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Hacker database exposed; thousands of stolen Facebook, Twitter, Google passwords found

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Researchers have unearthed an online database full to the brim of stolen account information from popular services including Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Google.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2013

More on Stuxnet

Ralph Langer has written the definitive analysis of Stuxnet: short, popular version, and long, technical version. Stuxnet is not really one weapon, but two. The vast majority of the attention has been paid to Stuxnet's smaller and simpler attack routine -- the one that changes the speeds of the rotors in a centrifuge, which is used to enrich uranium.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2013

The feds' guide to bringing down a hacker from the inside

Earlier this month, Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hack of security consultancy Stratfor Global Intelligence. Hammond is the biggest fish to be snared after the FBI managed to turn former top Anon Sabu into a confidential informant. His conviction is a dagger in the side of the struggling hacktivist movement.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2013

Hacker with a Cause

In 2004, a few years before the rise of Anonymous, the notorious online collective of hackers and activists, a seventeen-year-old named Jeremy Hammond gave a talk on

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2013

The hacker hunters

Somewhere deep within PwC

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2013

Cupid Media Hack Exposes 42 Million Passwords In Plain Text

42 Million Passwords

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2013

vBulletin.com's password database hack gives forum admins the jitters

Forumware giant vBulletin.com has admitted that it's been turned over by hackers who made off with customer user IDs and encrypted passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2013

New security holes found in D-Link router

A new spate of vulnerabilities have been found in a D-Link router, a security researcher said Monday. The D-Link 2760N, also known as the D-Link DSL-2760U-BN, is susceptible to several cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs through its Web interface, reported ThreatPost.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2013

On the first day of Christmas, my hacker gave to me

Online threats are part-and-parcel of life on the Web -- but the end of the year proves to be a lucrative time to give cybercriminals the gift of your bank details or personal data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2013

Singapore arrests man, investigates others over hacker attacks

Singapore charged on Tuesday a 35-year-old man suspected of hacking a website linked to the prime minister and police said five other men were assisting in separate investigations into a recent series of high-profile hacker attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2013

Phishers Put Old-School Twist on Online Scams

The Anti Phishing Working Group is now lending its expertise to the IRS to help root out online and offline phishing scams that use a combination of e-mails and faxes to steal identities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2013

Implanted Bluetooth biochip gets under hacker's skin

A "DIY cyborg" has a surgically implanted chip that reads his body temperature and delivers the data to a mobile device. Warning: his subcutaneous sensor might make your own skin crawl.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2013

Hacker group claims to have looted $100k via SQL injection attack

A group of hackers, known as TeamBerserk, took credit on Twitter

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2013

Jake Davis: The teen hacker who came in from the cold

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2013

Advanced attackers seen moving to sophisticated hacking technique

Sophisticated attackers could soon adopt an innovative technique for bypassing one of the most effective mechanisms for preventing a Windows security breach, researchers say.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2013

Security vendor admits mistake in website take down

Rapid7 has acknowledged that it waited too long to take the security actions needed to prevent a pro-Palestine hacking group from taking down two of its websites by sending a fax to the sites' registrar.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2013

The 'autonomous,' hackable car

And that is both a good and bad thing. The almost magical capabilities of mobile devices help workers to be vastly more productive and collaborative, while keeping them much more entertained and connected during their off hours. A self-driving car could, in different ways, do the same.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2013

Hackers move to create next Blackhole after 'Paunch' arrest

Security researchers Tuesday said reports of the arrest of the hacker behind Blackhole, one of the most widely used exploit kits on the Internet, is good news for IT operations and users. But it shouldn't be long before another hacker takes his place.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2013

Hackers plunder Adobe source code and customer data

SOFTWARE titan Adobe Systems has warned that hackers breached its defences and stole source code along with credit card numbers and other information relating to nearly three million customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2013

Spear phishing poses threat to industrial control systems

While the energy industry may fear the appearance of another Stuxnet on the systems they use to keep oil and gas flowing and the electric grid powered, an equally devastating attack could come from a much more mundane source: phishing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2013

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