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Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone

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With two lockscreen holes and a fingerprint sensor that can be fooled with woodglue, we thought we'd given diehard iPhone fans a horse that was already dangerously high enough for them not to get down from.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2013

Hacker group claims to have cracked Apple's iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner

A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 23, 2013

Hackers offered cash, booze to crack iPhone fingerprint security

Hackers are gearing up for Friday's iPhone 5S release with a contest to crack the device's first-ever fingerprint scanner, a high-tech feature that Apple Inc says makes users' data more secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2013

State-Sponsored Hacker Gang Has a Side Gig in Fraud

An elite group of nation-state hackers running roughshod through the financial sector and other industries in the U.S. has pioneered techniques that others are following, and has used sophisticated methods to go after hardened targets, including hacking a security firm to undermine the security service the company provided its clients.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2013

Israeli

In the hacking world, it takes one to know one. For many corporations, the best defense against hackers is to actually hire a hacker and pay him or her to break into their sites or databases and expose weaknesses in a benign manner. There aren

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2013

Learn all about hacker culture

Hacker culture is alive and thriving in today

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Sep 16, 2013

Hacker Challenge: Hack Your Garage or Carport

Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will be featured right here on Lifehacker!

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 12, 2013

Hacker cracks Vodafone Germany, steals customers data

The German subsidiary of British mobile operator Vodafone has been attacked by a hacker, who has reportedly stolen a huge amount of customer data. Police suspect that a contracted IT specialist carried out the attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 12, 2013

Sudo Flaw Opens Potential Security Risk for OS X, Linux

A security flaw in the command line tool sudo in OS X 10.7 and higher, as well as some Linux distributions, could give unauthorized root access to user's computers. The flaw was reported by Metasploit, a company that specializes in finding security issues and building utilities to point them out, but the steps needed to exploit this particular issue make it unlikely most Mac users will become victims before a patch is available.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2013

Why Hackers Target Your Smartphone

Your smartphone is probably a much more tempting target for cybercriminals than your desktop computer, and unless you take proper precautions, it's easier to hack as well.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2013

Darknets, wargames and Raspberry Pi at first-ever Balkan hacker conference

Taking NATO down for a week in 1999 put Serbian hackers on the map. This weekend the Balkan Computer Congress puts Balkan hackers firmly on the global stage at the first-ever Balkan hacker conference.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2013

Hacker Criticizes Police Investigation During Pirate Bay Founder Appeal

As Gottfrid Svartholm tries to have a hacking conviction against him overturned, the Court of Appeal has been hearing evidence from hacker Jacob Appelbaum. Appearing on behalf of the defense, the former Wikileaks spokesman criticized the police investigation carried out on Gottfrid

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2013

Hackers find weaknesses in car computer systems

s cars become more like PCs on wheels, what's to stop a hacker from taking over yours? In recent demonstrations, hackers have shown they can slam a car's brakes at freeway speeds, jerk the steering wheel and even shut down the engine

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 03, 2013

Hacker uses Google Glass to control flying drone

Blaine Bublitz, a security researcher used a JavaScript program called node.js. to control a robot through Google Glass. Bublitz, managed to turn the wearable device into a control system for a Parrot AR drone.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 27, 2013

Tesla Model S vulnerable to hackers?

Next time you walk by a parked Tesla and its sunroof is opening and closing with nobody sitting inside or around it, you could be witnessing a hacker moment. For all of its strengths as a car, the Model S reportedly has a weak spot: the security of its API (application programming interface) authentication, according to an article in the O'Reilly Community by George Reese, executive director of cloud management at Dell.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 26, 2013

Google Glass Security, Privacy Worries Complicate Wide Adoption

The always-on devices show what may be possible in the future of the Internet of Things but also highlight the dangers. As a Google Explorer, Anthony Pettenon wears his enthusiasm for technology on his face.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 26, 2013

Nasdaq outage resembles hacker attacks

Officials for the moment say they cannot pinpoint anything malicious about the extraordinary outage of the Nasdaq stock exchange earlier today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2013

Islamist hacker publishes access details for thousands of Twitter accounts

The details, which appear to be genuine, do not include passwords. They do include OAuth tokens, though, so Twitter users should probably revoke and re-establish access to connected third-party apps.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 20, 2013

Hackers target servers running Apache Struts apps

Chinese hackers are using an automated tool to exploit known vulnerabilities in Apache Struts, in order to install backdoors on servers hosting applications developed with the framework.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 20, 2013

Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg

A Palestinian information system expert says he was forced to post a bug report on Mark Zuckerberg

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2013

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 38

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