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UK Government To Launch ‘Hack Idol’

Posted in October 13th, 2009
by in cyberdefenders, General Hacking, hack idol, hacking, hacking idol, hacking talent, hacking talent contest, hacking-news, mentoring, rss, sans, uk hacking contest   

Now this should be interesting, perhaps they should turn it into a hacking based reality TV show? From the description though it looks more centered around defense than offense and perhaps should be called ‘System Administrator Idol’.
Not q…

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Flawfinder – Source Code Auditing Tool

Posted in September 16th, 2009
by in code auditing tool, code-auditing, flaw finder, flawfinder, General Hacking, rss, source code auditing, source code auditing tool, static analysis, static analysis tool   

Flawfinder is a program that examines source code and reports possible security weaknesses (flaws) sorted by risk level. It’s very useful for quickly finding and removing at least some potential security problems before a program is widely releas…

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TJX Hacker Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez Indicted By Federal Grand Jury

Posted in August 25th, 2009
by in albert gonzalez, credit card hacker, credit-card-fraud, data-security, data-theft, General Hacking, hacking tjx, Legal Issues, privacy, rss, russian-hackers, segvec, stealing credit cards, tjx, tjx hack, tjx hacker   

We’ve been following the whole TJX saga for quite some time now since way back in September 2007 when the hack became public as the Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History and in August 2008 when the TJX Credit Card Hackers Got Busted.
Th…

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IKECrack – IKE/IPSec Authentication Cracking Tool

Posted in August 21st, 2009
by in General Hacking, hacking-networks, ike brute force, ike cracking, ikecrack, ipsec brute force, ipsec cracking, network-security, pre shared key, psk authentication, rss   

IKECrack is an open source IKE/IPSec authentication crack tool. This tool is designed to bruteforce or dictionary attack the key/password used with Pre-Shared-Key [PSK] IKE authentication. The open source version of this tool is to demonstrate proof-of…

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Stoned Bootkit – Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7 MBR Rootkit

Posted in August 18th, 2009
by in boot kit, bootkit, General Hacking, hack truecrypt, hacking truecrypt, hacking-windows, root kit, rootkit, rss, stoned bootkit, truecrypt security, windows bootkit, windows rootkit, windows-security   

What is Stoned Bootkit?
A bootkit is a boot virus that is able to hook and patch Windows to get load into the Windows kernel, and thus getting unrestricted access to the entire computer. It is even able to bypass full volume encryption, because the mas…

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Dan Kaminsky & Kevin Mitnick Hacked

Posted in August 3rd, 2009
by in dan-kaminsky, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, General Hacking, hacked, kevin-mitnick, media whores, pr0j3ct m4yh3m, rm -rf, rss, summer of hax, Web Hacking, whitehat holocaust, zero for owned, zf05, zf05.txt, ~el8   

If any of you follow the mailings lists or the ’scene’ as it’s known, you’d be familiar with PHC, Phrack, Gobbles, ~el8, Silvio, gayh1tler and the whole Whitehat Holocaust AKA pr0j3kt m4yh3m. (Back when it went public).
The war …

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Mozilla Denies Firefox 3.5 Bug Is Exploitable

Posted in July 21st, 2009
by in Exploits/Vulnerabilities, firefox, firefox 3.5, firefox 3.5 crash, firefox 3.5 exploit, firefox crash, firefox exploit, firefox-security, firefox-vulnerability, General Hacking, hacking-firefox, milw0rm, rss   

Ah a bug in our beloved Firefox, after the latest 3.5 update (which sees some definite improvements).
The last one I recall was the Clickjacking Vulnerability, which also effected Chrome.
It seems like it’s not too serious of an issue and will on…

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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

Posted in July 2nd, 2009
by in arrested, botnet, ddos, dos, fail, General Hacking, ghostexodus, hacker arrested, hospital hacker, jesse william mcgraw, Legal Issues, Malware, owned, pwned, rss, script kiddy   

This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming)..
But then he exposed his IP addr…

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