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U.S. Investigation into China-Backed Telecom Companies Hack: The Role & Risks of Encryption Backdoors

U.S. authorities are on high alert as they investigate an alleged Chinese state-sponsored hack targeting major U.S. telecommunications companies. This attack has reignited debate about encryption backdoors, an ongoing contention a...
Oct 16, 2024
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FASTCash Linux Malware: A New Cybercrime Menace Targeting Payment Switch Systems

As malware threats evolve to increasingly target Linux ...
Oct 16, 2024
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32.Lock Code Circular Esm H115

The Infiltration of Supply Chain Attacks in Open-Source Software Management

Open-source projects are renowned for their collaborati...
Oct 15, 2024
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30.Lock Globe Motherboard Esm H115

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Record of Death takes out OpenSSL servers

'Record of Death' takes out OpenSSL servers

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Crafted TLS packets can crash OpenSSL servers and clients. The problem is caused by an error in the ssl3_get_record() function, which processes SSL records. Data is transferred between end points in SSL records. According to an advisory from the OpenSSL development team, incorrectly formatted records can cause a memory access error.

Hackers hit where they live

Hackers hit where they live

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The countries of hackers originating malware-laced spam runs have been exposed by new research, which confirms they are often located thousands of miles away from the compromised systems they use to send out junk mail.

Beware the NSA

Beware the NSA

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Early this year, the big brains at Google admitted that they had been outsmarted. Along with 33 other companies, the search giant had been the victim of a major hack

Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

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Great article by Kevin Poulsen. More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Hackers arent as sneaky as you think

Hackers aren't as sneaky as you think

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Two weeks ago, I essentially claimed that nearly every company I know is hacked -- and in many cases, thoroughly hacked. Although there's a bit of hyperbole in that statement, it isn't that far from reality. That statement, however, has led some readers to believe detecting hackers and preventing attacks is impossible. Nothing could be further from the truth.

FDIC: Hackers took more than $120M in three months

FDIC: Hackers took more than $120M in three months

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Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Online banking fraud involving the electronic transfer of funds has been on the rise since 2007 and rose to over US$120 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to estimates presented Friday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, by David Nelson, an examination specialist with the FDIC.

Google hackers stole source code, researchers

Google hackers stole source code, researchers

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Companies should take extra steps to secure their source code from the type of targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, Intel and others over the past few months. That's according to security vendor McAfee, which released a report detailing the way software source code was accessed in some of these attacks.

SQL Injections Top Attack Statistics

SQL Injections Top Attack Statistics

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SQL injections top plenty of lists as the most prevalent means of attacking front-end Web applications and back-end databases to compromise data. According to recent published reports, analysis of the Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) shows SQL injections as the top attack vector, making up 19 percent of all security breaches examined by WHID.

Pwn2Own 2010: $100,000 for browser & mobile phone exploits

Pwn2Own 2010: $100,000 for browser & mobile phone exploits

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Aaron Portnoy, TippingPoint Technologies Security Research Team Lead, has announced that the annual Pwn2Own contest will take place at this year's CanSecWest security conference on the 24th of March in Vancouver. To commemorate the 4th Pwn2Own contest, the total cash prize amount has been increased to $100,000 this year.

Hacker Iceman gets record 13 year sentence

Hacker Iceman gets record 13 year sentence

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Former security researcher Max Butler has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking financial firms and stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers. The judgement is the longest sentence for a hacker in US history.

NHS Toolkit takedown will inconvenience docs, not patients

NHS Toolkit takedown will inconvenience docs, not patients

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Patient care will not be affected by an NHS decision to pull a doctors' appraisal website offline to improve its security, but the life of UK doctors will be complicated. The return of the NHS Appraisal Toolkit, which provides an online database that allows NHS doctors to prepare for their annual appraisals, is not due until 3 March.

New flaws in chip and pin system revealed

New flaws in chip and pin system revealed

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Most of us do not think twice about paying for something in a high street shop by keying in our pin. It is easy, fast and in most cases it works. But scratch a little under the surface and there are persistent reports of people who say they have been the subject of fraud of one kind or another on their credit or debit card.

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