16-Year-Old Boy Who Hacked Apple's Private Systems Gets No Jail Time

An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to break into Apple's private systems multiple times over several months and download some 90GB of secure files has avoided conviction and will not serve time in prison. An Australian Children's Court has given the now 19-year-old adult defendant, who was...

h1-5411-CTF: Solution for h15411's CTF challenge

Baby steps Earlier today a friend tipped me off about an ongoing CTF challenge that was being run by HackerOne and would get the first ten winners a ticket to participate in h15411, which will be a live-hacking event happening in Buenos Aires. This immediately caught my attention and I decided to...

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland—who work...

ZDResearch Advanced Web Hacking Training 2018 – Learn Online

Are you looking to master web hacking? Interested in a bug-hunting career? Do you want to land a job in cybersecurity? Are you already working as a security engineer, but want to further advance or refine your skills? If yes, read on. ZDResearch Advanced Web Hacking AWH course, including optional...

ZDResearch Advanced Web Hacking Training 2018 – Learn Online

Are you looking to master web hacking? Interested in a bug-hunting career? Do you want to land a job in cybersecurity? Are you already working as a security engineer, but want to further advance or refine your skills? If yes, read on. ZDResearch Advanced Web Hacking AWH course, including optional...

Operator of VirusTotal Like Malware-Scanning Service Jailed for 14 Years

A Latvian hacker behind the development and operation of counter antivirus service "Scan4You" has finally been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 37-year-old Ruslans Bondars, described as a Latvian "non-citizen" or "citizen of the former USSR who had been residing in Riga, Latvia," was found guilty...

Container theft, the legal system and poor maritime security

One of the most interesting legal cases I’ve read recently involves a theft of two containers of cobalt metal briquettes from a terminal at the port of Antwerp. Original judgment: Appeal: What drew me to this case was the amount of useful data that had entered the public domain concerning a crime...

Thousands of Breached Websites Turn Up On MagBo Black Market

A newly-discovered underground marketplace has been peddling access to more than 3,000 breached websites, catering to hackers hungry for valuable data and the ability to launch a range of attacks on unsuspecting site visitors. Advertisements for the Russian-speaking marketplace called MagBo were...

Hacking AIS

Maritime AIS, or ‘Automatic Identification System’ is used for broadcast and reception of vessel position and information alerts. It has proved invaluable since its introduction in the 1990s and has undoubtedly helped prevent many marine accidents, collisions and related incidents. Previous...

Hacking an assault tank… A Nerf one

TL;DR A complex, challenging reverse and hijack of a toy tank Nerf gun camera, but the result was we got to shoot the 44Con conference organiser with it! Why A remote-controlled Nerf gun with video feed and aiming crosshairs. Who wouldn’t want to reverse the RF and firmware, with a view to...

Security Risks of Government Hacking

Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. They include: Disincentive for vulnerability disclosure Cultivation of a market...

Sound, Fury, And Nothing One Year After Equifax

One year ago today, Equifax suffered what remains one of the largest and most impactful data breaches in U.S. history. Last September, it was revealed that the personal information of 145 million Americans, almost 700,000 UK citizens, and 19,000 Canadians was stolen by cybercriminals. This...

D-Link Dir-600M N150 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: D-Link Dir-600M N150 - Cross-Site Scripting Date: 2018-09-06 Exploit Author: PUNIT DARJI Vendor Homepage: www.dlink.co.in Hardware Link: https://amzn.to/2NUIniO Version: DIR-600M Firmware 3.01 Tested on: Windows 7 ultimate CVE: N/A POC Goto your Wifi Router Gateway i.e: 192.168.X.X...

Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hacked to Eavesdrop On Network Traffic

Last month we reported about a widespread crypto-mining malware campaign that hijacked over 200,000 MikroTik routers using a previously disclosed vulnerability revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks. Now Chinese security researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab have discovered that out of 370,000 potentially...

Hacker Who Leaked Celebrities' Personal Photos Gets 8 Months in Prison

--- George Garofano left The fourth celebrity hacker—who was charged earlier this year with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonged to Jennifer Lawrence and other Hollywood celebrities—has been sentenced to eight months in prison. Earlier this year, George Garofano, 26, of North...

Lazarus Group’s AppleJeus MacOS malware targeting cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Lazarus Group is believed to be backed by the North Korean government and now it is using AppleJeus MacOS Malware. Security researchers from the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab have discovered the first-ever Lazarus deployed malware for MacOS. It is reported that Lazar...

Physics Platform - A Remote Hardware Hacking Platform

Physics platform is a tool for hardware systems e.g: raspberryPi 3B . It retrieves data passing through the network and sends it to a control panel. It works the same way as a botnet by receiving remote commands. you can imagine that as a black box. Physics hardware You can check repository of...

Exploit for CVE-2018-11776

struts-pwn - CVE-2018-11776 Exploit ============ An explo...

NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret...

NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret...