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Operation High Roller: online banking fraud on a grand scale

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McAfee has collaborated with security firm Guardian Analytics to uncover a ring of online banking criminals who specifically targeted corporate accounts with high balances. According to the two companies' white paper, the fraudsters have attempted to steal at least

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2012

Hacker claims mass bank breach; releases Visa, Mastercard data

More than 79 banks have been breached, claimed a hacker on Twitter. Following a data release on Tuesday, he said he has more than 50 gigabytes of U.S. and foreign bank data in his hands.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2012

LulzSec Reborn aims to keep hacking movement alive

About three months ago, following the arrests of five members of an Anonymous spinoff hacker group, an FBI official declared: "We're chopping off the head of LulzSec."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2012

Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password

When the latest release of MariaDB was announced in April by MontyProgram AB founder and MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius, it came with a warning from Widenius that a severe security bug had been discovered in previous versions of both MariaDB and MySQL. Oracle subsequently released a patch for MySQL.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2012

MySQL vulnerability allows attackers to bypass password verification

Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2012

LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts

LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2012

6.5M hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked, following app concerns

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Jun 06, 2012

Google Apps Security Beat By CloudFlare Hackers

CloudFlare describes itself as a service that protects and accelerates any website, but even a company focused on security can be hacked. Last week, the company and its customer 4Chan, the infamous message board, was attacked by hacking group UGNazi.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2012

'SwaggSec' claims hack of China Telecom, Warner Bros.

A hacking group is claiming to have breached the networks of Warner Bros. and China Telecom, releasing documents and publishing login credentials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2012

Anonymous: The secret lives of dangerous hackers

In December 2010 the heat-seeking internet pranksters known as Anonymous attacked PayPal, the online bill-paying business. PayPal had been a conduit for donations to WikiLeaks, the rogue whistle-blower site, until WikiLeaks released a huge cache of State Department internal messages.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2012

For Diablo 3 Hacking, the Buck Stops Where?

You never really know what your most controversial pieces are going to be before you write them. I figured an exploration of what it feels like to have your account hacked in a game would be a relatable topic for many who have suffered something similar.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2012

Flaw Found in Common Network Security Technology

Network firewall "middlebox" technology could unwittingly help hackers hijack an Internet connection. Middleboxes monitor the "sequence numbers" of data packets being sent to mobile devices. Middleboxes could help hackers use the process of elimination to home in on a number in the right range, then gain access to passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2012

Anatomy of a hack: 6 separate bugs needed to bring down Google browser

An exploit that fetched a teenage hacker a $60,000 bounty targeted six different security bugs to break out of the security sandbox fortifying Google's Chrome browser.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2012

ZTE admits to backdoor in one of its Android devices

Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE has confirmed that a security vulnerability is present in the Android-based ZTE Score M smartphone. The phone includes an application, /system/bin/sync_agent, with a hard-coded password that can, now, be easily found on the internet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2012

Drunken 'Call of Duty' hacker jailed for selling gamers' info

A 20-year-old British man will spend the next 18 months behind bars for stealing "Call of Duty" gamers' credit card numbers and other confidential data and selling it to other cybercriminals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2012

Wikipedia warns users about malware injecting ads

Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based malware infection, Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 16, 2012

TeamPoison Hacker Suspect Has Anonymous Ties

British police Thursday arrested a suspected member of the TeaMp0isoN hacktivist group. The unnamed 17-year old boy was arrested in the north of England on charges of violating the country's Computer Misuse Act 1990, which is the law in Britain typically used to charge people who are suspected of hacking offenses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2012

Twitter breached, 50,000 accounts posted to Internet

Twitter is investigating an apparent data breach that resulted in more than 50,000 user names and passwords being posted to the Internet. The data was posted across five pages (one, two, three, four, five) on Pastebin, a favorite site for hackers to post their ill-gotten gains. Ordinarily, when large files are involved, data thieves "tease" their exploits at the site and include a link to a site, like BitTorrent, that supports large file downloads. The maximum file size for Pastebin is 512KB.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2012

'Anonymous' hackers reportedly take down Putin website

Activists from the hacker group 'Anonymous' blocked access to Russian President Vladimir Putin's website for several minutes on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2012

The Malicious Hacker's Ever-Sharper Eye

There were an average of 94 targeted cyberattacks per day in November of last year, according to Symantec, and the trend appears to be growing. Targeted attacks are aimed at specific individuals inside an organization based on the information they have access to or the type of work they do. HR professionals, for example, are often targeted since opening email attachments is part of their day-to-day routine.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2012

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 47

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