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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sesame Channel Hacked, Porn Posted

On Sunday afternoon, some of the world’s worst lowlifes decided to hack the Sesame Street YouTube channel and replace some of the videos with pornographic clips.
For about 20 minutes yesterday, visitors to the YouTube channel of the popular children’s show saw hardcore porn instead of Elmo and Big Bird. The channel has nearly 150,000 subscribers, and usually hosts dozens of clips from the PBS program.But Sunday, the hackers replaced the page’s banner to read,

10,000 accounts hacked by TeamSwaSTika


Another group of Hackers, self titled Team Swastika, have caused panic amongst Facebook users after releasing the details of 10,000 accounts onto popular text sharing site, Pastebin. 
Pastebin, usually used to share source code, has frequently been host to a number of text files that contain the details of specific hacks by hackitivists and hacker groups. 

"Times of money" Database Hacked


{Source: The Hackers News}
General Information About the Vulnerability
This is again a critical vulnerability discovery made by zSecure Team in TimesofMoney website. The group claims that there exist a critical SQL Inejction Vulnerability in the timesofmoney's website using which an attacker can gain access to the site's entire database which contains the huge amount of customers confidential information. Even many indian banks are availing the service of the timesofmoney. This vulnerability may prove to be very critical for the company because TimesofMoney is India's one of the leaders in e-payment system. Existence of such a critical flaw in company's web may cause huge to the existing market reputation of the company concerned.

Social Engineering Toolkit Released


The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed.