Archive for January, 2008
Home router attacks – the snowball effect…
It looks like everyone is jumping on the home router attacks bandwagon. Zulfikar Ramzan restates his definition of drive-by pharming where it “It allows attackers to create a Web page that, simply when viewed, results in substantive configuration changes to your home broadband router or wireless access point.” There are some examples in there including [...]
Public access… be careful
This highlights the need to be very weary off anything you can get free. Public terminals at Heathrow airport allowed attackers to install software (keyloggers, backdoors, trojans, etc). RedOracle were informed by an Italian hacker (prego) and passed it on to the terminals’ owners, Spectrum Interactive. They have provided full information advisory.
Hacking the badguys?
Anyone that is perceived in a bad way or are controversial in the public eye are more liable to attacked than anybody else. This is commonly known as ‘Hacktivism’.This is the case with both the RIAA and Church of Scientology. It doesn’t help that was a lack of security controls on the RIAA website, which [...]
Artist among the masses
I’m looking for an artist or artists among you who want to get involved in the Michael Daw hacker cartoons. Let me know.
Hacker tools liability
UK government have been trying to revamp computer crime laws. There are a number of issues discussed at theregister. One of which relates to the provision to ban development, ownership and distribution of “hacker tools”. But what are hacker tools? An example of a tool is a password recovery tool (good), which also happens to [...]
