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Most Targeted Attacks Exploit Privileged Accounts

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We all like to write and talk about flashy zero-day vulnerabilities. However, a new threat report cautions enterprises not to flatter themselves, because the majority of criminals are not using valuable zero-days exploits to penetrate corporate networks: they

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Nov 21, 2014

Mobile Pwn2own Hackers Exploit NFC, Browsers and More

The annual Mobile Pwn2own competition, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) and held in Tokyo on Nov. 12 and 13, yielded some surprising results.

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Nov 17, 2014

Two Dudes Prove How Easy It Is to Hack ATMs for Free Cash

When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine. Actually, according to federal prosecutors, he went to a lot of them. Over 18 months, he visited a slew of small kiosk ATMs around Nashville and withdrew a total of more than $400,000 in 20-dollar bills. The only problem: It wasn

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Nov 14, 2014

Serious Root Access Bug in Belkin N750 Router

A serious vulnerability in a popular Belkin router could be exploited by a local, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over affected devices.

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Nov 10, 2014

Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords

Yesterday I stumbled onto a site indexing 73,011 locations with unsecured security cameras in 256 countries

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Nov 10, 2014

BlackEnergy cyberespionage group targets Linux systems and Cisco routers

A cyberespionage group that has built its operations around a malware program called BlackEnergy has been compromising routers and Linux systems based on ARM and MIPS architectures in addition to Windows computers.

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Nov 07, 2014

Researchers observe a new phishing technique

An effective new phishing technique identified by researchers with Trend Micro allows attackers to go after information without having to spend as much time developing copies of websites.

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Nov 06, 2014

An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World

In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency visiting the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran noticed that centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2014

Remote code execution flaws fixed in tnftp and wget

The maintainer of the tnftp FTP client has patched a remote code execution vulnerability which affected operating systems including NetBSD, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. The flaw (CVE-2014-8517), which did not affect OpenBSD due to modifications, was patched over the weekend.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2014

Preventing Linux rootkit threats through secure boot design

The Linux OS is likely to become even more popular as 32bit computing becomes a commodity and projects like Yocto make it easier to create, develop and maintain Linux based systems for embedded applications.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2014

Advisory says to assume all Drupal 7 websites are compromised

If your organization uses Drupal, you might have a serious problem on your hands. On October 15, Drupal urged users to apply an update that fixed a SQL Injection flaw. However, unless that patch was installed within seven hours, Drupal now says it's best to assume the website was completely compromised.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2014

Hackers Are Using Gmail Drafts to Update Their Malware and Steal Data

In his career-ending extramarital affair that came to light in 2012, General David Petraeus used a stealthy technique to communicate with his lover Paula Broadwell: the pair left messages for each other in the drafts folder of a shared Gmail account. Now hackers have learned the same trick. Only instead of a mistress, they

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Oct 29, 2014

Linux botnet 'Mayhem' spreads through Shellshock exploits

Shellshock continues to reverberate: Attackers are exploiting recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Bash command-line interpreter in order to infect Linux servers with a sophisticated malware program known as Mayhem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2014

Vulnerability in widely used 'strings' utility could spell trouble for malware analysts

One of the first things a malware analyst does when encountering a suspicious executable file is to extract the text strings found inside it, because they can provide immediate clues about its purpose. This operation has long been considered safe, but it can actually lead to a system compromise, a security researcher found.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2014

USB is now UEC (use with extreme caution)

USB is an acronym for Universal Serial Bus; at least that is what it has stood for since 1999 when it was patented. But now it may take on a new meaning and instead stand for Ultimate Security Breakdown.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2014

Leaked Snapchat videos and pictures posted online

Thousands of Snapchat videos and images have been posted online over the weekend, some after apparently leaking from a third-party website where they had been stored.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2014

That Unpatchable USB Malware Now Has a Patch

When security researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson publicly released attack code two weeks ago that takes advantage of an insidious vulnerability in USB devices, they argued that publishing their exploits would get the problems fixed faster. Now they

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Oct 07, 2014

Release of Attack Code Raises Stakes for USB Security

Rarely in security is anything an absolute, but in the case of the BadUSB research that emerged during this year

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Oct 06, 2014

JPMorgan says breach impacted 76M households and 7M small businesses

On Thursday, JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) updated investors about their recently disclosed data breach in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The update comes hours after the financial giant disputed reports from the New York Times that they had experienced an additional security incident, calling the reports false.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2014

OpenVPN Vulnerable to Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

OpenVPN wasn

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Oct 02, 2014

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 30

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