Major Israeli websites hacked

Unprecedented number of Israeli websites hacked: Hundreds of websites were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following IDF activity in the Gaza Strip. The hackers are members of the Moroccan “Team Evil” group, responsible for most of the website damage in Israel in the past year. This is the largest, most concentrated attack on Israeli websites in recent years.
A Ynet investigation revealed that more than 750 Israeli websites, on a number of different domains, were hacked into and damaged in recent days. Prominent among them were the Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Bank Hapoalim (not the main page), Rambam Hospital, the Society for Culture and Housing, BMW Israel, Subaru Israel, Jump Fashion, non-profit organization “Yedid,” Kadima’s youth website, and the Globus Group ticket center. Many of these sites have not yet returned to normal.

Hackers left the message: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers.

Early on Wednesday, the IDF began operation “Summer Rains” in Gaza: Forces entered the southern end of the strip, adjacent to the

point of Cpl. Gilad Shavit’s kidnap. The air force attacked a power station and blacked out areas of Gaza. Three bridges were bombed in central Gaza, in order to prevent movement of the kidnapped soldier.   Many Israeli websites are hacked every day – most of these are small sites, with inadequate information security. It is significantly different when the sites are ones of large companies, who have adequate defenses from this sort of attack.

Past success of Team Evil

In the past, Team Evil succeeded in hacking into several sites of medium-sized but recognized Israeli companies. In April, they hit tens of sites, including those of the “Shilav” children’s store, “The Blue Square” supermarket and McDonald’s.

The group’s spokesman previously told Ynet that “we are a group of Moroccan hackers that hack into sites as part of the resistance in the war with Israel. We attack Israeli sites every day. This is our duty…hacking is not a crime.”

Added another group member: “We want Israel to stop fighting. Stop killing children and we’ll stop hacking.” According to the spokesman, the group’s members are all Moroccan youths, under the age of 20.

The increase in hacking of websites following military operations is a well-known phenomenon, in Israel and in the rest of the world. A similar increase was seen in attacks on both Israeli and Arab websites in the first days of the second intifada, pursuant to military operations that took place in Gaza, Judea and Samaria at that time.

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World's biggest hacker held

A London man described as the "world's biggest computer hacker" has been arrested.

Gary McKinnon, 39, was seized by the Met's extradition unit at his Wood Green home.

The unemployed former computer engineer is accused of causing the US government $1billion of damage by breaking into its most secure computers at the Pentagon and Nasa. He is likely to be extradited to America to face eight counts of computer crime in 14 states and could be jailed for 70 years.

The former Highgate Wood comprehensive-pupil was granted bail today at Bow Street Magistrates' Court.

Most of the alleged hacking took place in 2001 and 2002. At one stage the US thought it was the work of the al Qaeda terror network.

Friends said that he broke into the networks from his home computer to try to prove his theory that the US was covering up the existence of UFOs.

He is accused of a series of hacking offences including deleting "critical" files from military computers. The US authorities said the cost of tracking him down and correcting the alleged problems was more than £570,000. The offences could also see him fined up to £950,000 if found guilty on all charges.

He was arrested yesterday evening but the US first issued an indictment against him in November 2002.

Prosecutor Paul McNulty alleged that McKinnon, known online as "Solo," had perpetrated "the biggest hack of military computers ever". He was named as the chief suspect after a series of electronic break-ins occurred over 12 months at 92 separate US military and Nasa networks.

McKinnon was also accused of hacking into the networks of six private companies and organisations.

It is alleged that he used software available on the internet to scan tens of thousands of computers on US military networks from his home PC, looking for machines that might be exposed due to flaws in the Windows operating system.

Many of the computers he broke into were protected by easy-to-guess passwords, investigators said. In some cases, McKinnon allegedly shut down the computer systems he invaded.

The charge sheet alleges that he hacked into an army computer at Fort Myer, Virginia, where he obtained codes, information and commands before deleting about 1,300 user accounts.

Other systems he hacked into included the Pentagon's network and US army, navy and air force computers.

Reports when he was first indicted said that McKinnon found his career as a computer engineer tedious.

One message updating old schoolfriends on a website read simply: "Computers (Yawn)".

Friends said he was desperate to prove that the Americans had mounted a huge cover-up to deny his belief that aliens had visited earth.

Andrew Edwards, who has known McKinnon since their days together at Highgate Wood comprehensive, said in 2002: "Gary told me all he was doing was looking for proof of a cover-up over UFOs.

"He's been interested in UFOs for some time and believes the Americans are holding back information - although he didn't find any proof."

Outside court, his solicitor Karen Todner said he was disappointed it had taken the authorities this long to bring him to court.

She said: "This decision for extradition is driven by the American government. Mr McKinnon intends to contest this case most vigorously.

"Of particular concern to him is the treatment of other British nationals under the American judicial system which inspires little confidence.

"We believe that as a British national, he should be tried here in our courts by a British jury and not in the US."

Source : http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-19164714-worlds-biggest-hacker-held.do

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How to Earn Money From Facebook

Facebook has become a social networking phenomenon that started just with college students but now has expanded to all types of social groups. Much of Facebook users are so addicted to this website, they spend hours exploring and using different kinds of social applications. Like the television, people are spending more and more time in front of their computers - surfing the web or trying out new applications on Facebook.

