Laptop Researcher Suspects Sabotage In German Hotel

The German security researcher Stefan Esser suspect him in a hotel in Frankfurt has become the victim of sabotage, where someone may have tried to copy his laptop drive or manipulate. That Esser announced this week via Twitter announced.

"That terrible moment when you leave your laptop in a hotel room and return the laptop and then subsequently claiming that the memory is faulty," says the German researcher. According to him, someone tried to backdoor in his computer, but did not too professional, leaving clear fallow traces left behind. Through his Twitter account Esser published several photos, including a hard drive that might be taken out of the laptop.

In another photograph Esser shows a picture of the handle that is damaged. Essert suggests that the damage to his MacBook can not be caused by the cleaner. "The laptop was just two hours at dinner only long after the room was cleaned." The 'attacked' laptop turned Mac OS X El Capitan with full disk encryption through FileVault. In addition Esser had for disk encryption, a password other than set their account password. The researcher is also known for finding vulnerabilities in iOS and PHP.

Whistleblower Site Cryptome Leaked IP Addresses Visitors

Whistleblower site Cryptome has accidentally leaked the IP addresses of visitors when co-founder John Young different USB sticks sent to a supporter. This was reported by The Daily Dot. The USB sticks were hundreds of logs from the statistics program AWStats.

Also, .htaccess files and a password file were on the sticks. Initially Young denied leaking the logs and suggested that the supporter had falsified the data. Then decided supporter Michael Best to publish the data. It turned out to be the IP logs from certain Cryptome pages that were visited in 2009 and 2010 for four months. Young also later known that the data of Best knocked.

Meanwhile, Best of the data removed. Cryptome was founded in 1996 and has since published numerous confidential documents. Last month, Young did not know yet that the PGP keys of both himself and the website had been compromised. Two years ago, both the website and the Twitter account of Young hacked and in 2012 knew attackers malware to be placed on the website.

PGP Keys Whistleblower Site Cryptome Compromised

The whistleblower site Cryptome who has been all kinds of sensitive documents and information publishes visitors has warned that PGP keys from both the website and founder John Young have been compromised. The PGP keys are used to communicate encrypted.

How the keys jya@pipeline.com and cryptome@earthlink.net could be compromised is not listed. Meanwhile, the corresponding keys are canceled and there are newly issued. It is not the first time that Cryptome to do with an attack gets.Two years ago, both the website and the Twitter account of Young hacked and in 2012 knew attackers malware to be placed on the website.

Hacking Team Gets Control Back Hacked Twitter Account

The Italian company Hacking Team spyware for governments to develop and victim of a very large hack became possible where all data was captured, has regained control over its own Twitter account after about 10 hours.

A group of attackers who "HackedTeam" named used the hijacked Twitter account to spread links to a torrent file containing the data that was captured at the break. It would go together to such a 400GB 500GB of data. How the attackers were able to gain access to the network is still unknown. The leaked documents would prove, however, that surveillance company weak passwords like "Passw0rd" used. In addition, should the software company SQL Injection vulnerabilities contain.

The burglary was also the source of all kinds of programs, as well as the software itself stolen. A number of the programs has now been on GitHub placed. Furthermore, it seems that the attackers hacked not only the company but also at least one employee of the company. The Gmail account of this employee would be hacked and his Twitter account. Meanwhile, the Gmail password changed and raised the Twitter account, so says a security engineer with the alias "bcrypt" via Twitter.Hacking Team's website is now also no longer accessible.