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Good samaritan hackers politely point out security holes

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Who says hackers can't be nice? One group, MalSec, left a calling card on a security firm's website that decisively struck down its claim of being "the largest and most trusted full-service security and life-safety company in the Cayman Islands." But instead of rendering it useless, gave them pointers on how to fix their holes.

NSA director: China was behind RSA hack

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China was responsible for the attack on the servers of IT Security company RSA, according to the testimony of the US National Security Agency director, General Keith Alexander, at a Senate Hearing yesterday. Information Week reports that he also accused China of stealing large amounts of military-related intellectual property.

Why hackers set their sights on small businesses

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If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer and package it with the same information from a hundred or a thousand other small businesses? Would it be worth something then?

Chinese hack Microsoft

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Chinese hackers apparently have gained access to Microsoft problem details even before a company patch was released and security researchers are worried the leak came directly from Microsoft

LinkedIn is a hacker's dream tool

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If you use LinkedIn, you've probably told the site where you work, what you do and who you work with. That's a gold mine for hackers, who are increasingly savvy in using that kind of public -- but personal -- information for pinpoint attacks.

Anonymous Hacks Vatican Website

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A group of Italian hackers who claim to be members of the loose-knit international gang of cyber criminals known as "Anonymous" took down the Vatican's website for a number of hours Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reports.

How to sneak into a security conference

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But this does not seem to be an obstacle for my anonymous source, whom I met on the first day of the conference. A risk management and physical security expert, he is in the business of "pen-testing humans" via social engineering, he said, and he also has an expertise in event security. I met him while I was covering the event, and he agreed to give me details of how he snuck into RSA in a matter of minutes without any credentials

New Waledac Variant Goes Rogue

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Remember the infamous Storm spamming botnet that later re-emerged as Waledac and was later silenced in a high-profile takedown led by Microsoft? It's baaaack -- and this time it's performing more malicious activity than sending annoying spam messages.

Google Wallet is Easy to Hack and Exploit

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Google Wallet, which initially launched in September of 2011, has decided to temporarily suspend its provisioning of prepaid cards as a result of two newly discovered security vulnerabilities. Recently, a security research team uncovered a potential threat to the overall security of the Google Wallet.