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Hacking Airplanes

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Imagine this: A terrorist hacks into a commercial airplane from the ground, takes over the controls from the pilots and flies the plane into the ground. It sounds like the plot of some "Die Hard" reboot, but it's actually one of the possible scenarios outlined in a new Government Accountability Office report on security vulnerabilities in modern airplanes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 24, 2015

6 Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques in 2015

Experts with the SANS Institute convened at RSA Conference for their annual threats panel, this time dishing on the six most dangerous new attack techniques. Led by SANS Director John Pescatore, the panel featured Ed Skoudis, SANS faculty fellow and CEO of CounterHack Challenges, Johannes Ullrich, dean of research for SANS, and Michael Assante, SANS project lead for Industrial Control System (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 23, 2015

7 Deadly Sins That Get Users Hacked

Common knowledge has it that users are the weakest link in the IT risk management world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2015

APT group hacks cyber-spy gang in spy-on-spy pwnage

Cyber-spy groups, whose numbers are growing with little constraint, have begun hacking each other. Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyber-espionage group, was subjected to a spear-phishing attack by another threat actor last year, before deciding to strike back with its own malware-infected emails.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 16, 2015

Attacking Researchers Who Expose Voting Vulnerabilities

A security flaw in New South Wales

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 13, 2015

Github Attack Perpetrated by China

Chinese attackers used the Great Firewall

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 13, 2015

How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 10, 2015

Police operation disrupts Beebone botnet used for malware distribution

Europol, in collaboration with Dutch authorities, the U.S. FBI and private security companies, have seized the domain names used to control a botnet called Beebone.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 09, 2015

A MILLION Chrome users' data was sent to ONE dodgy IP address

A team of security researchers have found malware in a popular Chrome extension which may have sent the browsing data of over 1.2m users to a single IP address. ScrapeSentry credits its researchers with uncovering "a sinister side-effect to a free app [...] which potentially leaks [users'] personal information back to a single IP address in the USA".

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 08, 2015

Bugs in Tor network used in attacks against underground markets

The operator of an underground marketplace hosted within the Tor network has reported a flaw in Tor that he claims is being used for an ongoing denial of service attack on the site.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 06, 2015

Study: One-third of top websites vulnerable or hacked

According to a new report from Menlo Security, one out of three of the top million websites are either vulnerable to hacking or already hacked. For example, attackers used the Forbes.com website last month for a quick watering hole attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 25, 2015

Drupal SQL injection vulnerability attacks persist, despite patch release

Nearly six months have passed since a major Drupal SQL injection vulnerability was disclosed, and yet attackers are continuing to try, sometimes successfully, to exploit websites that have failed to update their systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 23, 2015

HTTPS Opens Door to Paid Pinterest Bug Bounty

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 18, 2015

One of the Darknet

The administrators of one of the darknet

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 18, 2015

HTTPS-crippling FREAK attacks become cheaper and easier to carry out

There's more bad news surrounding the HTTPS-crippling FREAK vulnerability that came to light two weeks ago. A recently completed scan of the Internet revealed 10 percent of servers that support the underlying transport layer security protocol remain susceptible.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 17, 2015

CryptoLocker Variant Coming After Gamers

Gamers may soon be feeling the pain of crypto-ransomware. A variant of CryptoLocker is in the wild that goes after data files associated with 20 different online games, locking downloadable content in an attempt to target younger computer users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2015

Dridex Banking Trojan Spreading Via Macros in XML Files

Not long ago, criminals pushing the Dridex banking Trojan were using Microsoft Excel documents spiked with a malicious macro as a phishing lure to entice victims to load the malware onto their machines.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 10, 2015

IoT's dark side: Hundreds of unsecured devices open to attack

A self-described security "amateur" discovered hundreds of Internet-connected devices ranging from cameras to industrial control systems that were connected to the Internet without even basic password protection -- meaning they could be easily turned on and off or otherwise manipulated with a single click of a mouse.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2015

D-Link Routers Haunted by Remote Command Injection Bug -

Some D-Link routers contain a vulnerability that leaves them open to remote attacks that can give an attacker root access, allow DNS hijacking and other attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2015

Bad movie: Hackers can raid networks with burnt Blu-Rays

British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks. His first exploit relies on a poor Java implementation in a product called PowerDVD from CyberLink. PowerDVD plays DVDs on PCs and creates menus using Java, but the way Oracle's code has been used allows naughty folk to circumvent Windows security controls.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 02, 2015

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 27

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