June 2, 2008 (Computerworld) The Web site for the Phoenix Mars Lander, NASA’s most recent arrival on the Red Planet, was hacked over the weekend by a Turkish group, according to a project spokeswoman.
Phoenix’s site, which is hosted and operated by the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL), was hacked on Saturday by [...]
A group of hackers calling itself "Anonymous" has hit the Church of Scientology's Web site with an online attack. This group claims to have knocked the Church of Scientology's Web site offline with a distributed denial-of-service attack.According to a web page maintained by Anonymous, the attack was launched Jan. 19, which is seeking media attention to help "save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing," according to a Web page maintained by Anonymous.Anonymous has managed to generate a measurable attack against the Scientology.org Web site. Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220M bps of traffic, according to Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, whose com
The team behind the iPhone Dev Wiki, which has become the foremost camp of hackers attempting to unlock the Apple iPhone, has hit another major milestone in their efforts. The team released news recently that they have successfully extracted the full content of the NOR memory (from the S-Gold2). Although the Wiki team hasn't released the source code or the dump of the NOR memory at this point, they have released a binary which will allow others to dump the content of their iPhone's NOR memory as well. Don't know what that means? Join the masses. The important thing is that, according to the dev wiki team, this is the "main key to achieving a true unlock". Considering that the team has already achieved 5 of the 6 self-set goals towards a fully unlocked iPhone, and have achieved a major milestone on the way to the 6th, it means they are almost there. According to the team, "Just a couple of days ago we managed to extract the full content of the NOR memory (from the S-Gold2), which
Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have reported at least one flaw that could allow an attacker some level of control over the device, while other hackers have uncovered passwords hiding in Apple software that could prove key in gaining root access, they said. The most serious flaw, reported by Errata Security, resides in the iPhone's Safari browser. By effecting a buffer overflow in the application, an attacker can take control of the browser and run code on the device.Since Friday's release of the iPhone, hackers have raced to spot bugs in the device or get it to behave in ways its designers didn't intend. Researchers have yet to unlock the phone so it can be used on networks other than AT&T's or get it to run Linux, but they say they're making progress. They've also assembled a Wiki designed to foster the sharing of information relating to topics such as breaking the activation, unlocking the phone so it can run on multiple networks and allowi
Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor. Microsoft Corp. sent out a security advisory Thursday warning customers that a vulnerability in “.ani” files – used to change the cursor into an hourglass while a program works, [...]
A LOCAL internet security expert has warned that a scam hitting US airports could be copied anywhere in the world, allowing hackers to infiltrate laptops. The scam was reported by Computerworld magazine and warned travellers to beware of airport wireless hot spots. The attack works when you fire up your laptop, hoping to [...]
