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Security Bytes – August 2013
By
Pranav ([email protected])
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Godzilla Strikes !!!
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• Pakistan Army and Facebook pages compromised by Indian Hacker
Godzilla.
• Uses a CMS vulnerability and got access.
• Then uploaded a malicious PDF magazine in their CMS which later clicked
by the site admin and installed a piece of malware in admin's computer.
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Godzilla Strikes !!!
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Playstation hacker “neuron” got 1 year sentence
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Playstation hacker “neuron” got 1 year sentence
• Raynaldo Rivera a.k.a neuron had been sentences to 1 year in prison 13
months of house arrest and 1000 hours of community services.
• For hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment.
• Attack on Sony revealed data belonging to 1,38,000 customers.
• Attackers distributed the data over the Internet.
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Pirate Bay Releases its own Browser on its 10th Anniversary
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Pirate Browser
• A custom Firefox Browser that skirts Internet censorship and lets you access the
Pirate Bay from anywhere.
• Uses customised Firefox 23, Tor client and some specialized proxy settings.
• Wont make you anonymous over the internet.
• Just a simple mechanism to maintain access to the entire, uncensored internet.
• No adware, toolbars or other crap.
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MindCracker hit our Railways
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• Pakistani Hacker "MindCracker" from Pakistan Cyber Army hacked
into Indian Eastern Railways website.
• Other members of the Cracking Team were Shadow008, KhantastiC,
Darksnipper, H4x0rL1f3, Invectus
• Immediately Restored by the admin
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Pak Hacker hacks 100s of Israeli sites
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• Thousands of Israeli websites are hacked by the Pakistani hackers, in
support for the Palestine people.
• Hacker behind the massive attack mentioned his online name as "H4x0r
HuSsY" and the message says " LONG LIVE PALESTINE - PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO & FROM TEAM MADLEETS"
• Hacked websites belong to Semi-Government, Personal and Israeli
Corporates.
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Vulnerability in USB Modems
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• Indian Security Researcher 'Rahul Sasi' found a new Innovative critical flaw in
these USB internet Modems that allows an attacker to execute malicious code
remotely, just via sending a SMS.
• Vulnerability allows to hack computers remotely to gain the meterpreter shell or
full access to victim's PC.
• The vulnerability is in the Dialer Software supplied with the USB Modems.
• Flaw also can be used to DDOS all the USB modems.
• All local Indian vendors of USB Internet Modems are also vulnerable to this attack.
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The Hackers Conference 2013
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• Special Session against Internet Censorship in India
• Android into a Spy Bug
• Breaching SSL security in 30 seconds.
• Mobile Security Testing tools.
• Digital Forensics of We Chat like suspicious apps.
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The Hackers Conference 2013
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Google Palestine Hacked & Defaced
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• Hackers from Palestine hacked into Google's Palestine
domain(http://google.ps) and defaced it.
• It appears as the hacker forwarded/redirected the DNS to a new page.
• The virtual names of the hackers behind the hac are : "Cold z3ro -
Haml3t - Sas- Dr@g" from Palestine.
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Google Palestine Hacked & Defaced
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China Hit by Massive DDOS Attack
• China's Internet was taken by a powerful DDOS attack on .cn domain ,blocked Internet access for hours.
• Largest DDOS attack the country ever faced.
• The China Internet Network Information
Center (CINIC) confirmed the attack.
• CINIC is responsible for registering sites in the .cn domain.
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Garage4Hackers Forum Got hacked & Defaced
• Garage4Hackers(G4H) is an open security community for Information Security enthusiasts, gurus and aspirants.
• This hack was done by the hackers group know as "The Belegit Network".
• The hackers have not mention any reason for hacking nor the message to the forum admin. Simply posted a dancing cat on the deface page. This show is that nothing is secure.
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcache.nevkontakte.com%2Fproxy.html#go=http://garage4hackers.com/
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Garage4Hackers Forum Got hacked & Defaced
Sources :
• www.thehackernews.com
• www.ehackingnews.com
• www.news.cnet.com/security/
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