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Lady Gaga, Ke$ha and the German Hacker Heist

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A few young Germans have the world's biggest record companies at their knees. After hacking into the computers of famous recording artists and their managers, they have placed unreleased songs by the likes of Lady Gaga and Shakira on the Internet. Two have been caught, but the others are still at work.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 28, 2011

PS3 security update already hacked

Sony

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 28, 2011

Mail & Guardian website taken down after hacker attack

The M&G Online website is now offline in the wake of an attack by Russian hackers. The Mail & Guardian Online, one of South Africa

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 26, 2011

BitTorrent Sites Hacked By Secret Government Unit? Not So Fast..

In the early hours of Saturday morning, panic set in on two large European BitTorrent trackers. ArenaBG and Zamunda, a pair of sites with a history of being targeted by the Bulgarian authorities, were reported down. According to several mainstream media reports, they had been taken offline by the country

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 25, 2011

Critical vulnerability in Opera web browser

French security services provider VUPEN has reported a critical security vulnerability in Opera which could allow crafted web pages to infect Windows systems with malware. The problem is said to be caused by a bug in opera.dll when processing HTML files containing selected elements that have a large number of child elements.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2011

Bot attacks Linux and Mac but can't lock down its booty

From the department of cosmic justice comes this gem, spotted by researchers from Symantec: a trojan that targets Windows, Mac, and Linux computers contains gaping security vulnerabilities that allow rival criminal gangs to commandeer the infected machines.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2011

The Hacker's Toolkit Returns

What does $8000 buy you nowadays? Enough iPads to equip the entire family, with matching MacBook Airs thrown in for good measure? A couple of 3D TVs? If you're a cybercriminal, it'll buy you a pretty sweet hacker's toolkit.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2011

Hackers face five years for mocking Ipad insecurity

Two blokes who made a mockery of Apple's faith-based Ipad security are getting the book thrown at them in a US court. Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer took just five days to nick the data of 120,000 Ipad users and pass it on to the Gawker website. They shared the code they used to do it with their mates.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 19, 2011

U.S. Announces 120,000 iPad Users Had Data Stolen

U.S. investigators will be holding a press conference this afternoon to announce criminal charges related to the alleged theft of email addresses and other personal information from 120,000 iPad users. The theft occurred back in June of this year, when hackers compromised AT&T's servers with an automated script.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 18, 2011

Evil hits university security

The University of Sydney has called in two internet security firms to beef up protection of its computer networks after its home page was sabotaged and corporate webpages were altered during the weekend.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 18, 2011

Hacker breaches security at Pentagon Federal Credit Union

Members of a credit union that serves active-duty military personnel and others connected to the Pentagon are at risk for identity theft after a laptop was hacked, exposing the personal and financial records of an undisclosed number of troops and their families.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 18, 2011

Coming Soon: A New Way to Hack Into Your Smartphone

More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google's Android software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 17, 2011

DUP hacker: I was tempted by party

THE IRISH-LANGUAGE

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2011

'Patriot Act' phishing e-mails resurface, FDIC warns

Scammers are trying to steal banking information using fake e-mails that look like they've come from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the FDIC warned Wednesday. The phishing e-mails tell the victim his account has been suspended "due to account activity that violates the Patriot Act," and instructs him to use a system called IDVerify to confirm bank account information.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 13, 2011

Hacker Code Lingered on Home Depot Website

The website for do-it-yourself giant Home Depot has been

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 12, 2011

Grade 8 boy hacks school system

A Catholic school board has taken action after learning a young hacker in accessed confidential records, including provincial test scores. John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, said the Grade 8 pupil at St. Anne's School in Peterborough's north end found his way -- via his laptop, a piece of downloaded software and the board's internal network -- into a board file server containing provincewide test results.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 11, 2011

Hackers mock North Korea heir-apparent birthday boy

Hackers compromised North Korean media profiles on Saturday to mock the country's heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, on his birthday. North Korea's YouTube channel was commandeered to post satirical footage depicting a caricature of Kim Jong Un at the wheel of a luxury sports car and out of control, mowing down women and children at the side of the road.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2011

Adobe Flash sandbox security busted by researcher

A security researcher has found a gap in the way Adobe Systems has fortified its Flash Player for better security, which could result in data being stolen and sent to a remote server. Billy Rios, a researcher who is a security engineer for Google, published on his personal blog a way to get around Flash Player's local-within-filesystem sandbox.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 07, 2011

South African wireless traffic lights pillaged by SIM-card thieves

The Johannesburg Road Agency is in talks with suppliers to try and stop thieves targeting its shiny new traffic lights for the SIM cards they contain. The Agency has been forking out thousands of rand on phone calls the thieves subsequently make using the snaffled SIMs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2011

PlayStation 3's Root Key Reportedly Found

A hacker has published what he claims to be the root key of the PlayStation 3, leading to what some have speculated could be full root access to the game console without the need for external media.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2011

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