Using SQL injection and the recent IIS faults, a grey hat hacker called Unu from Romania has hacked 4 large banks and a UK government website. He’s on a roll, and MS has no fix for their IIS holes… Hacker ‘Unu’ valt Europese banken aan | Webwereld.

This is a list of proxy server lists. Proxy Lists.

Pretty soon there will be released into the wild a Skype trojan that, once installed, logs calls as mp3′s and mails the conversations to a remote server. Megapanzer » Blog Archive » Interview on gulli.com about the Skype trojan and trojans in general (english)..

This is the cyber air force, responsible for defensive as well as offensive use of cyberspace – ie. hacking, sniffing and cracking other nation’s networks, as well as defending US networking. US military cyber force activated • The Register.

The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not. Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.

After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker. Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.

UCSniff can be placed on a laptop and put in a network where it will VLAN hop untill it finds the VoIP VLAN channel. It then throws out spoofed ARP packets like a man-in-the-middle attack and gets all voice and video traffic thrown to itself. Together with a plugin called VideoJak they can then insert [...]

That was quick. Damn quick. Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key.

This is a good rundown of the varying ways  to crack WEP enabled wifi networks, with some links to WPA cracking as well. WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line – Security – Lifehacker.

How to Store/Load Wii Games via USB Hard Drive on System Menu 4.0 and jailbreak it. A very clear guide..

It turns out that the UK government is absolutely fantastic at keeping your data secure! Not only were the 2 harddrives that went missing last year September with all the RAF’s personell information on it unencrypted; it turns out they contained details of extramarital affairs, drug problems, financial problems all with names and details. The [...]

Because the ‘official’ solution costs $700,- this guy set out and succeeded in finding a way to use cots pieces to transfer pictures from his Nikon D300 camera to his laptop for a fraction of the price. The only problem currently is that it has a high power requirement, but that’s being worked on.

In an example of pointless, malicious hacking, the flight sim site Avsim.com has been hacked and destroyed. 13 years of user mods and reviews have been wiped. They won’t be back, because they used two servers which backed each other up. Both were wiped. I can’t even grace this with the words hacked or cracked [...]

Apparently this is such a common phenomenon in Brazil that even truckers are hacking US spy sats to further their communications.

They’re not sure what the attackers took, because the information was encrypted directly as it was taken and sent. The scream is “China Did It”, but the US military seems to be blaming all cyber attacks on China nowadays.

Quite a good list of things to do outside of the box with your Wii

For $6,- you connect to the Pirate Bay’s VPN (called Ipredator). They give you a random IP from their own range and they don’t do any logging. This means you can torrent away happily without your IP being linked to the IP in the VPN.

This has been proof of concepted to work on any BIOS, not just specific types. Fdisking your HD is now not enough!

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The Ecole Polytechnique team did its work over the air. Using an oscilloscope and an inexpensive wireless antenna, the team was able to pick up keystrokes from virtually any keyboard, including laptops. “We discovered four different ways to recover the keystroke of a keyboard,” said Matin Vuagnoux, a Ph.D. student at the university. With the [...]

A group of Chinese hackers has succeeded in cracking Apple%u2019s algorithm for encoding iTunes Store Gift Certificates92, and are creating discounted certificates using a key generator. Outdustry reports that a number of the codes are available on the site Taobao, with $200 cards selling for as little as $2.60. The owner of the Taobao shop [...]

Moxie Marlinspike has thought up a new method of doing man in the middle, he’s calling SSLstrip.

This is so simple, it’s absolutely brilliant! If you don’t want to agree with something you’re not going to read, you can use the fravia method to hack the software to switch the buttons, so you press the ‘disagree’ button. But this takes time and effort. Alternatively, you could use a bit of cardboard and [...]

This guy has built a proof-of-concept machine for around $250,- which allows you to remotely read RFID chips in passports and then clone them. There’s a video of the machine in action as well.

Not only have they found a way to hack certain keys, and found a way to forge certificates, they’ve now found a way to use the registration process of one of the CA’s to issue a certificate for any site you like. Researchers (whoever /they/ are) are now estimating around 14% of all certificates to [...]