Hackers? For Charity?
In general, a hacker is “a skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to creatively overcome a problem”. We are hackers (most of us security experts) that use our superpowers to make the world a better place. We highlight projects and acts of service and help flatten the learning curve so you can join us.
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Recent Stories
I’m sorry, Atari.
Selling the heart of my Atari 2600 collection was really tough. I spent YEARS at flea markets and thrift stores trolling for stuff to round out my collection. When we were first married, my wife and I would go to flea markets [...]
Johnny’s “No-Tech Hacking” talk!
This is one of Johnny's most "famoustest" talks ever, and this is the evolution, which Johnny presents to audiences all over the world! Now it's available as a video exclusively to Informer subscribers! Enjoy!
Advisory: Gmail – Google Docs Cookie Hijacking through PDF Repurposing
Google docs network was vulnerable to PDF re purposing attacks. The vulnerability was disclosed to Google with a discretion. This is done to mitigate the risk . Google has worked over it and patched it with in a period of 5 days. The Google doc has been refined and support for adobe plugin is removed.
The user security is the prime issue because millions of user were at risk if this attack persisted in the open environment. Integrated accounts were more susceptible as certain credentials could be used to access other accounts.
Thanks to Google for considering the recommendation and changing the working behavior of specific components at risk.
The detailed advisory is released here:
Hot packet-on-packet 0day action!!! Okay, simply more old 0day…
WARNING - POSSIBLE IMMATURE CURSING AHEAD. OK *ACTUAL* IMMATURE CURSING, WTF... Well, apparently it was a real popular thing to give away a couple of 0day exploits, so more 0day is being given away! Again this is from the good old days at BindView when your buddy SN was on the RAZOR team.
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