XBox Live Hacked or Suffering Connection Issues

Today Xbox Live users are suffering some Connection Issues and this is excepted as yesterday only the Xbox live account of Xbox’s Live Programming director’s was Hacked. So this points to the Xbox Live is been hacked aka compromised.

It is more likely that the Xbox live is hacked as the account of one of the makers of the Xbox live account was hacked yesterday only. While this can be a Connection issues too as the Expansion pack of Modern Warfare : “Stimulus Package” is out today which may have caused problems for the Xbox live servers as of large incensement in the connections ...

 

Xbox Support’s Twitter account is loaded with communications with customers about the problem, and the official support website at www.xbox.com/support is being bombarded by users.

 

“We’re aware of the issue and it is being worked on. Stay tuned for updates.”

 

An error code of 80150019 have been shown to the users of the Xbox live users. As the users are like not happy with this situation and would be likely as the Microsoft is in problems again.

 

… Talking about the Hacked account of Major Nelson’s of Xbox Live, Shortly after the hack happened, the Web site Lightzz took credit for the hack, posting a video of it, along with the hacker's Skype name. He is offering to hack other accounts as well.

 

Well whatever is going we will update this post as soon as Microsoft figures it out is it hacked or connection issues.

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MacOSX Gets Massive Security Update

This is kinda weird but safe for the users at the same time Apple have just launched the update for the Mac OSX with a severe patchment of 92 vulnerabilities. Well it have also breaked the previous record of the Mac OSX update released last year, when Apple 's largest patched 67 vulnerabilities .

 

 

The update brings Snow Leopard to version 10.6.3, making this the third major update to the OS that Apple launched in August 2009. Apple also addressed a list of nearly 30 non-security issues in the 10.6.3 update. Leopard users, meanwhile, received only the security patches ..

 

As a matter of fact, most of the patches were for the QuickTime player for the Leopard OS and it was expected as we have already been knowing many of the Mp4 Zero Day exploitations etc and due to the Pwn2ownage conference the exploits shown there was a big reason for this turn out.

 

"The sheer number, it's almost so daunting that you don't even want to look," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security.

 

Today on 30th Apple came out with a update of 42 security fixes which is about the 40% of the total number of the security apple is working onn. The other thing which is kinda in favour of apple is that they don't rate/score there patches like some of the other giants like Microsoft and Oracle.

 

RSnake’s Magic

 

The other news we got for you is that RSnake and his friends have done some research on this and found some of the exploitations in the safari browser which is regarding the port number float/integer overflow which can cause alot of damage.

 

“Safari has a typical integer overflow in the way they look at ports. So if you add the number 65,536 to the port you want to connect to (in this case 25 + 65,536 = 65,561) you can bypass their port blocking.”

 

And the best thing to note here is that Apple beat with the blacklist of ports or even whitelist of ports as it can be used in mass exploitation for hackers. Well lets see whats next.

 

Charlie Miller, the researcher who cracked Snow Leopard's security defenses to take down Safari, said today that Apple had not patched the vulnerability he used last Wednesday.

 

"New patch doesn't fix pwn2own bug," Miller said via Twitter .

"Sorry suckers, gonna have to wait for the next patch."

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VMWare Fusion 3.1 Beta On Grounds

Check out the VMWare Fusion 3.1 Beta which have been out just now. Its includes some of the significant features which many of the users have been waiting for. Some of them are really good which mostly includes graphic issues.

 

VMWare have been the major choice for the users to run Windows on Mac and pentesting for most of us on windows. The Beat 3.1 is out which have some major improvements in 3D application like games and windows Aero stuff…

 

OpenGL 2.1 is now also supported in this version for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. They claim better DirectX 9.0 SM3 performance as well (and hopefully that means more DirectX 9.0C app compatibility).

 

You can configure larger virtual machines as well, with the maximum virtual disk expanded from 950 GB to 2 TB. They now support up to 8-way symmetric multiprocessing as well. These are some of the features you will see in this Beat version.

