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Pirate Bay Warg accused of hacking international police database

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Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been named as a suspect in the hacking of a European database containing data about wanted criminal suspects and missing people.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 07, 2013

How to Hack an iPhone With a USB Charger

When it comes to threats to mobile devices, most people don't think of chargers as a likely point of attack. But plugging in an iPhone

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2013

Hacker Claims Airplanes Vulnerable at 30,000 Feet

Cyber hackers have already shown what damage they can do, but this may be the scariest hacking story yet, if it came true.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2013

Hacker accused of massive Stratfor attack pleads guilty

Jeremy Hammond was arrested in a major federal sweep last year on charges of computer hacking conspiracy, computer hacking, and conspiracy to commit access device fraud.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2013

Drupal.org compromised

The Drupal.org security team says it has discovered unauthorised access to Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org account information which has exposed user names, country, and email addresses along with hashed passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2013

Raspberry Pi puts holes in China's Great Firewall

A tech-savvy China-based Redditor has spotted a hassle-free way of ensuring he or she is always able to bypass the Great Firewall, even when out and about, using the Raspberry Pi to connect to a virtual private network (VPN).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S4 already hacked

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been commercially available for about a month. In this time, 10 million devices have been sold

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2013

Watch out for waterhole attacks -- hackers' latest stealth weapon

The bane of the computer security world is how long it takes to recognize and respond to new attack paradigms. Name a major threat -- the boot virus, macro virus, email attachment, or Web JavaScript redirect -- and it seems to take years to respond adequately.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2013

Guantanamo Wi-Fi shuttered after Anonymous hacking threat

After the hacking collective Anonymous launched a Twitter campaign pledging to go after the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the U.S. military barred all Wi-Fi access on the base, according to the Associated Press. All social media, including Facebook and Twitter, also has been banned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2013

Hackers From China Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets

Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2013

How to hack an electric car-charging station

Is there anything more annoying than infrastructure that turns on you?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 17, 2013

Hackers gain access to all .edu domains

The hacker collective "Hack the Planet" (HTP) has claimed responsibility for an attack on MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) computer systems in late January, in which it claims to have briefly taken control of the university's domain, redirected email traffic, and obtained administrator access to all .edu domains.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2013

Banking Trojan hacker charged after three-year manhunt

An Algerian national who is allegedly part of the cybercrime consortium behind a powerful hacking software known as SpyEye appeared in an Atlanta courtroom in the US after a three-year manhunt ended with his extradition from Thailand.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 06, 2013

Apache servers ambushed by sophisticated backdoor attacks

Apache servers are being ambushed by a particularly pernicious malware program called Linux/Cdorked.A that's infecting visitors to the sick machines with the Blackhole malware kit.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 03, 2013

From hackers to security experts, the Balkan IT sector is booming

After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2013

Low-level clerk may be big-time hacker

A COMPUTER help-desk clerk has been accused of manipulating confidential government data, amid revelations he is the self-confessed ringleader of shadowy hacking syndicate Lulzsec that previously undermined the CIA and FBI websites, federal police allege.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 25, 2013

More malware discovered from drone cyberattacks

Researchers following a cyberespionage campaign apparently bent on stealing drone-related technology secrets have found additional malware related to the targeted attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 24, 2013

Your Next Big Security Headache: Your Wireless Router

You've installed antivirus software on your computers, configured your operating system to update its security automatically and password-protected your Wi-Fi. So your home network is safe against hackers, right?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 18, 2013

How Hackers Fool Your Employees

Attackers are taking aim at the weakest point in your network: human beings. Do you know how to protect your data?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 16, 2013

Wide-scale attack against WordPress blogs reported

Unidentified hackers are said to have have launched a large-scale attack against WordPress blogs and any hosts using weak passwords are urged to update them immediately.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 15, 2013

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