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

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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 The virtual open window into the system turned out to be a computer equipped with outdated software.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

Geek.com Site Hacked Via Exploit Kit

Geek.com, one of the Web's most popular technology sites, has been hacked and is serving malware to visitors, security researchers at Zscaler said yesterday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 17, 2011

Sony Hackers: Pirates or Thieves, CEO Bristles

A hacker is a hacker is a hacker

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 17, 2011

Eidos and Deus Ex sites hacked, 80,000 users

The Deus Ex site and Eidos.com were defaced and taken down yesterday when a splinter group of the hacker organisation Anonymous broke through Square Enix security to steal the personal data of more than 80,000 registered users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 13, 2011

Everything is Hackable, and Cyber Criminals Can't Be Tracked

Rarely a day goes by without news emerging about a giant company losing large amounts of sensitive data to a massive hacker attack. It might be Google one day, Sony the next, and a country's government agency the day after. Just replace the names, rinse, and repeat.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2011

Whitehats break out of Google Chrome sandbox

Researchers say they've developed attack code that pierces key defenses built into Google's Chrome browser, allowing them to reliably execute malware on end user machines.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2011

Best Buy Suffers Second Email Breach

Best Buy, which was among the 100 or so companies hit in the recent Epsilon breach, is responding to a second consecutive breach at the hands of one of its vendors.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2011

Sony: More testing needed before PlayStation relaunch

Sony's breached PlayStation Network may well be offline longer than the company had expected, according to a Sony executive.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2011

Update for BIND server patches DoS hole

ISC has published Update 9.8.0-P1 for its BIND DNS server to close a potential denial of service (DoS) hole. Signed server replies (RRSIG) can cause a BIND server to crash under certain circumstances. ISC says that the vulnerability only occurs, however, if the vulnerable server supports response policy zones (RPZs).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 06, 2011

Nikon image authentication system cracked

Russian encryption specialist ElcomSoft has discovered flaws in Nikon's systems for ensuring that images have not been tampered with.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 05, 2011

Playstation hack: timeline of huge security breach

Sony has implicated the activist collective Anonymous in the huge security breach of its online gaming services and said it was targeted becasue of a legal dispute about the PlayStation 3. The story stretches back to 2009.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 05, 2011

Hacker pwns police cruiser and lives to tell tale

As a penetration tester hired to pierce the digital fortresses of Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies, Kevin Finisterre has hacked electronic cash boxes, geologic-survey equipment, and on more than one occasion, a client's heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2011

Another 25 million Sony users compromised

After apologising for the breach in security that saw 77 million user records compromised, Sony has announced that it has discovered 25 million user records were also compromised on Sony Online Entertainment's systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2011

Sony Online Shuts Down Its Servers Following "Intrusion"

While Sony Computer Entertainment

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 02, 2011

Experts Say Encrypted Credit Card Number Does Not Fully Protect Sony Customers

Sony Co., in a blog post Thursday, announced that every single important record from the breached credit card database last week was encrypted. But, security experts say it was not enough to fully protect the Sony PlayStation users and that consumer data might still be used by the hackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 02, 2011

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