 

You can download the beta here, test it, and have some of the nice features early for your use. If you want you can also give some tips to them and help them get doing the thing done fast for the final version.

 

So there you go - Download

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Dear Mozilla, Please “DONT” fix this. [Pic]

Today only i found this pic on Digg and i thought there should be a “DONT” in it. isn't it ?

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Check Network Connectivity With Power of PowerShell [Script]

Some days ago i got some scripts from one of my friend which was certain to use when pentesting stuff for Testing the internet connectivity of a window’s computer (version ahead of windows xp). well it have many usages but you can use it as you want.

 

[Activator]::CreateInstance([Type]::GetTypeFromCLSID([Guid]'{DCB00C01-570F-4A9B-8D69-199FDBA5723B}')).IsConnectedToInternet

 

There it so, use it if you want because its made for you only.

If TRUE, the local machine is connected to the internet; if FALSE, it is not.

 

I Didn't find it much useful to me as it doesn't work on windows Xp but still its good for the storage of scripts. The Script works on windows computer which have vista, windows 7 or windows server 2008.

 

Personally, i am not so big fan of power shell but still its a good utility by windows, but as you see its too much complicated that you need to learn things.

 

“Well this is what is Hacking, Learning learning and Learning.” – HTD

 

Who said i cant make quotes :D

 

Happy Hacking @hackerthedude

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Ubisoft Hacked : Fake or Real ?

Some days ago we got news about Ubisoft being hacked by some hackers and was being believed till yet but after then some news breached out that the images of the hack was fake.

 

So, this is kind of big story. The ubisoft is a company which is been known and you can say is good in DRM and Anti-Hackers activity, as you can see there games such as Assassin's Creed and many others have been out of cracked games folder and are a DRM king game…

 

But as you can see we and most ‘em gamers won't be happy with the Ubisoft’s way of gamming. So what they do they hacked the Ubisoft’s website for a short while some days ago on 14th March 2010.

 

Its right if you see it from my mindset :D but as they gamers are freaked out on the ubisoft for there way of gaming products. This is what would be happing as of crackers won't be so patient to crack some ubisoft shit.

Screen’s

 

 

 

When it Faked out

2nd part starts now when some news break out that the images of the hack were fake and The ubisoft’s was down just for the maintenance work. Well we don't know if the site was hacked or not but various sources are saying it was and some are saying it wasn't.

 

Whatever is the truth the thing here is that DRM is what lets every hacker to work against any company. You don't believe me then see iPhone, iPod, Halo, Call Of Duty etc are some victims of DRM which hackers and crackers have cracked out.

 

Screen’s

 

 

This image shows another story of the incident which Ubisoft would have gone through. Whatever happened.

 

What Do You Think Fake Or Real ?

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Yeah, We are Back !

Guys, i know its been a long time since i haven't blogged the things in information sec. but if you see it was worth it. I got to learn some new things and some old one’s.

 

 

But if you ask me why i was doing then i got no answer to you, Lets say i was on a Holiday. But the great news now is that we are back again to rock the as* out of the information security…

 

Its been over a month since the blog haven't been updated with fresh news and ass kicking news but now get ready to start over. Well i was away from the hacking stuff too, as a matter of fact, but hey you gotta learn new things.

 

Well i know i was being a dick and some of the things were going onn in the info sec world but we will cover them soon.

 

 

And yeah how can i forget about the Endor and Hax, i would be releasing them soon as BETA because of em are not so done to be out so you can use them. But that's why BETA’s are made.

 

I am really looking forward to Hacker The Dude, as its been 6 months in it and i have learnt many things and i have taught you guys also some of the cool things.

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We have something special for you guys too, this is gift for you guys i made this as i was had some time and i wanted to try to jump in the big pool of machinima. So, i took my friends to try a new Halo CE mod and made this little Machinima.

 

 

And don't forget to visit our Official YouTube channel to get the latest video updates, and don't forget to comment, rate and Subscribe ;-)

 

Soo, Lets roll

 

Happy Hacking @hackerthedude

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