Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
uTorrent & BitTorrent Sites Hacked, Spread Security Shield Malware
Attackers hijacked two popular Torrent websites "bittorrent.com and utorrent.com" and tampered with their download mechanisms, causing visitors trying to obtain file-sharing software to instead receive malware. The site reported on its blog that the attack had occurred at around 04:20 Pacific Daylight Time (11:20 GMT) on Tuesday. Initially, the incursion was also thought to have affected the servers of the main BitTorrent site, but further investigation revealed this site had been unaffected by the attack.
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Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Ramachandran
This book will provide a highly technical and in-depth treatment of Wi-Fi security. The emphasis will be to provide the readers with a deep understanding of the principles behind various attacks and not just a quick how-to guide on publicly available tools.
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Fighting the Good Global Cybercrime Fight: Q&A With Security Guru Mikko Hypponen, Part 1
It was once the case that computer viruses and other malicious software were written primarily by hobbyist hackers. Their motivations, for the most part, were simply bragging rights and the respect of their peers -- desirable rewards, to be sure, but certainly not the sole focus of any career. The results of their efforts, meanwhile, could spread only as fast as a floppy disk could travel. How things have changed.
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Fighting the Good Global Cybercrime Fight: Q&A With Security Guru Mikko Hypponen, Part 2
Mikko Hypponen has spent the past 20-plus years studying malicious software, including everything from "Brain" -- the first PC virus, dating back to 1986 -- all the way up to Stuxnet and today's most sophisticated global malware. He's widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on information security, and he's played a key role in taking down numerous international rings of cybercriminals.
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Seattle: Solidarity for the win - victory against Chase Bank
Seattle Solidarity Network gets a Chase Bank customer $1000 he was owed by a swift direct action campaign.
Seattle Solidarity Network member Neftali walked out of a Chase Bank in downtown Seattle on Thursday with a check for $1,000 in his hands. This is something that in and of itself is not unusual. He is a Chase customer. Plenty of customers walk out of Chase Bank with money. But this was not just any check. This was a check issued by the bank to correct an error that they had made months ago, and he got that money because Seattle Solidarity (SeaSol for short) helped him fight Chase Bank.
A long-time member of SeaSol, Neftali, was converting $3000 out of his major corporate bank account into Canadian dollars. He presented his valid temporary license along with his expired photo ID during the initial transaction, and it was sufficient and accepted by the teller. When the money was ready and he returned to pick it up, the assistant manger hassled him again and again regarding his form of ID and said that he needed a US passport, seemingly insinuating he did not have legal immigration status. After he complained to the manager, they let him use his card and pin as a form of ID-which is standard procedure at Chase. The teller opened the envelope and gave him $1785, when he was supposed to receive $2785.
He did not realize they shorted him at first and went on his vacation after leaving the bank, flustered about the entire interaction. When he got back to the states he realized that they had shorted him $1000 after looking at his transaction receipt. He confronted the assistant manager, explaining that he thought they probably only forgot the extra 10 $100 bills in the envelope which was mistakenly not given to him-- and wanted them to check the video. She wouldn't believe him and refused to let him watch the video of the teller counting the money. She did, however, admit that the teller broke policy by opening the envelope and not directly handing him it.
Once he realized he was not going to get anywhere by dealing directly with the bank, he brought the issue to the attention of SeaSol. After discussion and research the group decided to take on the fight. On May 31, we delivered a demand delivery with about 30 people to the manager of the Chase branch where the transaction occurred. This demand was very simple - show us the tape of the teller transaction or give our member his money. We gave them two weeks to do one or the other, and if not further action would be taken.
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Federal injunction issued as Longshoremen storm Longview port
A federal judge ordered union protesters to stop using illegal tactics Thursday as they battle for the right to work at a new grain terminal in Washington state.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days. Protesters twice blocked the pathway of a train carrying grain to the terminal at the Port of Longview on Wednesday, and early Thursday morning hundreds of them stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards, dumped grain and broke windows, police said.
The dispute halted work at four other Washington ports, including Seattle, on Thursday as hundreds of longshoremen refused to show up or walked off the job.
Leighton said he felt like a paper tiger because the International Longshore and Warehouse Union clearly ignored a temporary restraining order he issued last week with similar limits. He scheduled a hearing for next Thursday to determine whether the union should be held in civil contempt.
"The regard for the law is absent here," the judge said. "Somebody is going to be hurt seriously."
Six guards were trapped for a couple of hours after at least 500 Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha said. He initially referred to the guards as "hostages," but later retracted that after the guards clarified no one had threatened them.
"The guards absolutely could not get out," Duscha said. "They feared for their lives because of the size of the crowd and the hostility of the crowd."
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested - although Duscha said that could change if police are able to use surveillance video or other means to identify the protesters.
Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting train brake lines and spilling grain from a car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said. They also pushed a private security vehicle into a ditch.
The union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of laborers from another union, the Portland-based Operating Engineers Local 701. Representatives of the engineers union did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
In Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Anacortes, hundreds of Longshore workers failed to show up or walked off the job Thursday in apparent solidarity with the Longview activists, halting work at those ports. Union leaders said they had not called for any such actions.
"It appears the members have taken action on their own," said ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees from union headquarters in San Francisco.
He said some workers might have been motivated by a photograph of ILWU President Bob McElrath in police custody in Longview on Wednesday.
McElrath was not arrested, but an Associated Press photo showed him being grabbed by several police officers before union activists intervened and grabbed him back.
