Defcon 2010 - Hacker Intercepts GSM

I know I have been posting alot of videos lately but this one caught my eye for a couple of reasons this morning.

Firstly its an impressive video showing how easy it is to intercept 80% of the worlds calls with just $1,500 worth of equipment. Also the source article over on Venture Beat says that he can also jam a band preventing calls just as easily which is quite scary.

The second reason why this video caught my eye is it appears that this brit-hacker is wearing high-heels throughout his presentation, check it out:

Clever Spam Email..

Its not often that spam gets through my gmail spam filters but this one did, and its quite ingenious:



Whats clever about it:

1. It uses my name, and my nickname at that to make it sound more personal


2. It comes from a real sounding name "Bruce Thomas"


3. It looks exactly like a standard forward email


4. The attachment contains the name PDF


5. It contains the "No virus found in the incoming message" text from AVG

In short it almost got me, when you are short of time and briefly glance at a mail you may look over things and download and open an attachment without thinking about it.

Anyways, thought I would share ;)