Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 30

Discover Hacks/Cracks News

Researchers observe a new phishing technique

data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3C/svg%3E

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2014

Report: Hacker collective Anonymous joins Hong Kong

Reporting on the hacker collective Anonymous is always fraught. This loosely organized group has no clear leader and no clear agenda. The anarchic nature of its technological attacks make it difficult to establish a who-what-where-when-why. And, of course, hackers use nom de guerres. Heck: Even the Islamic State has a spokesman.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2014

Hacker Group Lizard Squad Takes Down Destiny, Call of Duty, FIFA And More

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2014

Shellshock makes Heartbleed look insignificant

Somehow there always seems to be another Internet security disaster around the corner. A few months ago everyone was in a panic about Heartbleed. Now the bug called Shellshock (officially CVE-2014-6271), a far more serious vulnerability, is running uncontrolled over the Internet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2014

Hackers Are Already Using the Shellshock Bug to Launch Botnet Attacks

With a bug as dangerous as the

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2014

Kevin Mitnick, Once the World

As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2014

Unix/Linux Bash: Critical security hole uncovered

The flaw involves how Bash evaluates environment variables. With specifically crafted variables, a hacker could use this hole to execute shell commands. This, in turn, could render a server vulnerable to ever greater assaults.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2014

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 30

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