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Citi Ups Number of Compromised Accounts from Cyber Attack to 360,000

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Citigroup on Wednesday night said a cyber attack in May affected 360,083 of its customers, almost twice the initial number of customers originally reported.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 16, 2011

Hackers break into U.S. Senate computers

The Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2011

Codemasters pulls website after hackers pwn customer database

Games developer Codemasters has taken its website offline and advised users to change their passwords in the aftermath of a hack attack last week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2011

Citigroup says hackers accessed credit card data

Citigroup Inc. said Thursday that hackers accessed the credit card information of North American customers, in an online security breach affecting about 200,000 accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2011

Anonymous-Linked Group LulzSec Hacks FBI, Sony

A group calling itself Lulzsec took credit for yet another high profile attacks over the weekend, compromising an information sharing program run by the FBI that counts some of the nation's leading security and private sector firms as partners, then publicizing another hack of electronics giant Sony on Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2011

Sony had its Brazil site cracked

Console maker Sony, which made a grave mistake by declaring war on hackers, has lost another website, this time in Brazil. The outfit had to shut down its Brazilian music website as it looked into a possible server breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2011

Post-PSN hack: Sony apologise at E3 as LulzSec mount fresh attack

LulzSec's recent claim of a new successful hack on Sony's networks has come just after Sony's public apology to fans at this year's E3 expo, leading to fresh speculation about whether the company will be able to recover from its recent PSN hacking nightmare.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 07, 2011

Hackers hit Atlanta FBI affiliate

The FBI announced Sunday it shut down an Atlanta-based website that tracks cyber-crime after the site was compromised by a mysterious, yet increasingly audacious group of hackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2011

Hacker hits Sony Pictures website

Sony suffered yet another hacker attack over the weekend after its Sony Pictures website was hit by a team of individuals known as Lulz Security. It is the third straight attack on Sony

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2011

Deciphering the Sony PSN Attack

For the last month, Sony PS3 online gamers have felt the pain of being disconnected from the Playstation Network (PSN) as the result of a massive network hack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2011

The Truth Behind Gmail "Hack"

Phishing is not hacking. Users were tricked more than violated ... And other lessons from yesterday's made-up story. "Gmail Hack" was scattered across media headlines yesterday, inciting the rumor that Google's popular email platform had been the victim of a cyber-attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 02, 2011

Hackers pwn PBS in revenge for WikiLeaks doco

Hackers aligned with WikiLeaks broke into and defaced the website of US broadcaster PBS over the weekend shortly after it had aired a less than flattering documentary about the whistle-blowing site.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2011

Email accounts hacked in 15 minutes

A recently posted video on YouTube teaches viewer's how to hack into someone's email account in just 15 minutes. The video showed a group of volunteers follow an online "man in the middle technique" tutorial. It showed them learn in just fifteen minutes how to hack into a computer network. It went on to show them using the technique to obtain each other's login details and passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2011

Student collects 15 million Gmail addresses

In his blog, a student from the University of Amsterdam reports that he gathered around 15 million Gmail addresses from Google user profiles within a month. Matthijs Koot analysed just under 35 million profile links from Google's profile site map, which is easily accessible on the company's servers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2011

Sony's Greek BMG site is the latest to be hit by hackers

Sony's high-profile security problems continued over the weekend after news that the firm's Greece-based BMG music web site and ISP subsidiary So-Net were the latest services to be hacked.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2011

Small firms learn size doesn't matter to hackers

It took all of three minutes for the hacker to break into the small accounting firm's computer system. The virtual open window into the system turned out to be a computer equipped with outdated software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2011

Six new and rising hacker threats

Hackers never sleep, it seems. Just when you think you've battened down the hatches and fully protected yourself or your business from electronic security risks, along comes a new exploit to keep you up at night. It might be an SMS text message with a malevolent payload or a stalker who dogs your every step online.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2011

New 64-Bit Rootkit Being Used to Steal Banking Credentials

Security researchers have come across a new rootkit that is designed specifically to infect 64-bit Windows systems and steal users' online banking credentials. It's believed to be the first piece of malware of its kind that is capable of compromising x64 systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2011

Zeus Sourcecode Leak Opens Up New Crimeware Markets: Researchers

Sourcecode for the notorious Zeus banking Trojan leaked onto the Internet could have been a strategic move to reinvigorate demand for more sophisticated versions of the malware as well as specialized WebInject add-ons, researchers say.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2011

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center FTP server hacked

A Romanian attacker known as TinKode has compromised a FTP server belonging to Goddard Space Flight Center, and has released a screenshot of the server as a proof. The files on it appear to be related to NASA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2011

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 56

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