Hacking

This was a hard one to categorize as I have a Video Game Console Hack section but this really isn’t a hack…it looks like a New Zealand security researcher determined that cracking password hashes on a Playstation 3 via brute force is much faster (100 times actually) then cracking on Intel based hardware. From the […]

One of my favorite web sites “Hack a Day” has a really good and detailed (with pictures) article on how to solder. While this may seem an easy task to some..it is a whole new experience for others. Now you can take apart and hack gadgets like the best of them! Click here for the

I thought this article was very interesting. You can now harness the unique power of a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) (ie: video card CPU) to crack password hashes. In the article a Moscow software company discovered that you can use a nVidia GeForce 8800 video card to crack Windows NTLM password hashes apparently 25 times

Interesting article on password lists that are being published on the Internet. Tens of thousands of forum password hashes were posted (79,000) to a Finnish website. Most of these were from Finnish forums but none the less, it goes to show you that webmasters need to continuously patch their websites or their databases will be

I guess it was just a matter of time that Fraudwatchers.org would be completely shut down because of a massive botnet DDoS attack that started in August. Even after moving to another server, the attacks got more intense! This goes to show you that botnets are still a very real and serious threat. While Fraudwatchers.org

HD Moore has done it again and is adding payloads for the iPhone. Some of these payloads include the ability to make a victims iPhone vibrate or even better..root shell access! HD is also putting in recent exploits like the like the one that exploits the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library vulnerability. HD goes

Good write up and pics below on DefCon going on right now in Las Vegas. If you don’t know, DefCon is the largest black hat/white hat/fed hacker conference in the US. Hoping next year I can get this on my training schedule! Gotta love that “Wall of Sheep”..lol. DefCon: Friday Insanity!

So this is seriously cool..you have heard of “War Driving” and “War Flying”, etc…how about “War Rocketing”? Only at DEFCON: War driving by rocket at 6,800 feet

Finally, MS is taking Vista to the wolves! It’s about time. Nothing better then the worlds formost hackers taking stab at MS’s upcoming OS. Will this make Vista more secure? Only time will tell but it is a much better strategy then what MS has done in the past. CNN.com – Microsoft to hackers: Take