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Using a Toy to Open a Fixed-Code Garage Door in 10 Seconds

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It may be time to upgrade your garage door opener. Security researcher Samy Kamkar has developed a new technique that enables him to open almost any garage door that uses a fixed code

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2015

US reports massive breach of government personnel data

The U.S. is investigating a massive data breach that exposed personal information on around 4 million federal government workers, according to news reports Thursday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2015

Assume your GitHub account is hacked, users with weak crypto keys told

GitHub has revoked an unknown number of cryptographic keys used to access accounts after a developer found they contained a catastrophic weakness that came to light some seven years ago.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2015

SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising

The takeover of the SourceForge account for the Windows version of the open-source GIMP image editing tool reported by Ars last week is hardly the first case of the once-pioneering software repository attempting to cash in on open-source projects that have gone inactive or have actually attempted to shut down their SourceForge accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2015

New exploit leaves most Macs vulnerable to permanent backdooring

Macs older than a year are vulnerable to exploits that remotely overwrite the firmware that boots up the machine, a feat that allows attackers to control vulnerable devices from the very first instruction.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 02, 2015

Hola VPN used to perform DDoS attacks, violate user privacy

Hola is a VPN provider that purports to offer its users freedom from censorship, a way to access geoblocked content, and anonymous browsing. The service claims that more than 47 million people are part of its peer-to-peer network. But according to a group of researchers (calling themselves Adios), it's dangerously insecure: the client software has flaws that allow for remote code execution and features of the client enabled tracking.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 02, 2015

Moose Malware Uses Linux Routers For Social Network Fraud

A new worm targeting Linux routers is exploiting them not through a vulnerability per se, but rather by simply brute-forcing weak passwords, according to researchers at ESET. The malware, which researchers have dubbed Linux/Moose, could be used for a wide variety of purposes -- including DNS hijacking, DDoSing, and deep network penetration -- but so far attackers only seem to be using it for tame social networking fraud.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2015

Hacking Airplanes: No One Benefits When Lives Are Risked To Prove A Point

In the brave new world of self-driving cars and Wifi-enabled pacemakers, everything we do as information security professionals, everything we hack, every joke we make on Twitter, has real, quantifiable consequences.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2015

HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers

Tens of thousands of HTTPS-protected websites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services are vulnerable to a new attack that lets eavesdroppers read and modify data passing through encrypted connections, a team of computer scientists has found.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2015

New encryption flaw, LogJam, puts Web surfers at risk

Computer security experts said they've found a new encryption flaw closely related to one found earlier this year that puts Web surfers' data at risk.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2015

More on Chris Roberts and Avionics Security

High-level, state-sponsored Naikon hackers exposed

The activities of yet another long-running apparently state-sponsored hacking crew have finally been exposed. The Naikon cyber-espionage group has been targeting government, military and civil organisations around the South China Sea for at least five years, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2015

VENOM Zero-Day May Affect Thousands Of Cloud, Virtualization Products

Critical vulnerability in the open-source QEMU hypervisor lets attackers break out of a virtual machine, execute code on a host machine and access all the other VMs on the host.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2015

For Venom security flaw, the fix is in: Patch your VM today

Venom (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation), the recently discovered security hole in the open-source QEMU virtual machine hypervisor, has been fixed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2015

WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials

WordPress site administrators just cannot come up for air. With a raft of WordPress vulnerabilities

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2015

New Linux rootkit leverages GPUs for stealth

A team of developers has created a rootkit for Linux systems that uses the processing power and memory of graphics cards instead of CPUs in order to remain hidden.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2015

The Internet of Things to take a beating in DefCon hacking contest

Hackers will put Internet-connected embedded devices to the test at the DefCon 23 security conference in August. Judging by the results of previous Internet-of-Things security reviews, prepare for flaws galore.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 06, 2015

Google Updates Password Alert Extension, But Some Bypasses Still Work

For the second time in less than a week, Google has updated its Password Alert extension for Chrome to address a method for bypassing the warning screens that alert users that they

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 05, 2015

Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug

A software vulnerability in Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet has the potential to cause pilots to lose control of the aircraft, possibly in mid-flight, Federal Aviation Administration officials warned airlines recently.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 01, 2015

Decryption tool available for TeslaCrypt ransomware that targets games

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted files.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 28, 2015

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 26

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

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

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

Discover Hacks/Cracks News

Using a Toy to Open a Fixed-Code Garage Door in 10 Seconds

US reports massive breach of government personnel data

Assume your GitHub account is hacked, users with weak crypto keys told

SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising

New exploit leaves most Macs vulnerable to permanent backdooring

Hola VPN used to perform DDoS attacks, violate user privacy

Moose Malware Uses Linux Routers For Social Network Fraud

Hacking Airplanes: No One Benefits When Lives Are Risked To Prove A Point

HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers

New encryption flaw, LogJam, puts Web surfers at risk

More on Chris Roberts and Avionics Security

High-level, state-sponsored Naikon hackers exposed

VENOM Zero-Day May Affect Thousands Of Cloud, Virtualization Products

For Venom security flaw, the fix is in: Patch your VM today

WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials

New Linux rootkit leverages GPUs for stealth

The Internet of Things to take a beating in DefCon hacking contest

Google Updates Password Alert Extension, But Some Bypasses Still Work

Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug

Decryption tool available for TeslaCrypt ransomware that targets games

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