Mike Cardwell claims that T-Mobile UK are silently disrupting VPNs and secure connections to mail-servers, using packet-injection techniques more often found in the Great Firewall of China. He documents his findings in detail, and has found someone on the T-Mobile customer forums who claims that a senior technician there stated that it was a deliberate policy decision at T-Mobile to keep mail from being sent through any servers apart from their own.

source: H-Online

At the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) in Berlin, security researchers have demonstrated a new technique for attacking GSM mobile phones. Karsten Nohl from Security Research Labs and his colleague Luca Melette have demonstrated a technique for using a mobile phone emulator based on open source software to make calls and send texts to expensive premium rate phone numbers. Nohl says that the attack carries a high risk of abuse and is already being actively used by criminals. In contrast to other known attacks, most of which are aimed at listening in on phone conversations, this attack poses a threat to anyone with a GSM mobile phone.

A happy new year to you all!

I guess I will be one of the first in 2012 because of the time zone, so a happy new year to you all fellas! 2011 was a silent but also an exciting year at the same time for suck-o, not much drama except for the few mediocre lamers, but at the same time many people had a lot of excitement by taking part in the occupy movement and by getting politically active.

What's coming in 2012? We decided to start the "Hackers vs. Pedos" group, which will play a big role in the off-site activity, and on the site we will definitely have a new chess tournament coming up!

A healthy and prosper 2012 to you and all of your family and friends. :)

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