Linux Back Door Uses Covert Communication Protocol

Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

In May of this year, sophisticated attackers breached a large Internet hosting provider and gained access to internal administrative systems. The attackers appear to have been after customer record information such as usernames, emails, and passwords. While these internal administrative systems had access to customer records, discovery of the attack ...

1.82m affected by Ubuntu Forums data breach; passwords stolen

Sunday, July 21st, 2013

The Ubuntu forums are the latest to suffer a data breach, from a hacker, taking place last night. An estimated 1.82 million accounts have been affected and at the time of writing the site is still down for maintenance. According to the placeholder page currently on the Ubuntu site, only the forums were ...

Bank security breaches destroy customer trust

Friday, July 19th, 2013

85 percent of U.S. adults with banking accounts are at least somewhat concerned about online banking fraud, according to Entersekt. Such fraud can include phishing, malware, man-in-the-browser and brute force attacks. While concern is worth noting, it is action that impacts the ultimate health of a financial institution. Seventy-one percent of ...

Security breach stopped (Opera)

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

At Opera Software, we are committed to the security and privacy of our users. This is paramount to us, and as such, we want to share the details of a recent incident with you. On June 19th we uncovered, halted and contained a targeted attack on our internal network infrastructure. Our ...

Yahoo logins hacked and leaked

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

A hacker group called D33D is claiming to have accessed more than 453,000 logins from Yahoo. The group says it used a union-based SQL injection to access an unidientified Yahoo service to retrieve the data, which it says was unencrypted, and has posted it online. "We hope that ...