After 260 posts, 265 days, 12 months, whatever, Megapanzer turned 1 year today. Thanks for your regular visits, your messages, chats on facebook and in the forum, your feedback, inputs, sources … It was an exciting first year and I hope the next one will be even better. There are still many tools and sources [...]

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So I am back again after one week away from the keyboard. I was not completely off-line but I reduced the efforts to a minimum. Recreation and preparation work for the exams had the main priority. What I am going to release next is some kind of a digital bug. It’s a small piece of [...]

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Chinese authorities have closed down a firm that allegedly trained hackers to develop spyware and launch cyberattacks. Police in the central Chinese province of Hubei province arrested three people when they closed down Black Hawk Safety Net, described by the official Xinhua news agency as running the country’s biggest hacker training website. Black Hawk Safety [...]

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A Miami hacker has admitted he pocketed more than $1m by selling millions of minutes of voice over IP calls and surreptitiously routing them through the networks of telecommunications companies. Edwin Andrew Pena pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the hacking spree, which spanned the years 2004 through 2006, according to court documents. [...]

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Underscoring a little-known web vulnerability, hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat. Using a piece of javascript embedded into a web link, the hackers force users of the open-source browser to join IRC networks and flood [...]

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