Netherlands

L33tdawg: The competition officially started yesterday and ends on the 8th of March at 13:37 CET. Winners will be announced on the 11th of March via @HITBSecConf on Twitter. Good luck and hopefully we'll see you in Amsterdam! :)

Hack In The Box launched the #HITB1337Giveaway - A Twitter based competition that will see one lucky winner not only walk away with a VIP ticket to the triple track hacker conference in April but also $1337 to help with travel expenses.

A Dutch citizen who was arrested and extradited from Romania was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a computer hacking and credit card fraud scheme that victimized people around the world, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.

David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, also known in the hacking world as ‘Fortezza’, pleaded guilty in November 2012 to Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud and Bank Fraud, Access Device Fraud, Bank Fraud, Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer, and Aggravated Identity Theft.

The Dutch government has published guidelines to encourage the responsible release of security flaws.

The move is aimed at clarifying the process of responsible security vulnerability disclosure to improve relations between security researchers and commercial software producers.

The Dutch government said on Wednesday it plans to introduce a new law to force suspected terrorists and paedophiles to hand over computer passwords and punish those who refuse to comply.

"People suspected of having and trading in child pornography or terrorist activities will soon be compelled to work together to open encrypted files on their computers," the Dutch justice ministry said in a statement.

How long would it take a determined attacker to hack into Apple's iPhone device from scratch?

That was the intellectual challenge that drove a pair of Dutch researchers to start looking for an exploitable software vulnerability that would allow them to hijack the address book, photos, videos and browsing history from a fully patched iPhone 4S. The hack, which netted a $30,000 cash prize at the mobile Pwn2Own contest here, exploited a WebKit vulnerability to launch a drive-by download when the target device simply surfs to a booby-trapped web site.

Earlier today, security researcher Janne Ahlberg has brought to our attention the fact that the file published by r00tBeer hackers – allegedly stolen from the systems of electronics manufacturer Philips – is similar to the one posted online by Hax0r of Team INTRA back in February.

The expert found that the size of the file published now is exactly the same size as the one obtained by Team INTRA.

The new hacker collective "r00tbeersec" has struck again — and this time, it matters.

More than 350 passwords, full names and email addresses belonging to Italian customers of the Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips were posted online Monday. The Italians had apparently purchased Philips flat-screen TVs with interchangeable colored frames some years ago.

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.

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.

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.