Spacecraft Cassini took a photo during its journey and five moons of Saturn are in it. On the left side of the photo and 179 kilometers across is Janus. Next moon from the left, the smallest in the picture and about in the center is Pandora, 81 kilometers across. It appears to be in the ring but actually is between the A and F rings. After Pandora we see Enceladus, the bright one in the center and 504 kilometers across
Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has been hacked. INSA’s Cybersecurity Council released a document explaining that government and private sector should work together to solve cyber security vulnerabilities. Two day after the release, they have been hacked. Details of U.S intelligence officials have been posted on Cryptome with the title “INSA Nest of Official and Corporate Spies”. Information leaked about the members of INSA includes names, emails and in some cases addresses. Cryptome posts interesting documents worth checking out. Hackers
You can play with Google gravity project by going to Google and search for “Google gravity” with the “feel lucky” option. Alternatively, you can visit the page directly by clicking Google Gravity. Gravity pulls everything to the ground, everything. Gravity affects search box, search results, images and anything else you can imagine. After the collapse you can perform searches and see the results falling from the sky. You can click the results and navigate to the sites like you normally do or just drug and drop them around and see how gravity works. It is very funny and gravity algorithm is good enough to make it look realistic
GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar and web hosting company poisoned with a modified .htaccess, an Apache web server configuration file. A number of websites hosted on shared servers compromised and when someone was visiting those websites through a search engine, they were being redirected to sokoloperkovuskeci.com and then again to some other malware sites. GoDaddy informed users that they are looking to resolve this issue. Affected websites may have been blacklisted from search engines so if you are one of those affected check it out
Every day I read news about technology, science, gadgets, trends and local news but the category with the most news is hacking. Every day hundreds of websites are hacked, including few companies, and tens of hacking tools are created or new versions are released. You will not see all this here, I try to filter those for you and give you only the most important ones. For example if several websites are hacked, I will post only the one(s) that affected the most Internet users like i did with uTorrent. If some companies are hacked, I will post the one(s) with the highest reputation or the one that is specialized in security which is ironic
uTorrent website hacked and the attacker replaced the torrent client with a fake antivirus software. The fake software has the name “Security Shield” and prompts the victims that they have virus and then offers them to clean their pc after payment. The attack took place at September 13th 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7) and the users who have downloaded the file between 4:20 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. Pacific time, they have been infected
Google Flight Search is the Google’s new tool. You can search for flights and get the results ultra fast. It is nicer and simpler than other similar sites. You can narrow your results by setting the maximum amount you are willing to pay, the maximum duration of the flight you want or the number of stops you prefer. There are filters you can add very fast and easily. You can make a new search for another destination with just a click in the map. It does not support
Nowadays more and more consumers turn into smartphones and tablets. Intel and Google team up and future releases of Android platform will be optimized for Intel’s Atom low power processors. Intel also announced that their processors will consume 20 times less energy in idle mode by 2013 without compromising performance. More power with less energy, we will enjoy our Android devices more without charging so soon
Few days ago the Pakistani hacker ‘X-Nerd’ (x-nerd@live.com) hacked several domains and added a new file in their root called ‘x.php’. Few sites that are still having this file while I am writing this post are:
http://aeciecuador.org/x.php
http://clipartbackgrounds.net/x.php
http://ieducationaltoys.com/x.php
http://vectorpanic.net/x.php
and many more
This time X-Nerd hacked Panda Security Pakistan. A company that offers security has been hacked, this is not a good promotion for their products
Anonymous released a new tool to hijack trending topics on twitter. It is called Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter or simply U.R.G.E. It helps the user to post tweets on a trend without having to copy paste trending topic manually. Don’t be afraid to download it, it does not contain any malicious code and it is not an exploit. You can see download information and instructions in source