Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 7, 2009
Here is the video of Twitter being hacked by GMZ:
Apparently GMZ (the hacker and a 18 student) used a dictionary attack to login in into a Admin account. How was this possible? Well if you try to log in into Gmail or Hotmail and failed for x number of time, then [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 6, 2009
Earlier I posted about the reports of the phishing attacks against Twitter. Apparently high profile accounts i.e Obama, Britney where hacked. The good side is that the Hackers have a sense of humor, the bad thing is that they have been fixed.
It looks like the vector of attack here some tools that where used by [...]
Posted by: Geries Handal on: October 2, 2008
Apparently researchers at the (apparently Swedish) security company Outpost24 found a vulnerability in the TCP stack, The Register reports:
“If you use the Internet and you serve a TCP-based service that you value the availability for, then this affects you,” Robert E. Lee, chief security officer for Sweden-based Outpost24… “That may not be every Internet user, [...]
