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Crackers destroy security mailing list for Linux distributors

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The infrastructure of the members-only security mailing list "Vendor-Sec" for open source vendors has been severely damaged according to a post published by Markus Meissner at the OSS Security mailing list. At Vendor-Sec, Linux and BSD distributors discussed undisclosed vulnerabilities in the kernel and open source software. Some of the information was embargoed to give vendors time to close their holes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 04, 2011

WordPress under hacker attack

Readers of Financial Post or National Post blogs might have found them difficult, if not impossible, to access Thursday morning. That is because WordPress, the platform through which every FP and NP blog has been published for the past 10 months, has been under attack by hackers for the past several hours.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 04, 2011

Firesheep hack catches out Mr Demi Moore

Ashton Kutcher's Twitter profile was hacked on Wedesday to spout pro-SSL graffiti. Instead of the usual updates of the life of Mr Demi Moore, the aplusk account regaled its 6.4 million followers with security warnings, such as the one below.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2011

Hacker defies Sony, says will keep on coding

Graf_Chokolo's residence may have been recently raided by the police, but the hacker refuses to be intimidated by Sony's rather draconian crackdown against PS3 jailbreakers and modders.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 01, 2011

How Hackers Could Exploit Federal Government Shutdown

The federal government's list of emergency network security personnel has not been updated in 15 years, putting national security at high risk if a shutdown takes place on March 4. The possible government shutdown scheduled for March 4, 2011 could trigger a cyberwar emergency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 28, 2011

After raid, hacker releases 'bible' for PS3 reverse engineering

A Playstation 3 hacker says he has released information about reverse engineering hypervisor technology used in the PS3 after his home in Germany was raided earlier this week, reportedly at Sony's request.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2011

Exxon, Shell, BP Said to Have Been Hacked Through Chinese Internet Servers

Computer hackers working through Internet servers in China broke into and stole proprietary information from the networks of six U.S. and European energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc, according to one of the companies and investigators who declined to be identified.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 24, 2011

Botnets increased rampantly during 2010, worse to come

Cyber threat fighter, Damballa Inc., has released its

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2011

How Anonymous hacked the security firm hacker

Even as the FBI was conducting its ongoing campaign of surveillance and armed raids against those of us involved in the Anonymous activist collective, that and other "law enforcement" agencies were simultaneously providing resources and work opportunities to a collection of federal contractors, which were themselves engaged in a variety of reckless and unethical activities to which they are now being held to account by the press, if not the government.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 18, 2011

Report: PSN hacked, custom firmware could pose security risk to users

A document written by the hackers has clarified what they did and what privacy and security risks they believe the PlayStation 3 poses. The PS3's connection to PSN is protected by SSL. As is common to SSL implementations, the identity of the remote server is verified using a list of certificates stored on each PS3.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 18, 2011

More background on the US security firm break-in

Ars Technica has documented the background of the break-in at the US security firm that tried to expose Anonymous but ended up being taken apart itself. The report explains that the attackers' point of entry was a proprietary CMS which was custom-designed for HBGary.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 17, 2011

Report: Patched vulnerabilities remain prime exploitation vector

Which is the most popular tactic that cybercriminals uses on their way to infect users with malicious code (malware) and generate yet another botnet?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 16, 2011

Hacking attacks from China hit energy companies worldwide

Security researchers at McAfee have sounded an alarm for what is described as

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2011

Linux vulnerable to Windows-style autorun exploits

A security researcher has demonstrated how it might be possible to perform autorun-style attacks against weakly secured Linux PCs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2011

'Anonymous' Takes Down Security Firm That Threatened to Expose its Members

On Sunday night, cyber vigilantes 'Anonymous' went full throttle against a security firm that claimed to know the identities of the group, which operates "Operation Payback" and reportedly includes members of the "/b/" bulletin board 4chan.org.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 08, 2011

Anonymous strikes against FBI security firm

Anonymous, the hacker group known for targeting companies that refused to process payments for WikiLeaks, has attacked an American security firm that has been assisting the FBI.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2011

Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers

Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 06, 2011

Phishing Attacks Target BofA Customers

Sophos security researchers are warning of a new phishing attack that asks Bank of America customers to update their personal information, including name, address, date of birth, social security number, credit card details and ATM pin.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 03, 2011

Kaspersky source code on the internet after data theft

The source code of an older version of "Kaspersky Internet Security" has been circulated on the internet. The code was created in late 2007 and was probably stolen in early 2008. Names contained in the sources indicate that the stolen code was probably a beta version of the 2008 software package

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 01, 2011

Plentyoffish CEO: We Were Hacked, Almost Extorted

The title of strangest WTF story of my morning is Plentyoffish CEO Markus Frind recounting how his online dating site got hacked, he and his wife were harassed and someone clumsily attempted to extort his company in the aftermath of the events. If that is in fact what happened

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2011

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 60

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FASTCash Linux Malware: A New Cybercrime Menace Targeting Payment Switch Systems

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