Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2011 at 8:31:00 AM CEST
A Primer on Wikileaks Espionage on TOR Exit Nodes
In 2007, Dan Egerstad, Swedish security researcher, exposed how the Tor network could easily be used for intelligence gathering: [1]
``Dan Egerstad is a Swedish security researcher; he ran five Tor nodes. Last month, he posted a list of 100 e-mail credentials -- server IP addresses, e-mail accounts and the corresponding passwords -- for embassies and government ministries around the globe, all obtained by sniffing exit traffic for usernames and passwords of e-mail servers.''
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Topic: WEB - on June 10, 2011 at 7:42:00 AM CEST
Don't Even Think About It, Anonymous Warns NATO
Anybody who thinks that Anonymous is just a bunch of harmless script kiddies playing around on their mom's computer hasn't been following the news recently. The US recently said it would put a hurting on hackers that threatened the nation, and earlier this week, NATO published a special report on cybersecurity. A big chunk of it was spent describing the threat of everyone's favorite hacker collective. The longer Anonymous continues its hijinks, the more likely they'd be "infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted," the report warned. Anonymous' response showed its characteristic sense of style.
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