Philippine Air Force Site hacked

The picture above was of the hacked PAF.mil.ph site that was posted on Technews-ihaw.blogspot.com (my favorite philippine counterpart to zone-h.org) How can we help the sysad of PAF.mil.ph? What can we figure out about this? Let me start by stating some of the obvious: 1. The site is running on Windows 2003 and hosted by […]

Security is only as good as your weakest employee

In a classic case of dumb employee vs smart hacker, salesforce.com was reported by the washington post as having been hacked. It’s database of emails and other personally identifiable data have been compromised. The company released a public mea culpa: “We learned that a salesforce.com employee had been the victim of a phishing scam that […]

How to report a Vulnerability?

Here is an email from one of the mailing list that i subscribe to. It is from Vikas Singhal and in it, he asks this question that I think is also a problem of Technews-ISAW/IHAW members: Hi all, Lets say I found a vulnerability in some company’s website ( e.g SQL Injection ) and that […]

Linksys Wireless 300 N router’s Low Signal Strength

Got an SOS from Greg L. about his new Linksys Wifi Router 300 N model. Even at 5 ft away, the signal comes in at one bar! After eliminating the obvious – interference, and antenna issues, like the Panasonic cordless phones or microwave Ovens, Greg was finally able to solve his problems by calling in […]

How to Recover Hijacked Friendster Account

Just got this in the email: “my friendster account was lost…in short, it was hacked by anybody i dont know… is there anything you can do to help me? coz he/she changes everything, log-in i.d, pasword,and changes my settings including pictures, bulitens that are very downgrading and immoral.please help me..im depressed with whats happening to […]