Android Network Toolkit lets you exploit local machines at the push of a button



Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham — “Zuk” for short — and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for easy hacking on the go. Need to find vulnerabilities on devices using nearby networks? The app, dubbe…

Charlie Miller and Kim Jong-Il could pwn the Internet with two years, $100 million



Well there’s one thing we can say about Charlie Miller — he sure is an ambitious rascal. When not busy exposing security holes in OS X, our fave security expert (aside from Angelina Jolie in Hackers, of course) has laid out a shocking expose based on…

Hacker intercepts phone calls with homebuilt $1,500 IMSI catcher, claims GSM is beyond repair



In 2009, Chris Paget showed the world the vulnerabilities of RFID by downloading the contents of US passports from the safety of his automobile. This year, he’s doing the same for mobile phones. Demonstrating at DefCon 2010, the white hat hacker foole…

DefCon 15 Audio / Video / Podcast



Peps, I have been trying to get a full list of the speakers of DefCon 15 in mp3 but have not found much just the odd file here and there. This morning as I was loading up my TomTom 910 for the day ahead, I came across a site which claims to be the Official [...]