It looks like the Iranians have found out that the video feeds from Predator drones are in some cases unencrypted and can be tapped into using a $26,- program called Skygrabber. FOXNews.com – Iranian-Backed Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones. Now it turns out that the ROVER system, a hand held video system for infantry, also recieves Read more about Predator UAV feeds unencrypted[…]
The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
The Fraunhofer institute has found a way to crack Bitlocker, which is the Windows Vista drive encryption mechanism. Booting from a USB stick allows you to replace the bootscreen with a fake bitlocker bootscreenafter which the PIN is stored on the harddisk for later retreival by booting with a Linux USB stick afterwards. Fraunhofer SIT Read more about Fraunhofer cracks Bitlocker[…]
And allthough the authenticity of the 1079 emails and 72 documents hasn’t been verified, it shows that the researchers have manipulated the data to fit their models, can’t explain the lack of global warming and have plans set up to destroy the credibility of any scientist doubting their stance. Michelle Malkin » The global warming Read more about Oops – global warming researchers hacked[…]
Turns out that there is malware out there that downloads kiddie porn to your PC without you knowing – until the police pay you a friendly visit. Fortunately the download rate is something like 40 sites per minute, which is humanly impossible, but try explaining that away! AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by Read more about Framed for child porn[…]
Fantastic – this guy port scans the T-Mobile range and finds the jailbroken iphones on the network, then SSH’s in using the default password and blips a message to the iphone telling the user the iphone has been hacked. Users can find out how to close the hole by visiting a website and paying EUR. Read more about Dutch Hacker informs Jailbroken iPhones that they’re insecure[…]
” Although this functionality was designed with OEMs in mind, it is pretty easy to turn on and off using regedit and some images lying around your hard drive. First, a check is made to determine if the customization functionality is enabled or not. More precisely, a DWORD value named OEMBackground in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background key Read more about Windows 7 officially supports logon UI background customization[…]
It took this network of 200,000 IP adresses 2 weeks to amass $3M. Who knows how long it has been operating or how much it scammed in total? $3 Million In Click Fraud Over Two Weeks? Just The Beginning – Chinese click fraud ring – Gizmodo.
the way radio signals vary in a wireless network can reveal the movement of people behind closed doors. Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari have developed a technique called variance-based radio tomographic imaging which processes the signals to reveal signs of movement. They’ve even tested the idea with a 34-node wireless network using the IEEE 802.15.4 Read more about Wireless network modded to see through walls[…]
We should all know by now that the fingerprint biometric is a bad one: not only can you duplicate it fairly easily using just gummy bears, or increase the risk of having your finger cut off for you, they also give too many false negatives; some people will never be able to use fingerprint scanners. Read more about Dutch passports require unsecure fingerprints[…]
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth. They Read more about Augmented Google Earth Gets Real-Time People, Cars, Clouds | Popular Science[…]
This thing has a 300MHz processor and has been hacked to run Linux with mouse and sound support. $38 Zipit Wireless Messenger receives Linux injection, becomes $38 netbook.
Bill Moorier had an MRI scan of his head done, took the data and put in into an online interactive browser. So if you feel like taking a tour through his brain – http://abstractnonsense.com/mri/ .
Prepare to have your pool ego crushed. http://ifun.ru/view/97477
Someone with way too much time on their hands ported a NES emulator to JavaScript. Feel like playing Super Mario Bros or Zelda at work? Grab a fast browser like Google Chrome and head on over here, http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/
Even though they keep supporting Internet Explorer 6, they’re not going to support XP? Microsoft had stated the reason for continuing support for IE6 was that it came with Windows XP and so they had to keep supporting it. Now it turns out that they’re not supporting XP either. Not exactly their road map, but Read more about XP no longer being patched by MS[…]
By changing the qdr:nXX parameter after enabling the time parameter in ‘Search Options’, you can get Google to refresh every second and show you the new indexes. Realtime Googelen met url-hack | Webwereld.
All those crib sheets with quick command references for shell programming, using Linux or vim, etc. have been collected here for your printing pleasure! TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys.
Using SQL injection and the recent IIS faults, a grey hat hacker called Unu from Romania has hacked 4 large banks and a UK government website. He’s on a roll, and MS has no fix for their IIS holes… Hacker ‘Unu’ valt Europese banken aan | Webwereld.
This is a list of proxy server lists. Proxy Lists.
Pretty soon there will be released into the wild a Skype trojan that, once installed, logs calls as mp3’s and mails the conversations to a remote server. Megapanzer » Blog Archive » Interview on gulli.com about the Skype trojan and trojans in general (english)..
This is the cyber air force, responsible for defensive as well as offensive use of cyberspace – ie. hacking, sniffing and cracking other nation’s networks, as well as defending US networking. US military cyber force activated • The Register.
The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not. Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.
After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker. Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.
UCSniff can be placed on a laptop and put in a network where it will VLAN hop untill it finds the VoIP VLAN channel. It then throws out spoofed ARP packets like a man-in-the-middle attack and gets all voice and video traffic thrown to itself. Together with a plugin called VideoJak they can then insert Read more about UCSniff updated[…]