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Report: Hacker collective Anonymous joins Hong Kong

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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.

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Oct 02, 2014

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

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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.

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Sep 29, 2014

Hackers Are Already Using the Shellshock Bug to Launch Botnet Attacks

With a bug as dangerous as the

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Sep 26, 2014

Kevin Mitnick, Once the World

As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world

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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.

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Sep 24, 2014

Nude-Photo Hackers Are Sad Apple Ruined Their Fun

The fixes Apple bolted on to iCloud

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Sep 24, 2014

5 reasons why hackers own your organization

The Target and Home Depot breaches should've been wake-up calls. Instead, the bad guys remain free to wreak havoc everywhere. Last week I noted that most companies are either already hacked or could easily be hacked -- and, when they have anything worth stealing, are probably already owned by multiple APT (advanced persistent threat) groups.

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Sep 23, 2014

Here's What Hackers Can Do With Your CRM Data

It is clear why malware writers target TGT -0.1% such retailers as Home Depot HD -0.43% and Target. It is obvious, if not pathetic, why hackers break into the cloud to find and publish private nude photos of celebrities. But a company

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Sep 15, 2014

Apache Warns of Tomcat Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Some older versions of the open source Apache Tomcat web server and servlet container, are vulnerable to remote code execution.

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Sep 12, 2014

Leak of '5 MEELLLION Gmail passwords' creates security flap

Plain-text passwords and account names linked to five million Gmail accounts have been leaked onto several Russian forums. Security experts had already confirmed the data seemed legit, albeit approximately three years old, before Google put up its blog post on the subject.

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Sep 11, 2014

Social media remains an easily exploitable attack surface

Twitter is one of my favorite social platforms. As a journalist, I get news from it, but I also get to interact with my peers and friends. But Twitter, like every other social platform, has an interesting attack surface; one that criminals have been exploiting for years.

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Sep 08, 2014

Google, Facebook ID codes found in Android malware stash

Text messages containing VPN passwords and authentication codes for Google and Facebook are found on a command-and-control server for Android malware

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Sep 05, 2014

'OriginalGuy': The Full Story Of The iCloud Hacker Who Leaked Those Naked Celebrity Photos

After private photographs of some of the most famous women in the world were posted online, journalists, PR representatives, and curious internet users alike scrambled to figure out how a nameless hacker had gained access to the cell phones of the rich and famous.

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Sep 03, 2014

A Google Site Meant to Protect You Is Helping Hackers Attack You

Before companies like Microsoft and Apple release new software, the code is reviewed and tested to ensure it works as planned and to find any bugs. Hackers and cybercrooks do the same. The last thing you want if you

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Sep 02, 2014

DQ Breach? HQ Says No, But Would it Know?

Sources in the financial industry say they

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Aug 29, 2014

Mozilla reports user data leak from Bugzilla project

Email addresses and encrypted passwords of around 97,000 users who tested early builds of the Bugzilla bug tracking software were left exposed for three months following a server migration.

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Aug 28, 2014

Hackers Ground Sony Executive's Flight With Bomb-Threat Tweet

Gamers have been annoyed all day today as a hacker collective (or individual) known as the

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Aug 25, 2014

Stealthy, Razor Thin ATM Insert Skimmers

An increasing number of ATM skimmers targeting banks and consumers appear to be of the razor-thin insert variety. These card-skimming devices are made to fit snugly and invisibly inside the throat of the card acceptance slot. Here

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Aug 21, 2014

Attackers Can

New research reveals that BitTorrent swarms can be slowed down significantly by malicious peers. Depending on the number of seeders and the clients they use, download times can be increased by 1000%. The attacks are possible through an exploit of the BitTorrent protocol for which the researchers present a fix.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 20, 2014

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 31

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