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Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day

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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

Hacker puts 'full redundancy' code-hosting firm out of business

A code-hosting and project management services provider was forced to shut down operations indefinitely after a hacker broke into its cloud infrastructure and deleted customer data, including most of the company's backups.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2014

Stop sneaky hackers from launching DMA attacks

Direct Memory Access (DMA) is a controller feature that has been available at least since the original IBM PC. It can be used by hackers to compromise your otherwise very heavily protected computer. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to minimize DMA-based attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2014

14-year-old code crackers hack Winnipeg ATM

A couple of 14-year-old computer whizzes have the Bank of Montreal upgrading its security after the teens hacked an ATM machine. Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon, both Grade 9 students, found an old ATM operators manual online that showed how to get into the machine's operator mode.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2014

FBI Shutdown of Virus Demanded New Anti-Hacker Tactics

Dismantling one of the world's most insidious computer viruses required complex and fast-paced tactics that will be the blueprint for U.S. law enforcement's future cyberbattles.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2014

'Clandestine Fox' hackers win over energy employee in strategy change

A hard-to-tracking hacking group, known to use zero-day attacks, changed tack to use social media in an attempt to compromise an employee of an energy company, according to new research from FireEye.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2014

Is Anonymous Dead, or Just Preparing to Rise Again?

The hacker collective Anonymous and its factions LulzSec and AntiSec drew widespread attention between 2008 and 2012 as they tore loudly through the internet ruthlessly hacking websites, raiding email spools, exposing corporate secrets and joining the fight of the 99 percent.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2014

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 32

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FASTCash Linux Malware: A New Cybercrime Menace Targeting Payment Switch Systems

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