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Cisco VoIP Hacker Urges Closer Look at Firmware Security Vulnerabilities

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 19, 2012

Hacker nabs Yahoo! site backups

A penetration tester has reportedly hacked Yahoo!, claiming to have gained access to website backup and database files for a dozen databases.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 17, 2012

Samsung TV vulnerability could let a hacker change the channel

f you're watching TV and the channel suddenly changes, you may not have sat on the remote control by accident.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 12, 2012

ADFA hack a national security failure, expert finds

A hacker has accessed personal details on thousands of Australia's future military leaders, a situation one expert has described as a national security failure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 12, 2012

Pakistani hacker hits over 400 Chinese govt sites

Marking the city government's third breach, over 400 government sites in China's Xuchang City have been hacked and defaced by a hacker from the Pakistan Cyber Army, who posted the details on PasteBin.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2012

1.1 million US consumers affected as insurance companies breached

The US insurance company Nationwide Mutual has revealed that its network, which it shares with Allied Insurance, was attacked on 3 October and that the attackers stole personal information from their network. Nationwide is one of the biggest insurance and financial services in the world.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2012

Hacker Group Exploits Massive Security Hole In Tumblr

It seems like the first large blog to go down this morning belonged to The Daily Dot, which helped spread the infected posts to hundreds, if not thousands, of other blogs. The posts are signed by the GNAA, a notoriously inflammatory hacker group.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2012

Tumblr troubled by trojan text - Update

An outbreak of a worm on Tumblr, the microblogging platform, hit many accounts by taking advantage of the platform's reblogging capability. The payload of the worm was the publication of a posting angrily explaining how the worm's authors hated Tumblr users, was analysed by Sophos which noted that the malicious code was embedded mostly as a Base64-encoded string hidden within a data URI.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2012

Chrome: Pinkie Pie's 64-bit vulnerability fixed

Google has released security updates to the Stable and Beta channels of its Chrome browser and to the Stable channel of Chrome OS. The update to the Stable channel for Chrome closes two security vulnerabilities rated High by the company, one of which earned the leading hacker of the Chrome browser, Pinkie Pie, a $7331 payout and a congratulatory note from the Chrome team for a successful 64-bit exploit of Chrome.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2012

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 30, 2012

Local hotel thefts may involve security flaw

Did a Houston man accused of breaking into Galleria-area hotels use a device that targets a security flaw present in millions of hotel rooms worldwide?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2012

Yahoo Mail hijacking exploit selling for $700

An exploit selling for $700 may put millions of Yahoo Mail users at risk of having their e-mail account hijacked and their browsers redirected to malicious sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2012

Known keycard hack suspected in hotel room burglary

A known hack of a popular hotel keycard reader was allegedly employed in the burglary of a woman's hotel room in Texas.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2012

Origin Hacked, EA's Own Security Measures Used

Are you one of the millions using EA's Origin digital platform service? If so, you might want to read what happened to these people so it doesn't happen to you/

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2012

Hacker Claims to Have Breached Adobe

Password security is only as good as the weakest link. And on Wednesday, that weak link appeared to be Adobe Systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2012

Hackers Attack: South Carolina Taxpayers Exposed by Massive Security Breach

Millions of South Carolina Social Security numbers and credit and debit card numbers have been exposed by an international hacker. It

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2012

Hacker steals 3.6 million Social Security numbers from South Carolina

A foreign hacker stole a vast database from the South Carolina Department of Revenue, and investigators told GreenvilleOnline.com that 387,000 credit card numbers and 3.6 million Social Security numbers have been exposed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2012

The Industrialisation of Hacking

The Industrial Revolution transformed four key aspects of society

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2012

Sony's PlayStation 3 experiences its biggest hack yet

A hacker group finds a secret set of codes that can decrypt the PlayStation 3's Level 0 security layer -- the holy grail of secrecy within Sony's console.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2012

Sony PlayStation 3 firmware reportedly hacked

Chinese hacker group, BlueDisk-CFW, releases leaked tool which circumvents the game console's latest 3.60 firmware that had plugged security holes from the unauthorized access by another hacker group last year.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2012

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 43

U.S. Investigation into China-Backed Telecom Companies Hack: The Role & Risks of Encryption Backdoors

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

The Infiltration of Supply Chain Attacks in Open-Source Software Management