How a Teen Hacker was making $50,000 per month

Argentina: Police have arrested a 19 years old hacker targeted international money transfer and gambling websites to make $50,000 a month. That teen was making $50,000 a month from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, police say. During the arrest operation police shut down the Electricity of the area where the teen lived to prevent the deletion of sensitive data. The Teen hacker was living with his father and according to police the were chasing him for more than a year. In the teenager’s room, officials found high-capacity computers.

How the teen was making $50,000 a month? 

He allegedly used malware attacks to build up a network of thousands of zombie computers, which were then used to illegally divert money from accounts leaving virtually no trace behind. The young man is being accused of three crimes, and if convicted of all, could be sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, BBC writes.

iPhone 5S’ Fingerprint flaw allows hacker to hijack your Apple account too

Apple’s iPhone 5s Fingerprint technology heat is still up among the hackers, to hack it. Well, the technology has been already hacked by German hackers group CCC and cat paws’s also bypassed the Touch ID. Now, a German security firm SRL said, an image of a fingerprint can successfully unlock the phone and owner’s email address & it’s password could be hacked too from an iPhone 5S. “Users leave copies of their fingerprints everywhere; including on the devices they protect. Fingerprints are not fit for secure local user authentication as long as spoofs (‘fake fingers’) can be produced from these pervasive copies,” SLR said in a blogpost.

SRL’s “Operation iPhone” step-by-step:

1. First, a hacker or thief would turn on the Airplane mode that disables all wireless connections, preventing the iPhone’s owner from doing a remote wipe. (Airplane mode could be disable without Fingerprint, if the phone is setup under default settings)

2. Now, it’s time to create a fake fingerprint on a laminated sheet and later attached to one of their fingers, SRL’s showed out the method to create a fake fingerprint in the video below:

After unlocking the Phone, the hacker would be able to access owner’s Apple account (If two-factor authentication hasn’t been turned on,) after that Hacker would be able to see the iPhone 5S’s owner’s email address and reset the password to take over the account. However, if the owner already performed a remote wipe, this wouldn’t be possible.

Apple Touch ID in the News:

• Cat Paws successfully unlocked the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor
• iPhone Fingerprint Sensor hacked by German Hackers group “CCC”
• Anonymous’ four claims to prove “iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database links to U.S Govt.”

Anonymous take down NSA website via dose of DDoS

The most controversial website of this year nsa.gov, which is an official website of US security Agency NSA has been taken down by one and only Anonymous hackers via dose of ddos. Media websites reporting about the downtime of the website from yesterday and today also at the time of reporting the news, website is still down, we also took a screenshot while checking the website for its downtime:

Hacked Teen sold mom’s jewellery after hackers threatened to share his Shameful footage

Hackers from the Philippines hacked into the computer of Hector Hernandez, 17 from New York, as the result of his hacked computer—hackers successfully managed to capture his embarrassing and shameful footage, after then hackers threatened Hector to share that footage. Hackers contacted hector on Facebook and threatened him to share the video with his friends and post it to his school’s website if he didn’t send them a large amount of cash.

                                                                    Hackers threatened him on facebook

Instead of consulting with parents or reporting to Police, hector gage his mom’s precious jewellery collection for $1,500, which she says was worth $100,000.Hector transferred the cash in three instalments into a bank account in Manilla (Philippines.)

“I was scared. I didn’t know what to do,” hector told Fox News. “I didn’t want my parents to find out what I did and I feel terrible about it.”

Hector was hit by a Remote Access Tool virus and he warned all of the users to turn off their Laptops & computers when they are not in use.

Barack Obama’s website was hacked and showing “Hacked by SEA”

United States’ president Barack Obama campaign website was hacked by hackers Sunday evening, website visitors were automatically redirected to Syrian Electronic Army (a Syrian hackers group) website, The Blaze reported.

The campaign website donate.barackobama.com was redirecting visitors to ‘sea.sy/indexs/,’ sea.sy is the website of Syrian hackers group Syrian Electronic Army, but hackers group haven’t tweeted about the hack so the hack might be done by other hacker group and they promoted SEA as hackers.

Visitors were introduced with a message “Hacked by SEA”:

The donation page that was compromised, however, appeared to have been old. The Obama campaign has most recently been using another page on the website, contribute.barackobama.com, to solicit donations, The Blaze writes.

Syrian Electronic Army is a hacker group which gained prominence through the hack of AP twiiter account, after that the group also hacked dozens of twitter accounts of media and others.

Hacker dumped details of US Secret Service Director Julia Pierson

A group of Hackers is claiming to leaded the data of Julia Pierson who is the first female Secret Service director appointed by President Obama and it just only week passed when Obama appointed her and her data has been Leaked.

