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Mars rover 'Curiosity' under hacker attack?

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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

Keycard hacker picks locks, exposes gap in hotel security

You probably don

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Aug 03, 2012

Dropbox confirms data leak

Cloud storage service provider Dropbox has acknowledged that a file containing private customer data was stolen from the Dropbox account of one of the company's employees and that the information was subsequently used to send out spam messages to users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 01, 2012

Huawei's routers of vulnerability

"Hacking [redacted] Routers" was the title of a lecture at Defcon by security expert Felix Lindner (also known as FX) and Gregor Kopf of the Berlin-based Recurity Labs. The "censored" routers were quickly established as being the AR18 and AR28 routers from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 01, 2012

Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database

A researcher scored again against Oracle

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Jul 27, 2012

Hackers steal customer data to prove risk of retention proposal

HACKERS have stolen customer data from the internet company AAPT to highlight the dangers of a proposal to force telcos to store every Australian's web history for up to two years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2012

London ready to fight off Olympic hack attacks

Analysts say infiltrating the scoring and timing systems at one of the 35 competition venues around Britain, especially the Olympic stadium in east London, is a target for hackers looking to spread political messages, known as 'hacktivists', and criminal gangs looking to cash in on the Games.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2012

Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap hardware, that tiny round hole might offer access to your room just as completely as your keycard.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2012

Dave & Buster's Hacker Sentenced

Estonian hacker Aleksandr Suvorov has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in two hacking schemes that involved more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2012

Spam attack on Dropbox users

Spammers are currently sending large volumes of spam to users of cloud storage service provider Dropbox. The H's associates at heise Security have so far received four different pieces of German-language spam at an email address used solely to register with Dropbox, and some of their readers have reported the same problem; similar reports can also be found on the Dropbox forums. In almost all cases, the spam is for suspicious-looking online casinos.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2012

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys

The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other DIY innovations, that assumption may no longer apply.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2012

Over 1 million user credentials compromised in Android Forums hack

Phandroid, a popular Android news site, has confirmed that its Android Forums web site was compromised and that private user data has been accessed. According to Phandroid's notice about the security breach, the user table of Android Forum's database was accessed by unknown intruders using a known exploit, which has since been fixed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 13, 2012

Yahoo's password hack shows that it failed security 101

As 450,000 passwords exposed, Yahoo fails security 101 -- If it wasn't clear before, it certainly is now: Your username and password are almost impossible to keep safe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2012

F-Secure Warns of New Multi-Platform Web Exploit

A Java applet determines whether the victim's machine is running Windows, Mac or Linux, then downloads the appropriate malware for the platform. Researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a new Web-based attack that installs backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X computers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 11, 2012

Hacker claims to have breached & backdoored antivirus software firm Trend Micro

A hacker claims to have breached and backdoored security and antivirus software firm Trend Micro due to 'pseudo-security' as well as SYKES which runs support services for Trend Micro. According to Pastebin and a dump for 'proof' of the breach, the hacker claims to still be in control of a backdoor into the security firm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2012

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