Hackers attack BlackBerry blog, threaten employees, after RIM agrees to help London police

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 10/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

Hacker group “TeaMp0isoN” infiltrated the corporate-run Inside BlackBerry blog after Research In Motion publicly agreed to help London law-enforcement authorities track down the people who helped orchestrate the devastating riots that have engulfed parts of London and its surrounding areas for the past three days, reports The Next Web. The hackers also threatened the safety of BlackBerry employees, saying they would turn over stolen personal data to rioters if the company cooperated with police.

RadioShack Clears Out IPhone 4, Gears Up for IPhone 5

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 10/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

RadioShack, which discounted the iPhone 4 last week, is reportedly slashing prices further to $170, in the latest sign retailers are clearing inventory to prepare for the iPhone 5 in the coming months.The Fort Worth, Texas-based retailer will cut $30 off all versions of the iPhone 4, ranging from $170 for the 16-gigabyte model to $200 for the top-end 32-gigabyte device.In addition, customers who trade-in an existing iPhone 3G or 3GS can get as much as $150 towards a new iPhone 4 purchase, bringing down the price of a new iPhone 4 to as low as $20.RadioShack’s deal will last through August 20. …

TeaMp0isoN Hacks RIM Blog

Posted by SmsMyCustomers FSecure on 9/Aug/2011 in Security Alert Log, Syndicated | Comments Off

There’s social unrest underway in the UK and communities are bracing for a fourth night of looting and riots.

The “viral civil unrest” has been spreading for several days now, and reportedly, RIM’s BlackBerry Messager (BBM) is one of the viral components would-be anarchists have used to organize themselves. As a result, RIM made a public statement that it would assist the UK authorities. And what happened next was rather predictable (at least to us).

TeaMp0isoN, a hacktivist group targeted The Official BlackBerry Blog.

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Here’s the text:

This hack is a response to this statement by RIM:

- TriCk – TeaMp0isoN -
- Greets To: iN^SaNe – Hex00010 – MLT – BlackHacker

Par for the course, Twitter was used to broadcast details of the hack.

After some attempts to remove the post, RIM eventually took the blog offline.

On 09/08/11 At 03:34 PM

BlackBerry Blog Hacked in Wake of London Riots

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 9/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

Research In Motion found its official BlackBerry blog hacked Tuesday morning, following statements the company made regarding the London riots.

10-year-old app hacker discovers Android and iOS game exploit

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Who knew hackers could be so darned cute? But it’s not just 10-year-old Californian innovator, artist, and athlete known as CyFi’s looks (and suave shades) that have people talking. She also appeared at the DefCon Kids hacker conference over the weekend … Continue reading →

Your smartphone: a new frontier for hackers

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 7/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone.

Hacker drone launches airborne cyber attacks

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 7/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

Black Hat USA 2011

Posted by SmsMyCustomers FSecure on 6/Aug/2011 in Security Alert Log, Syndicated | Comments Off

It’s the week of Black Hat and DEF CON and thousands of computer security experts have gathered to Las Vegas.

Hot topics this year include Siemens PLC security, revamping the SSL model and Mac laptop batteries.

Mikko keynoting in DEF CON 19

One talk which was highly anticipated was Riley Hassell’s and Shane Macauley’s “Hacking Android”. For mysterious reasons both speakers never showed up for their own talk, leading to wild conspiracy theories on why this might have happened.

However, from antivirus point of view, the most interesting talk was Tavis Ormandy’s talk titled “Sophail”.

In the summer of 2010, Tavis Ormandy found a zero-day vulnerability from Windows Help and Support Center. Five days after informing Microsoft of the vulnerability, and before Microsoft had shipped a patch for it, Tavis publicly released proof-of-concept code. Days later, unknown malware authors integrated this code into drive-by-download exploits, which went on to infect tens of thousands of computers around the world.

Sophos experts vocally criticized Tavis for his action, and even nicknamed the patch that eventually followed to “Patch Tavis”

Fast forward to summer of 2011, and Tavis Ormandy released “A critical analysis of Sophos Anti-virus” in Black Hat.

In his highly unusual talk, Tavis explained that he had reverse engineered the Sophos anti-virus engine and released tools to decrypt the protection systems of Sophos detection databases.

Shifting gears, it’s good to note that connecting to a wireless network during DEF CON is really not recommended. There are simply too many hackers playing with the networks to make them safe. Even the official program pamflet wishes you “good luck” in connecting to the party network. This is nicely illustrated by just looking at the list Wi-Fi hotspots that were available in the DEF CON hotel:

Signing off,
-BO

On 06/08/11 At 03:48 AM

Android App Turns Smartphones Into Mobile Hacking Machines

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Dangerous hacks come in small packages.Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm Zimperium revealed at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday and plans to make available to Android users in coming days, is designed for penetration testing–in theory, searching out and demonstrating vulnerabilities in computer systems so that they can be patched. …

Researchers Discover How to Steal Credit Card Data Using Square

Posted by SmsMyCustomers on 5/Aug/2011 in Syndicated | Comments Off

Researchers attending the Black Hat security conference on Thursday demonstrated two ways in which Square — a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments — can be hacked to steal credit card data, with very little technical hardware required and “no technical skills at all.”