#OpIsrael :-Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel cyberspace

 

A cyber attack campaign, #OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans.

Anonymous threatened to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace in protest over its mistreatment of Palestinians. In response to the eight day assault that killed 133 Palestinians, Anonymous defaced thousands of Israeli sites and provided information for Gazans facing Internet and communications blackouts. 

Over 60 million hacking attempts were reportedly made. Most of the attacks have had

'Scribd' The world's largest online library, has been hacked.

Scribd ,the world's largest online library, has been hacked in a recent attack and hacker potentially able to compromise general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of partial database. "Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Scribd are encrypted, we believe that the passwords of less than 1 percent of our users were potentially compromised by this attack," the company stated.

 They emailed every user whose password was potentially compromised with details of the situation and instructions for resetting their password. "Earlier this week,

IOS vulnerability in Configuration Profiles pose malware threat.

Israeli mobile security start-up Skycure has exposed a vulnerability that could allow hackers to control and spy on iPhones. A major security vulnerability for iOS configuration profiles  pose malware threat.

The vulnerability affects a file known as mobileconf files, which are used by cell phone carriers to configure system-level settings. These can include Wi-Fi, VPN, email, and APN settings. Apple used to use them to deliver patches, and carriers sometimes use them to distribute updates.

The below demo shows that how sensitive information, including the victim’s exact

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Anonymous Hackers take down the 

The Muslim Brotherhood​ websites. The hacking group had made an announcement Tuesday in which they threatened to launch “Operation Brotherhood Takedown,” on all Brotherhood sites at 8pm on Friday, 11 November.

According to a video released by them on youtube. They claim to taken down following sites:
As of 2:24 PM EST, ikhwanonline.com IS DOWN.
As of 2:26 PM EST, ikhwanweb.com IS DOWN.

The Brotherhood claimed in a statement released on Saturday morning that

certified ethical hacker.

An ethical hacker are usually peoples employed by an organization who trusts him or her to attempt to penetrate networks or computer systems, using the same methods as a hacker would deploy for hacking into networks or computer systems. The purpose of a n ethical hacker is of finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities and preventing the hack .

Illegal hacking (i.e., gaining unauthorized access to computer systems) is a crime in most countries, but penetration testing done by request of the owner of the targeted systems or networks is not considered as a crime infact ethical hackers are paid for it.

A Certified Ethical Hacker are those people who have obtained a certification in how to look for the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems and uses the same knowledge and tools as a hacker would use.

The EC-Council 's Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) is a professional certification in the field of ethical hacking. C|EH is just a starting step in Information security field.

Port Scanning

Port Scanning is one of the most popular techniques used by hackers to discover services that can be compromised.

• A potential target computer runs many ‘services’ that listen at ‘well-known’ ‘ports’.
• By scanning which ports are available on the victim, the hacker finds potential vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
• Scan techniques can be differentiated broadly into Vanilla, Strobe, Stealth, FTP Bounce, Fragmented Packets, Sweep and UDP Scans.

Port Scanning Techniques

 
Port Scanning Techniques can be broadly classified into:

• Open scan
• Half- open scan
• Stealth scan
• Sweeps
• Misc

Commonly used hacking tools for port scanning

1. Tool: SuperScan 4.0

  

How to Trace Any IP Address

Tracing an IP address is very simple and easy than we think. There exists many websites through which you can trace any IP address back to it’s source. One of my favorite site is ip2location.com.

Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address.

1. Country in which the IP is located

2. Region

3. City

4. Latitude/Longitude

5. Name of the ISP

6. Area Code and

7. Domain name associated with the IP address.

You can also visually trace route any IP address back to it’s location. For this just visit http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ and enter the IP you want to trace in the dialog box and hit the “Proxy Trace” button. Wait for few seconds and the visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination.