For those who haven’t noticed yet, today booster made a milestone in PSP history. Enabling firmware 2.71 emulation in DevHook 0.44. Alot has been going on lately in the PSP scene and its great. With the release of the 2.5/.6 downgrader and full iso and game emulation in DevHook. Download here. Credit goes to booster […]
Archives for July 2006
Linux Kernel 2.6.x PRCTL Core Dump Handling – Local r00t Exploit ( BID 18874 / CVE-2006-2451 )
[ad] A working version of the exploit used to escalate privileges to root in the recent Debian breakin, ah another root kernel exploit. It’s to do with the way the kernel handles file permissions (or lack of) on core dumps. Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker may gain elevated […]
Debian Development Machine ‘gluck’ Hacked!
[ad] Ah, I wonder what happened? I’ve always been a great fan of Debian, all the way back into the early days of woody and backporting apt packages. What a name too, gluck to me usually means g’luck or good luck ;) Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org. We’ve […]
Consultant Breached FBI’s Computers
[ad] Using standard script kiddy tools a consultant managed to compromise some of the FBI’s computers containing confidential information. Quite a hack eh? A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI’s classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert […]
Ticketcharge.com.my website hacked
[ad] Ticketcharge.com.my, a Malaysian website that sells event tickets online appears to have been hacked. Forgot to take a screenshot of it but this screenshot from google cache taken today can be seen below. This happened over the weekend or perhaps earlier. Google cache here . This will be gone when google re-cache the site […]