Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Administration
There’s a few valuable life lessons in the following story, so pay attention: A Pittsburgh news station recently reported on a 17-year-old boy who was disqualified from a SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals tournament after it was discovered he was cheating. In retaliation, the young man hacked into the official PlayStation site, and crashed it for [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Administration
‘Kill Zeus’ removes rival software from PCs, giving Spy Eye access to usernames, passwords.
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Administration
Proof-of-concept demonstrates ease at which mobile spyware can be created to pilfer text messages and email, eavesdrop, and track victim’s physical location via smartphone’s GPS.
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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Administration
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
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Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Administration
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by Administration
Botnet and malware creeps are setting up their own ISPs, with their own IP blocks, so that spamfighters don’t have anyone to complain to when they run them to ground…
“It’s gotten completely out of hand. The bad guys are going to some local registries in Europe and getting massive amounts of IP space and then [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Administration
We have just found out that the same defacement is appearing at at least one other site, mawjcamp.org. We are not able to see what was at this domain before, but it is now displaying the same defacement that Twitter was only a few minutes ago.
Twitter does not have the best record with security issues. [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Administration
The global crime ring that hit ATMs in 280 cities worldwide last year simultaneously for $9 million have allegedly been busted.
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight men in connection with the scheme, including five Estonians, one Russian, one Moldovan and one unidentified man. Prosecutors allege that the men “used sophisticated hacking techniques” [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Administration
Designer Mark Campos has turned the tried-and-true “Masterlock hack” instructions into an easier-to-follow visual guide.
The instructions are pretty self-explanatory, and while there’s no secret sauce that’ll instantly crack the combination for you without a little bit of tedious trial and error, this method will crack that 64,000-possible-combinations lock in 100 tries or less.
Or you can [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2009 by Administration
Yesterday the official website for the Apache Software Foundation (of the Apache web server fame) was offline for several hours.
When it came back online, it briefly showed this message:
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Administration
The Pwnie Awards are an annual event at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. They award the Golden Pwnie in a variety of categories: mass 0wnage, most innovative research, most overhyped bug, most epic FAIL, and our favorite: Best Song. Embedded above is [Paco Hope]’s 50 Ways to Inject Your SQL. While a [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Administration
Attacks will continue until full-disclosure practices end, group says.
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Administration
Online post offers sensitive data from wireless provider to the “highest bidder,” but security experts are skeptical the breach is severe.
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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Administration
A soon-to-be released ethical hacking report finds 60 percent of organizations budget for penetration testing.
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Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by Administration
Do you get the feeling that the information security industry has really changed the last 3-5 years? Remove the obvious: the industry is much larger, of higher public profile, and much better funded across the board. I would venture to guess, that way back when, say, in the dark ages of 1999, the primary reason [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Administration
Wired has a great piece up on the world’s burgeoning crop of Hacker Spaces — clubhouses where members pitch in to share the rent in exchange for a role in governing a collectively managed collection of hacking kit: workbenches, tools, and components. I’ve visited hacker lofts in Vienna, San Diego, Los Angeles and elsewhere, and [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Administration
Researchers have come up with a way to create an even stealthier rootkit that survives reboots and evades antivirus software.
Anibal Sacco and Alfredo Ortega, both exploit writers for Core Security Technologies, were able to inject a rootkit into commercial BIOS firmware using their own Python-based tool that installed the rootkit via an update, or flash, [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Administration
Security expert Ben Laurie has a scorching indictment of the “Verified by Visa” program used by British banks. This system is basically the perfect system for phishers and identity thieves, and conditions honest people to behave in foolish ways that leave them vulnerable to having their life’s saving taken off of them.
“Frame inline displays the [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Administration
The linux kernel has a facility called “usbmon” which can be used to sniff the USB bus. It’s been in there for ages, and the output is really easy to collect, even from the command line shell. Simply mount debugfs and insmod the usbmon module:
mount -t debugfs none_debugs /sys/kernel/debug
modprobe usbmon
Then you can just cat USB [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Administration
The first round of the Pwn2Own was something of a redux of the previous one: the Mac was the first to fall (I’m actually not surprised given Apple’s culture of obscurity-over-security), with Windows 7 via IE 8 shortly thereafter. But Linux wasn’t even in the running this time. What gives?
A couple of comments posted on [...]
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