Hacked: Researchers figure out how to crack GSM phone security
February 23, 2008 by Shanmuga
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"Two enterprising researchers claim to have figured out a way to eavesdrop on calls made using GSM mobile phones, cracking open its much-vaunted encryption.
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A History of Hacking Culture
"The appearance of professional Internet criminals was predicted in fiction long before the Internet became a mass medium. During the early years of the Web, we spent a great deal of time and energy looking for ways to defeat the professional thief. The mischief maker, the prankster, and the juvenile delinquent were overlooked. Then a group of hackers cracked the Web site of the CIA.
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Hacking: DoS attack prevents access to WordPress.com blogs
"The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.
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Hacking: Vista’s Growing Popularity Draws Hackers’ Malice
"With more people finally switching to Windows Vista, the operating system is fast becoming a target for security researchers and–surprise!–hackers.
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Hacking: Attackers Abuse Google Blogger
"Hackers are currently littering Google’s Blogger site with phony blogs — some containing malware, pornographic images, or pure spam. "Google Blogger is being used as a malware delivery mechanism," says Ken Steinberg, CTO and president of Savant Protection, who discovered the attack while working on his own blog this morning. The attackers apparently are automatically generating the blogs with scripts. The blogs come with nonsensical names and content that’s obviously been generated using English-compliant engines and keyword focuses, he says.
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Hacking: 51 Percent Of Malicious Web Sites Are Hacked
"The number of legitimate Web sites that have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to infect the visitor’s PC with malware now exceeds the number of sites specifically created by cyber criminals, according to a report released today.
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Hacking: Researcher cracks Yahoo CAPTCHA software
January 22, 2008 by Shanmuga
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"A security researcher has claimed that Yahoo’s system for blocking automated access to its systems - the CAPTCHA image-recognition system - has been effectively cracked. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) systems are used by Yahoo, as well as Google, Microsoft and others, to stop automated systems from registering web-based email accounts, filling blog comments sections with spam and guessing passwords.
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Hacking: Hackers go after Excel
"Microsoft has warned that an unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Excel is being actively exploited by hackers. The bug, which has become the subject of targeted attacks, affects older versions of Excel. Newer versions Excel 2003 SP3 and Excel 2007 are said to be immune. Details of the vulnerability beyond what packages might be affected remain sketchy at best.
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Hacking: Hijacking Printers For Spamming
"Building on the concept of cross-site scripting, whereby an attacker can inject malicious code in Web pages viewed by others, security researcher Aaron Weaver has demonstrated how an attacker can inject spam messages into a Web site visitor’s printer.
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