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Tool: DNS Check #DNSChanger

Jun

2012

An Estonian company called Rove Digital was busted last November. Why? Because it was a front for the ad-fraud DNSChanger botnet. And ever since November, the USA’s FBI has been responsible for the substitute DNS servers designed to keep compromised computers from being disconnected (and causing support call chaos).Back in March, we wrote about the […]

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440,783 “Silent SMS” Used to Track German Suspects in 2010

Dec

2011

The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) is currently underway in Berlin and on Tuesday, researcher Karsten Nohl gave a presentation called: Defending mobile phones. If you have an hour, it’s worth watching. Initial press reports focused on Nohl’s revelation that hackers can potentially sniff numerous phone IDs and network authentications from an advantageous point, and […]

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NASA hacker arrested, perhaps it is time for some defense?

Nov

2011

Romanian police arrested Robert Butyka of Cluj Napoca for hacking into NASA servers beginning in December of 2010. Butyka, who goes by the handle Iceman, is accused of unauthorized access to NASA systems, possession of hacking tools and causing the deletion, modification and restricting access to data. The charges allege that the damages caused by […]

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