Interesting development in social engineering. Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which then directed users to a website. The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but then tricks users into downloading a virus. I wonder which the victim would have preferred, a parking ticket or a virus 😉
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Category: Cybercrime
Fake or real?
Well my previous post may be a fake, although it was fun 🙂
We need to be aware that not everything that we find online is genuine. I have another link though that you can check out that is not fake, I don’t think 😉
Have fun!
Hacking programmable road signs
Thanks to KC from my MSc gang for this ….. I guess its time the transport authorities improved their security!
Many citizens might notice the construction digital road signs on theside of the road while driving, indicating important information suchas road closures or traffic delays…..These digital road signs can be easily compromised…..
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/27/hacking-programmable-road-signshttp://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/274/1/
Just for a taster 😉
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A new report on the underground economy
Criminals who specialise in credit card and bank account theft have ready access to a global underground marketplace with an estimated total fraud value of $8 billion. Read more…
Scarey the World Bank is being hacked
The World Bank Group’s computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. Read more…
Hacker to be extradited to the U.S.
Hacker Gary McKinnon to be extradite to the U.S. His appeal against an extradition order in 2006 has failed.
McKinnon claimed “I could scan 65 000 machines in less than nine minutes,” McKinnon said.McKinnon unearthed unprotected computer systems operated by the US army, the navy, the Pentagon and NASA. On every system he hacked, he left messages. “It was frightening because they had little or no security,” he told the newspaper. “I was always leaving messages on the desktop saying, ‘your security is really crap’.” Read more…
New passport RFID hack
Security researchers say they’ve found a way to crack the encryption used to protect a widely-used smartcard in a matter of minutes, making it possible for them to quickly and cheaply clone the cards that are used to secure office buildings and automate the collection of mass transportation fares.
The attack works against the Mifare Classic, a wireless card made by Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors. It is used by transit operators in London, Boston and the Netherlands and by organizations in the public and private sectors to control access to sensitive areas, according to Karsten Nohl, a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and one of the cryptographers who discovered the weakness. NXP says it’s sold 1 billion to 2 billion of the cards.
Schneier has a post on this. Here is the research paper that describes this flaw.
Thanks to Jakob Peter for sending me this paper!
Information Warfare Online Resources
Take a look at this great blog on Information Warfare. There are loads of research papers and latest info there on this space.
American spam-fighter fined $60,000
Oh boy this is sad. I don’t condone hacking but what about the spammers, shouldn’t they be fined?
David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking. The case has sparked concern and support from the anti-spam community. “He [Ritz] got prosecuted for using the same Unix tools that the rest of us use all the time to troubleshoot problems, admin our systems, and track spammers,” notes Reg reader Mark. Read more….
Polish teenager hacks into Tram system causing chaos
Thanks to Matt Palmer for this. Seems that this teenager was not satisfied with a toy train set. He wanted the real thing! Read more…..
A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.
“He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set, but it was lucky nobody was killed. Four trams were derailed, and others had to make emergency stops that left passengers hurt. He clearly did not think about the consequences of his actions.”