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Security experts at the Black Hat conference said Thursday that hackers can break into an iPhone to intercept text messages, deliver spam and deliver malware.

Charlie Miller, Independent Security Evaluators researcher, and Collin Mulliner, a Ph.D. student at the University of Berlin, demonstrated during a Black Hat presentation that hackers can break into an iPhone via the SMS protocol to launch a denial-of-service (DOS) attack or take control of a victim’s phone.

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I’m trying my best still can’t find any interest in Twitter. Posting live 140 characters to web page looks like going back 15 years ago from a technical point of view. From a social point of view Twitter seems like to feed people who need attention or feed their ego: isn’t it the essence of following and followers?

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It was one the most interesting email of the year. A guy subscribe with the login “admin x” to my blog, I just mailed back the guy and say nice try!  Then the “hacker” ( lam script kiddy) reply…You have to read it to believe it!

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A Sky News investigation has found some computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data from customers’ hard drives, and even trying to hack into their bank accounts.

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Another milestone in the development of  Nmap the most famous port scanner Fyodor. The change log is massive and impressive, with more than 600 major improvements. It also includes a native graphic interface and other already known modules such as netcat and more.

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The hacker who stole confidential Twitter documents used a feature of Microsoft’s Hotmail to hijack an employee’s work e-mail account, the site that has published some of the Twitter documents said Sunday.

According to TechCrunch, the Web site that last week broke the story about the Twitter breach and has posted some of the stolen information, the hacker calling himself Hacker Croll took advantage of poor password practices, Hotmail’s inactive account feature and personal information on the Web to pinch hundreds of Twitter documents.

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Banking is for me the most exciting to audit, seriously! I’d even do it for free! How many times I heard can you hack this guy account and steal his money. Yes we can, but what’s the point? It’s more interesting to get focus on the source itself, online banking sounds in the mind of most people like a very safe mix of complex IT systems with hordes of admin watching every single packets transfered, well reality way far from this and pretty scary. Let’s have a look at top Thai online Banking site.

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The world of IT security still amaze me every day, because you always expect the largest companies to be ultra secure with data centers in bunkers, private links between branch offices. But the really is that you always found a dummy admin.

The best example is American Airline (man that’s a 2 letters domain aa.com!) suffering from major slq injections. Check the following screenshots.

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The ever-weakening job market could well lead to an increase in online crime as laid-off workers, especially those with computer skills, turn to scams to support themselves, Cisco Systems Inc said in a mid-year security report to be released on Tuesday.

Disgruntled employees may target their former employers, and Cisco warned that insiders “can be especially damaging for an organization because insiders know security weaknesses.”

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Cybercriminals are targeting travelers by creating phony Wi-Fi hot spots in airports, in hotels, and even aboard airliners.
Vacationers on their way to fun in the sun, or already there, think they’re using designated Wi-Fi access points. But instead, they’re signing on to fraudulent networks and hand-delivering everything on their laptops to the crooks.

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