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Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A British hacker who accessed a U.S. citizen's Facebook account has been given a year-long prison sentence.
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Source: MSNBC - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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.
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Source: TorrentFreak - Posted by Dave Wreski
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With court-ordered ISP blockades popping up all over Europe, The Pirate Bay is no stranger to being silenced. However, for the last 24 hours the site has been largely inaccessible world wide due to a completely different type of censorship. After the site openly criticized Anonymous last week for DDoS’ing UK ISP Virgin Media, The Pirate Bay itself is now under attack. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
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In our first Rogues Gallery, we looked at ten infamous social engineers -- con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical vulnerabilities. |
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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The prolific Flashback Trojan that has infected anywhere from a half a million to nearly 1 million Macintosh machines worldwide remains active despite Apple's emergency security update, and its owners continue to rake in revenue from the click-fraud operation -- possibly as much as $10,000 a day, according to new research.
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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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.
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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Once, firewalls were useful for certain types of attacks. Now they're more trouble than they're worth -- and create a false sense of security into the bargain |
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Source: Acumin - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Businesses should consider adopting ethical hacking strategies to develop and add to their existing security practices, Frost & Sullivan has advised. |
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Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter.
The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick
summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the National Security Agency’s decision to withhold from the public documents confirming or denying any relationship it has with Google concerning encryption and cybersecurity.
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A team of Russian developers is touting a technology it says can kill off BitTorrent-based P2P file sharing – and says it has attracted investment from Microsoft.
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Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A self-confessed botnet operator has posted answers to readers' questions on the Reddit social news web site. He claims to control a relatively small botnet made up of approximately 10,000 bots based on the Zeus trojan. His answers paint an interesting picture. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The developers at the Debian Project have announced the release of the fifth update to version 6.0 of their popular Linux distribution. The update to the project's current stable branch, known as "Squeeze", consolidates the bug and security fixes made and released since the the previous update, and includes a number of package updates. |
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Source: MarketWatch - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Red Hat, Inc. RHT +2.03% and IBM IBM +0.49% today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with the KVM hypervisor on IBM Systems has been awarded Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). The Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards used by the federal government and other organizations to assess the security and assurance of technology products. |
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