Researchers have hacked a built-in maintenance application found on many smart phones that could open the door to hacking the cellular network itself.
David Maynor, CTO for Errata Security, this weekend at the Summercon security confab in Atlanta will demonstrate a tool built by Errata that provides a peek into the inner workings of the cell [...]

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And school isn’t even out for the summer yet: A 15-year-old student allegedly hacked into his Chester County, Pa., high school’s computer network and stole personal information on 55,000 people.
The student, who attends the county’s Downingtown West High School, reportedly used a flash drive to siphon off the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of [...]

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Four Hightower students being investigated after scores were changed for 60 students.

SUGAR LAND — Four high school students are being investigated on suspicion of breaking into the Fort Bend Independent School District’s computer network and changing the grades of at least 60 students, according to court documents and school officials.
Investigators estimated the financial loss to [...]

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Here is something for all you hackers out there reading my blog: all the videos from the previous year’s biggest and greatest hacker conference — DefCon 15!
I found these videos via this post on Roy/SAC’s blog. He bought a full set of DVDs for several hundred dollars and uploaded them to Google Video! I sincerely [...]

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The SportsNetwork, a privately held sports website located in Hatboro, PA, has been under attack from hackers for about 24 hours. Early Sunday the site was defaced with “Tibet was, is and will always be part of China” messages. Engineers returned the site to normal, but late Sunday evening the site was again hacked and [...]

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Click here.
For the unknowing… phpmyadmin is a web-based mysql admin tool. The google query is structured to find installs of phpmyadmin that aren’t password protected. This gives anyone full access to read and modify the database. Also, if the pages were password-protected, Google’s spider wouldn’t have been able to get in to index them in [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day.
Ira Winkler, a penetration-testing consultant, says he and a team of other experts took a day to set up attack [...]

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Does anybody know what distribution was used?
Something like RedHat or Fedora is pretty significantly hardened right “out of the box”, where there are other distros that aren’t as locked-down.

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, [...]

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San Francisco - It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.
He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as [...]

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Former Microsoft security team member will demonstrate how his new fuzzer hacks smart card plug-in
The recent wave of smart card hacks have been aimed mainly at the card’s chip and bypassing physical security, but not this latest one: A former Microsoft security team member has demonstrated an attack that compromises the smart card’s middleware plug-in [...]

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To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.
The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
They were able to reprogram it to shut down [...]

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It can be argued that the main purpose for computer systems is fast and reliable communication from one system to another. How is that accomplished? What allows a computer running an English operating system to communicate with one running a Russian operating system? Both have different human readable alphabets. Both have different character representations for [...]

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The following is a decent article about when “Ethan” hacked into the MediaDefender company, at the end of 2006…
From: Ty Heath [MediaDefender]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:02 p.m.
To: it
Subject: pm webserverThe 65.120.42.146 pm webserver has been compromised […]
As a side note, please do not ever use the old passwords on anything.
“The first time Ethan [...]

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Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently [...]

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The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.
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