Hack the planet: Once focused on Sweden, Telecomix’s hacktivists have been expanding their international membership—and their targets. (credit: Nicky Bonne for Forbes.) (A version of this story, slightly shortened for space, will appear in the January 16th issue of Forbes.) One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring…
A Hacker Foreign Legion Dives Deep In Egypt, Syria
Hack the planet: Once focused on Sweden, Telecomix’s hacktivists have been expanding their international membership—and their targets. (credit: Nicky Bonne for Forbes.) One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and government crackdowns in which thousands have been killed, something strange happened on Syria’s Internet. As users…
Malware burrows deep into computer BIOS to escape AV
Researchers have discovered one of the first pieces of malware ever used in the wild that modifies the software on the motherboard of infected computers to ensure the infection can’t be easily eradicated. Known as Trojan.Mebromi, the rootkit reflashes the BIOS of computers it attacks to add malicious instructions that…