03 August 2011

Experts say #cyberattacks on U.S. more frequent and sophisticated

Remaining defiant after their "spokesman" was arrested, hackers attacked yet another US government contractor, leaking its sensitive data online.

The Hacker News reported early Tuesday (Manila time) that Operation AntiSec published 110 users' emails and passwords of PCS Consultants (USA) onto Pastebin.

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#AntiSec #hackers strike back at US gov't

Remaining defiant after their "spokesman" was arrested, hackers attacked yet another US government contractor, leaking its sensitive data online.

The Hacker News reported early Tuesday (Manila time) that Operation AntiSec published 110 users' emails and passwords of PCS Consultants (USA) onto Pastebin.

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OfficeLeaks.com Gives Every Workplace an Anonymous Water Cooler

Office Leaks (www.officeleaks.com), a new social media platform created for employees, is changing workplace culture from the inside out by giving every office an anonymous forum. This allows employees to freely express their thoughts without navigating office politics or the threat of repercussions.

"Office Leaks is genuinely 'pro-employee' in an economy that is not," says Ryan Masanz, the site's creator. "Every day we hear about lay-offs, foreclosures, and bills targeting workers' rights -- and the decision to stand up and speak your mind is a difficult one. Office Leaks levels the playing field to encourage challenging ideas and honest criticism."

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Met tweets warning to would-be #Anon #hacktivists

The Met has warned would-be "hacktivists" that its investigation into Anonymous and LulzSec continues, and that suspects potentially face a 10-year jail sentence.

Police took the usual step of issuing the warning via Twitter, which members and supporters of the hacking groups have often used to seek publicity and communicate.

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#Anonymous to Retire Low Orbit Ion Cannon? #loic

Anonymous is considering putting itsmost formidable DDoS weapon   in cold storage following a recent series of high-profile arrests of the hacker group's members, according to the AnonOps blog.

Members of Anonymous are pushing to retire the group's Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) while the loosely organized hacker collective develops a new DDoS tool to take down websites called #RefRef, an AnonOps Communications blog post revealed Tuesday.

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02 August 2011

#Pentagon to Use Facebook, Twitter in #CyberWarfare

Military officials and contractors today discussed goals for using social media for military defense, including using messaging to identify, detect, recognize and even send counter-messaging that would thwart enemy plans. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has already sent a proposal to several contractors, which promises up to $42 million in funding for any plans that will help it meet its social media goals.

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Russians say the Web Will Win in #CyberWar

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#Hackers attack #zero-day flaw in WordPress themes

Malicious hackers have pounced on a zero-day vulnerability in a widely used image-resizing utility that ships with themes for the popular WordPress blogging platform.

The timthumb utility, used to handlecropping, zooming and resizing web images, is used by millions of blogs running certain themes and because it writes files into a directory during the image-resizing process, it can be used to launch web attacks.

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