Hackers

In July this year, we covered a story on how security researcher Cody Brocious managed to unlock the doors of some 4 million hotel rooms using an Arduino microcontroller and some programming magic, affecting Onity’s range of electronic locks. Well, it has taken just two months after this apparent flaw had gone public for other hackers to continue where Brocious left off, improving not only the success rate, but also shrunk down the unlocker into parts that are small enough to fit into your regular dry erase marker.

With less than a week to go, the HITB team has been ramping up its preparations for HITBSecConf2012 - Malaysia, the 10th year anniversary of the HITBSecConf series.

Hackers have attacked the world's top 100 universities in a protest against tuition fees and what's deemed to be a falling quality of education.

Anonymous-affiliated Team GhostShell dumped information from 120,000 user accounts and student records after raiding servers at institutions including Princeton, Harvard, Cambridge and Imperial College London. Universities in Moscow, Rome and Tokyo were also hit in a string of database breaches that spanned three continents.

L33tdawg: @pod2g, @MuscleNerd and @planetbeing will be in Kuala Lumpur next week for #HITB2012KUL where they're participating in a special

Advanced hackers have broken into an internal server at Adobe to compromise a digital certificate that allowed them to create at least two files that appear to be legitimately signed by the software maker, but actually contain malware.

As a result of the breach, which appears to date back to early July, Adobe on Oct. 4 expects to revoke the compromised certificate that was used to sign the malicious files, Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy, said in a Thursday blog post.

A company whose software and services are used to remotely administer and monitor large sections of the energy industry began warning customers last week that it is investigating a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada and Spain. Experts say digital fingerprints left behind by attackers point to a Chinese hacking group tied to repeated cyber-espionage campaigns against key Western interests.

The owner of a local information technology service provider has denied two charges related to hacking the stock exchange's website.

Tse Man-lai, 28, who was arrested at a flat at Kingswood Villa in Tin Shui Wai in August last year, denied obtaining access to a computer with a criminal or dishonest intent. The hearing continues today in District Court.

A hacker who goes by the handle of Maxney and is apart of Turkish Ajan Hacker Group has contacted us with information and data from an Italian based Asus website.

The site was hacked and left defaced, thousands of accounts have been leaked as well as its complete database. This is not the first time Maxney has targeted big corporations,m with Siemens and Dominos being hacked in recent weeks as well.

A new, focused group of hackers from a number of Arab countries is reportedly attacking Western websites in retaliation for an anti-Islamic video that has been cited as the proximate cause for violent demonstrations in the Middle East, including the recent attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead.

With users and administrators around the world scrambling to patch a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer, cyber criminals have launched a new scam targeting Windows Update.

Security vendor Sophos said that the scammers have constructed spam messages which claim to originate from the privacy@microsoft.com email address. The messages, which are designed to resemble official alerts from Microsoft, advise users that their systems might be at risk and advises visiting a supposed "update" page.