Archive for July, 2010

Cell phone eavesdropping enters script-kiddie phase

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Are you phone call’s still private?

Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world’s most widely deployed mobile technology.

“The whole topic of GSM hacking now enters the script-kiddie stage, similar to Wi-Fi hacking a couple years ago, where people started cracking the neighbor’s Wi-Fi,” said Karsten Nohl, a cryptographer with the Security Research Labs in Berlin who helped spearhead the project. “Just as with Wi-Fi, where they changed the encryption to WPA, hopefully that will happen with GSM, too.”

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Data for 100m Facebook accounts published to BitTorrentG

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Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.

Google Search Engine Strikes Again! =|

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How to download Windows Live Essentials Wave4 Beta

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Here’s a cool little “hack” to download the full setup file for Windows Live Essentials Wave4 Beta.

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Sophos Releases .lnk exploit patch

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Worried about the Windows Shortcut Exploit zero-day vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows? Never fear, Sophos is here!

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New Site Features

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The HackTalk Security blog is looking for recommendations on what you HackTalkers want to see on the site.

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Microsoft’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

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With many companies now paying security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in their products, how will Microsoft follow suite?

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GSM Goes DOWNNNN

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5… 4… 3…. 2… 1…
HES OUTTA THE FIGHT!

A totally opensource program named Kraken has been released by a man named “Frank”. Although you’ll need a decent machine to do any cracking (3 GB of memory and at least a dual core), and its only available for CLI on Linux: Yay no skiddies!

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Siemens Confirms First Virus Aimed At Industrial Controls

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Siemens has uncovered a virus that explicitly targets the industrial command and control systems in which the company specialises.

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Flaw could expose ‘millions’ of home routers

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Millions of household routers are susceptible to a flaw that creates a handy means for hackers to hijack surfing sessions or hack into home networks.

Oh noes! its the end of the interw3bz! :O

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Burton-cope-land SQLi Vulnerability

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Jack Burdett of the HackTalk Security team, has found a SQL injection in; http://burtoncopeland.co.uk/

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