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Hackers devise attack vs secure servers

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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

Reverse proxy bug may haunt rival webservers, too

Maintainers of the open-source Apache webserver are warning that their HTTP daemon is vulnerable to exploits that expose internal servers to remote attackers who embed special commands in website addresses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 06, 2011

Apache hole allows attackers to access internal servers

Security experts at Context have discovered a hole in the Apache web server that allows remote attackers to access internal servers. The mod_rewrite rewrite engine ensures that requests are distributed across different servers according to definable rules, for example, in order to balance loads or to separate dynamic and static content.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 06, 2011

Help, help, I'm under attag

Russian VXers have begun using obnoxious barcode-on-steroids QR codes as a launchpad for mobile malware. A recently identified malicious Quick Response code on a Russian website links through a series of redirections to a site punting a Trojan version of the Jimm mobile ICQ client.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2011

Wall Street warned about possible hacking attack by 'Anonymous'

THE US Department of Homeland Security has warned financial companies to be vigilant about a cyber security threat from Anonymous.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2011

Hackers post data on JP Morgan Chase CEO

Hackers have posted personal information about the chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 30, 2011

Hackers are innovating SQL injection attacks to bypass security controls Hackers are innovating SQL

From 2005 through today, SQL injection has been responsible for 83% of successful hacking-related data breaches. It is estimated that there are a total of 115,048,024 SQL injection vulnerabilities in active circulation today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2011

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