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Phelps' website defaced in Turkish hack
Michael Phelps can fend off all competition in the pool, but he can't swim away from vandals in cyberspace.
The website for the Olympic champion, who just won eight gold medals in Beijing, apparently was temporarily defaced this week by Turkish hackers, according to a report Wednesday night on MSNBC.
A screenshot of the hack -- which did not appear to carry any payload, malicious or otherwise -- was posted Thursday on Digg. The defacement contained a link that led to a Turkish language website featuring some text, a picture of the Turkish flag and a portrait of the country's first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The text appears to be a patriotic quote from Ataturk. Michael Phelps can fend off all competition in the pool, but he can't swim away from vandals in cyberspace. ... more -
Card details stolen in web hack
The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website, BBC News has learned. The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website, BBC New... more
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Phoenix Mars website gets hacked
A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site during the night and changed its lead news story.
A mission update posted Friday was replaced with a hacker's signature and a link redirecting visitors to an overseas Web site.
The site hosted by the University of Arizona has been taken off line while computer experts work to correct the problem.
The Mars Lander vehicle touched down on the Red Planet last Sunday to search for traces of organic compounds that are the basic building blocks of life. A spokeswoman for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission says a hacker took over the mission's public Web site during the night and chan... more -
How To Find Secret Sites And Articles
On the internet there are a lot of site owners that hide some of the site's pages or even the entire site from the search engines. You can now find those sites with robots.txt.
Robots.txt is a text file present in the root directory of a site which is used to control which pages are indexed by a robot. If you use the 'disallow' word you can block parts of your sites to be found by search engines.
1. Open http://www.google.com and search after the keyword :
"robots.txt" "disallow:" filetype:txt
2. You will find the robots.txt file from sites that uses disallow command in it.
Find Secret Sites And Articles
3. Let's open for example the first site: WhiteHouse. We can see that a lot of pages were made invisible.
Find Secret Sites And Articles
4. To open 'forbidden' pages just copy the text from what disallow command you want, without the "text" at the end.
Find Secret Sites And Articles
5. Now replace in the browser /robots.txt with your copied text and press Enter. The page will open.
Find Secret Sites And Articles
This is the hidden page from WhiteHouse.
Find Secret Sites And Articles
Of course you can find more interesting pages, this was just an example.
Now you can be like a modern online Sherlock Holmes. Find what others hid.
check the link to the main site for more detailed instructions On the internet there are a lot of site owners that hide some of the site's pages or even the entire site from the search engines... more -
Sigur Rós site hacked by Islamic fundamentalists?
I may be wrong, but as of 2:30 am Eastern time, it appears as if the website for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós has been hacked by Islamic fundamentalists. Instead of a pre-order screen for their up and coming album, you're greeted by a message in red text with what looks like an excerpt from the Koran. Now what might have caused this? Well, recently the band has been allowing free downloads of their new single entitled "Gobbledigook," along with a music video which contains both female and male full frontal nudity. Now I'm no rocket scientist, but it seems as if these people have been upset by this kind of stuff before...
Update:
I just checked and it looks like the site is up and running as usual. If anyone is interested in seeing the screen shot I took of the hacker's message, follow the link: http://weskandel.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/picture-63... I may be wrong, but as of 2:30 am Eastern time, it appears as if the website for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós has been hacke... more -
Considerazioni relative alla ricerca di Vita Extraterrestre - Margherita Hack
Da sempre l'umanità si interroga sull'esistenza di forme di vita intelligente su altri pianeti. Come racconta l'astrofisica Margherita Hack, questa ipotesi, un tempo confinata nel regno della fantascienza, oggi è al centro di un importante programma di ricerca scientifico, che sonda lo spazio interstellare alla ricerca di un segnale radio trasmesso da intelligenze extraterrestri. (leggi tutto)
http://www.setiufo.org/ufo_x/margherita_hack.htm Da sempre l'umanità si interroga sull'esistenza di forme di vita intelligente su altri pianeti. Come racconta l'astrofi... more -
Woman remotely logs in to her stolen Mac to catch thieves
A woman whose apartment was burgled has caught the thieves by hacking into the laptop they'd stolen and taking pictures of them.
On Tuesday last week, one of the victims received a phone call from a friend asking her if she was online: she said no, and was told by the friend that his computer showed her as being logged onto the web. At that point, the victim signed onto another computer and used the "Back to My Mac" programme to deduce that her stolen Mac was online, and that someone was using it to shop on the internet. She then activated the stolen computer's camera, allowing her to "see" what was in front of the laptop.
At first she saw only an empty chair - but a little while later she was able to photograph a man sitting in front of her stolen laptop, and then his accomplice. The victim did not know either man but showed the photos to one of her roommates, who recognized them as having attended a get-together at the apartment a few weeks before the burglary.
