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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Now there is really great news for all the supporters of Former National Security Agency ( NSA ) contractor Edward Snowden , as he is nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian lawmakers. Snorre Valen and Baard Vegar Solhjell , parliamentarians from Norway’s Socialist Left Party said, “ He has contributed to revealing the extreme level of surveillance by nations against other nations and of citizens ,”     Edward Snowden revealed various widely extended NSA spying projects and responsible for handing over the material from one of the world's most secretive organizations the NSA. He faces charges of theft and espionage and is in Russia on temporary asylum. “ Snowden contributed to people knowing about what has happened and spurring public debate ” on trust in government, which he said was “ a fundamental requirement for peace ”. Snorre Valen also added that, “ There’s no doubt that the actions of Edward Snowden may have damaged the s...

Java Bot, a cross-platform malware capable of running on Windows, Mac and Linux

  Security researchers at Kaspersky has came across a cross-platform malware which is capable of running on Windows, Mac and Linux. The malware is completely written in Java.  Even the exploit used for delivering the malware is also well-known Java exploit(CVE-2013-2465) which makes the campaign completely cross-platform. Once the bot has infected a system, it copies itself into user's home directory as well as add itself to the autostart programs list to ensure it gets executed whenever user reboots the system. Once the configuration is done, the malware generates an unique identifier and informs its master.  Cyber criminals later communicates with this bot through IRC protocol. The main purpose of this bot is appeared to be participate in Distributed-denial-of-service(DDOS) attacks.  Attacker can instruct the bot to attack a specific address and specify a duration for the attack. The malware uses few techniques to make the malware analysis and detection more...

Confirmed: Angry Birds website hacked by Anti-NSA Hacker

Syrian Electronic Army yesterday posted a tweet saying that one of its friend with handle "Anti-NSA" hacker defaced the Angry website. At the time, we were not able to confirm the defacement.  No one was reported to have seen the hack.  Even the Zone-h mirror didn't confirm the defacement, displayed a message "The mirror is onhold and has not been verified yet". So, we didn't have strong proof to report the hack.  Today,  Rovio, creator of angry birds, confirmed that the defacement was there for few minutes and corrected immediately.  Now, the Zone-h record also confirmed it. Antti Tikkanen, Director of Security Response at F-Secure Labs, said in twitter that the attack is actually 'DNS Hijack attack'. He mentioned that the website itself not touched by the hacker; hacker managed to modify the DNS records. He also said that the angrybirds website pointed to some IP address(31.170.165.141) assoicated with Lithuania for at least one hour.  The same ...

First widely distributed Android bootkit Malware infects more than 350,000 Devices

  A New Android Trojan which is said to be the first Android Bootkit has been discovered by the Russian security firm Doctor Web. The malware resides in the memory of the infected devices and launches itself early on in the OS loading stage and makes it hard to remove from the device. The trojan, identified as Android.Oldboot.1.origin, installs one of its components into the boot partition of the file system.  It also modifies the init script -  a specialized program for initializing elements of the Android system. When the device is turned on, the script is get executed and installs other malware components as a typical application. Android virus which can't be removed by your Antivirus:  This malware is considered as most dangerous of android malware because even if you remove it, once the device is rebooted, the component residing in the protected memory area will re-infect the device. Researchers believe the threat gets into the device when user refl...

How to Automatically Accept all Facebook Friend Requests

So now obviously this again goes automatic, you just need to follow simple steps and execute a small script and all your friend requests will be accepted automatically + any page request or other requests can also be accepted easily. So now lets see how exactly this thing works. 1. Open Facebook.com and Sign-In. 2. Now visit https://www.facebook.com/reqs.php and here you will see all the requests for pages and right on top you will see all the friend requests. 3. Now you will see "See More" option click that to show all friend requests. 4. Now just press Ctrl + Shift + J to open Console menu in chrome and then simply paste the below script and press enter. javascript:for( i = 1;i<document.getElementsByName("actions[accept]").length;i++) {document.getElementsByName("actions[accept]") [i].click();}void(0); 5. That's it now within seconds all the friend requests will be accepted. 6. This even works for all the page req...

How to Send Message to all Facebook Friends in One Click

Sending Bulk Messages on Facebook using Script So now guys if you are interested in sending bulk messages to all your friends on facebook then here is an easy way to do so. Open Facebook.com and Sign-In to your account. Now after Signing-In just press  F12  in chrome &  Ctrl  +  Shift  +  K  in Firefox to open the Console Tab. Now just copy the whole script provided here  [Link]  and paste it inside the Console Tab and press Enter. Now a new popup windows like below will open, with the text field to write your message and a Post button to send it immediately. Now to confirm that everyone is going to receive your message just open any of your friend using chat system and press Post to see how he will get your message and so do all of your friends will receive the same message in seconds. REMEMBER  Use this script once in a day else facebook will temporary block your messaging service for doing bulk messaging....

Microsoft remotely deleted Tor-based 'Sefnit Botnet' from more than 2 Million Systems

In October 2013,  Microsoft  adopted a silent, offensive method to tackle infection due to a Tor-based botnet malware called ' Sefnit '. In an effort to  takedown of the  Sefnit botnet  to protect windows users, Microsoft r emotely removes the older versions of installed Tor Browser software and infection from 2 Million systems, even without the knowledge of the system's owner. Last year in August, after Snowden revelations about the National Security Agency's ( NSA ) Spying programs, the Internet users were under fear of being spied. During the same time Tor Project leaders noticed almost 600% increase in the number of users over the anonymizing networks of Tor i.e. More than 600,000 users join Tor within few weeks. In September, researchers identified the major reason of increased Tor users i.e. A Tor-based botnet called ' Sefnit malware ', which was infecting millions of computers for click fraud and  bitcoin ...