iOS 6: Hackers say goodbye to two years of vulnerability

In August last year, the famous hacker Comex, created JailbreakMe, got an internship at Apple, and we now know that Apple has closed six iOS secret vulnerability Comex'a, that hackers could use to jailbreak for two years. Pod2g in your Twitter drew public attention to this: R.I.P. the exploit used by developers to root the device. Found by @ comex in 2010. A 2 years old bug closed with iOS 6. The good news is that this exploit could be used only when the presence of developer account, so that the public utilities, he was not present. This means that the closure of the vulnerability of the idea should not significantly affect the jailbreak iOS 6, because hackers are usually kept secret by a few "spare" vulnerabilities, but, of course, now we can expect that the development of tools for jailbreaking iOS 6 takes a little longer. The most important question, which is now worried about jailbreaking community is really Comex has issued a secret Apple exploits.

Hackers have demanded that the Belgian bank's 150,000 Euros

Unidentified attackers demanded that the Belgian credit institution Elantis to pay 150,000 euros to Friday, the fourth of May, otherwise promised to publish the personal information of its customers. Threats were published in the May third service Pastebin, reports Computerworld.
Hackers have noted that this amount is "pay-per-idiocy": according to them, the data is located on a server in an unencrypted form. They have received information includes customer names, their places of work, contact information and other information.

The bank Belfius, which includes Elantis, confirmed the burglary, saying about a possible leak of data 3700 customers. In this regard, the organization closed its website and appealed to law enforcement agencies of Belgium, and also alerted about the incident of its customers. Parallel investigation of the incident involved an unnamed U.S. company, the newspaper notes.

In Belfius stressed that it is not going to succumb to the threat of fraud and pay them the requested amount. The bank also noted that the hackers sent an email with the same requirements as early as Friday, April 27. At the same attackers did not specify how the money should be transferred.

After writing the hackers to communicate with the bank is no longer out. The bank plans to restore the site after checking it for security.

Expert: Phones based on GSM could be vulnerable to hackers

Germany's Security Research Labs warns that the world is widely used in wireless technology GSM allows hackers to gain remote access to a mobile phone, giving them the ability to send messages to it and make calls.

According to an expert company in the security of mobile phones Karsten Zero, attackers could exploit the vulnerability of technology GSM.

At risk of any phone based on GSM. Fraudsters can gain access to a mobile phone and send messages or call for expensive bogus phone lines.

"We can apply this to the hundreds of thousands of phones in a short time," - said on the eve of the presentation Zero hacker convention in Berlin next Tuesday.

Are common attack on the corporate landline telephone system, often using bogus telephone lines, provided for an additional charge and designed by hackers in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Fraudsters making calls from compromised corporate telephone systems or mobile phones, then get the money and disappear revealing the fact to commit burglary.

Phone users do not know about the problem until then, do not yet receive their bills.

Recall that in early October, the experts found in several models of smartphones HTC Android-based OS on a vulnerability that allows third-party applications to gain access to personal data holder unit.