Looks like India has them moving into the hacking scene young, it’ll happen anywhere with decent network infrastructure and disparate levels of economy. Look at Eastern Europe and China as other examples, India though due to it’s outsourcing culture and plentiful legitimate jobs in the IT industry doesn’t seem to suffer so many problems with [...]
As far as I know this has been happening for some time, sometimes a patch comes out for a vulnerability that many people don’t know about (including the hackers) so they will see what problem the patch fixes (possibly through reverse engineering) then develop an exploit to leverage on the flaw.
It seems things are a [...]
It looks like someone is going after the bad guys in a new way, by hacking them back! It’s no news to us that many hacking tools and script kiddy trojan kits are badly programmed..a lot of them have back-doors and the client-side tools have easy exploits that enable you to take over the ‘hackers’ [...]
Apparently he stopped his naughty activities back in 2006, but still…a guy that is supposed to securing machines was installing malware and had a bot totaling about a quarter of a million zombies.
Most used for info gathering, Paypal accounts and installing Malware for comission, he claims to have made $19,000 in a week installing TopConverting [...]
This has been floating around for a while and you might have noticed a warning on some German based security sites that they’ve had to move their tools due to this new legislation known as 202(c) - a couple of examples are KisMAC and Phenoelit.
Basically the new law prohibits manufacturing, programming, installing, or spreading software [...]
There has been some debate on Darknet about this kit and it’s use, obviously it’s a kit for beginners but it is useful. Advanced chaps like you and me (you guys know who you are) most likely have the requisite tools and knowledge to build/find/etc whatever we need to get the job done.
That’s partially what [...]
The details are still a bit shaky, but this news has been making the rounds.
Apparently the the hack attack in June on the Pentagon may have been carried out by the Chinese Military (People’s Liberation Army).
One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the [...]
So the latest news is that the RFID chips in electronically enabled passports are NOT encrypted, which bright spark came up with that idea?
Ok so you implement ‘more secure’ RFID passports, and leave all the data in plain text for anyone to tamper with - nice!
So what do you think they are gonna do about [...]
Not just attempts, but 844 successful intrusions over the past two years, quite a scary statistic no?
They are actually having a subcommittee hearing entitled “Hacking the Homeland”.
This includes all kinds of intrusions including web site hacks, viruses, worms and other kinds of intrusion.
DHS and its constituent agencies have suffered more than 800 serious computer security [...]
Black hat hackers vs White hat professionals - This is the Black & White Ball
The Black & White Ball will be held at the stylish Ministry of Sound venue in London, the date is to be confirmed (but it will be in September).
In security parlance, the terms Black Hat and White Hat refer to hackers [...]
