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Apple's iPhone commandeered at hacker contest days before new release

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Just days before Apple was set to release the highly anticipated iPhone 5, security researchers demonstrated a hack they said allowed them to pilfer the address book, photos, videos, and browsing history from the iPhone 4S.

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Sep 19, 2012

GoDaddy Outage: Anonymous Attack Or IT Failure?

What's worse for a website hosting company: getting taken down by hackers, or failing to properly configure your network, sparking downtime and lost revenue for customers?

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Sep 14, 2012

Go Daddy-serviced Web sites go down; hacker takes credit

Web sites serviced by DNS and hosting provider Go Daddy were down for most of today, but were back up later this afternoon. A hacker using the "Anonymous Own3r" Twitter account claimed credit for the outage.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 11, 2012

Cyberdetectives hunt down hackers, shore up security risks

Hackers often are portrayed as basement-dwelling, junk-food eating computer geniuses who enjoy wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people by sneaking into their computers.

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Sep 10, 2012

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Sep 06, 2012

AntiSec Hackers Post 1 Million Apple Device IDs

Hacking group AntiSec on Monday posted online a million and one Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) that it claims to have obtained from an FBI laptop.

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Sep 05, 2012

Linux users targeted by password-stealing 'Wirenet' Trojan

Malware writers are interested in Linux after all. Russian security firm Dr Web has reported finding a shadowy Trojan that sets out to steal passwords on the open source platform as well as OS X.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 04, 2012

'Team GhostShell' hackers use SQL weakness to raid 100 websites

With LulzSec now apparently long gone, hacking group 'Team GhostShell' appears to have taken up its mantle with a weekend hacking raid it claims wrested 1 million database records from a 100 different websites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 30, 2012

Massive Leak: Project HellFire Hackers Dump 1 Million Accounts from 100 Sites

The hacker collective Team GhostShell, in collaboration with two other hacking groups, MidasBank and OphiusLab, hacked 100 websites worldwide and then dumped one million accounts/records in "protests" under the Project HellFire banner.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 29, 2012

Hacking the mind: 3 new brain hacks expose new realm of security & privacy risks

Brain hacking is a hot subject right now and has moved from science fiction into reality. At the Usenix Security Symposium, one mind hack looked to create better security and an

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2012

60-minute security makeover: Prevent your own 'epic hack'

How's this for a digital nightmare? Your Twitter account hijacked; racist and homophobic tweets posted in your name. Your Apple account breached; data wiped from your iPhone, iPad and Mac laptop. Your Gmail password reset by hackers and your Google account deleted.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2012

Security experts scoff at Mars rover hack threat

The word has been out for more than a week now that the hacktivist group Anonymous is looking to break into the communication system between NASA and the Mars rover, Curiosity.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 22, 2012

Xbox Kinect hacks set innovation in motion

Microsoft's popular Kinect for Xbox 360 has inspired countless ingenious "hacks" since its launch at the end of 2010.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 20, 2012

Security flaw in iOS lets hackers spoof texts

While dedicated hackers can be an annoyance to companies like Apple, they can sometimes be helpful when it comes to digging up potentially devastating security vulnerabilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2012

Mars rover 'Curiosity' under hacker attack?

NASA's Mars rover 'Curiosity' might be facing a hacking threat from the notorious hacker group, Anonymous, a US security firm has claimed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 16, 2012

NSA chief seeks help from hackers

Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, asked hackers for help securing cyberspace when he spoke at the Defcon conference late last month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 13, 2012

Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Def Con prize

It was an elaborate yarn, weeks in the making.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 09, 2012

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 07, 2012

Car-hacking: Bluetooth and other security issues

A disgruntled former employee of Texas Auto Center chose a creative way to get back at the Austin-based dealership: He hacked into the company's computers and remotely activated the vehicle-immobilization system, which triggered the horn and disabled the ignition system in more than 100 of the vehicles.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2012

Privilege escalation security hole found in Nvidia Linux driver

An anonymous hacker has found a security hole in the Nvidia binary. He or she allegedly reported it to Nvidia "over a month ago" and did not receive a reply, nor was the flaw ever patched. The exploit has now been made public.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 03, 2012

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 45

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