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New Thriller Hacker Movie "DRAGON DAY" Set for November 1 Theatrical Release


New York, NY – Producers of DRAGON DAY announced that the political and psychological thriller will begin a limited release in theaters November 1.

Ex-NSA engineer Duke Evans and his wife and child try to rebuild a new life in a remote mountain town when without notice all power, communications, transportation and banking is shut down. Caught in the middle of an unprecedented cyber-attack, Duke and his family must rely upon a survivalist spirit and raw ingenuity to avoid lawless neighbors and an encroaching dictatorship that demands total loyalty. They cannot run. They cannot hide. How will they make it with food, water, and time running out?

The movie explores themes of the NSA, privacy, China, and the exploding national debt. Do we really believe that the national debt will simply go away? What happens when China asks Americans to pay, one way or another?

Dragon Day will premiere at the HackerHalted cyber-security event in Atlanta, GA on September 19-21 before a gathering of more than 1500 certified hackers who work to protect individuals, companies, and government from attacks.

The movie stars Ethan Flower (Parenthood, Die Hard 4), Osa Wallander, Jenn Gotzon (Doonby, Frost/Nixon), Scoot McNairy (Argo, Killing them Softly, Monsters), Eloy Mendez, William Knight, and Hope Laubach.

Directed, written, and produced by award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Travis, Dragon Day is co-written and produced by Matt Patterson, executive produced by Steve Markham, and produced by Alex Sobol. Kazimir Boyle is the composer. Burning Myth Productions (Los Angeles, CA) and Matter Media Studios (Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA) developed and funded the projected.

Request an interview with director and producers at: 646-410-2030 or susan@differentdrummer.com
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Melbourne IT Blog hacked by Syrian Electronic Army


Earlier Today, Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Melbourne IT Server and changed the DNS records of NYTimes, Twitter, HuffingtonPost and few other domains.

It appears the admin failed to reset the password and hackers still have access to the server- They have defaced the Melbourne IT's blog ( www.melbourneit.com.au/blog).

"Hacked By SEA, Your Servers security is very weak" the defacement message reads.

At the time of writing, the blog is taken down by the admin and displaying error message "Service Temporarily Unavailable".
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Melbourne IT Server hacked - Twitter, Nytimes, HuffingtonPost affected

Syrian Electronic Army , the group known for hacking top media websites, brought down the New York Times, HuffingtonPost, Twitter websites.

The list of affected websites includes twitter.com,twimg.com,nytimes.com huffingtonpost.co.uk, twitter.co.uk and few more domains belong to twitter.

#Exclusive: How the hack happened 
In an exclusive interview to E Hacking News, hackers confirmed us that they have hacked into Melbourne IT Servers and decrypted their passwords, also had access to their emails.

Exclusive Screenshot

Melbourne IT is an organization that provides domain name for high profile websites.  The security breach allowed the hacker to take control of the above mentioned domains and changed the DNS and other details.

At the time of writing, the New York Time is still down but other websites have been recovered and back to normal.

*Update:
MatthewKeysLive, the internet's journalist, tweeted that Melbourne IT confirms it was compromised today "The Credentials of a Melbourne IT reseller (username and password) were used to access a reseller account on Melborune IT's systems.  "
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Google Palestine website hacked and defaced

Few minutes ago, the google Palestine website(google.ps) is hacked and defaced by a group of hackers.

"uncle google we say hi from Palestine to remember you that the country in Google map not called Israel. Its called Palestine" The hacker wrote in the defacement.


"#Question : What would happens if we changed the country title of Israel to Palestine in Google Maps..!" The defacement message reads. "It would be revolution.  So Listen rihanna and be cool".

The website is restored within few minutes.  However, we are able to take the screenshot of the Defacement.

Update:
"Some users visiting google.ps have been getting redirected to a different website; Google services for the google.ps domain were not hacked. We’re in contact with the organization responsible for managing this domain name so we can help resolve the problem" Google spokesperson said in a statement sent to Washington Post.
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League of Legends server hacked, North American players' credit card, password stolen


League of Legends, a multiplayer online video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X reports that a portion of the North American account has been compromised.

According to their report, usernames, email addresses, salted password hashes, and some first and last names were accessed.

Investigation reports that around 120,000 transaction records from 2011 that contained hashed and salted credit card numbers have been accessed.'The payment system involved with these records hasn't been used since July of 2011, and this type of payment card information hasn't been collected in any Riot systems since then.'-the blog says.

