posted in News & media, Stuff on Feb 18th, 2010
Russian police have arrested the hacker who last month projected some adult entertainment on an enormous video screen in Moscow, giving locals around two minutes unexpurgated coverage of “a white male and a black female having sex”. According to Pravda, the grumble flick appeared at 11pm on 14 January on an giant display on the [...]
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posted in C, RAT sources, Tools & sources on Feb 15th, 2010
Name Trj.Casper Type RAT Author Unknown Written in C Description This sourcecode dates back to 2004. It is quite old and its functionality is rather limited. The intresting part in this source code is the injection section which represents the biggest part of it. It [...]
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posted in News & media on Feb 14th, 2010
A skilled San Francisco computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution, and [...]
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posted in News & media on Feb 14th, 2010
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires networks to provide interfaces that allow government to intercept data transmissions, just as they have long been able to tap telephone systems. But an IBM security researcher said criminals also could use the systems to wiretap the Internet. Tom Cross, manager of IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force [...]
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posted in News & media on Feb 9th, 2010
Cryptographers have broken the proprietary encryption used to prevent eavesdropping on more than 800 million cordless phones worldwide, demonstrating once again the risks of relying on obscure technologies to remain secure. The attack is the first to crack the cipher at the heart of the DECT, or Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, standard, which encrypts radio [...]
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