Like with more popular media like the television, radio or print advertisements, Facebook also generates advertisements that go with their applications. You can apply the same concept - make a product and sell it. So, how do you do this with Facebook? Here are ways to get your profits running.

Sell your product.

If you already have a product, you can sell it on Facebook - most especially if your service or product caters to the 18 to 35 year old group. For example, if you own a twenty-four hour pizza place, you can put up your page with your company profile and your products. Some college students that go online during the wee hours of the night might actually crave for pizza.

Or if you have a bookstore, you can put up a page asking people if they want to order a book online for a significantly lower price compared to other online bookstores. Know your consumers and find ways on how to get in touch with them. Join groups or causes so your presence would be more visible.

Make your Facebook page interesting.

A lot of people also browse Facebook looking for interesting content like causes to support, funny stuff or photos that are worth taking a look at. You can start thinking of ways on how to make your page interesting, so a lot of readers would go to your profile page.

You just have to put an advertising space on your profile page. Then, find advertisers that would be interested in putting up their ad banners on your site. If your page is about books, maybe you'd like to get in touch with Amazon. It would be logical, of course, to get advertisers that are related with your actual content.

You don't actually have to sell anything on your Facebook page, you just have to put up advertising spaces once you get the traffic rolling.

Create applications.

Facebook is so popular because of the various third-party applications it offers. First of, you should know what the market demands. What applications do Facebook users want? Most users are between the ages of 18 and 35 so it is understandable that most Facebook applications would be mashups between music, video, applications that are just for fun or their profiles. Applications would range from free gifts, to horoscopes, to trivia games, personality tests or graffiti walls on their profile pages. These applications are viral - meaning it can spread in a matter of minutes! So, a lot of people can be using your application minutes after it has been launched. That would mean that you can sell advertising spaces on your application.

If you don't have the means or the money to get your application up and running, you can sell your idea to companies like Bay Partners or get developers to help you with it.

Copyright (c) Althea Marie Tan. If you are interested to know more about how to use Facebook and to earn money from it, visit Facebook Social Ads [http://facebook-social-ads.net]

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PSN & SONY hack - Recent Hacking Case

In April 2011, Hacker stole 77 million PSN customers personal information--including names, addresses, billing history.The  some days later another massive breach at Sony was 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan . Just yesterday Sony PlayStation Network hacked again, user passwords compromised. The Hacker News investigate about this Biggest Hacking case of Year and Finally we Release our 1st Report on Sony's 3rd Attack Issue on 8th May 2011. In our Report we prove that How hackers get the list Customers info just using simple Google Searches.

Further a Hacking Group named " PH4N70M Hacking Team" Claiming to Hack the PSN Network. We (THN) try to talk with these hackers and try to collect some info about this Breach. The Statement by Founder of PH4N70M Hacking Team -- "The PSN was comprised of multiple forwarding servers. When my team went in, we found an authorization server (Codenamed auth.sony). This server had no encryption, no DDoS protection was in place. No load balancing. This is how the PSN network was taken down. I thought I’d pass that along to you due to the confusion people are having. This gateway was not load balanced and not secured operating through the default port 80. This server, during early operations back in February (when the operation was initiated in a vote in Operation Payback) was also thought to control login to sonys stores and shop networks. (Marketplace) I cannot confirm this. The original planned attack was going to be a LOIC + Slowloris attack. I also heard before I left of a bufferoverflow attack.The key players in PH4N70M (Phantom) include an exploiter (TH0R), Xik, and several others including the operation payback collaborator named Wolfy. The rest of the team will remain hidden for now.The credit card concerns were all because the data was never encrypted when sent"


Source : http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/role-of-hacking-in-stealing-and-selling.html

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Role of Hacking in Stealing and Selling Credit Cards !

People use the Internet in their everyday lives. With technology advancing as fast as it is, most modern day homes have gone online, turning to the Internet to save time with busy days, performing simple tasks like online banking, purchasing items on eBay or Amazon, even taking college classes online. Internet Banking , Credit Cards are become the mode of Payments.

Its 2011, Hacker have Eye on your Bank Balance, Credit Card details and Logins. These online Criminals get you Credit Card details and sell them to other customers. Credit card numbers can be purchased for a dollar or less if you buy in bulk And so-called full profiles, including a Social Security number and mother’s maiden name, are available for just $80. ATM pin numbers and platinum cards cost extra.

Computer hackers have been found stealing and selling other people's credit card information in masses. Hacking happens just like any other crime, having both low level attacks like a single person stealing and using your online email accounts, to a more organized structure like a group of hackers attacking a corporate mainframe for large amounts of personal information.

Source : http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/role-of-hacking-in-stealing-and-selling.html

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Students arrested in Nye country computer haking case

A dozen students were arrested by the Nye County Sheriff's Department for allegedly changing their grades in the school computer system.

Police say Tyler Coyner is suspected of stealing the password to the grade system at Pahrump Valley High School and then selling the password to others. The alleged crime went on for two semesters.

Police say Coyner even went as far as changing his own grades, making himself the salutatorian at graduation.

Coyner and another suspect, Matthew Miller, are also accused of stealing a television from Wal-mart and possessing fake ID's. They are facing charges of altering computer data, conspiracy to commit a crime, burglary and grand larceny.

Ten other un-named students, all under the age of 18, have also been charged in the incident.

Source : http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/03/students-arrested-in-nye-county.html

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