HNNCast 090409

HNNCast for the first week of September, 2009
Lead Stories:

• TJX v. Segvec Guilty Plea, Western Express Cybercrime Group Indictments, MiniPanzer/MagaPanzer Skype Tap, Apache.org Compromise

News Stories:

• Mystery PC Shipments Being Investigated, National Credit Union Administration Incident a Pen Test, Conficker Still Kickin’
• Courtnee:Hacker Spaces
• North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional School District Defacement, Koobface Expands It’s Playground

Quickies:

• Chinese Police Arrest DDoS’ers, UK Parlement Vulnerable to SQL Injection, ETA’s New Leader, XoN Speaks, Toorcon 11 CFP, Ontario Hacker Spaces Hold MiniSoOnCon, ClubHack 2009 Poster Contest, Maleware Exploits Current Events, Stopbadware.org Internships, Indonesian Attackers Claim Responsibility for Malaysia Defacements, IIS 5.1/6.0 FTP Vulnerability, Patch or Die – Windows Live Messenger, Twitter ‘Mikeyy’ Javascript Worm, Compulinx CEO Guilty Plea, O2 Wireless Box CSRF Vulnerability, Snow Leopard Ships with Vulnerable Flash, WordPress LOGIN Plugins XSS Vulnerabilities

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1. Lead Stories:
   TJX v. Segvec Guilty Plea

   • http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN2837531320090828
   • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/accused_tjx_hacker_accepts_plea/

   Western Express Cybercrime Group Indictments

   • http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/westernexpress/

   MiniPanzer/MagaPanzer Skype Tap

   • http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=616F0857-1A64-6A71-CE812E91B21C7F7D
   • http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/trojanpeskyspy-listening-your-conversations
   • http://news.techworld.com/security/3200665/skype-spy-trojan-escapes-into-wild/

   Apache.org Compromise

   • https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_initial_report
   • http://threatpost.com/blogs/apache-site-hacked-through-ssh-key-compromise-128

   News Stories:
   Mystery PC Shipments Being Investigated

   • http://www.pcworld.com/article/170970/fbi_investigating_laptops_sent_to_us_governors.html?tk=rss_news
   • http://wvgazette.com/News/politics/200908240818
   • http://www.scmagazineus.com/Skype-snooping-trojan-detected/article/147537/
   • http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1531880/fbi-looking-laptops-sent-us-governors

   National Credit Union Administration Incident a Pen Test

   • http://www.itworld.com/security/75938/security-test-prompts-federal-fraud-alert
   • http://stateofsecurity.com/?p=766
   • http://www.scmagazineus.com/Purported-malicious-CD-ROMs-actually-part-of-pen-test/article/147777/

   Conflicker Still Kickin’

   • http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/conficker-lurks/
   • http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/27compute.html?_r=1
   • http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Report-claims-that-Conficker-worm-has-taken-over-around-five-million-computers-but-it-could-be-an-empty-shell/article/147508/

   Courtnee:
   Hacker Spaces

   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackerDojo
   • http://kwartzlab.ca/
   • http://www.hackerbotlabs.com/

   News Stories:
   North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional School District Defacement

   • http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/08/hackers_pull_hoax_on_hunterdon.html

   Koobface Expands It’s Playground

   Quickies:
   Chinese Police Arrest DDoS’ers

   • http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/game-server-admins-arrested-for-chinese-dns-attacks.ars

   UK Parlement Vulnerable to SQL Injection
   ETA’s New Leader, XoN Speaks
   Toorcon 11 CFP

   • http://www.toorcon.org/

   Ontario Hacker Spaces Hold MiniSoOnCon

   • http://minisooncon.ca/wiki/Main_Page

   ClubHack 2009 Poster Contest

   • http://www.clubhack.com/blog/2009/09/02/poster-contest/

   Maleware Exploits Current Events

   • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/cal_fire_malware/

   Stopbadware.org Internships

   http://www.stopbadware.org/
   • http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/08/24/internship-opportunities

   Indonesian Attackers Claim Responsibility for Malaysia Defacements

   • http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesian-hackers-launch-independence-day-attack-on-malaysian-web-sites/327111

   IIS 5.1/6.0 FTP Vulnerability
   Patch or Die – Windows Live Messenger
   Twitter ‘Mikeyy’ Javascript Worm

   • http://www.cio.com/article/489088/Twitter_Worm_Attack_Continues_Here_8217_S_How_to_Keep_Safe

   Compulinx CEO Guilty Plea

   • http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/ny-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-id-theft-1.1413053

   O2 Wireless Box CSRF Vulnerability
   Snow Leopard Ships with Vulnerable Flash
   WordPress LOGIN Plugins XSS Vulnerabilities

   • http://nemesis.te-home.net/Forum/3100_Bad_Settings/31000_XSS/20090830_Hacker_News_Network___XSS_&IFrame_Injection.html
   • http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/changelog/
   • http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/
   

   tan

   5 Sep 09 at 2:44 am

    

2. umm its Conficker

   

   DaveH

   10 Sep 09 at 12:32 pm

    

3. Heh, thanks – sometimes I guess the mind fills in what it wants to see.

   

   tan

   11 Sep 09 at 7:35 am

    

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