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Hacker can shut down Apple MacBook battery

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Forget computer viruses and worms. What's maybe the worst thing a hacker could do to your laptop? Access it remotely and shut it down -- or maybe even blow it up.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 05, 2011

Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple

Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York. The tall, shaggy-haired and bespectacled 19-year old has been on leave from Brown University since last winter, looking for an internship. And in the meantime, he

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 02, 2011

Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries

Your laptop

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2011

Blended Web Attacks Hitting More Websites

The average large business's website sees 27 attacks per minute, though attackers--thanks to automation--can create spikes of up to seven attacks per second, or about 25,000 attacks per hour.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2011

Anonymous, LulzSec vow to hack on

In a defiant statement addressed largely at FBI director Steve Chabinsky, members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and dared law enforcement to try and stop them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2011

How LulzSec pwned The Sun

Infamous pranktivist hackers LulzSec exploited basic security mistakes on a News International website to redirect users towards a fake story on the supposed death of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, it has emerged.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2011

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

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

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 55

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