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NASA lost 'full control' to hackers, pwned 13 times last year

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Cybercrooks broke into NASA's computer systems 13 times last year gaining "full functional control" of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress by the space agency's inspector general.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2012

Anatomy of an Anonymous hack attack

The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out internet attacks on well-known organisations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 02, 2012

How to sneak into a security conference

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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 28, 2012

Hacker steals one million user logins from YouPorn website

A million logins for the hugely popular YouPorn sex site appear to have been leaked after a hacker chanced upon a URL linking to a user list apparently left exposed for several years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 23, 2012

New Waledac Variant Goes Rogue

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 16, 2012

Google Wallet is Easy to Hack and Exploit

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2012

Security Manager's Journal: Hackers phone home -- on our dime

It's been a while since we've had a security breach worth mentioning (that we know of). Last week we had one, and it was an eye-opener.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 13, 2012

Latest Google Wallet hack picks your pocket

Yesterday, researchers outlined a complicated way to crack the Google Wallet PIN used to make purchases with the smartphone-based payment system. Now there's a new hack that could let a stranger gain access to the funds of Wallet users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 10, 2012

Hackers Mug Google's Wallet App on Rooted Android Devices

App is vulernable to quick brute-force attacks on rooted phones. Near field communications (NFC) technology has been around overseas for over half a decade now, but it's finally jumping from the Asian market to the United States.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 09, 2012

Hackers Hit Apple Supplier Foxconn, Leak Usernames And Passwords

Foxconn, the gargantuan Chinese manufacturing backend for much of the tech industry, has developed a reputation as one of the world

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 09, 2012

Hacker releases Symantec source code

A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 08, 2012

How (And Why) Attackers Choose Their Targets

Every day, we hear another story about a company whose sensitive data has been breached. Press releases, tweets, customer support email, and followup articles all provide insight into the kind of information that

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2012

RFID Credit Cards Are Easy Prey for Hackers

It's been known for some time that there are security issues associated with the increasing use of RFID tags in credit cards, but this past weekend afforded a fresh demonstration of just how easy it is for hackers to take advantage of them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 02, 2012

Hacker's Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets

Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words

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Jan 30, 2012

Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio

Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2012

Hacktivists Turn To DNS Hijacking

Hacktivists have added a new tactic to their arsenal: redirecting all of the traffic from a target company's website.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 26, 2012

O2 sends users' phone numbers to web sites

An O2 user, Lewis Peckover, found that the mobile phone company has been adding the phone number of any subscriber using its mobile network to the HTTP headers of web requests. The header, x-up-calling-line-id, appears to be inserted by the transparent proxies that O2 uses so it can downgrade images and insert JavaScript into the returned HTML.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 25, 2012

U.S. government online security website hacked

Hackers under the AntiSec banner appeared to have hacked late Monday the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. federal government's online security website, in protest against controversial legislation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2012

Hackers Claim Responsibility for (Temporarily) Felling CBS.com, After Attacking DoJ Site

A group of hackers temporarily wiped clean CBS.com, in what seemed to be further retaliation for the government shutdown last week of file-sharing site Megaupload.com.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 23, 2012

DreamHost warns of password hack

DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting services provider and domain name registrar, has confirmed that it may have been the victim of an attack on its servers. In a post on its DreamHost Status blog, the company says that it "detected some unauthorized activity" in one of its databases and is now requiring customers to change their FTP/shell passwords as a precautionary measure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 23, 2012

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 49

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