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Geek.com Site Hacked Via Exploit Kit

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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

Wrongly Jailed Security Whistleblower Caught Up in PlayStation Hacker Hunt

Armchair cybersleuths on the trail of the PlayStation Network hackers have been focusing attention on a chat log that shows several technically sophisticated PlayStation tinkerers discussing Sony

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 01, 2011

PlayStation Network hack: industry reactions and theories

With the details of 77 million customers involved, the PlayStation Network hack is one of the largest ever malicious attacks on a commercial network. Although Sony is assuring gamers that the network is being strengthened, the hack has once again raised questions about the security of online transactions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2011

Latvian hack's hack story leads to hack-hacking

An enraged Latvian hacker went batshit over an article criticising security at small, low-cost hosting companies and defaced the website of the news agency LETA.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 28, 2011

Sony PlayStation hack hits over 700,000 Australians

SONY'S PlayStation hacking incident has affected around 715,000 local consumers, in one of the largest security and privacy breaches ever to hit Australian shores.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 27, 2011

PSN hack: Personal data of millions of customers stolen

About a week after Sony switched off its PlayStation Network and Qriocity video and music service, the electronics giant released a statement about the incident on the official PlayStation blog on Tuesday night (26 April).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 27, 2011

Targeted hard drive fragmentation as a covert data channel

A team of researchers has presented a steganographic technique which can be used to conceal data on a hard drive. The technique is essentially based on targeted fragmentation of clusters when saving a file in the FAT file system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2011

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 57

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