Interview with Dan Egerstad
22/11/2007 Written by minor
Few days ago we informed about raid in house of Dan Egerstad. Now he agreed with brief interview, where we tried to get his point of view on the issue.
Could you please explain, how did you come to the idea of creating exit TOR nodes and intercepting traffic?
I wanted to know how many people were encrypting their mails and needed some figures for a lecture I was holding. Setting up a ToR node to analyze mail-traffic was an easy way to get some numbers. Right before shutting this automated process down I by accident saw an email that caught my eye and led me to doing this in a bigger way.
Man behind hack of the year 2007 investigated
16/11/2007 Written by minor
Egerstad published in August this year usernames and passwords to email accounts from embassies and governments from different countries. As he explained, he created exit TOR nodes and intercepted traffic and on such way he obtained these informations. What is maybe worser, logins acquired on this way were according to him not used by legit users but actual malicious people that compromise these accounts and tried to hide in TOR network when using them. Many would say this is unethical approach, but what is here more important: ethics or security (and in this case it applies maybe to world-wide security)? 
Dan Egerstad, man behind controversial “hack of the year 2007″ was taken for questioning by Swedish National Crime and Swedish Security Police few days ago, The Age informed. Also his house was raided and police took his computers and hard drives. Anyway no charges have been set.
Want drive with preinstalled virus?
14/11/2007 Written by minor
If you plan to upgrade your computer or just buying some spare parts, you should be careful. As Taipei Times informed, some Maxtor portable hard disks come with “virus preinstalled”.
In Thailand produced drives carried two files that help trojans get into the system: autorun.inf and ghost.inf. Trojans then upload data such as logins and other interesting informations to www.nice8.org and www.we168.org.
How much can cyberterrorist get?
02/11/2007 Written by Jakub Maslowski
We don’t want to talk about possible punishment and jail time/fee someone doing the “bad” things on internet can get, we want to show you how much cash so called ‘blackhat” can get.…
G DATA, a data-company that makes software for securing pc’s just realeased a press note wherethey try to answer the question asked at beggining.
NSA surveillance immunity
23/10/2007 Written by minor
It is well known, not only among community, that after 9⁄11 AT&T allowed surveillance for law enforcement agencies, especially NSA. Many lawsuits after that were filled claiming illegal cooperation with National Security Agency.
Of course it is not only AT&T, that allowed such activities, Already before 9⁄11 there were signs of cooperation between NSA and big companies. Just to remind you, in year 1999 and 2000 there was great debate about so called _NSAKEY.