HackersforCharity.org’s Johnny Long Interviewed at ShmooCon 2012
February 1, 2012 – 1:51 PM | No Comment

We had the opportunity to interview Johnny Long of HackersforCharity.org on the final day of ShmooCon 2012.

Hackers for Charity is a non-profit organization that leverages the skills of technologists. They solve technology challenges for various non-profits and provide food, equipment, job training and computer education to the world’s poorest citizens.

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ROUTERPWN: A Mobile Router Exploitation Framework Demonstrated at ShmooCon 2012
February 2, 2012 – 10:24 PM | No Comment
ROUTERPWN: A Mobile Router Exploitation Framework Demonstrated at ShmooCon 2012

Routerpwn is a mobile exploitation framework that helps you in the exploitation of vulnerabilities in network devices such as residential and commercial routers, switches and access points. It is a compilation of ready to run local and remote web exploits. Programmed in Javascript and HTML in order to run in all “smart phones” and mobile Internet devices, including Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and all tablets. You can even store it off line for local exploitation without Internet connection.

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DigiNotar Related Articles
September 7, 2011 – 2:39 PM | No Comment

A preliminary analysis of the incident now claims that there have been 531 fraudulent certificates. The hackers may have explored DigiNotar’s servers for the first time in early June and gained control on June 17. The company detected the hack on June 19, but failed to prevent the creation of the first rogue certificate on July 2. The hacker activity apparently ended on July 22.

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Fox News Politics Twitter Account Hacked, Reports President Obama Had Been Assassinated
July 7, 2011 – 11:07 AM | No Comment
Fox News Politics Twitter Account Hacked, Reports President Obama Had Been Assassinated

On Monday July 4th, a hacker group called the “Script Kiddies” hacked into the Fox News Politics Twitter account and posted six tweets reporting that President Obama had been assassinated.

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HD Moore “Bounty: 30 Exploits, $5,000.00, in 5 weeks”
June 14, 2011 – 11:40 AM | No Comment

The Metasploit team is excited to announce a new incentive for community exploit contributions: Cash! Running until July 20th, our Exploit Bounty program will pay out $5,000 in cash awards (in the form of American Express gift cards) to any community member that submits an accepted exploit module for an item from our Top 5 or Top 25 exploit lists. This is our way of saying thanks to the open source exploit development community and encouraging folks who may not have written Metasploit modules before to give it a try.

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PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive
June 2, 2011 – 1:06 PM | No Comment
PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive

A Hacker group known as “The Lulz Boat” hacked the PBS website on Sunday and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur who has been dead for 15 years is actually alive and living in New Zealand.

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Google’s Gmail Hacked by China Again
June 2, 2011 – 12:56 PM | No Comment
Google’s Gmail Hacked by China Again

Google discovered Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of senior U.S. government officials as well as South Korean officials, Chinese activists and journalists this past Wednesday. There are also reports thousand of other email accounts were also targeted.

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Hackers breach security giant RSA’s network
March 18, 2011 – 2:09 PM | No Comment

EMC’s security division RSA has revealed its own network has been breached by hackers who launched an ‘extremely sophisticated’ attack that may have compromised the company’s SecureID authentication service.

In a note to customers, executive chairman Art Coviello said the company had identified a sophisticated cyber attack in the form of an advanced persistent threat (APT).

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Hacker Group “Anonymous”, has Declared Cyber-War on behalf of WikiLeaks
December 10, 2010 – 11:30 AM | No Comment
Hacker Group “Anonymous”, has Declared Cyber-War on behalf of WikiLeaks

A hacker group, identified as “Anonymous”, has declared cyber-war on behalf of WikiLeaks and the attempt to censor the organization’s activities by the U.S. government and private companies. They are responsible for the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on PayPal, Visa and MasterCard which has been titled “Operation Payback”.

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BackTrack 4 Tutorials, Manuals and Howtos
October 23, 2010 – 5:35 PM | No Comment

I have gather a few resources from various locations on BackTrack 4. Used it for an audit recently and it worked great…

The manuals section provides you with simple information in order to get up and running with Back|Track and help with some additional features unique to the suite.

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Webcams and your Privacy…
October 4, 2010 – 11:54 PM | No Comment
Webcams and your Privacy…

Cybercrime expert Gregory Evans explains the potential risks hackers can pose to webcams on your system and how to ensure your safety and privacy online.

This issue is a problem as in the case against a Pennsylvania school district that turned on the webcam of various student’s school-issued laptops while the computers and captured images of “inappropriate activity” in the student’s home.

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‘Here You Have’ Worm Runs Wild Hitting U.S. Organizations Hard
September 16, 2010 – 11:38 AM | No Comment
‘Here You Have’ Worm Runs Wild Hitting U.S. Organizations Hard

Last week a hacker named, “Iraq resistance” who has been trying to unite other like-minded hackers in a cyber jihad effort towards US initiated a malicious computer worm know as the “Here you have” worm. A computer worm is a self-replicating malware computer program that uses computer networks to send copies of itself to other computers on a network without any user intervention.

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