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German software maker Ashampoo warns of malware after hack

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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

Man-in-the-Browser attacks target the enterprise

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the information assets of some of the world's most well-known organizations, according to the findings of a recent global study by McAfee and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) entitled "Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 31, 2011

Analysis: How MySQL.com and Sun.com got hacked

There are lots of red faces at Oracle this morning, as two of its sites, MySQL.com and Sun.com, were pwned over the weekend by veteran Romanian extremely-dark-gray-hat hacker TinKode and sidekick Ne0h. The sites were the victims of an as-yet-unidentified "blind" SQL injection technique -- the exact type of attack you'd think the devs and admins at MySQL would know how to protect against. Apparently, you'd be wrong.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 31, 2011

How To Hack the New York Times Paywall

Frustrated by the idea of paying for what was once free, some New York Times readers have devised widely publicized methods for subverting its newly erected paywall. Their efforts, it turns out, may have been for naught.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 29, 2011

Bank Of America Accounts Hacked

Thousands of Bank of America customers' account information could be in jeopardy after a major security breach. Christy Clark went to a Royal Oak drug store Friday, but when her debit card was declined, she knew something was wrong.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2011

Comodo-gate hacker brags about forged certificate exploit

An Iranian hacker has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the SSL certificate hack against Comodo, providing an insight into how the high-profile hack might have been pulled off.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2011

MySQL allegedly hacked - via SQL injection

On a security mailing list over the weekend, an unknown party published details about the structure and content of databases on the website of database vendor MySQL. The information was apparently accessible via a security hole on the MySQL.com website.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2011

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