One of the big discussions points this week is about a wildcard cert for Google that has leaked out from a Dutch company called DigiNotar. The certificate is good for all Google domains – it’s a *.google.com cert. This is bad news and apparently has been in the wild for a while, some people are […]
Privacy
Stealing ATM Pin Numbers Using Thermal Imaging Cameras
Now this is a really neat bit of hardware hacking, it’s been a while since we’ve reported on any kind of ATM Skimming or ATM Hacking stories. You may remember back in November 2010 – European Banks Seeing New Wave Of ATM Skimming or way back in 2008 when Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ Gives Out […]
Android Phones (Possibly) Hacked At Defcon On CDMA & 4G (HSPA)
It seems like some major ownage was layed down at Defcon, I was very interested by the thread coderman posted in Full Disclosure earlier: DEF CON 19 – hackers get hacked! Especially when some people did chime in with supporting opinions and agreeing that it does seem like they got hacked. Basically someone setup some […]
Groupon India Subsidiary Leaks 300,000 Plain Text User Passwords
Oh look! Another data-leak, this was was pretty bad as it contained plain-text passwords (who on earth doesn’t hash their passwords in the DB in 2011?!). Anyway this time it was a Groupon subsidary – Sosata.com which managed to leak the e-mail addresses and plain-text passwords for 300,000 users AND on top of that, Google […]
Malaysia Government Sites Under Attack From Anonymous
The big news in Asia this week is that Anonymous has found a new target – the Malaysian government. Recently the Internet regulator in Malaysia (SKMM) issued a notice to all the ISPs in the South-East Asian country to block 10 domains associated with copyright infringement. Following that, Anonymous released a manifesto against the Malaysian […]