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Hacking Team Offering Encryption Cracking Tools to Law Enforcement Agencies
Swati Khandelwal writes: The infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential information stolen earlier this year, has resumed its operations and started pitching new hacking tools to help US law enforcement gets around their encryption issues. Yes, Hacking Team is back with a new set of Encryption Cracking Tools…
Chinese popped-box VPN crims screamed hacker booty in cleartext
Darren Pauli reports: China-based virtual private network provider Terracotta, a favourite of some of the most capable hacking groups, is pumping their stolen user credentials in cleartext. The forehead-slapping gaffe was revealed by RSA fraud prober Kent Backman, while outlining more details about the Terracotta VPN organisation first described in August. All of the nodes Terracotta…
No Bank Card Required: Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM
James Eng reports: No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display — how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash. Read more on…
Dark Side: The rise and fall of a suburban hacker
Matt Hrodey had an interesting piece on Daniel Placek of Darkode infamy. It begins: Daniel Placek was just old enough to buy a beer when the FBI knocked on the door to his parents’ house in Bayside, where he was living, and seized his computer. Placek, a 21-year-old self-taught computer programmer, confessed most everything to the…
German surfers blitzed by widespread malvertising campaign
John Leyden reports: German surfers are under attack from multiple directions this week because of a widespread malvertising campaign. Users of eBay.de and subscribers of ISP T-Online.de were confronted with tainted ads after cybercrooks succeeded in pushing malicious traffic through rogue systems. Read more on The Register.