Kevin Mitnick, well-known hacker and first one ot hit FBI most wanted list is detained again at airport. He had been in prison eight years ago but again had an encounter with law at Atlanta airport. The reason for his detainment is still not fully known. News is that he was detained under the suspicion that the parcel he had mailed to US contained cocaine. But he claims there is absolutely no wrong he has done this time.

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Four leading websites were or are vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack according to Princeton University researchers. While ING Direct, YouTube and Metafilter have taken action to address the cross-site-request-forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities, the fourth site, belonging to The New York Times, has not been fixed !

CSRF flaws can be exploited so a user’s browser is hijacked during a session and used to access a secure target site. As web authentication normally relies on cookies containing a pseudo-random session identifier, attributed to a browser at the beginning of a session, a hacker can perform actions normally restricted to the user if that browser is hijacked during the session

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Well it is not a uncommon thing now. Play-stations can be used to connect unsecured wi-fi network. Latest versions of play-stations have the ability to connect to internet via wi-fi connection to download updates. Kids can abuse this to view pornography and other do other popular things which we used to do when we were kids

Play-station is much cheaper as compared to laptops and can be a cheaper and easier means for war-drivers to hack into wireless routers. Hacking into unsecured wireless routers is like applying butter on bread. Now its high time that every home user should know the basic security configurations while setting up wi-fi network especially in developing countries like India etc.

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