Illiterate kids hack Motorola Xoom
The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional curricula.
After 1st Four Minutes, One kid had opened the box and had figured out how to turn on the Xoom. Next, in 1st Five Days, The kids were using nearly 50 applications each every day. In Two Weeks - The kids were singing their ABC’s in English. Now its 5th Month - They hacked the Motorola Xooms so they could enable the camera, which had been disabled by OLPC.
Anonymous hack 30000 accounts from 'Telecom Italy'
Anonymous hacked into "Telecom Italy" and dump Social Security Number, Social Insurance Number, 30000 credentials and lots of vulnerabilities exposed.
Telecom Italy boasts 3000 XSS error and vulnerabilities that allow third parties to access the "htaccess" and other sensitive data.
Russian Underground Cybercrime market
Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services are being provided by them.
Current prices on the Russian underground market:
• Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
• Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
• Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
• Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
• Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
• SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
• Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
• Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
• DDoS botnet: $700
• ZeuS source code: $200-$500
• Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
• Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
• Hacking Gmail account: $162
• Email spam: $10 per one million emails
• Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
• SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages
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