The burglars, both men in their 20s, were arrested at their New York homes on Wednesday, after the woman handed the photographs in to the police. Around $5,000 (over £2,500) worth of electrical equipment was recovered. A woman whose apartment was burgled has caught the thieves by hacking into the laptop they'd stolen and taking pictures of them. ... more -
How a Google engineer hacks his energy usage
Darrell Anderson always knew that running a bath required more electricity and water than taking a shower, but he's an engineer at Google, so he decided to quantify that difference. His tool of choice? A new resource monitoring system designed by some ex-NASA engineers called Agilewaves with a price tag north of $10,000.
The company's high-end systems provide granular data on a home's electricity, water, and gas consumption, and can compute carbon dioxide emissions from that information. Their system, part of which you can see above, can hook up to 100 types of sensors, and even allows Anderson to measure the pull from individual circuits.
While the company's standard package provides visualization options, Anderson decided to take the analysis into this own hands, logging the raw data and running it through GoogleCharts. That let him see that 25 percent of his home's energy bill was going to watering the lawn. And he got to answer the bath question.
Now, Anderson can say with confidence, "Taking a bath is roughly three times as expensive as taking a shower."
Energy usage monitoring systems are growing in popularity, or least the number of businesses trying to sell them is. (Examples: Onzo, GE) The idea is that if a product makes invisible power usage visible, consumers will respond by reducing the amount of energy they consume. The energy savings immediately translate into money savings, and you help save the world while saving yourself cash.
Companies like FatSpaniel already have dozens of systems installed, but most of them are high-end set-ups geared towards dedicated environmental thinkers who have installed solar power systems. On a broader scale, the California utility PG&E has promised to install lower-resolution energy monitors called smart meters in all its customers homes, but that's not happening in all of its homes until 2011.
The latter initiative is important because energy solutions need to be within reach of mainstream consumers, "cost-competitive," as the industry lingo goes. After all, that's why Google's green initiative, RE < C, is dedicated to making renewable energy cost less than coal.
As the prices of energy monitors fall, more and more consumers will be able to know their own energy profiles as well as Anderson does, allowing them to reduce their energy consumption as painlessly as possible. Darrell Anderson always knew that running a bath required more electricity and water than taking a shower, but he's an engineer a... more -
Hacking: the hunt for idiots...
Podcast made by students at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts about hacking. For the tech people of the world, this pod will nerd out on the world of computer hacking, featuring a cop, a normal computer user, and an ex-hacker, who talks about video games, cell phones, and of course, credit card fraud. Tune in for a little comedy and information about the risks of loving technology, and of course, the hunt for idiots... Podcast made by students at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts about hacking. For the tech people of the world, this pod will ... more
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iBoy: Gameboy hack
Hack n Mod is kind of like a Boy's Own annual for the modern man. This hack shows you how to case your iPod inside your antique Gameboy. Pretty cool, non? Hack n Mod is kind of like a Boy's Own annual for the modern man. This hack shows you how to case your iPod inside your antique ... more
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WM6 now with new interface
not really an iphone but nice interface for a windows mobile device......
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Turn you Macbook into a tablet
awesome hack project - cheap easy...
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Apples For The Army
A division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack. A division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macint... more
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Google can crack passwords
A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his blog last Friday that he's discovered Google works as a password MD5 hash cracker. Someone had hacked into his blogsite a few weeks ago and created a user account. After he quickly disabled the rogue account, Steven J. Murdoch did some forensics work -- he's doing academic security research, remember -- and thought to figure out the attacker's password.
Since his blogsite uses Wordpress, which stores passwords as unsalted MD5 hashes in its user database, he tried a dictionary attack. That didn't find any match, even with numbers added to the ends of words. He then used a Russian dictionary, because shell code that had been installed by the attacker had Russian in the comments. No word matchup there, either.
Murdoch writes that he could have found or written a better password cracker. He could have varied the case of letters, added symbols to the mix, or used common substitutions of numbers for letters, but he didn't want to spend more time. Instead, he turned to Google. He plugged the raw MD5 hash of the attacker's password into a Google search and, voila, Google found him some matches. A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his blog last Friday that he's discove... more -
Under 18? No iPhone for you
Apple today announced that it will be banning sales of its popular iPhone and iPod touch music players to persons under 18 years of age. The move comes after 3 successful and highly publicized hackings of the devices by teenagers, who, apparently with more free time on their hands than adults, can afford to devote hours and even days to such efforts.
We kind of hoped the release of Halo 3 would put an end to iPhone hacking, read an Apple statement. But that unfortunately hasnt been the case. Apple today announced that it will be banning sales of its popular iPhone and iPod touch music players to persons under 18 years of ag... more -
Iphone hacker goes to RIT and gets job
The 17y r old who took the summer off to hack the iphone is happily entrenched in his new school RIT and has been offered a job as well as a trade of the original hacked phone for a 350 ZX....
nice return on investment for a 17 yr old The 17y r old who took the summer off to hack the iphone is happily entrenched in his new school RIT and has been offered a job as wel... more
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