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Hacker breaks into jailbroken iPhones, asks for $7

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A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2009

New Trojan encrypts files but leaves no ransom note

Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2009

Renowned gadget blog, Gizmodo, spreads malware via ads

IT security and data protection firm Sophos is warning internet users who have visited the Gizmodo technology and gadget blog to scan their computers after it was revealed that the website was delivering adverts laced with malware last week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2009

2006: Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2009

BarackObama.com Hacked Again

We're reported in the past on hacks of the President's campaign web site barackobama.com, still used for political campaigning: This one on January 26, 2009 served malware to users and this one from April 21, 2008 redirected users to the Hillary Clinton campaign site (note: Friends of Hillary is still taking contributions).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2009

A Black Hat Loses Control

Malware writers today always try to conceal their identities, right? Wrong

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2009

Gaping security hole turned 64,000 Time Warner cable modems into hacker prey

A blogger helping to tune a friend's wi-fi network uncovered a gaping security hole in Wi-Fi cable modem routers installed in 64,000 Time Warner subscribers' homes, leaving them open to attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2009

How hackers find your weak spots

While there are an infinite number of social engineering exploits, typical ones include the following: Stealing passwords: In this common maneuver, the hacker uses information from a social networking profile to guess a victim's password reminder question. This technique was used to hack Twitterand break into Sarah Palin's e-mail.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2009

How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute

Full-disk encryption is often heralded as a panacea to the huge problems of data breaches and laptop thefts, and with good reason. Making the data on a laptop or other device unreadable makes the machine far less attractive or valuable to a thief. However, researchers are showing that this solution has its share of weaknesses, too.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2009

Pirate Party helped cut P2P in Sweden?

Figures from Sweden suggest six out of ten P2P users have stopped or significantly reduced their unlicensed file sharing, AFP reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2009

Phishing attack targets Hotmail

Thousands of accounts on web-based e-mail system Hotmail have been compromised in a phishing attack, software giant Microsoft has confirmed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2009

Lazy Linux sysadmins make systems insecure

SOME LAZY Linux administrators are living in a dreamworld where they believe their systems are secure just because they use Linux, according to an insecurity expert. Peter Hansteen claims that a third round of low-intensity, distributed bruteforce password attacks is now in progress because of sloppy admin practices on Linux systems. So far about a thousand servers have been compromised.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2009

SSL trick certificate published

On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted. Phishers, for example, could use the certificate to disguise their servers as legitimate banking servers

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 30, 2009

SMB2 Exploit Fitted into Metasploit; Attacks Likely

Fully functional exploit code for the (still unpatched) Windows SMB v2 vulnerability has been released to the public domain via the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, raising the likelihood for remote in-the-wild code execution attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2009

Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators

Recently, a Russian security researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop machines. Altogether these machines were serving up malware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 22, 2009

Why virus writers are turning to open source

Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal details, the malicious software developers are hoping to expand the capabilities of old Trojans.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2009

Facebook hack service smells fishy

Eastern European hackers are offering to crack into any Facebook account for a fee of $100, payable online through Western Union, though circumstantial evidence suggests that the scheme might just as easily be geared towards ripping-off potential clients while delivering nothing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2009

Game server admins arrested for Chinese DNS attacks

A denial of service attack that took down Internet access in parts of China earlier this year has been attributed to an over-enthusiastic game provider trying to take down rivals. Police in Foshan, a city in Guangdong, have announced that they arrested four individuals for the attack, noting that they would go to trial sometime in the mysterious future.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 01, 2009

Attack Of The Tweets: Major Twitter Flaw Exposed

A newly exposed cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Twitter lets an attacker wrest control of a victim's account merely by sending him or her a tweet. U.K. researcher James Slater reported the serious flaw earlier this week, and now says Twitter's fix in response to his disclosure doesn't actually fix the problem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2009

Hacker pleads guilty in massive bank fraud case

Hacker Ehud Tenenbaum has pleaded guilty in connection to charges of fraud that netted millions of dollars from banks in Indiana, Florida, Texas and California, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in New York.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 27, 2009

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 74

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

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