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All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day 2

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Two researchers on Thursday took down the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari, as Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest that runs in tandem at CanSecWest, wound down in Vancouver.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 23, 2015

Flash, Reader, Firefox and IE Fall on Pwn2Own Day 1

Four different research teams on Wednesday cracked four products

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 20, 2015

New BIOS Implant, Vulnerability Discovery Tool to Debut at CanSecWest

When the National Security Agency

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2015

Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness

In one of more impressive hacks in recent memory, researchers have devised an attack that exploits physical weaknesses in certain types of DDR memory chips to elevate the system rights of untrusted users of Intel-compatible PCs running Linux.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 10, 2015

Why Silicon Valley Hackers Still Won

In the fight to defend cyberspace from its enemies, the US military is rushing to hire as many skilled hackers as it can. But no one is really sure how to get the two cultures to coexist.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 02, 2015

Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar

A documentary on whistleblower Edward Snowden won the Oscar for the best documentary feature, in a shot in the arm for people worldwide protesting against alleged U.S. intrusions into the privacy of people in the country and abroad.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 24, 2015

Chips under the skin: Biohacking, the connected body is 'here to stay'

If you could replace your car keys, website login data, credit cards and bus passes with a chip embedded under your skin, would you? This is a question addressed this week at the Kaspersky Labs Security Analyst Summit by biohacker Hannes Sjoblad from BioNyfiken.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 17, 2015

The International Competition Where Master Lock-Pickers Do Battle

For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard and a five-pin Weiser bolting the front door

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 2014

Google's VirusTotal puts Linux malware under the spotlight

The rise of malware designed to infect Linux servers' distributed denial-of-service attacks has earned greater attention from VirusTotal, the Google-owned go-to tool for malware hunters. For security researchers that need to stay on top of emerging malware threats, the VirusTotal malware database has become an integral tool.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2014

Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories

The version of ownCloud in Ubuntu

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2014

The 7 deadly sins of startup security

For startups, user growth, product growth, virality, marketing usually goes on the top of their priority list. As part of product planning cycles, embedding information security into their product/service is the last concern for most startups.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 11, 2014

Parallels CTO: Linux container security is not the problem

Containerization technology has been a game-changer, powering Docker and other transformative software solutions. It's also garnered its share of criticisms about performance, security, and resiliency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2014

How To Hack Your Own Network And Beef Up Its Security With Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a security-focused operating system you can run off a CD or USB drive, anywhere. With its security toolkit you can crack Wi-Fi passwords, create fake networks, and test other vulnerabilities. Here

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2014

CAINE Linux Distribution Helps Investigators With Forensic Analysis

There is no shortage of Linux distributions to serve specific markets and use cases. In the security market, a number of Linux distributions are widely used, including Kali Linux, which is popular with security penetration testers. There's also CAINE Linux, which is focused on another area of security. CAINE, an acronym for Computer Aided INvestigative Environment, is a Linux distribution for forensic investigators.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2014

Introducing the USB armory project

Thanks to Andrea Barisani for sending this in. The USB armory from Inverse Path is an open source hardware design, implementing a flash drive sized computer. The compact USB powered device provides a platform for developing and running a variety of applications.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2014

With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online

No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2014

OWASP Releases Latest App Sec Guide

Advocates with the web application security consortium OWASP published the latest iteration of its Testing Guide this week. The guide, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is an informational manual designed to teach developers how to build and maintain secure applications in the face of ongoing threats.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2014

Qubes: The Open Source OS Built for Security

This is why she and her team built Qubes OS, a security-focused open source operating system based on Fedora that, in essence, assumes that bugs are everywhere. Instead of running one kernel, Qubes isolates all functions into separate virtual machines using the Xen hypervisor.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2014

Infosec geniuses hack a Canon PRINTER and install DOOM

Security researchers have demonstrated a hack that allowed them to get into the web interface of a Canon Pixma printer before modifying its firmware to run the classic 90s computer game Doom.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 15, 2014

Hackers Build a Skype That

The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images. But it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 02, 2014

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The End of the Road for Linux 6.11: A Call to Upgrade to Kernel 6.12

Exploring Arch Linux 2024.12.01: Security Implications & Notable Enhancements for Linux Admins

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