This is a good rundown of the varying ways  to crack WEP enabled wifi networks, with some links to WPA cracking as well.

WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line – Security – Lifehacker.

How to Store/Load Wii Games via USB Hard Drive on System Menu 4.0 and jailbreak it. A very clear guide..

It turns out that the UK government is absolutely fantastic at keeping your data secure! Not only were the 2 harddrives that went missing last year September with all the RAF’s personell information on it unencrypted; it turns out they contained details of extramarital affairs, drug problems, financial problems all with names and details. The records were used to track personell with potential problems in gaining security clearances!

Because the ‘official’ solution costs $700,- this guy set out and succeeded in finding a way to use cots pieces to transfer pictures from his Nikon D300 camera to his laptop for a fraction of the price. The only problem currently is that it has a high power requirement, but that’s being worked on.

In an example of pointless, malicious hacking, the flight sim site Avsim.com has been hacked and destroyed. 13 years of user mods and reviews have been wiped. They won’t be back, because they used two servers which backed each other up. Both were wiped.
I can’t even grace this with the words hacked or cracked – this is pointlessly destroying a soft target. No elegance to this whatsoever.

Apparently this is such a common phenomenon in Brazil that even truckers are hacking US spy sats to further their communications.

They’re not sure what the attackers took, because the information was encrypted directly as it was taken and sent. The scream is “China Did It”, but the US military seems to be blaming all cyber attacks on China nowadays.

Quite a good list of things to do outside of the box with your Wii

For $6,- you connect to the Pirate Bay’s VPN (called Ipredator). They give you a random IP from their own range and they don’t do any logging. This means you can torrent away happily without your IP being linked to the IP in the VPN.

This has been proof of concepted to work on any BIOS, not just specific types. Fdisking your HD is now not enough!

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The Ecole Polytechnique team did its work over the air. Using an oscilloscope and an inexpensive wireless antenna, the team was able to pick up keystrokes from virtually any keyboard, including laptops. “We discovered four different ways to recover the keystroke of a keyboard,” said Matin Vuagnoux, a Ph.D. student at the university. With the keyboard’s cabling and nearby power wires acting as antennas for these electromagnetic signals, the researchers were able to read keystrokes with 95 percent accuracy over a distance of up to 20 meters (22 yards), in ideal conditions.
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If pulling keystrokes out of thin air isn’t bad enough, another team has found a way to get the same kind of information out of a power socket. Using similar techniques, Inverse Path researchers Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco say they get accurate results, picking out keyboard signals from keyboard ground cables.

A group of Chinese hackers has succeeded in cracking Apple%u2019s algorithm for encoding iTunes Store Gift Certificates92, and are creating discounted certificates using a key generator. Outdustry reports that a number of the codes are available on the site Taobao, with $200 cards selling for as little as $2.60. The owner of the Taobao shop offering the cards admitted that the codes are created using key generators, and that he paid to use the hackers%u2019 service. He also said that while the price of the codes has dropped steadily, store owners make more money as the number of customers grows.

Chinese hackers crack iTunes Store gift codes, sell certificates | iLounge News

Moxie Marlinspike has thought up a new method of doing man in the middle, he’s calling SSLstrip.

This is so simple, it’s absolutely brilliant! If you don’t want to agree with something you’re not going to read, you can use the fravia method to hack the software to switch the buttons, so you press the ‘disagree’ button. But this takes time and effort.
Alternatively, you could use a bit of cardboard and get your pet to agree of it’s own free will 🙂

The Agreeable Cat by Anne Loucks

This guy has built a proof-of-concept machine for around $250,- which allows you to remotely read RFID chips in passports and then clone them. There’s a video of the machine in action as well.

Not only have they found a way to hack certain keys, and found a way to forge certificates, they’ve now found a way to use the registration process of one of the CA’s to issue a certificate for any site you like.
Researchers (whoever /they/ are) are now estimating around 14% of all certificates to be false.
Considering the emphasis on SSL as being secure, this is somewhat of a crisis of confidence in internet security.

Basically all you have to do is send a text message with a ‘from’ identifier of length > 32 chars and a small flag set.
The only way to recover is a factory reset, allthough there is a link in the text which may or may not work.
A staggering amount of the Nokia product line is affected.

Two hacks are described here:
1) make a laserprinted copy of a license plate of your ‘enemy’, stick it on the back of your car and go zooming past speed cameras
2) cruise the neighbourhood for a similar car to yours, duplicate the license plate and drive around worry free.

Phoenix Labs » PeerGuardian 2 is an IP blocker that has most of the people in there that you don’t want accessing your IP, such as the RIAA and other fanatics with a history of randomly suing people with an internet connection.

Just as each individual printer has unique qualities so you can see if a page was printed from it, each brand and model digital camera can be detected from the relationship of the pixels in an image to each other.

From the guys who brought you aircrack-ng, now with WPA cracking abilities!

Apparently, during the campaign both camps were hacked and not by each other. According to the FB a third party copied huge amounts of files from their campaign servers. There is some speculation it’s a foreign power that could use the documents to see how decisions are made in the winners camp and use that during negotiations to bring about favorable conditions.

So, should you want to do with it what you like – follow the link!

It’s all been cracked open in the Doom9 forum. DRM is not a cure, it has been cured again!