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Lazy hackers port ancient Linux Trojan to Mac OS X

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Hackers are testing new Mac malware that they've ported from a nine-year-old Trojan horse originally written for Linux, according to security experts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2011

RSA Hackers Possibly Attacked more than 700 Additional Companies using Identical Malware

According to Brian Krebs, security 'analyst and writer' who recently published a report, the malicious program utilized for breaching RSA Security previously during 2011, possibly has been utilized within assaults aimed at over 700 other companies, published EWeek dated October 24, 2011.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2011

Hackers go after Facebook sites 600,000 times every day

Hackers are breaking into hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts every day, the social network has admitted. Out of more than a billion logins to the website every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2011

Unmasking the criminal hacker

Identifying criminal hackers is no easy task even for the most gifted white hats. And, while we can

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2011

Old Linux Trojan 'Tsunami' Ported To OS X Claims Security Researchers

Recently, ESET and Sophos security researchers found out that hackers are trying to transfer an old backdoor Trojan from Linux to the latest Apple Mac OS X platform. By doing this the hackers are trying to expand their reach of PCs which they will be able to use for botnets.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2011

Hackers could have TAKEN OVER Amazon Web Services

Security researchers have unearthed a flaw in Amazon Web Services that created a possible mechanism for hackers to take over control of cloud-based systems and run administrative tasks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2011

Hackers devise attack vs secure servers

What good are secure servers if they can get kicked off the Internet? This is the premise of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDos) tool released by a German hacker group, targeting servers using secure sockets layer (SSL).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2011

Double Security Whammy, No Patches: Killer SSL DDoS Attack, XML Encryption Broken

The Germans have wreaked all kinds of mass destruction on the security forefront. The hacking group "The Hacker's Choice" released a new THC-SSL-DOS tool that allows a single laptop's DSL connection to take down a server. Other German researchers found a flaw and broke the W3C standard with a serious attack against XML Encryption that works in all cases, including against Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Apache and other XLM framework providers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2011

Skype security flaw allows location tracking

A glaring security flaw's been uncovered in Skype and other VoIP systems, potentially allowing hackers to access users' identities, locations and even files.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2011

Stupid hacker tricks: Exploits gone bad

If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2011

With the Internet, your car could be hacked

That anonymity

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2011

Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits 1 Million Sites

A mass-injection attack similar to the highly publicized LizaMoon attacks this past spring has infected more than 1 million ASP.NET Web pages, Armorize researchers said today. According to database security experts, the SQL injection technique used in this attack depends on the same sloppy misconfiguration of website servers and back-end databases that led to LizaMoon's infiltration.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2011

DHS: Anonymous Interested in Hacking Nation

The hacker collective known as Anonymous has expressed interest in hacking industrial systems that control critical infrastructures, such as gas and oil pipelines, chemical plants and water and sewage treatment facilities, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2011

Security firm finds hacker forums offer n00b hackers training, lulz

IT security experts have long loved to troll through hacker forums to gather intelligence on emerging threats and even (as in the ill-fated case of HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr) try to profile the hackers themselves. But as a report from IT security firm Imperva shows, many of the so-called hacker portals out there are more hangouts for newbie hackers (and possibly a few budding FBI informants) looking at how to get started in the game.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2011

Hacker group threatens industrial computer systems

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning that hackers from the loose online protest collective called Anonymous have threatened attacks against the computer systems that run factories, power stations, chemical plants, and water and sewage facilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2011

Porn prankster hijacks Sesame Street YouTube channel

The child-friendly Internet home of Ernie, Big Bird and Kermit the Frog went X-rate on Sunday as Sesame Street

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2011

WineHQ database hacked, passwords stolen

Malicious hackers exploit vulnerabilities in phpmyadmin to gain access to WineHQ

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2011

RSA Blames Breach on Two Hacker Clans Working for Unnamed Government

Two separate hacker groups whose activities are already known to authorities were behind the serious breach of RSA Security earlier this year and were likely working at the behest of a government, according to new statements from the company

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2011

German Government's Skype Spying Tool Has Holes, Hackers Say

An eavesdropping tool allegedly used by the German government to intercept Skype calls is full of security problems and may violate a ruling by the country's constitutional court, according to a European hacker club.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2011

Lulzsec hacker: 'we still have Sun emails, stored in China'

Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec's achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2011

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 52

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