Knowing the rate of cyber-crime the UK has it's no wonder they're trying to think of anything that might work to take it down. Now, a few Lords are asking Internet Service Providers to "Police" the Internet. common - comments - 7.9.2007
In the next version of the Windows client, end users will be able to customize the level of nagging that the operating system generates via the User Account Control, revealed Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, on behalf of the team building the feature. Sinofsky emphasized that, as early as Windows 7 pre-Beta Milestone 3 Build 6801, users of the operating system would be able to see a reduction in the volume of prompts associated with UAC. windows - comments - 16.1.2009
Thanks to hermanhlam for this post in our forum. Vista Firewall Control Protects your applications from undesirable network incoming and outgoing activity, controls applications internet access. download - comments - 28.3.2007
Teen gets 11 months' detention for charming, hacking data out of T-Mobile.
A Massachusetts juvenile has pleaded guilty to a January 2005 attack that ultimately exposed the cell phone address book of U.S. socialite Paris Hilton to the Internet, according to T-Mobile, the mobile phone provider whose servers were compromised in the attack. common - comments -
Due to looking for Sphinx software on this forum....this ended up being double posted. Thanks to hermanhlam and odeeee for this download. download - comments - 22.7.2007
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. common - comments - 30.7.2008
As reported by Techworld, Snow Leopard, Apple's highly anticipated new operating system, lacks basic security features that are found in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 says Charlie Miller, a noted security researcher. common - comments - 17.9.2009
NBC Universal is taking control of its flagging cable venture, MSNBC, ending the decade-old broadcast partnership with Microsoft Corp., the two companies said yesterday. microsoft - comments - 26.12.2005
Faced with a security crisis affecting its media player, Apple responds with key exploit prevention mechanisms aimed at thwarting hacker attacks. common - comments - 13.4.2008
Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference, has been denied entry into the U.S. to attend and conduct training at this year’s confab. common - comments - 30.7.2007
You may remember that the Pwn2Own competition was run recently, designed to reveal hidden security flaws within browsers and operating systems. Charlie Miller, who was one of the competitors in the competition, has come out with a rather controversial statement: Mac OS is theoretically safer than PCs. microsoft - comments - 27.3.2009
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network. windows - comments - 19.12.2006
One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used. windows - comments - 24.1.2007
Exploit code is available that
could take advantage of a
security flaw within both
Adobe Photoshop Creative
Suites 2 and 3, resulting in a
hacker taking complete control
of a user's machine... betanews.com - 27.04.2007
Apple's iPhone is rather popular for a few reasons, and one of those is 'jailbreaking'; that is, freeing your device from Apple's
limitations and installing any software desired. However, it's not all good news, as a hacker has recently broken into some phones and demanded a
ransom. The hacker broke into a few unwary Dutch iPhone users' phones, after they made the mistake of leaving their SSH password default, as
initially discovered in this thread (in Dutch). According to Ars Technica, the hacker then sent SMS messages from the phones in question stating,
"You iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure
your iPhone right now!
Valance Media, the company
which runs Torrentspy.com, has
accused the Motion Picture
Association of America of
hiring a hacker to attempt to
collect private information
about the website, including
e-mail and trade secrets... betanews.com - 26.05.2006
Microsoft engineers worked frantically over the US Thanksgiving holiday to fix a design flaw in Windows that has exposed millions of computers to
hijacking by computer criminals.
By exploiting the design flaw a lone miscreant could take control of vast numbers of home or
office PCs around the world in a single attack. They could read data, steal passwords and monitor internet use or use them to distribute spam or
viruses.
The bug was demonstrated at the Kiwicon hacker conference in New Zealand last week by an ethical hacker, Beau Butler.
A British hacker who admitted hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life has lost his latest extradition
appeal. After fighting the case for more than six years in UK courts, the British House of Lords officially dismissed his appeal... betanews.com - 31.07.2008
A California man was arrested
by federal authorities on
Thursday, accused of running a
400,000-computer network for
illegal activities. This
network, called a
"botnet," contains
systems that have been
compromised by a hacker who
can upload files or control
them remotely through an IRC
channel... betanews.com - 05.11.2005
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltowns anti-piracy lobby,
according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the
Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search
site.
According to Anderson, the MPAA told him: "We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car,
anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful."
In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000
for inside information about TorrentSpy -- information at the heart of a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the MPAA against TorrentSpy of Los
Angeles. The material is also the subject of a wiretapping countersuit against the MPAA brought by TorrentSpys founder, Justin Bunnell, who alleges
the information was obtained illegally.
News Corp, the media conglomerate thats parent to a number of New and Old Media properties including the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and Fox News
Channel, may be subject to a stunning billion dollar civil judgement against them soon, based on the testimony of a hacker described by the Dish
Networks attorney Chad Hagan as one of the "two best hackers in the world."
Terrorists and other criminals
could exploit a newly
discovered software flaw to
hijack massive computer
systems used to control
critical infrastructure like
oil refineries, power plants
and factories, a researcher
said Saturday.
Ganesh Devarajan, a
security researcher with 3Com
Corp.'s TippingPoint in
Austin, Texas, demonstrated
the software vulnerability he
uncovered to attendees at the
Defcon hacker conference on
computer security.
