Hacker, modder, and DIYer extraordinaire Ben Heck has seemingly done the impossible with his latest project. For years a fierce battle has raged between proponents of the big three gaming consoles, but to finally bring peace and civility to gaming forums across the land, Heck created an all-in-one console that combines a PS3, an Xbox 360, and a Wii U. More »
China has been the source of many cyberattacks against US organizations, businesses and media companies, many of which revealed earlier this year the extent of the attacks they suffered. Some such companies include The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, just to name a few. In response, the White House has called for China’s government to put an end to its cyberattacks, and to instead act in accordance to “acceptable norms of behavior in cyberspace.”
The demand came from Tom Donilon, national security adviser to the president. He outlined three courses of actions the United States government would like the Chinese government to follow, which are as follows: public recognition of the issue, assurance that Chinese hackers will be targeted and dealt with proactively, and consent to being part of talks on forming worldwide cyberspace standards.
Said Donilon: “Increasingly, U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyberintrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale. The international community cannot tolerate such activity from any country.”
Not surprisingly, China denied the claims, stating that they were fabricated to make the nation look bad. Yesterday, the nation called for global “rules and cooperation” in regards to hacking, claiming that it likewise has suffered cyberattacks, with its attackers being traced back to the United States. Said the nation’s foreign minister Yang Jiechi, “[The] international community is closely interconnected on the Internet, therefore cyberspace needs rules and cooperation, not war.”
[via New York Times]
US tells China it must put an end to cyberattacks is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Over the last few months, 40 known companies have been identified as victims of cyberattacks. As more details are being revealed, it turns out that these attacks are not only targeted at tech companies such as Apple or Twitter but other industries as well, including prominent car manufacturers, US government agencies and a candy company. However, the affected companies have not been named.
According to The Security Ledger, people who are familiar with the attacks said the computer networks are hacked using at least three third party “watering hole” websites. A watering hole attack identifies the sites of interest of its potential victims and compromises it by injecting JavaScript or HTML to redirect the victims to additional malicious codes. The compromised sites will be left “waiting” to compromise other visitors through drive-by downloads. More information can be obtained from Symantec.
It is still not clear if these attacks are mounted by the same group of hackers or are isolated incidents. Most affected companies believed that hackers exploit a vulnerability in a Java plug-in. Companies like Mozilla had turned off Java by default in its browser to prevent the exploit.
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There’s a horrible and growing trend in the darkest corners of the internet: using Remote Administration Tools, hackers are increasingly taking control of webcams around the world. More »
China has once again denied its involvement in a series of hacks that plagued various entities in the United States, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and several U.S. companies. The Chinese government believes that the allegations were based on groundless facts and that this is just some scheme to worsen China’s reputation.
The Chinese government has issued a call for international “rules and cooperation” on the recent hacking issues. China has stated that they have been the target of several internet hacks as well, and that it’s not just the United States who are the victims. They stated that by tracing the cyber attacks, they discovered that the hackers were located in the United States. This could just be a case of finger pointing, or the attacks may be a case of retaliation.
A United States security firm, Madiant, issued a 60+ page report that provides evidence that there is a link between the cyber attacks on U.S. businesses, the Chinese hacking groups, and also the Chinese government. The cyber attacks originated at the HQ for the People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398 in China. China has stated that those accusations were false and that the IP addresses could have been easily spoofed in order to plant the blame on them.
Yang Jiechi, China’s Foreign Minister, stated that the “international community is closely interconnected on the Internet, therefore cyberspace needs rules and cooperation, not war.” He says that he hopes the accusations against China would stop because they will “not be able to blacken the name of others nor whitewash themselves.” However, it’s hard to refute the report from Mandiant, that shows that around 141 companies had their data stolen by the People Liberation Army, and 115 of those companies were from the United States.
[via New York Times]
China calls for global “rules and cooperation” on hacking issues is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no …
When one of Britain’s biggest cyber criminals was jailed in 2011, officials thought they’d be safe from his internet attacks. But then he managed to sneak into a prison computer class and hack the jail’s network. More »
Four days after the highly-anticipated iOS 6 jailbreak, 7 million iOS devices were running the hacked firmware. Now, exactly one month after the jailbreak’s release, over 14 million iOS devices are running Evasi0n, with 23 million iDevices running all versions of a jailbreak, both past and present.
Pod2g, one of the dev team members of Evad3rs (the team responsible for the iOS 6 jailbreak), tweeted the statistics this morning. Jay Freeman (a.k.a. Saurik, the man behind the Cydia jailbreak store) clarified that the 23 million iOS devices jailbroken are only the devices seen on Cydia within the past month.
These are numbers are astronomical no doubt, but there’s always the chance that iOS jailbreakers may go back to the stock version of iOS, and compared to the number of iOS devices sold during just last quarter (a whopping 75 million), 14 million iOS devices jailbroken isn’t that huge of a percentage, considering that number consists of all iOS devices ever sold.
That 14 million figure may not go up much from here on out, mainly since an upcoming iOS update will patch the Evasi0n jailbreak. iOS 6.1.3 is currently in beta mode, and the Evad3rs dev team has confirmed that the new update patches up some of the exploits used to jailbreak the mobile platform, and the team members aren’t sure if they’ll be able to come up with a fix anytime soon.
Evasi0n jailbreak now running on over 14m devices is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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SparkFun is looking to further its educational push this summer, announcing its 2013 National Education Tour. The intiative, set to kick off in June, will bring the hacker supplier to schools in all 50 states, teaching six to eight hour courses aimed at getting students started in the world of DIY. The courses will focus on topics like the PicoBoard Scratch sensor, SparkFun Inventor Kit and e-textiles, teaching kids programming and hardware concepts. SparkFun will be footing a portion of the bills, to the tune of $1,000 per location and leaving hardware behind so education doesn’t have to stop when the company’s RV pulls away. SparkFun is also looking toward libraries as resources for its educational initiative, with programs aimed at educating librarians in the ways of Arduinos and the like. More information on the program can be found after the break.
If you go to log in to Evernote, you’ll find that you have to reset your password. Why? Well according to a post on the official Evernote blog, they were hacked, and while no personal information was snatched, emails, usernames, and passwords were. Luckily, those passwords were encrypted, but better safe than sorry. More »
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