[ad] We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!). It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities. The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of […]
Archives for August 2008
PuttyHijack V1.0 – Hijack SSH/PuTTY Connections on Windows
[ad] PuttyHijack is a POC tool that injects a dll into the PuTTY process to hijack an existing, or soon to be created, connection. This can be useful during penetration tests when a windows box that has been compromised is used to SSH/Telnet into other servers. The injected DLL installs some hooks and creates a […]
HD Moore’s Company BreakingPoint Suffers DNS Attack
[ad] It’s somewhat ironic that shortly after the Kaminsky DNS bug went wild and almost immediately got ported into Metasploit that it was then used to attack HD Moore’s very own company BreakingPoint. It happened just a couple of days ago, it doesnt seem to have been a targeted attack though more like mass spammers/scammers […]
July Commenter of the Month Competition Winner 2008!
[ad] Competition time again! As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st 2007 and it’s been running since then! We have just finished the fourteenth month of the competition in July and are now in the fifthteenth, starting a few days ago on August 1st – Sponsored by […]
UK Hacker Gary McKinnon to Fight Extradition
[ad] For some of the long time readers, you might remember we’ve been covering the case of the UK Hacker Gary McKinnon for quite some time. The last post was about a year ago though in August 2007 when he Won Right to Lords Appeal Extradition Hearing. The first post on the case was over […]