THC News

Here you will find the latest news about THC's activities including the publication of releases and papers, news about members and information about interesting events THC members are participating in. Last but not least there are also some fun and weird news from the net, that might interest you. Check back often to stay informed.

THC is proud to announce that the GSM Software Project and the A5 Cracking Project are featured in the German press (computer magazine c't). A 2 page article explaining the goals and techniques of both projects is published this monday. An online version of the article is available below. It's an Open Project! Join us today!
http://www.heise.de/ct/07/24/090/

German police, terror and Tor admins. Read through the linked blog post. It looks like German police tried to bust a terrorist, but unfortunately only hit the admin of a Tor exit node. This is pretty dumb and bad news for everyone running a Tor or Jap node in Germany.
http://itnomad.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/tor-madness-reloaded/

Dear visitors, dear fans and supporters of THC. As a consequence of the new German law on 'hacking tools', THC (The Hacker's Choice) decided to re-structure its team and split into a German and Freeworld division. German members will not continue to develop and distribute THC releases and papers. Members outside Germany will continue in the spirit of THC on some servers outside Europe.

F-secure posted in their blog an interesting German news broadcast on "cybercrime". Besides the nice TV chick digging around in the F-secure lab , there are some fancy visual effects and at least some story on recent development of malware.
mms://ms.mdcs.dtag.de/zdf/zdf/07/08/070830_cybercrime_komplett_nes_h.wmv

The CCC Camp07 GSM Software Project and A5 Cracking Project Talk is available. First half of the talk is an introduction into GSM interception. Second half presents a new method for cracking the GSM encryption A5/1. This is a new attack that can crack any encrypted channel (SMS, Voice) within 3-5 minutes regardless of how long the conversation is (e.g. can crack a telephone conversation that only lasts 4 seconds). The final version of this attack will be presented at DeepSec/Austria in November.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8955054591690672567&hl=en