A German hacker group has threatened to publish Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fingerprints in its new campaign to stop the government introducing the use of biometric data in new passports.
The CCC, or the Chaos Computer Club, is one of Germany’s oldest and largest hacker organisations and has published the Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s fingerprints in its magazine. They were taken off a water glass he used at a public debate, according to the CCC.
A team of security researchers have won themselves $10,000 for hacking into the MacBook Air in under two minutes by exploiting a Safari vulnerability.
This was done at the CanSecWest conference where there is a competition for hacking into the MacBook Air, Vista and Ubuntu. IDG News Service is reporting that on the first day, no one managed to execute any code as it was limited to over-the-network techniques on the OS itself.
Yes, I know. OpenSocial, Google’s API for making applications on the web, has been hacked… again. Shows how lazy Google are. And it’s the same guy who bought you the hacking of the RockYou application on Plaxo.
The Bank of India’s website has been given security researchers headaches, after it has been found that it contains three malicious trojans; “Pinch Trojan”, TSPY_AGENT.AAVG and Trojan.Netview.
These comes after in June when the Sydney Opera House’s website was hacked and delivered a malicious trojan.
A hacker has managed to penetrate an e-mail server at the Pentagon, leading over 1,500 email accounts offline. A spokesman said that the server did not contain top secret information. Few details were available about the cyber attack.
Ars Technica is reporting that the Doom9 forums has cracked the AACS coding after a WinDVD hole that’s been patched. This is not the first time that they have claimed this. The hacker even claims that it can’t be patched. This used the HD DVD drive that is for the Xbox 360.
