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Filet-O-Phish: details stolen in McDonald's hack

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McDonald's has lost thousands of customer details to a hacker, including names, phone numbers and street and e-mail addresses. The fast food chain is also warning of pending phishing scams.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2010

Lifehacker/Gizmodo Site Cracked, Passwords Stolen

Gawker Media has admitted passwords were stolen in a hack on its user databases. Whilst the stored passwords were encrypted, Gawker said, simple ones may still be vulnerable to a brute force attack, where constant attempts to crack the key are made until the hackers are successful.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2010

Retailer Genesco falls victim to cyber attack

Genesco Inc., which operates stores that sell shoes and hats, said Friday it was the victim of a cyber attack, and the extent of the damage is unknown.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 10, 2010

Chinese hired Blaster worm hackers

THE WIKILEAKS LEAKS have shown that Chinese security firms with ties to the Chinese military hired the hacker group responsible for the original Blaster worm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2010

Hacker brings enhanced security to jailbroken iPhones

A computer consultant is embarking where Apple has refused to go, adding a security measure known as ASLR to iPhones to make them more resistant to malware attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2010

WikiLeaks hacker a villain or a hero?

Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is fighting a lot of enemies right now, including at least one from an unexpected place: The computer underground. A hacker calling himself The Jester

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2010

Back door in ProFTPD FTP server

Unknown attackers penetrated the server hosting the open source ProFTPD FTP server project and concealed a back door in the source code. The back door provides the attackers with complete access to systems on which the modified version of the server has been installed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2010

Hacker spread viruses to access accounts

A COMPUTER hacker infected more than 2000 computers in Australia and overseas with a program to capture banking details, a court has heard.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2010

Free Software Foundation's software repository hacked

The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2010

Hack of alert system shows vulnerabilities

Computer hackers have broken into a state government website for the third time this year, exposing continued vulnerabilities in the state's digital security programs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2010

Android Vulnerable To Data Theft Exploit

Google is working to patch a new data-stealing vulnerability that affects all versions of the Android operating system. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Thomas Cannon. "While doing an application security assessment one evening I found a general vulnerability in Android which allows a malicious website to get the contents of any file stored on the SD card," he said on his blog.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 30, 2010

'Hacktivist for good' claims WikiLeaks takedown

A computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2010

Mafiaboy warns about the security of cloud computing

Michael Calce, the reformer hacker from Montreal who will forever be known as Mafiaboy, told a group of IT professionals yesterday that he has serious concerns about the inherent vulnerabilities in the latest evolution of information technology: cloud computing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 24, 2010

Major m00p hacker sentenced to 18 months

The head of a major cyber gang who targeted many UK homes and businesses has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Matthew Anderson, a 33-year-old security expert, was helping run a collection of cyber criminals known as the m00p group, who sent millions of malicious emails to both homes and businesses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 23, 2010

Federal Reserve Hacker Indicted

A federal grand jury Thursday indicted Lin Mun Poo, a 32-year-old resident and citizen of Malaysia, on charges of hacking into the Federal Reserve Bank, as well as possessing more than 400,000 stolen credit and debit card numbers. If convicted of the most serious offenses, he would face a maximum sentence of 10 years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2010

Wiseguy scalpers bought tickets with CAPTCHA-busting botnet

Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2010

Whitehat cracks notorious rootkit wide open

A malware analyst has deconstructed a highly advanced piece of crimeware believed to be the work of the notorious Russian Business Network. The step-by-step instructions for reverse engineering the stealthy ZeroAccess rootkit is a blow to its developers, who took great care to make sure it couldn't be forensically analyzed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2010

Google Android security exploit made fully public by ITsec researcher

An IT security researcher has reportedly released the source code that could allow a hacker to gain remote access to a Google Android smartphone across the internet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2010

Deconstructing BlackHat SEO attacks and preventing them

For the past few weeks The Tech Herald has been tracking an interesting BlackHat SEO campaign. It targeted trending keywords and topics related to the midterm elections, Halloween, Veterans Day and more, snaring an untold number of victims in the process. So what are these attacks? How do they work? What can you do as a webmaster to avoid them or avoid falling victim to them?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2010

BlackSheep Plugin Bites Back: Detecting FireSheep Hijack Attempts

With more than 600,000 copies of the FireSheep browser plug-in downloaded in a matter of weeks, Web security firm zScaler have released a new Firefox plug-in, BlackSheep, in hopes of combating attempts by those using FireSheep to try to hijack their Web session.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2010

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 63

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

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