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Wrongly Jailed Security Whistleblower Caught Up in PlayStation Hacker Hunt

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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

German software maker Ashampoo warns of malware after hack

A German software company known for its Windows utilities is warning customers to be on the alert for malicious e-mail messages after its servers were hacked.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2011

PSN gaming network outage sparks DDoS rumours

Outage of the PlayStation network today sparked unconfirmed rumours that the downtime may be down to a denial of service attack. Perhaps the PSN network is just having a bit of a nap, but global problems in logging into the online gaming network have given rise to speculation that it is due either to a DDoS or hacking from a group trying to get Sony to abandon its court fight against PS3 modders.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2011

Top Federal Lab Hacked in Spear-Phishing Attack

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was forced to disconnect internet access for workers on Friday after the federal facility was hacked, and administrators discovered data being siphoned from a server.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2011

Experts agree: Wind turbine 'hacker' is a fake

An anonymous hacker who claimed to have broken into monitoring systems at a New Mexico wind turbine facility made the whole thing up, security experts said Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 19, 2011

Security firm Barracuda hit by cyberattack

Security company Barracuda Networks was itself hit by a security breach over the weekend that exposed certain information from its databases. An unknown hacker, who apparently took credit for the break-in, launched an attack that exposed a list of Barracuda databases along with the names, phone numbers, and e-mail address of various Barracuda partners.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2011

Security researcher warns over Dropbox authentication security flaw

Attackers able to get their hands on a Dropbox configuration file would be able to access and download any files a user synchronises through the service without betraying any signs of compromise, a security researcher has discovered.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2011

New zero-day for Flash Player

An Adobe security advisory warns of a new critical vulnerability in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Flash Player 10.2.156.12 for Android and the Authplay.dll component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X 10.0.2 and all earlier versions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2011

US Postal Service Website Hit With 'Blackhole' Exploit

The US Postal Service website received an unwelcome delivery this week of a new attack rapidly spreading among legitimate websites. USPS became the latest victim of the so-called "Blackhole" toolkit, a wildly popular website attack kit that's easy to use and provides obfuscation features that help it evade antivirus detection.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 11, 2011

Popular open source DHCP program open to hack attacks

The makers of the internet's most popular open source DHCP program have warned that it's vulnerable to hacks that allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code on underlying machines.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 07, 2011

Security firms learns limits of security tech

Top-level data breaches often start at the bottom of the ladder. That's a lesson RSA, one of the world's premier computer security firms, learned the hard way.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 07, 2011

Internet security expert downplays latest hacking incident

A prominent information security expert said Tuesday that concerns about the recent Epsilon email hacking incident are misplaced. Bruce Schneier, author of the online Crypto-Gram newsletter, said there's little risk that the alleged theft of millions of email addresses will result in widespread fraud.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 06, 2011

Clean up begins after massive website attack

The massive attack managed to inject the name of several rogue domains into hundreds of thousands of websites. The link led to a page that carried out a fake virus scan and then recommended fake security software to clean up what it supposedly found.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2011

Major security breach exposes customer info (video)

More and more customers are receiving e-mails warning them of Friday's database hack at Epsilon, which handles e-mail marketing for thousands of companies. The breach exposed personal information like names and e-mail addresses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2011

Pure Hacking Confirm it takes Two Easy Steps to hack a Smartphone

Pure Hacking, the Australian experts in helping organisations protect their information assets earlier this week demonstrated to the cards and payments industry how to think like a hacker. The security specialist outlined the prevalence of security compromises for computer networks, hand held devices, WIFI locations and data held on social media sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 01, 2011

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