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AT&T iPad Hacker's Real Crime Was Embarrassing the Wrong People | Wired ...

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Disclosing a flaw in a widely used system without making someone at least a little angry requires a delicate touch. But Andrew Auernheimer, a.k.a. “Weev,” a 26-year-old finder of security vulnerabilities, is anything but delicate.Two years ago, Auernheimer and a friend made a surprising discovery about the way AT&T was protecting its web database of iPad cellular data accounts: That is, AT&T wasn’t protecting it at all. Any customer could access his or her account data by going to an AT&T URL containing their iPad’s unique numerical identifier. No password, cookie, or login procedure was required to bring up a user’s private information. Auernheimer

iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility | TechCrunch

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Editor’s note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll. Follow him on Twitter @rabite.In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet. There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address. I thought it was egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a complete target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker.I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them. I thought this

Why Antivirus Companies Like Mine Failed to Catch Flame and Stuxnet

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A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from Iran. It was sent by an analyst from the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team, and it was informing me about a piece of malware their team had found infecting a variety of Iranian computers. This turned out to be Flame: the malware that has now been front-page news worldwide.

When we went digging through our archive for related samples of malware, we were surprised to find that we already had samples of Flame, dating back to 2010 and 2011, that we were unaware we possessed. They had come through automated reporting mechanisms,

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