LinuxSecurity.com
Share your story
The central voice for Linux and Open Source security news
Home News Topics Advisories HOWTOs Features Newsletters About Register

Welcome!
Sign up!
EnGarde Community
Login
Polls
What is the most important Linux security technology?
 
Advisories
Community
Linux Events
Linux User Groups
Link to Us
Security Center
Book Reviews
Security Dictionary
Security Tips
SELinux
White Papers
Featured Blogs
All About Linux
DanWalsh LiveJournal
Securitydistro
Latest Newsletters
Linux Security Week: May 20th, 2013
Linux Advisory Watch: May 17th, 2013
Subscribe
LinuxSecurity Newsletters
E-mail:
Choose Lists:
About our Newsletters
RSS Feeds
Get the LinuxSecurity news you want faster with RSS
Powered By

  
Intrusion Detection
We have thousands of posts on a wide variety of open source and security topics, conveniently organized for searching or just browsing.



Anti-Pirates Caught Spying on Thousands of Torrents  30 August 2012 
Source: TorrentFreak - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Two prominent anti-piracy companies that are expected to participate in the U.S. six-strikes anti-piracy scheme are already monitoring thousands of torrent files. Statistics obtained by TorrentFreak show that BayTSP and Peer Media have been increasing their activities in recent months. The BitTorrent activity of these two companies is three times greater than that generated by all customers of a smaller ISP such as Sonic.net
 
Waiting for the hacker attack  28 August 2012 
Source: The Daily Journal - Posted by Dave Wreski   
When it burst upon the scene in the summer of 2010, Stuxnet changed everything in the world of cyberwarfare. An ultra-sophisticated computer worm credited with taking down centrifuges critical to Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, Stuxnet made it impossible to ignore the possibility that other critical systems — including America’s electrical grid — could be severely compromised by malicious software called malware, used by hackers to disrupt computer operations.
 
Hotel door tech provider moves to crack down on lock hacker  27 August 2012 
Source: tnooz - Posted by Pooja Shah   
An electronic hotel lock provider has issued a series of fixes to its technology after a cheeky developer used a major conference to demonstrate a hack to open doors.
 
Hacker attack on your car’s computer could be lethal  20 August 2012 
Source: The Globe and Mail - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A team of top hackers working for Intel Corp’s security division toil away in a West Coast garage searching for electronic bugs that could make automobiles vulnerable to lethal computer viruses.
 
Jeff Gelles: Hacker's havoc exposes user laxity and security flaws  16 August 2012 
Source: Philly - Posted by Alex   
In the annals of digital nightmares, Mat Honan's could rank up there with an unscheduled trip into The Matrix. In one mind-bending hour, the writer for Wired magazine's Gadget Lab lost access to his Apple, Amazon, Google, and Twitter accounts.
 
Adobe’s patches for Windows and OS/X expose Linux  16 August 2012 
Source: InfoSecurity Magazine - Posted by Dave Wreski   
During June, Google researchers seeking to strengthen the security posture of the embedded PDF reader for Chrome discovered numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Most of these were patched in this week’s Adobe security update – but not for Linux.
 
Compromising cloud security is necessary risk, experts say  14 August 2012 
Source: Equities - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Compromises in security are necessary to make cloud services easy to use for non-technical consumers, experts have said.
 
Infamous hacker's grim warning for Australia  09 August 2012 
Source: The Age - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick went to jail for five years for breaking into US companies, and he says Australian government inaction means scores of privacy disasters are going under the radar.
 
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack  08 August 2012 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Amazon changed its customer privacy policies on Monday, closing security gaps that were exploited in the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan on Friday.
 
Hackers Convene To Find Mobile Security Flaws  31 July 2012 
Source: NPR - Posted by Dave Wreski   
This week thousands of hackers — computer security researchers, government recruiters, spooks and cyberpunks — descended on Las Vegas for the annual summer hacker convention.
 
<< Start < Prev 7 8 9 Next > End >>

Results 61 - 70 of 748
    
Partner

 

Latest Features
Securing a Linux Web Server
Password guessing with Medusa 2.0
Password guessing as an attack vector
Squid and Digest Authentication
Squid and Basic Authentication
Demystifying the Chinese Hacking Industry: Earning 6 Million a Night
Free Online security course (LearnSIA) - A Call for Help
What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits
Review: A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Fifth Edition
Using the sec-wall Security Proxy
Yesterday's Edition
Reporters sued as 'hackers' for finding a security hole with Google
Watch out for waterhole attacks -- hackers' latest stealth weapon
Partner Sponsor

Community | HOWTOs | Blogs | Features | Book Reviews | Networking
 Security Projects |  Latest News |  Newsletters |  SELinux |  Privacy |  Home
 Hardening |   About Us |   Advertise |   Legal Notice |   RSS |   Guardian Digital
(c)Copyright 2013 Guardian Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.