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Recent cases of social engineering, DDoS attacks and domain-name theft have made headlines. Some stories had happy endings, but others didn't. Here are four tips for preventing these types of hacks from ruining your business. It's no longer unusual to see major, massive hacks make news these days. They affect millions of individuals and cost millions of dollars to rectify.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 14, 2014

Watch a Hacker Fry a Hair Dryer With Her Radio

As Maggie Jauregui was getting ready for a date last November, she was simultaneously blow drying her hair and chatting with her boyfriend over a walkie talkie

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2014

Hacker hunts and pwns WiFi Pineapples with zero-day at Def Con

The WiFi Pineapple makes man-in-the-middle attacks incredibly easy, but users better know what they're doing before trying out the Pineapple at the biggest hacker hangout in the U.S. A classic example of that wisdom can be seen via a screenshot tweeted by @JoFo after an intern deployed a Pineapple at Def Con 22.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2014

Russian hackers amass 1.2B stolen Web credentials

Criminals in Russia have amassed a huge database of 1.2 billion stolen user names and passwords and half a billion email addresses, a U.S.-based Internet security company said Wednesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2014

Insecure Connections: Enterprises hacked after neglecting third-party risks

It is said that an enterprise is only as secure as its weakest link. Today, that weak link often turns out to be partners, suppliers, and others with persistent network and application access.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 29, 2014

Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built

Three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 29, 2014

Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day

One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula. Villains spawn the "evil twins" to hack and crack legitimate websites and form what amounted to the third most-popular type of DDoS attack to scourge the internet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 25, 2014

Hackers Could Take Control of Your Car. This Device Can Stop Them

Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have proven more clearly than anyone in the world how vulnerable cars are to digital attack. Now they

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 22, 2014

CNET attacked by Russian hacker group

A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET's website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2014

Popular password protection programs p0wnable

Researchers have detailed a series of quickly patched vulnerabilities in five popular password managers that could allow attackers to steal user credentials. "Critical" vulnerabilities were discovered and reported in LastPass, RoboForm, My1Login, PasswordBox and NeedMyPassword in work described by the University of California Berkeley researchers as a "wake-up call" for developers of web password vaults.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2014

Bug Lab Hackers sell Facebook Privacy Vulnerability

The Bug Lab hacking group which can be found on 1337day.com, is selling a Facebook Privacy Vulnerability which allows the hacker to send messages via any Facebook account.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2014

Weaponised Flash flaw can pinch just about anything from anywhere

Get cracking with the latest Flash upgrade, because the vulnerability it patches is a peach, allowing a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack for stealing user credentials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2014

Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers

The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2014

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will

Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown closed its doors after nearly 40 years in the same location. The northern Virginia eatery served French and Russian cuisine in a richly appointed dining room thick with old world charm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2014

Oh SNAP! Old-school '80s Unix hack to smack OSX, iOS, Red Hat?

Unix-based systems, as used worldwide by sysadmins and cloud providers alike, could be hijacked by hackers abusing a hard-coded vuln that allows them to inject arbitrary commands into shell scripts executed by high-privilege users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2014

Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 10% of devices

Researchers have warned of a vulnerability present on an estimated 10 percent of Android phones that may allow attackers to obtain highly sensitive credentials, including cryptographic keys for some banking services and virtual private networks, and PINs or patterns used to unlock vulnerable devices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2014

Hacker Tactic: Holding Data Hostage

THE perpetual cat-and-mouse game between computer hackers and their targets is getting nastier. Cybercriminals are getting better at circumventing firewalls and antivirus programs. More of them are resorting to ransomware, which encrypts computer data and holds it hostage until a fee is paid.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2014

At least 32,000 servers broadcast admin passwords in the clear, advisory warns

An alarming number of servers containing motherboards manufactured by Supermicro continue to expose administrator passwords despite the release of an update that patches the critical vulnerability, an advisory published Thursday warned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2014

FBI Nabs Alleged NullCrew Hacker

The FBI announced Wednesday the capture of an alleged member of NullCrew, an organization responsible for cyber-attacks against universities, government agencies and corporations. The suspect, Timothy French, was arrested in Tennessee last Wednesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2014

Telling Folk Heroes From Monsters

Woe to the once-hallowed trickster. In ancient mythologies, the riddler-thief and agent of change held a position of prestige. Now, we don

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2014

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