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Chinese Hackers Blamed for Intrusion at Energy Industry Giant Telvent

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A company whose software and services are used to remotely administer and monitor large sections of the energy industry began warning customers last week that it is investigating a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada and Spain. Experts say digital fingerprints left behind by attackers point to a Chinese hacking group tied to repeated cyber-espionage campaigns against key Western interests.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2012

Hacking Toilets the World Over

I am a committed toilet hacker. Yes, I am fiercely committed to making better, smarter and more accessible toilets. In fact, I want armies of purpose driven people pursuing this same mission. The reason that I am so passionate about this is that it is unacceptable that 2.6 billion people have zero access to a basic toilet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2012

Hacking into a car

Cars which lock without using keys can be hacked into as easily as any other computerised device. Just as you lock it with your remote control, the thief blocks the signal and the car remains unlocked. Now the the contents can be stolen without attracting attention by breaking a window. It

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2012

Hacker claims to have jailbroken the iPhone 5

There has never been any doubt that the iPhone 5 would be jailbroken

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2012

Android NFC hack enables travelers to ride US subways for free, researchers say

Contactless fare cards in the New Jersey and San Francisco transit systems can be manipulated using an Android application, enabling travelers to reset their card balance and travel for free, researchers demonstrated on Thursday during the EUSecWest security conference in Amsterdam.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2012

Researchers hack iPhone, steal data

Researchers have broken into an iPhone 4S running the latest version of Apple iOS, making it possible to exploit the same vulnerability in the iPhone 5 that is set for release on Friday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2012

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

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 10, 2012

The Hacker

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
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

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