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War Texting : Hackers Unlock Car Doors Via SMS Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik, Two hackers have found a way to unlock cars that use remote control and telemetry systems like BMW Assist, GM OnStar, Ford Sync, and Hyundai Blue Link. These systems communicate with the automaker’s remote servers via standard standard mobile networks like GSM and CDMA — and with a clever bit of reverse engineering, the hackers were able to pose as these servers and communicate directly with a car’s on-board computer via “ war texting ” — a riff on “war driving,” the act of finding open wireless networks. Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik, both employees of iSEC Partners, will deliver their findings at next week’s Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas in a briefing entitled “ War Texting: Identifying and Interacting with Devices on the Telephone Network. ” The exact details of the attack won’t be disclosed until the affected manufacturers have had a chance to fix their systems, and the hackers are not expected ...

Iframe Injection Vulnerability on FileHippo - Popular software download site One of the most Popular Freeware Software download website "FileHippo" is Vulnerable to Iframe Injection. This Vulnerability is Found and submitted by  n3t phir3 . Here is the  Vulnerable Link  and Screenshot as shown above.

Apache Log Extractor tool Apache Log Extractor is a quick script to export URL information from Apache access logs. The thought behind this script was to provide a list of known URL’s on a remote server by analysing the logs. This list could then be used as the input for further testing tools e.g Burp Suite – Intruder . The script accepts an Apache access file as the input and creates an output file containing one URL per line. The list is unique and should only contain the URL without parameters (incomplete directory names are not extracted). It also takes these URLs and creates a wordlist output of all valid directoy names for use with brute-forcing tools. This fingerprinting tool can reduse the realm of password cracking. How to use ./apache_log_extractor.py access.log.1 Output [ ] Extracting URLs from logfile : access.log.1 [ ] Extracted URL : / [ ] Extracted URL : /Signed_Update.jar [ ] Extracted URL : /ajax/bottomnavinfo.ashx [ ] Extracted URL : /MetaAdServ...

THN Review : Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick First of all Thanks to Mr. Kevin Mitnick for sending Review Copy of his latest book & Auto-Biography " Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker ". I take about a week to read this amazing book and Finally  The Hacker News Review for this Book : Some call him a saint, some a criminal, others adore him. Industry may loathe him but we here at hacker news say “ Get Reading ” loyal subscribers and laugh, get mad, feel revenge, and pure educational enjoyment reading Kevin Mitnick’s new book “ Ghost in the Wires ” .  Yeah, we consider him pretty cool and the father of Social Engineering which is just ours and yours level of interest.   If a guy that can stay one step ahead of big business, catching them with their pants down and their hands in the Cookie jar, then this is the book for you.  If you admire a person who can squeeze blood from a turnip, you have the rig...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested the man as part of an international investigation into the activities of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups.The man, who was arrested at a residential address in Shetland, is said to have used the online nickname " Topiary " and acted as a spokesperson for the groups via forums such as Twitter. He was arrested at a residential address in the Shetland Islands and is currently being transported to a police station in central London. A search is ongoing at the address. It was carried out with the assistance of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) and Lincolnshire Constabulary. The arrest of Topiary is the third made in the UK in the search for members of the group, followi...