Today an underground hacker team “web-Hack” from Russia released a whitepaper with results of iPhone firmware research. They reverse- engineered some functions and published this information. Results of a research shocked community. Russian hackers found a built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser - all your personal informat… read more »
July 19th, 2007 in
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Many companies remain vulnerable to attacks against domain name system servers, despite efforts to secure them, according to a new study. More than half the respondents to a Mazerov Research and Consulting study reported having fallen victim to some form of malware attack. More than one-third had been hit by a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and more than 44 percent had experienced a pharming or cache-poisoning attack.
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July 19th, 2007 in
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WASHINGTON — Internet phone service provider SunRocket, which had as many as 200,000 customers nationwide, has ceased operations without warning.
The move by SunRocket, which offered service via Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, was first reported Monday on The New York Times’ Web site.
It was confirmed by Martin Pinchinson, a spokesman for Sherwood Partners LLC of Palo Alto, Calif., who said in an e-mail to The Associated Press … read more »
July 18th, 2007 in
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Flash Player lets hackers get to work on their very own homebrew titles minus Ninty’s approval.
It seems that your Wii has a weakness as big as the Death Star itself. And hackers are set to exploit it for all their worth.
According to the lads over at CVG, the dodgy code-loving types have apparently found a hole in the hub’s Internet Channel that will let them run home made games without running them past Ninty first.
The console’s Flash Pl… read more »
July 18th, 2007 in
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Britain and Ireland have agreed to share more intelligence to counter terrorist plots, such as this summer’s car bomb attempts in London.
Prime minister Gordon Brown met his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern on 16 July to discuss, among other things, the threat of terrorism. They agreed to share data taken from biometric visas and said they would urge all 27 EU states to follow suit.
Speaking at a press conference, before a meeting of the Brit… read more »
July 18th, 2007 in
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Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s
digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged holes exploited by two earlier versions of the… read more »
July 18th, 2007 in
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said.
The victims include consulting firm Booz Allen, computer services company Unisys Corp, computer maker Hewlett- Packard Co and satellite network provider Hughes Network Systems, a unit of Hughes Communications Inc, said Mel Morris… read more »
July 18th, 2007 in
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The latest version of Internet Explorer is susceptible to a zero-day vulnerability that can permit a malicious website to spoof the address bar, according to security researchers.
The “less critical” flaw, according to tracking firm Secunia, is caused by an error in the processing of the “document.open()” method, used to open a new window and load documents as specified by a URL.
In the case of this vulnerability, users vi… read more »
July 17th, 2007 in
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There are two nice bits of iPhone news today, both a result of folks’ deep digging into the phone’s architecture. The first concerns hacking: people working with the #iPhone dev crew I wrote about last week have put up full instructions on how to add customized ring tones to the phone.
Here’s how to do it if you’re using an Intel Mac, and here’s the recipe for a PC.
But take breath before you jump in. The process is … read more »
July 17th, 2007 in
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More than 20 men have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of carrying out an international phishing scam.
The group - 18 Italian citizens and eight Eastern Europeans – were captured after an investigation by Italian police. Officers from the operation, dubbed “Phish & Chip”, monitored the men following a widespread phishing campaign that targeted internet users of an Italian postal operator, Poste Italiane.
The gang is accused of sendi… read more »
July 17th, 2007 in
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