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Grum botnet loses Dutch servers
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-18 02:14
ISPs in Russia and Panama are continuing to host Grum botnet command-and-control servers, after Dutch authorities silenced C&Cs in their country.
According to FireEye Research, two Netherlands-based servers were taken offline on July 17.
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140,000 KPN ADSL customers still using default password
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-07-06 00:53
In Holland, a major ISP known as KPN has found a major security flaw for their customers. It seems that the Usernames were easy to guess because it was comprised of the persons zipcode + street address. All customers have had the same default password of 'welkom01'.
On a customers account management page there is an option to change the password, but up to 140,000 users never did. Anyone with minimal effort could log onto the account management of business ADSL subscribers.
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Mozilla Blog: The #HackWEEKDAY Contest at #HITB2012AMS
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-04 01:57
At the end of last May, Mozilla sponsored the HackWEEKDAY contest at the third annual Hack In the Box conference in the Netherlands. The contest ran alongside the rest of the HITB conference which featured presentations on security topics including new iPhone jailbreaks and a second day key note from Bruce Schneier.
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LEGO Turing Machine Is Simple, Yet Sublime
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-06-21 03:15
Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936.
The device, built by Jereon van den Bos and Davy Landman using a single LEGO Mindstorms NXT set, is one of the most impressive — and simple — attempts we’ve seen at building a physical Turing machine.
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#HITB2012AMS Video: Day 1 Special Closing by Rop Gonggrijp
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-06-20 15:41
Rop Gonggrijp is the founder of the Dutch hacker magazine Hack-Tic and was believed to be a major security threat by authorities in The Netherlands as well as in the USA. In 1993, a number of people surrounding Hack-Tic including Gonggrijp founded XS4ALL. It was the first ISP that offered access to the Internet for private individuals in the Netherlands. Gonggrijp sold the company to the former enemy Dutch-Telecom KPN in 1997 and founded ITSX, a computer security evaluation company.
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