Researchers Find Serious Flaws in WeMo Home Automation Devices

UPDATE–There has been a joke going around the tech industry for years about refrigerators and other home appliances one day being connected to the Internet and being able to order more milk for you or allow you to turn off your lights remotely. That day is today, and those Internet-connected...

Chewbacca Tor-Based Malware Steals Keystrokes

The Tor network may provide a lead-lined cover for Internet users seeking a measure of privacy online, but it also has proven to be an attractive shelter for attackers. A number of malware campaigns have been able to successfully maneuver on Tor, using the anonymity network as a communication...

i2Ninja Financial Malware Communicates on I2P Darknet

The Mevade botnet made news when it was found to be using the Tor anonymity network to communicate with its command and control infrastructure. Running C&C on Tor, however, turned out to be a fatal mistake when Tor usage spiked alerting administrators to the unusual activity. A group of Russian...

FBI Used Firefox Exploit to Shutdown Illegal Site Running on Tor Network

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by the FBI to identify...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor Network hosting; Tor Mail Compromised

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by...

Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers

Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers French researchers from ESIEA, a French engineering school, have found and exploited some serious vulnerabilities in the TOR network. They performed an inventory of the network, finding 6,000 machines, many of whose IPs are accessible...

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin OpDarknet, including personal details 1500 users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tool...

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin OpDarknet, including personal details 1500 users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tool...

FreeBSD - mbufs() sendfile Cache Poisoning Privilege Escalation

FreeBSD - mbufs sendfile Cache Poisoning Privilege Escalation / freebsd x86/x64 sendfile cache local root xpl v2 by Kingcope 2010 -- should h4x any freebsd 8. and 7. prior to 12Jul2010 tampers /bin/sh to contain a shellcode which does ' chmod a+s /tmp/sh chown root /tmp/sh execve /tmp/sh2 ' how t...

Researchers to Show Off Veiled Browser Darknet

One of the more interesting presentations on the schedule at next month’s Black Hat conference is a talk by renowned Web security researcher Billy Hoffman of HP on a new method for implementing a darknet in browsers using just PHP and JavaScript. The approach, which Hoffman and his co-presenter...