Articles tagged with: hack
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Thursday, 29 Sep, 2011
UKChatterbox IRC website personal data stolen
Popular UK IRC service UKChatterbox has commenced advising users to change their passwords following a databreach which culminated in compromised data being stolen. Users had been reporting outages which were originally put down to maintenance upgrades - however it has become clear that the reason wasn't maintenance but a hack attack. UKChatterbox has been the target of various attacks in attempt to disrupt its services.IRC forums are usually prime targets for hack attacks so it's no surprise that they have been attacked. There appears to be a lot of sympathy on the Net for UKChatterbox given they are
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Wednesday, 28 Sep, 2011
Apple OS X and iOS Hacking News
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE This month’s article focuses on Apple technology hacking that has been identified thus far in 2011. Here you will find a compilation of some high profile media reports and research from the Web on the hacking of Apple technology. There are two sections – Mac OS X and iOS (iPad; iPod & iPhone). There are many contributors, so we’d like to thank all of them for the use of their research material in this article. From this text you will learn what is the current state of apple security. The information comes as well from apple
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Wednesday, 28 Sep, 2011
Hack Apple 10/11
In Brief By Schuyler Dorsey, eLearnSecurity i ID Theft Protect As usual specialists from companies eLearn Security and ID Theft protect will share with us latest news from IT security world. Read it to up-date yourself. Hacking Tools on iOS By Alexandre Lacan One day
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Friday, 23 Sep, 2011
Exploiting Software 1/2011
CONTENT: Cracking Java Applications Using AOP exploits (part 1) By Daniel Drozdzewski Aspect Oriented Programming is a paradigm that aims to modularise software further by the separation of crosscutting concerns. Daniel will show us the basics of AOP and a simple, yet powerful
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Thursday, 22 Sep, 2011
CryptoTutorials: Part 4
By Israel Torres, a hacker at large with interests in the hacking realm and an author of crypto challenge: http://hakin9.israeltorres.org Tools when understood are quite helpful in saving time. This tutorial goes over using a few homebrew tools to
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Wednesday, 21 Sep, 2011
The Facebook friend request data mining plug-in
A new cross platform Java Facebook proof of concept (PoC) hacking plug-in data mining tool could turn your closest friends into your worst enemies – social engineering anyone? The plug-in tool (created by a team at RISST),
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Monday, 19 Sep, 2011
Cyber Security: SCADA Systems
Event: Cyber Security: SCADA Systems A technical exploration of protecting SCADA, smart grid and real-time systems Date: 2 December 2011 Venue: IET London: Savoy Place www.theiet.org/scada Join us at our exciting Cyber Security: SCADA Systems seminar to explore the technical world of protecting
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Thursday, 15 Sep, 2011
Hakin9 Extra – Android Security
Mobile Malware Analysis by Cory Adams With the emergence of the Android OS into the mobile market, nation state hackers and criminals alike are actively conducting attacks against the OS and its users for information gathering and financial gain. A high reward
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Wednesday, 14 Sep, 2011
SpitMo SpyEye toolkit targeting Android smartphones
The SpitMo SpyEye hacking toolkit app is targeting smartphones running on the Android operating system according to security vendor Trusteer. The SpitMo is primarily targeting banking web pages. When a user browses to the targeted bank a
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Wednesday, 7 Sep, 2011
Hatforce – New Penetration Testing Platform
Hatforce is a crowd-sourcing penetration testing platform for Mobile, Web and Desktop applications which rewards ethical hackers for performing IT security tests for clients.
The concept is simple: a client registers on Hatforce.com and offers a reward, let's say
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Tuesday, 6 Sep, 2011
BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing By Shakeel Ali, Tedi Heriyanto Publisher: Packt http://link.packtpub.com/Ks5ViS 30% DISCOUNT for Hakin9 WHOLE SUBSCRIBERS!!! Add the eBook to the shopping cart on the Packt website. Eenter the CODE: 'opbgsms' in the 'Enter Promotion Code' field. Then
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