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Hackfest Podcast

Patrick


Massive vulnerabilities (backdoor) in thousands of routers.
Cisco patch
Microsoft Hacked by Syrian electronic army
S-E-A hacked by Turkish
MIT defaced for Aaron
Target hackers looking for someone to crack the PINs
French satellite reportedly has American components with backdoors
DDoS via NTP servers

Guillaume


Java 7 update 51 with new code signing and whitelisting policies for RIAs.
URL 2 for Java
Finally, some more technical details on the attack targeting Target (instantrimshot)
A jailbreak for iOS 7.04 on recent devices, drama galore.
Privacy-focused Android phone from the Silent Circle folks. “Anonymize your activity through a VPN” (?)

Music credits


Algae Bloom – String Theory