HNNCast 082809

Hacker News for the last week of August, 2009
-NEWLY RENOVATED SET AND HNN WELCOMES: COURTNEE

• Pirate Bay Insurance Policy, Analyzer Guilty Plea, iFrame Malware Script, Beck/Tews WPA Attack Improved, CC Scam Artist Sentenced
• Cellular Fraud Arrainment, National Credit Union Administration Alert, AirMagnet’s Cisco Provisioning Hole, Courtnee:
  Courtnee:
  • DEFCON Badge Videos
  • ecoParty/Immunity REVERSE && GO Challenge

  Solo’s Fame and Support STILL Growing

• Quickies: Wyndham/NOTACON CC Debacle, Defcon iPhone App FINALLY Released, Leona Lewis Songs Leaked, DEEPSEC Schedule, Malware Devs Virus, Techdirt Defacement, Sears Defacement, MS/XCon Partnership, OS X Snow Leopard Has AV, World of Warcraft Maleware, Conflicker hits University Hospital, Old Attacks with New Names, BruCon Tix, Open Security Foundation Mangle-a-Thon

HNNCast 082109

HNNCast for the third week of August, 2009

• Heartland/TJX Inditments, r00t-dash-You WAS a String, Identity Theft in Cyber Warfare, Shanghai License Plate Auction
• number10.org for Turing, Banking Trojans Thwart 2 Factor Authentication, TI OS Public Signing Key Cracked, Attackers Love the 90′s, USAF Cyber Shrinkage, AT&T Drops Mitnick
• Quickies: Twitter Outages, Maleware Metrics, Xinjiang Uighur supporters v. China, Australian Government Flu, EkoParty Registration, Albanian Newspaper Attacked, Ausie Bot Herder, Burp Release, Club Hack 2009 CFP, Security B-Sides, Can Sec West, Obama SPAM Attack, Raddison Breach, Exploit Archive Outages

HNNCast 081409

HNNCast for the second week of August, 2009

• Twitter DDoS attacks, new Koobface varient, Twitter comand and control, July 4th attacks, Aspergers man sentenced.
• Green Damn dispute, Mount Airy Casino insider compromise, United Way of Miami Dade insider compromise, La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant wifi cc sniffing, Limewire ID theft, IHackCharaties.Org t-shirt auction.
• r00t-y0u.org forum compromise, Defcon 17 award winners,
  Quickies:
  • Team Elite v. the UK Ministry of Defense, Maylasia compromise, Tax Return Maleware, Campaign Monitor compromise, Happy Anniversery to Blaster, Hacking at Random 20th, Scareware 4m/mo Market, Security B-Side audio posted, CONS:Thotcon, SECtor, Source Barcelona, Kiwicon; UC Berkeley breach, Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines vulnerable, Old Mac OS X trojan back

HNNCast 080709

HNNCast for the first week of August, 2009

• Twitter DOS, U.S. House Defacements, UK for Solo, SquirrelMail Plug-Ins Vulnerable, Clampi Online Banking Virus, The Gaza Hacking Team Defaces Isreal Sites
• Real Host = RBN?
• BlackHat/Defcon 17 Wrap-up: iPhone SMS DOS, SSL Sniff, Smart Parking Meters Vulnerable, Machiavelli OS X Rootkit, CompTrace vulnerability, pwnies, Astaro Warzone Project, Viper Labs’ Viper Jack, cPanel vuln, USAF and N.K. at DC 17, Fake ATM, Badges, Arrests, Trojan Rumour
• Melbourne Internation Film and Arts Festival Defacements, Chicago Transit Phantom Transmitter Arrested
• Quickies: Team Elite gripes, Textfiles.com plea, Mozilla.org Retail Shutdown, Vkontakta.ru Compromise, Kazakhstan Newspaper DDOS, Malaysia Going Green Damn?, Phrack 66, UK ID Card Hack, HITB, Twitter Safe-URLs. HNN Sticker Contest Update