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Hacks hacked: how the Sun reported Murdoch's "death"

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News yesterday that the Sun was hacked by LulzSec is just the latest in a long line of impressive hacks, but it again shows how hard it is to protect sites from such sustained, sophisticated attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2011

LulzSec comes back to hack The Sun web site

After having stated at the end of June its intention to disband, the hacker group LulzSec has claimed responsibility for hacking the web site of The Sun newspaper, owned by News International. Visitors to the site late on 18 July were redirected to a fake page carrying a news story stating that Rupert Murdoch's body had been discovered after he had apparently committed suicide.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2011

Botnet Called 'Practically Indestructible'

A new and improved botnet that has infected 4.5 million Windows PCs is "practically indestructible," security researchers say.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2011

Top 5 Tips for protecting your mobile from phone hacking

Phone hacking can happen to anyone. Here's how to secure your phone. As you've no doubt heard by now, phone hacking is the new

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2011

Hackers steal sensitive US military documents

The Pentagon has admitted that a foreign intelligence service stole 24,000 files from a US defence contractor earlier this year.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2011

Hackers Slurp over a million user accounts from Washington Post

The Washington Post website has been hit with a double security breach. Hackers have made off with around 1.3 million user IDs and email address from the

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2011

Hackers find security loopholes in Vodafone's network

THC claims it can listen to any call, use other accounts to make calls and access the victim's voice mail. Hackers have claimed that they have successfully re-engineered a standard consumer hardware available from Vodafone store to intercept calls and gain administrator access into other user accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2011

AntiSec: Booz Allen Hamilton Confirm Anonymous Hacker Raid's Authenticity

Leading U.S. Government and defence consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has confirmed a breach in its cyber security, adding credence to Anonymous hackers previous claims.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 13, 2011

Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone

British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail messages left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as celebrities, politicians, and the British royal family.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2011

Hackers steal over a million emails from Washington Post jobs site

Passwords, job accounts safe, says Jobs site. The Washington Post has said that the database of its jobs site had been breached by hackers who stole about 1.27 million users' IDs and email addresses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2011

iPhone hacked with zero-day font vulnerability

Apple

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2011

Apple server gets hacked by group that steals ID information

Apple is the latest company to come under cyber attack - by the same hackers blamed for infiltrating Sony's Playstation Network.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2011

Criminal hacking industry helps driving hacktivism Criminal hacking industry helps driving hacktivis

During the Cold War, we witnessed how military advances drove private sector - especially in aviation. Today

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2011

Hackers Select a New Target: Other Hackers

The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2011

LulzSec Successors Press On, Hitting Viacom, AZ

Less than a week after hactivist group LulzSec called it quits, a hacker group to which its members migrated mounted separate attacks on Viacom and Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group as well as on a previous LulzSec target, the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 01, 2011

LulzSec Leak Reveals iPhone Apps That Worry Police

Hacker group LulzSec has struck again, this time targeting Arizona law enforcement by releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents and communications presumably acquired in a security breach. Among those documents are several that show law enforcement's special interest in the iPhone and other smart phones.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 24, 2011

Hack Attack

So who would you like to hack today? A bank, a website, a corporation or perhaps a government agency that's rubbing you the wrong way? The hacktivist group LulzSec is taking requests. Or maybe you'd like to get your hands on some stolen credit-card accounts to boost your personal spending level or purchase some malware that will divert a business's payments from its vendors to you.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 23, 2011

LulzSec launches anti-government crusade, takes down U.K. police site

A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2011

Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange

The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a compromised user account. Mt.Gox

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2011

Fraud Starts After Lulzsec Group Releases E-Mail, Passwords

Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2011

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