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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

For Hackers, the Next Lock to Pick

Hackers have broken into the cellphones of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Prince William. But what about the rest of us, who might not have particularly salacious photos or voice messages stored in our phones, but nonetheless have e-mails, credit card numbers and records of our locations?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 28, 2011

USA Today Twitter account hacked

USA Today's Twitter account was hacked, apparently by the same group that breached the Twitter accounts of NBC and Fox News.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 27, 2011

MySQL.com Hacked to Serve Malware

The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday. Security vendor Armorize noticed the problem at around 5 a.m. Pacific Time Monday. Hackers had installed JavaScript code that threw a variety of known browser attacks at visitors to the site, so those with out-of-date browsers or unpatched versions of Adobe Flash, Reader or Java on their Windows PCs could have been quietly infected with malicious software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 27, 2011

Breaking Into the Big Screen

Hacking "is very, very difficult to put into an interesting movie story, because the technology is buried in code and programming, and it's about the most uninteresting kind of thing you could ever depict anybody engaging in," says Donn Parker, a security expert who has consulted on numerous hacker films.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2011

Anonymous planning 'Day of Vengeance' on Sept. 24

Hacktivist group Anonymous is planning to hold a special "Day of Vengeance" in several cities around the U.S. on Saturday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2011

Mac OS X Lion makes it unnecessarily easy for password crackers - update

Security specialist Patrick Dunstan reports that Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" allows standard non-root users to access other users' password hashes. Under Mac OS X, users' password hashes are stored in shadow files that can usually only be accessed by root users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2011

BitTorrent Web Downloads Hijacked to Push Fake Antivirus

The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2011

Hackers target Mexico government websites

The websites of several Mexican government ministries, including Defense and Public Security, went offline on Thursday, and a hacker group claimed responsibility.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 16, 2011

BitTorrent announces breach of its uTorrent systems

Popular P2P file sharing company said its systems were breached Tuesday, enabling an attacker to replace its uTorrent client download with scareware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2011

uTorrent, possibly BitTorrent Web sites hacked

The Web site that hosts uTorrent was hacked by an unknown person or group early this morning. After initially stating that the "mainline" BitTorrent site had been hacked as well, the company now says that it doesn't think that BitTorrent.com was affected. BitTorrent, the owner of the Web sites and the torrent clients hosted there, reported in a blog post that the breach occurred around 4:20 a.m PT.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2011

Return of the BIOS trojans

Chinese AV vendor 360 has discovered a virus in the wild that makes its home in a computer's BIOS, where it remains hidden from conventional virus scanners. The contaminant, called Mebromi, first checks to see whether the victim's computer uses an Award BIOS. If so, it uses the CBROM command-line tool to hook its extension into the BIOS.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 13, 2011

Crooks rent out TDSS/TDL-4 botnet to the clueless

Cybercrooks have set up a web store that offers rented access to compromised machines on the TDSS/TDL-4 botnet. The latest version of the TDSS botnet agent bundles a component that turns compromised machines into a proxy connected to awmproxy.net.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 12, 2011

Hacker Rattles Security Circles

He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 11, 2011

Claimed DigiNotar hacker: I have access to four more CAs

The digital miscreant known as ComodoHacker has claimed responsibility for the high-profile DigiNotar digital certificate authority hack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2011

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