Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2011
Hacked MIT Server Used to Stage Attacks, Scan for Vulnerabilities

Bitdefender reseachers have discovered a number of brute force attacks against several web site. The attacks have been done using a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The hacking attack against the MIT.edu infrastructure started with a malicious script on one MIT server.  One MIT server (CSH-2.MIT.EDU) hosts a malicious script actively used […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2011
Hackers Attacked U.S. Satellites Connected To The Internet, Report Finds

Hackers interfered with the operation of two U.S. government satellites in 2007 and 2008 obtaining access through a ground station in Norway. The usage of the attacked satellites is climate monitoring. There aren’t any news regarding the nature of the interference but notes that the hackers “achieved all steps required to command” the Terra AM-1 […]