L33tdawg: Video of Chris Evan's talk at #HITB2012KUL on Element 31337 in the Periodic Table: Pwnium, is available on YouTube and covers details of Pinkie Pie's epic $60k exploit from the event and details of past winners and submissions. Well worth watching.
From the outside, it looks like a typical California suburban home: garage, driveway, tidy yard. But walk down the path leading to the front door and you'll find your first clue that a traditional family of four does not live inside. On the front porch are dozens and dozens of pairs of men's shoes, all removed before entering in order to keep the house as tidy as possible.
Since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) haven’t taken them seriously, the hackers who call themselves Parastoo have leaked another round of data. This time, the target is IAEA’s Nuclear Data Section (nds.iaea.org).
The HD recording of the iOS / OS X panel discussion that took place at #HITB2012KUL last month has been uploaded to the HITBSecConf YouTube channel.
Start-up security firm Anvisoft was founded by a former Chinese hacker.
Forum users made the discovery when questioning the legitimacy of the anti-virus vendor, security blogger Brian Krebs said.
A report by Malaysian daily The Star on Sunday said that the country logged 24 cases of electronic hacking involving RM3.3 million in losses. The hacking of smartphones took place between January and September 2012.
The reports highlights the vulnerability of smartphones to cyber hacking and other malicious threats through the mobile phones' short messaging service (SMS) which is celebrating 20 years of use on Dec 3, Monday.
Since 2004, October has been dubbed "National Cyber Security Awareness Month," and many security-minded individuals, businesses and organizations make it a point to mark it.
For the second time in a row, Facebook has celebrated "Hacktober" by testing their own employees with simulated attacks and threats.
When you’re starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the locals and learning their ways.
That’s what Gabriella Coleman did. She went to San Francisco and lived with the hackers.
The website of an international nuclear relations group has been breached, allowing perpetrators to spill sensitive information contained in a server.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which reports to the U.N. about nuclear cooperation among nations, confirmed the breach, according to a Tuesday Reuters article. On Sunday, a hacker collective calling itself “Parastoo” published the stolen data on Pastebin, which included email addresses of more than 100 individuals who work with the watchdog group.
Turkish hackers managed to divert the domain name system (DNS) entries for several hundred Pakistani sites in the .pk top-level domain over the weekend,
On Saturday, Pakistani programmer Irfan Ahmad listed some 110 sites in the .pk TLD that had been subverted.
