Hacker diagnosed with brain cancer, hacks the closed source report distributing it to the open source community hoping to get some help
09/09/2012 Written by SyS64738
This is a somewhat astonishing news, and once again the demonstration that alternative thinking might be the way to solve apparently unsolvable cases.
I just report what was written by the hacker himself on his website.
Can anyone help?
I have a brain cancer.
Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors.
Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life.
I cracked them.
I opened them and converted the contents into open formats, so that I could share them with everyone.
Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition (about my brain cancer) with 3 doctors.
2 of them already replied.
I have been able to do it because the data used open, accessible formats: they have been able to open the files using their computers, their tablets. They have been able to reply from home, on sunday.
I will progressively publish all the replies I will receive, using open formats, so that anyone with my same disease will be able to benefit from the solutions I will find.
This is a CURE. This is my OPEN SOURCE CURE.
This is an open invitation to take part in the CURE.
CURE, in different cultures, means different things.
There are cures for the body, for spirit, for communication.
Grab the information about my disease, if you want, and give me a CURE: create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem.
Artists, designers, hackers, scientists, doctors, photographers, videomakers, musicians, writers. Anyone can give me a CURE.
Create your CURE using the content which you find in the DATI/DATA section here on this site, and send it to info@artisopensource.net.
ZONE-H.ORG: IF IT MIGHT HAPPEN THAT YOU KNOW ANY DOCTOR WILLING TO CONSIDER THE CASE, PLEASE CONSIDER TO SUBMIT THIS CASE TO HIM .
THANKS A LOT, Roberto “SyS64738” Preatoni
Zone-H celebrates its 10 years!
09/03/2012 Written by Kevin Fernandez (Siegfried)
10 years ago Zone-H opened, a little website with security news and a “cybercrime archive” which quickly became success story. The goals of Zone-H were to follow security trends and analyze the growing importance of hacktivism.
It was born in Estonia on march 2, 2002 and started to save defacements on march 9, one week later.
Turkish hacking group defaces UPS, TheRegister, Acer, Telegraph, Vodafone
04/09/2011 Written by Kevin Fernandez (Siegfried)
At the time of writing these websites are still defaced, with a black page written “TurkguvenLigi” and “4 Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day - Have fun ;) h4ck y0u”.
Zone-H banned by some Indian ISPs: some workarounds
20/07/2011 Written by Kevin Fernandez (Siegfried)
As some of you probably know, Zone-H has been banned from some indian ISPs following the E2-labs scandals and a lawsuit from E2labs and Zaki Qureshey in an indian court, who claimed our documents and articles were defamatory (great joke!).
Zone-H was unable to defend itself as we didn’t receive any notification from the court. What is even funnier (scarier?), is that bloggernews.net has also been banned… for writing about the case!
New attack vector in DDoS observed
19/05/2011 Written by minor
This article is a result of the common research of Jakub Alimov from the Seznam.cz and minor from Zone-h.org. If you have anything to say about this, write to comments [a} zone-h{dot]org. The topic was presented at the SPI conference in Brno/CZ.
While protecting the users from receiving a huge amount of the unsolicited bulk mail, a new attacking scenario against the DNS servers was observed. The scenario involves sending the spam messages to the SMTP services with a big bandwidth. Since such services are mostly the free email services such as Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc, they are the main candidates to be a “white horse”. But because of the SMTP definition, all the SMTP services have to behave on the same way, therefore they are also potential candidates.