It seems like Pierson was unable to keep the secrets in front of hackers…..

Pierson was among the names listed by hackers behind the website Exposed.re, which advertised “Secret Files” pertaining to US Attorney General Eric Holder, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former US president George W. Bush, actress Angelina Jolie and a slew of other celebrities and public figures.

What this Secret File contains:

• Social Security Number (SSN)
• Date of Birth
• Phone Numbers
• Current and Former Home Address
• Other really personal info is also leaked which personal credit report is prepared by Transunion with account activity as recent as January of this Year.
• Pierson’s shopping history at stores like Sears, the Home Depot and Macy’s was detailed alongside personal loan information from Citibank and American Express.

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The FBI is reportedly investigating the hack but has yet to announce news of an arrest.

Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake

In an interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates admitted  that it was a mistake to force users to use hold down “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to log into their computers.

Gates replied the above comment, when David Rubenstein, Harvard Campaign co-chair asked “Why, when I want to turn on my software and computer, do I need to have three fingers on Control, Alt, Delete?”,“Whose idea was that?”

Gates also stated that “We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t wanna give us our single button.” Engineer David Bradley, who worked on the original IBM PC, invented the combination which was originally designed to reboot a PC blamed Gates for this, “I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,” Bradley said in an interview earlier.

A decade later in an interview with CNET, Bradley said he didn’t really know, why Microsoft decided to make his invention their log-in command. 

The famous Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination  has been vastly used still in Windows XP, Windows 7 and even in Windows 8,  which is equipped with new login screen, it allow users to lock a machine or access the task manager.

Time or Bill Gates to say Bye-Bye Microsoft

According to an Exclusive News by Reuters, Bill Gates might lose his seat of chairman from the software company ‘Microsoft’ which was co-founded by gates 38 years ago, this might happen because of three of the top 20 investors in the company.

Those three unnamed shareholders together own more than 5 percent share of Microsoft and they want the company’s board to press for Gates to step down as chairman of the company.

Reuters reported:

The three investors are concerned that Gates' presence on the board effectively blocks the adoption of newstrategies and would limit the power of a new chief executive to make substantial changes. In particular, they point to Gates' role on the special committee searching for Ballmer's successor. They are also worried that Gates - who spends most of his time on his philanthropic foundation - wields power out of proportion to his declining shareholding.

Right now, Gates is the company’s largest individual shareholder, he owns about 4.5 percent of the $277 billion company.

It was already announced in August that ‘Steve Ballmer’ the company chief executive would retire within a year and we would see a big change in Microsoft soon.

12-year-Old Anonymous hacker hacked govt. websites in fond of video games

Via Daily Mail

This news is about the smallest teen hacker we ever reported. Twelve-year-Old hacker from Canada admitted “He hacked government and police websites for an Anonymous operation that took place last year. According to the information we got from Googling is, he took part in hacking of several govt. websites that include: Website of the Quebec Institute of Public Health Website of the Montreal police Website of a government organization from Chile. Small teen hacks caused damage of around $60,000 (€41,700). The Grade 5 student from the Montreal suburb of Notre-Dame- de-Grâce, whose actions were not politically motivated, traded pirated information to Anonymous for video games, court was told. Teen used DDoS attacks to take down websites, defaced websites, and leaked data from their servers, according to the authorities. He has pleaded guilty of what he did, other fellows of hacks have been arrested, but the 12-year-boy was the one who taught others—how to penetrate websites.

Top 5 Most Wanted Hackers, FBI offering $100,000 for each.

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has added 5 Most wanted hackers in their list and offering up to $100,000 for information leading to their arrests. Well, the amount of reward is really big and off-course exploits of the hackers were also not small, let us give you an introduction of 5 Most wanted hackers: First two are from Pakistan named Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin, they are wanted in an international telecommunications hacking scheme that took place between 2008 and 2012. They both were able to gain unauthorized access to business telephone systems, resulting in losses exceeding $50 million. Arshad and Uddin are part of an international criminal ring that the FBI believes extends into Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore, Italy, Malaysia and elsewhere. Third one is Carlos Perez-Melara, he is involved in running a fraudulent website in 2003 that offered customers a way to “catch a cheating lover.” Those who took the bait downloaded spyware that secretly installed a program on their computers that allowed scammers to steal the victims’ identities and personal information. Fourth one is Andrey Nabilebich Tamme, he is involved in a Malware named Opeartion Ghost Click which compromised more than four million computers in more than 100 countries between 2007 and October 2011; there were at least 500,000 victims in the United States alone. Last, but not the least, Alexsey Belan, he is wanted for allegedly remotely accessing the computer networks of three U.S.-based companies in 2012 and 2013 and stealing sensitive data as well as employees’ identities.