Police arrested 19 protesters as they blocked railroad tracks on Wednesday night, allowing the train to finally arrive at the terminal.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Israeli-Turkish Cyberwar Begins
Israeli IT analysts said Tuesday the DNS hijacking is likely to be, in fact, a "test-run" ahead of a major attack on Israeli domains.
Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was “World Hackers Day."
At least seven high-profile websites outside Israel were also hijacked, including those of The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone.
Hackers calling themselves the "TurkGuvenligi group" claimed they had done the cyber-attack. TurkGuvenligi translates as "Turkish security."
"The hack represents a 10%-15% spike compared to the average number of daily hacks of Israeli websites," Shai Blitzblau, head of Maglan-Computer Warfare and Network Intelligence Labs, explained.
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Registry Decoder Digital Forensics Software
Registry Decoder is a free and open source tool. The online acquisition component can be accessed at: http://code.google.com/p/regdecoderlive/ and the offline analysis component accessed at: http://code.google.com/p/registrydecoder/.
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Solidarity action for a comrade detained in Norway
Andre moved to Tromsø (north of Norway) in August 2010. Since then, he has been almost totally socially isolated.
Andre has a long history of bad treatment and social exclusion. These issues go back to his childhood days where he experienced sexual abuse which was not considered execrable by his surrounding environment.
Andre visited UNN asking for some very mild medical treatment, mostly relaxing therapy, resting and sleep. The reasons: he received some threats from numerous individuals or group of individuals involved with organized crime, which resulted to a psychological collapse. However, the hospital stuff pushed him into forced medication and locked him in the hospital against his will while Andre’s case looks much simpler. It’s been almost three weeks since the Andre started to feel seriously concerned about his life. He constantly experiences that some hospital stuff act inappropriately against him; calling him names or throwing insults. He feels terrorized. He has reason to believe the hospital is involved.
He has tried to sort out the case by speaking to a lawyer but there were no positive results. His lawyer seems to be reluctant to help him while Andre's situation is worsening day by day.
We demand:
1) The hospital stuff to listen what Andre really wants and respect his rights and stop any possible abuse
2) Andre to have access to legal help and advice
3) To complete his treatment based only on what he needs and be released immediately after to the U.K
In solidarity with Andre
PETITION FOR THE RELEASE OF ANDRE DAHL JENSEN
Andre Dahl Jensen, a political activist from Norway is currently being held within a psychiatric ward (UNN Tromso) in Tromso (Norway), on the belief that he suffers delusions, which the doctors have said only to occur when he is in Norway (the idea of regional psychosis being absurd), and on the belief that his political views are caused by mental illness. Many can vouch for his mental stability.
The people in his life know for a FACT that he is indeed a stable man who is currently being held imprisoned for very little reason. Since entering the hospital he has been told on numerous occasions by white supremacists that are being kept there that "They will get him" and other threats. The staff there are also described as malicious and cruel.
Andre himself is trying to leave for the United Kingdom, where he will be housed with friends, while looking for work.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/the-release-of-a-political-prisoner-and-activist.html
Here is what you can do to help : (Please contact them as often as possible )
Email the hospital directly as often as you can :
post@unn.no
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Copwatch Conference: Seeking alternatives to the police
The International Copwatching Conference was hosted by Winnipeg Copwatch, an anti police-brutality group founded in 2007. The July 22-24 event attracted participants from every major Canadian city, as well as the U.S.
It's been just over a year since the gates of "Torontonamo Bay", the nickname for the makeshift prison which caged 1,105 demonstrators during last June's G20 mass protests in Toronto, finally closed. During that weekend, the largest police deployment in Canada's history of 20,000 officers led to gunpoint raids, dozens of activists facing years of legal battles, and emerging stories of threats, homophobia, and sexual harassment.
In the wake of these and other widely publicised incidents of police misconduct in Canada -- including the deaths of Dudley George, Robert Dziekanski, J.J. Harper, Matthew Dumas, and the failure to investigate more than 600 missing and murdered Indigenous women -- concern with police brutality in Canada brought several hundred people to Winnipeg.
"These incidents are not isolated -- they are integral to policing," said keynote speaker Andrea Ritchie, a lawyer and co-founder of the group INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. "Until we produce a world that does not contain or produce police and prisons, we will never live in a world without violence or imagine alternatives."
At the conference, it was not only police departments who faced criticism. Workshops and panels addressed problems of immigration and border officers, prison guards, as well as the capitalist economic system. Immigrants and refugees face racial profiling, detention, deportation, only set to increase with the Conservatives' proposed immigration laws.
"Copwatching" is a tactic which started in the Black Panther movement but was later taken up by organizers in Berkeley, California, following several high-profile killings and beatings of men of colour by police in the early 1990s, including Rodney King's videotaped assault in Los Angeles, which led to extensive rioting, protests and demands for accountability.
The aim of copwatching, organizers said, is to document and deter police misconduct by observing police and holding them publically accountable.
"The goal of copwatching is to show police we are watching them too, to show people that resistance is possible, and to denounce what is happening on the streets," said François Du Canal, with Montreal's Collective Opposed to Police Brutality.
The international conference was the second gathering of the growing copwatching movement, following one hosted by the founding Berkeley Copwatch in 2007. Copwatch groups -- as well as others who use similar strategies -- use tactics including videotaping police, filing official complaints, protesting police misconduct, and hosting "know your rights" public workshops and sharing circles.
"Proactively our tactic is to educate about rights, to observe the police, to build relationships in the community," said Andrea Pritchett, with Berkeley Copwatch.
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