The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the “Year of the Hack” or “Epic #Fail 2011”. Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for hacking faster then companies can increase their security. Every year there are always forward
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The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011
Environmental activism site Care2 hacked Yesterday Care2, one of the biggest Environmental activism website issue a alert email to all there customers that Care2.com’s website was hacked revealing usernames and passwords for the sites nearly 18 million users. Care2 said “To protect Care2 members we are resetting access to all Care2 accounts. The next time you login to Care2, you will be
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Print of one malicious document can expose your whole LAN This year at Chaos Communications Congress (28C3) Ang Cui presents Print Me If You Dare, in which he explained how he reverse-engineered the firmware-update process for HPs hundreds of millions of printers and In Andrei Costin’s presentation “Hacking MFPs” he covered the history of printer and copier hacks from the 1960s to today. Cui
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Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses Company that was attacked earlier this week by Anonymous Hackers, again yesterday by leaking 75,000 names, credit cards, addresses and passwords of every customer of STRATFOR’s and about 860,000 usernames, emails and passwords for anyone that has ever registered on STRATFOR’s website. The pastebin containing the leaks, also stated that there will
World 1st Hacker exploit communication technology for lulz in 1903 New Scientist publish about the first hacker revealing security holes in wireless communication technology in 1903. Nevil Maskelyne was first in a long line of hackers who have exposed and exploited security flaws in communication technology from Morse code to the Internet. The crowd was somewhat amused as the physicist John
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Train-switching system can be vulnerable to DDoS attack Hackers who have shut down websites by overwhelming them with web traffic could use the same approach to shut down the computers that control train switching systems, a security expert said at a hacking conference in Berlin. Prof. Stefan Katzenbeisser, the man behind this shocking claim made the revelation during his speech at the Chaos
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Train-switching system can be vulnerable to DDoS attack
Reaver brute force attack Tool, Cracking WPA in 10 Hours The WiFi Protected Setup protocol is vulnerable to a brute force attack that allows an attacker to recover an access point’s WPS pin, and subsequently the WPA/WPA2 passphrase, in just a matter of hours. Reaver is a WPA attack tool developed by Tactical Network Solutions that exploits a protocol design flaw in WiFi Protected Setup (WPS).
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Reaver brute force attack Tool, Cracking WPA in 10 Hours
Web is vulnerable to hashing denial-of-service attack ( #hashdos ) with Demo Researchers have shown how a flaw that is common to most popular Web programming languages can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks by exploiting hash tables. Researchers presented information on a long standing vulnerability in most web application frameworks at 28th Chaos Communication Congress security
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Easy Router PIN Guessing with new WiFi Setup vulnerability There is a newly discovered vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup standard that reduces the number of attempts it would take an attacker to brute-force the PIN for a wireless router’s setup process. The flaw results in too much information about the PIN being returned to an attacker and makes the PIN quite weak, affecting the
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New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked Sensitive information about the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and other New Zealand agencies can be the next target after US host was hacked. US intelligence firm Stratfor had its website hacked by activist group Anonymous on Monday and data including credit card details of its clients, was stolen. The hackers claim
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