Snowden gets job in a major Russian website

 

The NSA leaker Snowden got a job after three months of his shipment to Russia. He got the job in a major Russian website, his lawyer said Thursday. Edward Snowden will start working at a big Russian company on Friday, November 1. His job will be to support and develop a major Russian website,”lawyer said. Asking upon the company’s name in which Snowden got job, lawyer didn’t disclose that, citing security concerns. Speculation over Snowden’s new employer centred on the Russian equivalent of Facebook, Vkontakte, whose charismatic founder Pavel Durov publicly offered Snowden a post in August. Right now two major Russian internet companies—yandex.ru and Mail.Ru Group said, “No, we didn’t hire Snowden.” According to Snowden’s lawyer, he was running out of money that’ why he need a job.

A Latest pic of Snowden Lifenews.ru

After the revelation of secret documents of NSA, he was on a year temporary asylum in Russia. Snowden spent more than a month in a Moscow airport before receiving a year’s temporary asylum and heading to a secret address. Snowden supporter website also has raised $49,000 in donations.

Hackers can easily access your Facebook account, update FB android app now

Via The Verge

Today, smartphone users are increasing day-by-day, in the meantime million of users use Facebook through their Android smartphone app. BUT your Android FB apps could give unauthorized access of your account—an Egyptian security researcher Mohamed Ramadan found two vulnerabilities in Facebook app of Android that could allow an attacker to steal your FB access token that opens door to access your FB account. The fact behind the vulnerability which could give access to your FB account is- Facebook access token expires never. Ramadan shows an example (he checked the stolen FB access token in Facebook graph explorer and found it expires never.)

Today, smartphone users are increasing day-by-day, in the meantime million of users use Facebook through their Android smartphone app.
BUT your Android FB apps could give unauthorized access of your account—an Egyptian security researcher Mohamed Ramadan found two vulnerabilities in Facebook app of Android that could allow an attacker to steal your FB access token that opens door to access your FB account.
The fact behind the vulnerability which could give access to your FB account is- Facebook access token expires never. Ramadan shows an example (he checked the stolen FB access token in Facebook graph explorer and found it expires never.)
- See more at: http://hackersnewsbulletin.com/2013/10/hacker-can-easily-hack-facebook-account-update-fb-smartphone-app-now.html#sthash.wHfDwfgL.dpuf

1. Ramadan found vulnerability in Facebook messenger & Facebook main app, he writes in his blog-an attacker needs to send an attachment like: a movie, doc, pdf, pic or any files that can be attached in Facebook messages, something like this through android app of Facebook. On click to download that attachment your Facebook access_token is leaked to android logcat which allows an android app to read and capture your Facebook access_token stealthy, that’s it you have been hacked.

2. Second vulnerability Ramadan found in the Facebook pages manager and it takes place though the same process like you see the first one above. How to be safe? Update your Android device Facebook apps, as the vulnerability has been patched by Facebook, but the vulnerability still inside your app until you update that. In the meantime, vulnerabilities have been fixed by Facebook and he is rewarded $6,000 on the name of Bug-Bounty.

Was YouTube hacked? More bad news for Google as video giant goes down within hours of firm losing $24billion

Many users faced with message that 'highly trained monkeys' were fixing the site prompting fears that it had been hacked

There was further chaos at Google today as its YouTube site went down within hours of the search engine's catastrophic stock market tumble which saw the company lose $24billion.

Some YouTube users were faced with an error message when they visited the site - and the wording suggested it was the work of hackers.

At 4.40pm on Thursday, a block of computer code appeared on the screen along with the words: 'Sorry, a team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information.'

YouTube posted on Twitter: 'Some of you may have encountered issues using YouTube today.

'Our engineers worked quickly to make the fix. Sorry!'

Today the firm said: 'Some users encountered errors, or a slower than normal experience on YouTube today for a few minutes.

'Our engineers worked quickly to address the issue and fixed the problem.

'We're sorry for any inconvenience this caused our users.'

Since it was launched in February 2005, YouTube has become the go-to site for video on the web, hosting not only amateur clips but a large number of professional channels.

YouTube, which is based in San Bruno, California, was bought by Google for $1.65billion in 2006.

Google suffered the single largest plunge in stock market history on Thursday when $24billion (£15billion) was wiped off the company's value after its results were accidentally released.

The catastrophic error revealed that profits were down by 20 per cent.

Trading in the company's stock was halted when its shares fell by nine per cent in just eight minutes following the release of its disappointing earnings report.

The report was leaked ahead of schedule when a printing firm working for Google put out an incomplete press release without authorisation from the online giant.

The plunge prompted worries that a second dot.com crash could be on the way. Google's troubles coincide with a steady fall in Facebook's share price and the ongoing struggles of newer start-ups such as Groupon and Zynga.