Showing posts with label hack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hack. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Embassy's e-mails stolen

The Swedish hacker has taken hold of passwords from hundred electronic mail boxes of employees of embassies of the several countries. In this list also the Russian embassy in Sweden.

The hacker has published passwords and e-mail addresses to diplomatic representatives of Russia (embassy in Sweden), Iran, India and of some other states on the web site "DEranged Security".

Uzbek diplomats are the most unlucky: the hacker has published addresses and passwords from e-mails of more than two tens embassies of this country. About how the Swede could take hold of this information, messages did not act yet.

Monday, August 27, 2007

iPhone software is hacked

Two groups of enthusiasts have declared a final victory over protection of iPhone which did not allow owners of this communicator from Apple to use operators of cellular communication, except AT&T. The first who have learnt iPhone to work with SIM-cards of all possible mobile operators is the command iPhoneSimFree.com, after them UniquePhones crew have won the protection of iPhone communicator.

The decisions developed by both crews are the first program methods of full unblocking iPhone. In spite of the fact that earlier experts already managed to force iPhone to work in mobile networks of other operators, operation of communicator unblocking has been connected with updating the device hardware or reprogramming SIM-card. Obviously, both operations couldn't be done by ordinary users. Internet-edition Engadget has already confirmed, that offered by the first command, iPhoneSimFree.com, method of iPhone unblocking really works! By means of the program developed by hackers journalists managed to force iPhone to work in mobile network T-Mobile. For activation of phone the program iActivator was used, and work of service YouTube has been adjusted by means of this instruction. Thus communicator regularly called, transferred text messages and worked in the Internet.

Now on a site of a crew iPhoneSimFree.com it is informed on readiness for publication of way to unblock iPhone for everybody. As to the second crew, UniquePhones temporarily postponed release of program for unblocking iPhone. On preliminary data, UF were going to sell the program at the price of from 25 up to 50 dollars for a copy, however release of it is postponed.

According to the same Engadget, it can be connected with AT&T threats to hackers, the provider who has concluded the exclusive contract with Apple.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Popular Monster.com hack was carried out from Ukraine

Breaking of the world's largest recruiting site Monster.com, fixed in the end of the last week, has been carried out from a computer located in territory of Ukraine. To such conclusion have come experts from Symantec company which is responsible for the security of web site Monster.com.

Malefactors have stolen about 1,6 million records from Monster database. Though not each of them contained personal information of users of this site, in hands of hackers there were particularies on hundreds thousand person. Administration of Monster has promised "to arrange", however in what they will consist, is not specified yet. Access to databases of site on which placed more than 70 million resume, has been carried out by means of Trojan program Infostealer. Monstres. Users left the following information on: addresses, phones and e-mail; any data of numbers of credit cards and bank accounts was not on the Monster web site.

Malefactors have begun dispatches of letters ostensibly on behalf of Monster with the offer to establish a certain additional module for work with a site. Under a kind of the module hackers try to compel to establish users on the machines espionage programs.

To my mind, each protection system can be hacked, but security companies have to protect user's data. It is simply work of security companies, in this case such company is Symantec. In our real world I can't trust internet my confidential data like number of credit card or something like this because I know that it can be stolen. But when will we be protected completely? Let's wait for the evolution of internet...