Hacking

I have already posted that Apple laptops can be easily hacked. Now, with the new version of Apple’s OS X, you thought that security will be improved but this is not the case. OS X Lions passwords can be hacked faster and easier than ever. You don’t even have to crack the passwords, you can just change them to whatever you want if you have physical access to the terminal. By cracking the password, we mean to find the password from its hash or with a brute force attack. If you have access to a computer, you can change the password with the following command

Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has been hacked. INSA’s Cybersecurity Council released a document explaining that government and private sector should work together to solve cyber security vulnerabilities. Two day after the release, they have been hacked. Details of U.S intelligence officials have been posted on Cryptome with the title “INSA Nest of Official and Corporate Spies”. Information leaked about the members of INSA includes names, emails and in some cases addresses. Cryptome posts interesting documents worth checking out. Hackers

GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar and web hosting company poisoned with a modified .htaccess, an Apache web server configuration file. A number of websites hosted on shared servers compromised and when someone was visiting those websites through a search engine, they were being redirected to sokoloperkovuskeci.com and then again to some other malware sites. GoDaddy informed users that they are looking to resolve this issue. Affected websites may have been blacklisted from search engines so if you are one of those affected check it out

uTorrent website hacked and the attacker replaced the torrent client with a fake antivirus software. The fake software has the name “Security Shield” and prompts the victims that they have virus and then offers them to clean their pc after payment. The attack took place at September 13th 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7) and the users who have downloaded the file between 4:20 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. Pacific time, they have been infected