08:00

Senators criticize NSA snooping as unnecessary to US security

Three US senators with access to confidential NSA information don't see the agency's data-gathering methods as necessary to ensure US security.
On Tuesday, Senators Mark Udall (D-Colorado), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) filed an amicus brief on behalf of a lawsuit filed by several organizations that claims the National Security Agency's bulk records collection violated their constitutional rights. In the legal brief, the three senators expressed the opinion that the information gathered through the NSA could have been obtained through less-intrusive ways.
"In recent years the balance between protecting our liberties and ensuring our security has become fundamentally broken," Udall said in a statement. "The dragnet collection of millions of innocent Americans' private phone records is a clear threat to our constitutional rights, yet we have seen no evidence that this exceedingly intrusive monitoring has provided any uniquely valuable intelligence."

The US has other "authorities" available through which it can access the phone records of suspected terrorists or people in contact with them, the senators said in the brief. Those other authorities could have been used to gather the same information that the government otherwise obtained for a few counterterrorism cases, they added.
The senators also expressed concerns that the government's interpretation of Section 215 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) could be extended to obtain other data on US citizens, including financial and medical records.
"Because the government's call-records program needlessly intrudes upon the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of Americans, [the senators] believe the bulk collection of these phone records should be ended," the brief said.
The opinion of the three senators runs counter to the NSA's claim that its data-gathering methods are justified as the only way to protect the nation from terrorist attacks. Congressional members have been speaking out increasingly against the government's bulk records collection as a violation of US citizens' privacy.
Along with Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticutt) and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Wyden and Udall have introduced a bill known as the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act that would amend certain sections of FISA to prohibit the bulk collection of Americans' phone records.

FBI Agent: We've Dismantled The Leaders Of Anonymous

2013-11-22T03:30:00.000-08:00

FBI Agent: We've Dismantled The Leaders Of Anonymous

Austin P. Berglas, FBI assistant special agent.

The hacker collective Anonymous has not produced as many high-profile cyber attacks as it once did, a drop-off that can be directly attributed to the arrests of the group's core members, an FBI official told The Huffington Post this week.

Starting in late 2010, Anonymous captured worldwide attention through a series of attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies, stealing data and defacing or crashing websites.

But the arrests last year of five members of Lulz Security, an influential splinter group of hackers, had a "huge deterrent effect" on Anonymous by creating an "added layer of distrust" within the hacking group, according to Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's cyber division in New York.

“All of these guys [arrested] were major players in the Anonymous movement, and a lot of people looked to them just because of what they did,” Berglas said in an interview with HuffPost.

The 2012 arrests relied on the help of a key informant, Hector Monsegur, aka "Sabu," who was caught and then cooperated with the FBI. The fear that one of their own could turn them in has sowed distrust within the hacking collective, according to Berglas.

"The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches," he said. "It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players."

Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who studies Anonymous, said there was "no doubt" the arrests dealt a major blow to "a central node of activity" within the group. But Anonymous is still very much alive, she said.

"They could easily emerge again as a force to contend with," she told HuffPost in an email.

The arrests of members of Anonymous last year were among several highlights to come out of the FBI's cyber division in New York. (The five core members of Lulz Security have pleaded guilty.) In another case, the FBI in New York led an investigation that resulted in the arrests earlier this year of three alleged operators of the Gozi virus, which infected at least 1 million computers and stole millions of dollars from banks around the world.

A former Army captain, 41-year-old Berglas leads the FBI's cyber division in New York, one of the busiest of the FBI's 56 field offices. His office overlooks the skyline of lower Manhattan, the center of the financial world and a frequent target of hackers. Last month, a Russian man was charged with breaking into the servers of the Nasdaq stock exchange and deleting, changing and stealing data.

The cyber division in New York is divided into five teams of investigators. One unit is tasked with getting digital evidence off cell phones, cameras, computers and tablets to support investigations into a wide range cases, from organized crime to computer hacking to child pornography. Berglas said the investigators for the Computer Analysis Response Team have become increasingly adept at breaking encryption methods used by suspects to conceal the contents of computer files.

The other four teams divide their attention to cybercrime based on the hackers' country of origin. Since most hackers attack U.S. computers from overseas, the FBI often works with law enforcement in other countries, Berglas said. Sometimes, investigators find evidence of hackers from several different countries inside the network of a single U.S. company.

"We call it the dirty pond environment," he said. "You think it might just be one actor responsible for the intrusion, and once you get in and start looking at the company there's remnants of a whole host of actors -- from week-old activity to multiple years they've been inside some companies and they just don’t know about it."

Cybercriminals have a variety of motives, but their methods are often the same. Most break into computer systems by tricking people to click on malicious links in emails that appear to come from trusted sources, a technique known as "spear phishing," Berglas said.

"It’s the number one most common intrusion vector we see in any type of attack,” Berglas said. "Major financial companies spend millions and millions of dollars on security, and all [hackers] have to do is get someone with credentials to click on a spear-phishing site and that’s how they get in.”

Cybercriminals have become adept at hiding their IP addresses -- the string of numbers assigned to individual computers -- to disguise their locations from law enforcement. But eventually, even the most skilled hackers get sloppy, Berglas said.

Hector Monsegur, aka "Sabu," the FBI informant whose cooperation led to the arrests of LulzSec last year, left his IP address exposed. The error allowed investigators to track his location to an apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side and eventually led to his arrest.

It's that type of misstep that the FBI is looking for.

"It’s easy to sit behind a computer and think you're anonymous and do these illegal types of activity, whether it’s hacking into a company or trading child pornography or buying and selling stolen identities," he said. "But it’s just a matter of time before these criminals make mistakes and we capture them. All it takes is just one time."