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Assange, whose WikiLeaks website is at the centre of a row over the release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant.
Swedish prosecutors want to question the 39-year-old Australian about allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He denies the allegations.
Assange is due to appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London later on Tuesday when a date for an extradition hearing is likely to be set. This must take place within 21 days of his arrest.
"He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010," London police said in a statement.
Assange has spent much of his time in Sweden and earlier this year was accused of sexual misconduct by two female Swedish WikiLeaks volunteers.
This led Swedish prosecutors to open, then drop, then re-open an investigation into the allegations. The crime he is suspected of is the least severe of three categories of rape, carrying a maximum of four years in jail.
Police said Assange was arrested by officers from its extradition unit at about 9.30 a.m. (0930 GMT) after he appeared by appointment at a London police station.
His whereabouts had been previously undisclosed.
If a judge is satisfied his extradition is warranted and will not breach his human rights, then he will order the WikiLeaks founder to be extradited, although Assange can appeal against that decision to higher courts.
Assange's Swedish lawyer has said his client would fight any extradition and believed foreign powers were influencing Sweden.
WikiLeaks has angered the U.S. government and others across the world by releasing details of 250,000 diplomatic cables it had obtained.

 5th Dec 2010:

The website of whistle-blowing organisation Wikileaks has been shut down by the company providing it with domain name services.
EveryDNS.net said it had terminated services because Wikileaks.org had come under massive cyber attacks.
It said the attacks threatened its infrastructure and endangered access to thousands of other websites.
Wikileaks says it has faced disruption since it began publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables.
The memos, which discuss US diplomatic relations and military activities, have been causing controversy across the world.
In a post on Twitter, Wikileaks acknowledged that its domain had been "killed" by EveryDNS.net.
It was not clear how long disruption to the site would last for.
In a statement on its website, EveryDNS.net said it had issued a 24-hour termination notice to Wikileaks which ended at 0300 GMT on 2 December.
It said the domain wikileaks.org had become the target of "multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks".
"These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites," it said.
"Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider," it added.
Wikileaks says its website has been under attack since it began publishing more than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables.
It turned to the online store Amazon to host its site but the company ended the agreement on Wednesday - a move welcomed by US officials.
Wikileaks said its site is now being hosted by servers in Europe.



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The United States is bracing for more embarrassment as whistle-blower website WikiLeaks gets set to release around 3 million secret US documents this weekend.
Last month, WikiLeaks exposed some of the damning war crimes by US forces in Iraq and Washington is perhaps yet to recover from its humiliation.
However, this time US is battling to take its allies into confidence as WikiLeaks may release some more secrets that may hit its ties with some of its closest allies, including India.
America feels that the documents likely to be released could damage its relationship with allies, including India.
US has already warned India and other key allies like Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Israel, and Russia.
A statement from the US State Department says:  “We have reached out to India to warn them about a possible release of documents. We do not know precisely what WikiLeaks has or what it plans to do. We have made our position clear. These documents should not be released.”
However, WikiLeaks seems determined to release classified conversations between the US government and its missions across the world.
Source: NDTV
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Source:http://www.theprohack.com

And there we go, I came to know about the renowned Ankit Fadia coming to my humble college & I was wondering if he will be different from those other security organizations who teach computer security & ethical hacking.
He was worse.
No offense to Mr Fadia, but actually I was quite saddened by some of the questions which he asked-

How many of you use Google as a search engine ?
(Almost all of hands raised)
He Proclaimed - STOP USING THEM !!

How many of you use email services like Gmail, yahoo?
(A lot of hands raised)
He Exclaimed - STOP USING THEM !!

How many of you use internet ?
(again..some of hands raised)
STOP USING THEM !!

And behind the above "Stop Using Them!!" there were some cheesy reasons of privacy invasion & record tacking. I wondered why he was not educating about how to use services like Scroogle/TOR/SOCKS for safe surfing (albeit nothing is safe, but still, they provide a greater degree of anonymity). Then..it all begin.

Part 1 - Screwing the Proxies
Then the hacking prodigy demonstrated his magical wits by recommending Russian proxy servers cuz "they were maintained by criminals" & "they kept no logs" .
F**INGBULLSHIT !!
Why the hell ! We can never trust a proxy if it keeps logs or not, that's why we always use SOCKS & proxy chaining to get the work done, even when I start something casual, i chain 10 proxies using a TOR network to get the work done, & that guy was recommending anonymizer.com & anonymizer.ru . And we shall trust Russian proxy cuz its maintained by criminals ? what an oxymoron ! His ace in hole in the proxy demo was the Princeton university proxy list where he claimed that to black all of the proxies it will need 413 individual tries ! A friend of mine asked -

"Well Mr Fadia, what if you block the Princeton university site ?"
pat came the nervous reply
" Appoint a junior of yours to go into local cybercafé to get the list, Xerox it and distribute in college"

