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Articles on Cyber Security

Sedulity Groups | Team "GhostShell" leak One Million Records
TeamGhostShell a team linked with the Activist group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions including major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online.
Sedulity Groups | AVX Corporation Hacked by Anonymous #OpColtan
Anonymous Operation #OpColtan have announced another attack in the name of this operation and this time its on a Manufacturer and Supplier of Electronic Components AVX Corporation (www.avx.com). AVX It's a big firm which produce ceramic and tantalum capacitors, connectors, thick and thin film capacitors, resistors and integrated passive components. 
Sedulity Groups | Ban on bulk SMS Released
The Centre on Thursday lifted the ban on bulk SMS and MMS that was imposed to check the spread of rumours and inflammatory content related to the ethnic violence in Assam that had led to the exodus of northeastern people from Bangalore and other cities.
The decision was taken as the social unrest that gripped various cities due to these rumours has subsided and the flow of hate content has also reduced to a large extent in the last few days, a Ministry of Home Affairs spokesperson said.
Following the exodus from Bangalore and other cities due to rumours generated through SMS and MMS, the MHA banned bulk SMS/MMS on August 17. Initially, the Department of Telecommunications had allowed only five SMS per day, per mobile, that was increased to 20 per day on August 23.
Critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Photoshop CS6 | Sedulity Groups
Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS6 that closes a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2012-4170) in its popular graphics editing program. Both the Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop CS6 (aka Photoshop 13.0) contain a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems.

Furthermore, company officials say Adobe is unaware of any attacks against this vulnerability.That said, the Photoshop 13.0.1 update contains 75 other bug fixes, including 31 for problems known to cause crashes, 18 pertaining to 3D features, and 15 for drawing and graphics features.

Sony Mobile website hacked by NullCrew | Cyber Times
Another Cyber attack on Sony this year, Hacking group called "NullCrew" hack into one of the biggest site of Sony mobile website (www.sonymobile.com) and leak complete database on Internet. Nullcrew releasing their hack dumps from their official twitter account @OfficialNull.
 
The dump of database released on Pastebin with a small note from Hackers as given below:
Sony, we are dearly dissapointed in your security.
This is just one of eight sony servers that we have control of.
Maybe, just maybe considering IP addresses are available.
Maybe, just maybe it’s the fact that not even your customers can trust you.
Or maybe, just maybe the fact that you can not do anything correct technologically
 
12 Million Apple Device Records Leaked from FBI Laptop | Sedulity Groups
The hacker group AntiSec released a file of a million and one UDIDs unique device identifiers which it claims to have hacked it off an FBI computer via a Java vulnerability. UDIDs are unique IDs for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. They said they obtained the file in March by hacking into the laptop of a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in the bureau’s New York field office.
 
"Al Jazeera" News Network website Hacked
The official website of one of the biggest Arabic-language news network "Al Jazeera" got hacked just now by Pro-Assad hackers called "Al-Rashedon". If your miss the deface page, please have a look to mirror of it Here.
 
Deface page designed with Dark color as shown in image and have some message in Arabic language, in English its "In response to your attitude against Syria, ( Syrian people and Government ) and your support to the Terrorist & Armed Groups, and sharing Fake news, your site has been hacked and this is our response to you. ( Al Rashedon hakcker group.)"
<!--more-->Hacking group "Al-Rashedon" can be the part of "Syrain Electronic Army", But yet Syrian Hackers didn't claim anything about this hack on their facebook page or website. The Arabic used (and the language mistakes) indicates that the hackers may be people living abroad and not native Syrians, may be these hackers belongs to Iraq. Name "Rashedon" implies Iraq, because Iraq is known as Land of Al Rashedon. Scene is still unclear, we are investigating on it. Please stay tuned for more updates.

Defaced Sites:

  1. http://www.aljazeera.net
  2. http://www.aljazeera.com
  3. aljazeerasport.net
  4. mail.aljazeera.net
Deface Page Screen-shot taken by Team Cyber Times:
Al Jazeera SMS service Hacked, Fake messages spread by Hackers

“The story claiming that the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem) has been the target of an assassination attempt in the royal palace is completely false and was a result of hacking of the service,” the channel said in breaking news.

CRIME : New SSL/TLS attack for Hijacking HTTPS Sessions | Sedulity Groups
The new attack has been given the name CRIME by the researchers. The CRIME attack is based on a weak spot in a special feature in TLS 1.0, but exactly which that feature is has not been revealed by the researchers. They will say that all versions of TLS/ SSL including TLS 1.2, on which the BEAST attack did not work are vulnerable.
Ankit Fadia site again Hacked and Suspended | Sedulity Groups
Ankit Fadia has been in the news for being one of
India’s first ethical hackers. He has been recognized by a number of software companies. Fadia was also seen on several TV shows, recently as a host offering
tech and security advice to his viewers. At the same time, there have
been a bunch of other activities, such as writing security books, that
have been published in the market. He’s also known to give talks and
speak in seminars on security related topics. There have also been
reports that books written by Ankit Fadia contain plagiarised content.