The software is used
to manage supervisory control
and data acquisition, or
SCADA, systems - computers
that regulate the functioning
of such important
infrastructure as oil and gas
pipelines, water treatment and
power transmission facilities
and the giant factories used
by large technology companies... winbeta.org - 05.08.2007
Researchers are blasting
Microsoft for a critical flaw
that could cause a critical
attack on users who rely on
speech recognition to control
their Windows-based computer.
Microsoft Speech
version 4.0a, when used in
conjunction with Internet
Explorer, opens up a severe
hole that, when triggered by a
malicious ActiveX control, can
cause key data to be deleted
and allow a hacker to gain
remote control of the system.
The vulnerability was
patched in Microsoft's
security update this week, but
security experts say this kind
of vulnerability highlights a
new trend for hackers.
"We're in the midst of a
revolution as attackers shift
their focus from gaping server
side vulnerabilities, which
are becoming increasingly
rare, to stealthy client side
holes that make phishers
salivate," wrote SPI
Dynamics' Michael Sutton in a
blog posting.
The head of the International
Telecommunications Union says
the United Nations stands
ready to take over control of
the Internet if the United
States relinquishes control as
it is being pressured to.
However, it appears the
chances of such an event
happening are slim to none... betanews.com - 30.09.2005
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info
warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected."
The
Department of Homeland Security, Darpa, and other agencies are teaming up for a five-year, $30 billion "national cybersecurity iniative." That
includes an electronic test range, where federally-funded hackers can test out the latest electronic attacks. "You used to need an army to wage a
war," a recent Air Force commercial notes. "Now, all you need is an Internet connection."
Website encryption has sustained another body blow, this time by an independent hacker who demonstrated a tool that can steal sensitive information by
tricking users into believing they're visiting protected sites when in fact they're not...
Whiz kid Shane Kelly is a world-record breaker -- at the tender age of 16.
Shane has left older rivals across the globe standing
by becoming the world's youngest ethical hacker, five years ahead of schedule.
The Solihull College student is the youngest
person on the planet to successfully complete a Certified Ethical Hacker course, which normally requires students to be at least 21.
The teenager, from Solihull, pulled off the remarkable achievement despite suffering from years of torment at the hands of school bullies -- and
being diagnosed a diabetic.
More than 60 Web sites certified to be "Hacker Safe" by McAfee's ScanAlert service have been vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks over
the past year, including the ScanAlert Web site itself. While the XSS hole in the ScanAlert site and others have been addressed, some apparently have
not, leaving visitors potentially vulnerable to client-side attacks.
Joseph Pierini, director of enterprise services for the
ScanAlert "Hacker Safe" program, maintains that XSS vulnerabilities can't be used to hack a server.
Still, Kevin Fernandez and
Dimitris Pagkalos, two computer scientists who maintain XSSed.com, a site that has been tracking XSS vulnerabilities since February 2007, provided
InformationWeek with a list of 62 Web sites certified as "Hacker Safe" on which XSS holes have been reported. The list includes brookstone.com,
cafepress.com, cduniverse.com, gnc.com, mysecurewallet.nl, petsmart.com, and sportsauthority.com, among other familiar brands.
If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily
stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw
in a webcast Thursday.
Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid
extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon is alleged to have illegally accessed computers belonging to the Pentagon, NASA and the U.S.
Army and Navy in 2001 and 2002. The US wants to try the 43-year-old for what it claims to be "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
McKinnon has lost series of appeals varying from the European Court of Human Rights right up to appealing directly to the British Home Secretary. It
will now be decided whether the appeal can be heard at the UK Supreme Court.
A hacker successfully attacked
a Web page within Microsoft's
U.K. domain on Wednesday,
resulting in the display of a
photograph of a child waving
the flag of Saudi Arabia.
It was "unfortunate"
that the site was vulnerable,
said Roger Halbheer, chief
security advisor for Microsoft
in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa, on Friday.
The problem has since been
fixed. However, the hack
highlights how large software
companies with technical
expertise can still prove
vulnerable to hackers.
The hacker, who posted his
name as "rEmOtEr," exploited
a programming mistake in the
site by using a technique
known as SQL (Structured Query
Language) injection to get
unauthorized access to a
database, Halbheer said. The
site took SQL queries of a
particular form, embedded in
URLs (uniform resource
locators), and passed them to
a database. By embedding a
query with an unexpected form
in the requested URL, the
hacker prompted the server to
return error messages,
Halbheer said... winbeta.org - 29.06.2007
Terry Zink: Why do hackers do what they do? Are they motivated by something? Altruism? Greed? Strafor examined this in one of their recent articles,
parts of which I have below with some additional comments from me.
The personal motivations driving individual hackers are
virtually infinite. But there are a handful of dominant ideologies that can offer insight into the mindsets and motivations of much of the larger
hacker community. Not all hackers subscribe to or are driven by these beliefs, but most are shaped or affected by them in some fashion.
Any discussion of these ideologies must begin with the basic Hacker Ethic, the founding principle of the hacker community.
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