Pure F**king Genius !
He went on to use SPYPIG to get IP of any person using an image. but he didn't get on the point that what if a person has disabled image viewing on email. Anyways..it all ended with a lot of questions which he dodged by saying that there will be a query session in the end. Ah well..
Part 2 - the infamous NETBUS DEMO
I patiently waited to ask him some questions regarding IP evasion & anonymity but he started to demo NETBUS Trojan, without any logic he went on to demonstrate how he can open his CD/DVD drive on his DELL Studio 14" (by installing a Trojan server on his own laptop & executing commands on local loopback & he didn't explained it, that's why its in f**king brackets !) . I asked him, on getting chance from my trusted roommates & event co-ordinators Sumit Dimri & Varun Kumar Singh & asked him 2 simple questions (Of course I already knew the answers) -

• What happens if a person is behind a NATBOX/Router/Firewall, then there is no use of getting IP, it might not be forwarded at all. What then ?
• Trojans are invalid against Linux. What can you do to break into Linux Security ?

He responded by dodging the first question & diverting it to a social awareness bullshit & some problem solving (which I cant seem to remember cuz it was irrelevant). The second question was answered by saying that Windows is insecure & I myself use Ubuntu linux at home.



Again..Pure F**king Genius !


From that point i got the point that he has no point :D
We moved on to the Steganography / Final session then.

Part 3 - the Steganography / Final session

The steganography session was started by exclaiming that he was contacted by FBI on 9/11 attacks ( which i already knew as a matter of fact is fake courtesy of Attrition.Org & various LUG's out there) & they used images of sexy women to transmit data into them. He used a tool to hide text data into image & reverse it, nothing special, if you have been a reader of my blog I guess you probably know that Nettools allow you to do that. Then he demonstrated Bluetooth hacking by using bluesnarf (just a scan) & website hacking using SQL injection (again..nothing special) with no logical explanation of how the injection worked. The session ended by "Roadside Sign hacking" in which he displayed pics on projector of hacked road signs by hackers at USA, Australia & other countries.

He then begin to advertise Dell laptops & the highly prestigious ( READ: BELOW AVERAGE) AFCEH course conducted at Reliance Webworld. Then he ran away cuz he was running short of time & no Query Session was conducted.

Aftermath : Pure F**king Genius !

I guess you realize what I felt for the whole seminar & the whole Ankit Fraudia oops.. Fadia hype..

My Feedback form read -

Name : Rishabh Dangwal Qualification: Btech Branch : CSE
Remarks : Ankit Fadia is Overrated..Overhyped & pure waste of time. If you are bored, do come to Fadia for a few laughs. Peace.

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 26 Sept 2010:
 Computer virus ‘Bom Saboda’ or ‘Bom Sabado’, which means good Saturday in Portuguese has attacked Google’s social networking website Orkut on Saturday morning.
A malicious Bom Sabado is a cross-site-scripting attack, which is flooding the scrap of Orkut users and also linking it different groups.
The Orkut has asked its users to avoid visiting Orkut till the problem is fixed.
This is the second XSS attack on a social networking website in a week. The popular microblogging website Twitter had also attacked by a computer worm created by Norwegian hacker.
The worm bombarded pop-up messages and directed the users to pornography websites.
The experts advise is that delete the cookies of your computer and change the password.

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The Indian government is preparing to build a team of professional hackers who can defend the country's IT infrastructure from external attacks. The special division will also be able to go on the offensive and launch preemptive strikes.

                                                      

The Economic Times of India reports that plans to create the cyber hacking division were drawn during a meeting between high ranking security officials on July 29. The event was overseen by National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon and saw the participation of the director of Intelligence Bureau, as well as senior reps from security agencies, the IT ministry and the telecommunications department. It has been decided that the task of creating the special cyber squad will fall on the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA).

According to the newspaper, the professionals who will sign up to sit on the new team will be able to hack legally. However, for this to happen some exemptions need to first be introduced to the current legislation governing such actions. Under the Indian IT Act hacking is punishable with up to three years in prison and/or serious fines, regardless if the offense is done on foreign soil.

The initiative to build a small cyber army comes at a time when the Indian government is very concerned about a rise in the number of cyber attacks against its infrastructure. This it particularly worrying, especially since many of those assaults were traced back to Pakistan and China, two countries which India is not very fond of, to put it mildly.

Recruitment is obviously not a real problem from India, which according to various estimations has over 500,000 technical graduates each year. Many foreign companies operating in information security already have big research and development departments in the country, where these graduates can get real-world experience first before become potential recruits for the new cyber division.

India's intentions are not unlike those of other countries, which are also building such cyber squads or already have them. For example, last year the United Kingdom established the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), a team of IT security experts who's role is to monitor UK's cyberspace and defend it from attacks or fight back when necessary.

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