As such they are claiming to take necessary steps to notify and safeguard affected players. Affected players will be contacted via their email ids associated with their accounts to alert them.

The players with account in North America are requested to change their passwords to stronger ones which would be hard to guess.

Additionally, new security features that are currently in development include:
Email verification: all new registrations and account changes will need to be associated with a valid email address (we’ll also require all existing players to provide a valid email address).
Two-factor authentication: changes to account email or password will require verification via email or mobile SMS.

So lets wait and watch is the Game Over or the Battle is still to be played.
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Cybercriminals capture Images of people watching porn to trick them to pay ransom

Image Credits: WAToday - Illustration: Matt Golding.
A New Ransomware that poses as Australian Federal Police attempts to turn on the webcams of people watching porn and captures images of them.

Once the image of the user is captured, the malware locks the desktop and shows a warning message saying that "they have breached federal laws relating to child pornography, copyright or privacy".

The warning message includes the image of the victim. This will certainly horrify the victims.

According to WAToday report, the victims are then told to pay a ransom of $100 to $199 within 72 hours. The malware claims that if they failed to, the data in their disk will be wiped.

''We've taken some very interesting calls; some people are very open, while others swear they have been hacked while using Facebook" The WAToday quoted AFP as saying.
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The Hackers Conference 2013 - Hackers will Demonstrate Digital Dangers


This is the second edition of 'The Hackers Conference'. Following the huge success of the conference last year the current edition of the conference brings back to you all the knowledge, all the fun in a better, grander way!

The Conference will be held in New Delhi, on the 25 of August 2013, and will get together industry leaders, Government representatives, Academia and underground Black-hat hackers to share knowledge and leading-edge ideas about information security and everything related to it.

The Hackers Conference is an unique event, where the best of minds in the hacking world, leaders in the information security industry and the cyber community along with policymakers and government representatives on cyber security meet face-to -face to join their efforts to co-operate in addressing the most topical issues of the Internet Security space.

The recent disconcerting reports that that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The Hackers Conference 2013 will raise important questions on the threats that snooping posses and why all Internet Administrations and Regulatory Bodies be put out of US jurisdiction and under the UN control. The conference will also take up an issue that is equally concerning: Cyber Security Cooperation between South Asian Countries and ways to counter snooping and cyber threats.

Highlights of the Conference will be:

  • Special session against Internet Censorship in India
  • Samsung Smartphone Developer will Turn Android device into a Spy Bug
  • US hackers demonstrating breaching of SSL security layer in 30 Seconds
  • Researcher from Singapore will showcase Mobile Security testing tools
  • Researchers will demonstrate the Digital Forensics of WeChat like suspicious apps.

Keynote Speakers:
  • Prasad Kariyawasam: High Commissioner for Sri Lanka to India
  • Virag Gupta: Supreme Court Advocate
  • K C Singh, Former Secretary, Min. of External Affairs
  • Dinesh O. Bareja, CEO at Open Security Alliance

Technical Sessions:

  •     S. P. T. Krishnan, Scientist, Strategic Thrust Leader (Mobile Security) - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore "STAMP - Security Testing Arsenal for Mobile Platforms"
  •     Mayank Raj Jaiswal, Smartphone software developer in Samsung R&D and Android Hacker "Droid Surveillance - Backdoors in popular Android applications"
  •     Ali Pabrai, CEO ecfirst, MSEE, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP) Security+ Certified and member of the U.S. InfraGard (FBI) "Unit 61398 Cyber Attacks from Shanghai: Prepared?"
  •     Security researchers Angelo Prado , Yoel Gluck, and Neal Harris "BREACH: SSL, gone in 30 seconds"
  •     Aman Srivastava, Hacker and Researcher "Bitcoins, Bad Guys and The Black Market"
  •     Parth Shukla, Information Security Analyst, AusCERT, Australia - "India in the Carna Botnet: Cyber threat to a growing Economy"
  •     Aditya Gupta and Subho Halder - Mobile Security Researchers - "Developing advanced malwares using Andorid Framework for Exploitation [AFE]"

For details please visit http://www.thehackersconference.com
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Exclusive: Outbrain service hacked , CNN , Washington Post and Time affected

Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into Outbrain service and take control of admin panel. The security breach affects CNN, Washington Post, Time  and more high profile websites.

Outbrain is a content recommendation service whose widget offers to help internet publishers increase web traffic at their websites. It does so by presenting them with links to articles and other content.


