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German Hacker Cracks GSM Call Encryption Code A German computer boffin has worked out a way to crack code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile Internet traffic. Karsten Nohl is going to publish a guide to prompt global operators to improve their safeguards. Karsten Nohl and his team of 24 hackers began working on the security algorithm for GSM (Global System for Mobiles) in August.Developed in 1988, the system prevents the interception of calls by forcing phones and base stations to change frequencies constantly. Most of the UK's mobile phones use the GSM system and the breach represents a potential threat to the security of mobile phone communication. The discovery of a way to eavesdrop so-called General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology allows a user to read emails and observe the Internet use of a person whose phone is hacked, said Karsten Nohl, head of Security Research Labs." With our technology we can capture GPRS data communications in a radius of 5...

Emperor Hacking Team : iM4n account exposed Just a few days back, the Backbox Linux distribution based website got hacked by the Emperor Hacking Team. A few hours later, Backbox maintainers managed to reconstruct the attack step by step and found infos that proved "iM4n" as the attacker. He owns an account on www.server4you.de, a webhosting company specialized in virtually dedicated servers. His account has been hacked. Brief technical report:  http://raffaele.backbox.org/content/im4n-account-exposed Backbox Team : " Backbox is just a Linux distribution. Such an attack was absolutely unexpected. The 'dreaded' eMP3R0r_TEAM turned out to be a group of iranian activists who carry out random attacks on potential vulnerable websites by targeting mostly European ones. During our investigation and analysis we were able to obtain complete details of the man who personally performed the attack (nick iM4n) and we collected a variety of tests that confirmed his identity....

MySpace goes down because of Internal Errors, Not Hacked ! MySpace website was presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked. That apparently was not the case. Visitors to the social network were greeted by a largely blank page topped with the browser title bar that read "All is wrong :(" where the MySpace name would normally appear. In the upper left of the normally vibrant page was the message: "We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back ...now." It was followed up with the message, "* Have your pet spayed or neutered" in the lower right. Rumours spread quickly around the Twittersphere and in early media reports that MySpace had been hacked after an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account referred to the hack. Members of the hactivist group recently vowed to take down the social-networking giant Facebook in November, but there is some suggestion that th...

Welt.de hacked - Credit Card info of 30264 users Compromised  Welt.de hacked using an SQL Injection ( http://boot24.welt.de/index_welt..php?ac =*** ). The Hacker was deeply penetrate into the infrastructure of the Website and copy number information from the database of MySQL. He has published the links to the excerpts. He did this by his own admission, to protest against the sale of user data to a third party operator. So far, only censored excerpts from the database of all 30 264 users of Welt.de were published. However, all data should be made public operators. [ Source ]

Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed , #Antisec provide 5GB of evidence Once Again Pandora’s box is open. In a joint move between LulzSec and Anonymous, as part of Operation Antisec, were released documents, photos, audio files and videos, exposing that wich was one of the greatest corruption scandals in the recent history of Brazil. In 2008, after four years of investigations, the Operation Satiagraha resulted in the arrest of several bankers, CFOs and investors, accused of corruption, misuse of public money, as well as money laundering. Antisec Hackers released a cache of evidence revealing government cover up of a corruption investigation involving the CIA, theBrazilian telecom industry, and multiple US corporations. The fact is that exposing so many powerful people, in both political and financial areas, Operation Satiagraha was eventually manipulated. Those who conducted the investigations were removed and habeas corpus were granted to the accu...