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Internet security experts suddenly know more about the way hackers are getting access to your smartphone, but still don't have software to prevent it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 10, 2013

Closing the Door on Hackers

FOR most of my teenage years, I made a hobby of hacking into some of the world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 08, 2013

AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked

Source code and a private signing key for firmware manufactured by a popular PC hardware maker American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) have been found on an open FTP server hosted in Taiwan.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2013

North Korea's Twitter, Flickr accounts hacked; Anonymous speaks up

As North Korea continues to threaten the U.S. and South Korea with war rhetoric, hackers have taken over the country's social media accounts and many of its websites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 04, 2013

Ultimate PC security requires UEFI -- and Windows 8 or Linux

Hackers can easily 'brick' computers with malicious firmware. UEFI effectively blocks that attack vector and costs nothing

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 27, 2013

Hack attack: Microsoft confirms bigwigs

A number of

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 21, 2013

Microsoft: Hackers obtained high-profile Xbox Live accounts

Several high-profile Xbox Live accounts for former and current Microsoft employees were compromised by attackers using social engineering techniques, the company said late Tuesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 20, 2013

LA Times Hack: Security Breach or Harmless Prank?

Federal prosecutors say Reuters' deputy social media editor conspired with a notorious hacker network to cause an online security breach that should be punished by decades in federal prison.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2013

China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage

Young man's blog provides a rare glimpse of the secretive hacking establishment of the Chinese military, whose efforts have become a growing concern to the U.S.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2013

Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist

A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 08, 2013

Security Experts Warn State Governments Face Losing Battle With Hackers

The email sent to several thousand of state employees in early February looked official. It featured the state logo and a familiar warning that email access was about to be cut off because the employee

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 07, 2013

60 Days of Hacker Assaults

Within the first 60 days of 2013, an alarming number of international corporations and government agencies faced serious security violations from Internet hacking. Beyond the Twitter, Apple and Facebook invasions, a more ominous threat attacked the State Department, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy and some of the largest U.S.-based news organizations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 06, 2013

Evernote Hack Results in 50 Million Password Resets

Evernote and its 50 million-user population are having a bad week. The productivity software-as-a-service issued a systemwide password reset for all of its users on Saturday after a hacker or group of hackers broke into its user database and swiped various bits of user information, including usernames, emails and passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 06, 2013

Banged-up Brit hacker hacks into his OWN PRISON'S 'MAINFRAME'

A UK hacker behind bars for computer fraud hacked into his prison's computer system during an IT lesson. Nicholas Webber, 21, of Southsea, Hampshire, was able to access the network after being allowed to join the jail's technology classes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2013

Hacking victim Bit9 blames SQL injection flaw

Bit9 said a common Web application vulnerability was responsible for allowing hackers to ironically use the security vendor's systems as a launch pad for attacks on other organizations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 28, 2013

Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered

Researchers are having a fun time with iOS 6.1 passcode locks this month, with Vulnerability Lab having discovered a second version of a vulnerability that lets a hacker slip past a lock screen to access a user's contact list, voicemails and more.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 27, 2013

Hacker finds a terrifying Facebook security flaw that allows him to access anyone

Is Facebook secure? We questions the site

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 27, 2013

Vulnerability in recent Linux kernels offers root rights

An error in the handling of special netlink messages in the Linux kernel can allow a user to surreptitiously gain root privileges. The discoverer of the hole, Mathais Krause, confirmed to The H's associates at heise Security that Linux kernel versions 3.3 to 3.8 are affected.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 26, 2013

Chinese Army link to hack no reason for cyberwar

Security vendor Mandiant's 60-page report on Chinese cyberespionage, which offers proof that it is coming from a Chinese military unit housed in a building in the Pudong district of Shanghai, adds new fuel to two hotly debated cybersecurity questions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 20, 2013

Jeep joins Burger King in Twitter hack club

Just a day after Burger King's Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, Jeep is suffering the same fate

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 19, 2013

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