CNN outbrain hacked


Speaking to E Hacking News, hacker said that the admin panel of Outbrain is hosted in the local server.  However, they managed to login into the panel with the help of VPN and access panel.

The group also told EHN that they have compromised emails of Outbrain.  At the time of writing, the website is back to normal.

" Reading @wapo article & redirected to website of Syrian Electronic Army--twice. A nice hack, but now I'm probably on a watch-list." Nathan K. Hensley posted in his tweet.

The hackers also provided us exclusive screenshots of the admin panel of outbrain :


CNN Affected

Time website affected

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Grab Your tickets Now! Defcon Bangalore Information Security Meet 2013


We invite you to the Defcon Bangalore 2013 Meet.  Defcon Bangalore is information security meet that you should not miss- The place where top Indian security researchers gather to share their knowledge.

The meet is going to be organized on coming Saturday, August 17th 2013 - The day that will give a chance for you to meet the WhiteHat hackers.

The reason why we mentioned this meet shouldn't be missed is that there are hackers from Brazil going to give a talk on "SCADA Exploitation".

Final list of Speakers:
  • Himanshu Sharma – Planning to rob someone? Here is an easier way
  • Ajin Abraham – Pwning with XSS reverse Shell
  • Dr. Daniel Singh – Tracing the Ghosts of Cyber World
  • Manas Prathim Sharma – IUTM
  • Francis Alexander – Abusing LFI-RFI with a twist
  • Aditya Gupta and Subho Halder – Droid Exploitation
Don't Miss the Training sessions.  Security researchers are going to give a training on several interesting topics on Information Security.

Training Track Sessions By
  • Aditya Gupta and Subho Halder on Droid Exploitation
  •  Bitcoins – Suriya Prakash
  • Deep Web – The TOR network – Nikhil P Kulkarni
  • Sabari Selvan on Exploit code writing
  • Hacking Hardwares with Raspberry Pi – Yashin Mehboobe
Book your tickets at:  http://www.meraevents.com/event/defcon-bangalore

You can find more details at http://defcon.cysecurity.org/
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    SocialFlow hacked, New York Post Facebook and twitter accounts hacked

    It seems no one is safe from Syrian Electronic Army. Earlier Today, the group hacked into SocialFlow website - a social media optimization platform for leading brands and publishers.

    It appears the security breach allowed the hackers to compromise the New York post twitter and facebook accounts.

    "The New York Post(@nypost) #Facebook Page hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army #SEA pic.twitter.com/f8g0O6vbSH" The tweet posted by group reads.

    Hacked SocialFlow allows NewYork post facebook access

    Twitter account of NewYork Post

    Hacked facebook page: "https://facebook.com/NYPost.". The group hacked the following twitter accounts belong to New york Post: @NewYorkPost, @NYPost_Lewis, @NYPost_Schwartz, @NYPost_Mets, @nypostbiz.

     Twitter account(@JReidPost) belong to Washington Post sports columnist "Jason Reid" also got hacked and posted the "Syrian Electronic Army was here" tweet.


    "Update: today an employee's email account was compromised in a phishing attack. As a result, our Twitter and FB accounts were compromised." SocialFlow said in a response to the hack. But, The organization didn't confirm about their website hack.   

    "No customer access or data was compromised in this attack. As part of our security controls, we immediately took our service offline."

    "Advice: Don't lie on your customers, Your main website and blog was hacked too. :)" Syrian Electronic Army said.
    You can check the previous hacks of SEA here: Syrian Electronic Army .  Our first interview with Syrian Electronic Army can be found here: Interview with Syrian hackers.
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    Indian websites suffer cyber attack


    Earlier Today, a Pakistani Hacker with online handle "Dr@cul@" hacked into several Indian websites including one Indian Government website and defaced them.

    The hacked government website is "envisddd.gov.in". I'm not able to find the exact usage of this website.  The google cache displays "account suspended" page.

    Another Pakistani hacker with handle "Hasnain Haxor" claimed to have hacked more than 500 Indian websites and defaced them. "Indian's Be ready cyber war begin " The hacker send a warning message.

    Few hacked websites:
    ns1.pointersoft.co.in
    ns1.pointersoft.co.in
    abhinavsteel.com
    adcharitable.org
    adppowers.com
    agarwalpackersmovers.net
    aggarwalrelocation.co.in
    aggarwalironco.com
    The full list of hacked websites can be found here : "http://pastebin.com/1fxDWUsb ". 

    At the time of writing, the Government domain "envisddd.gov.in" is taken offline, few other websites displays "under construction" message.

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