Security

Dutch Citizen Charged with Fraud, Identity Theft in Hacking Case

David Benjamin Schrooten was extradited from Romania to the U.S. in March

MySQL Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Password Verification

Exploit code is available for a MySQL authentication bypass vulnerability

Security Researchers Discover Link Between Stuxnet and Flame

Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs have found evidence that the development teams behind the Flame and Stuxnet cyberespionage threats collaborated with each other.

European League of Legends Game Players have Their Account Data Compromised

League of Legends developer notifies users that hackers have breached its European databases

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Stolen Passwords; FBI and Stuxnet; Google and Gov’t Hacking

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Stolen Passwords; FBI and Stuxnet; Google and Gov’t Hacking

This week's IT security roundup has news stories on a number of high-profile password thefts; an FBI investigation into who leaked confidential government data on cyberattacks on Iran; Android malware; and more.rn

Flame’s Windows Update Hack Required World-Class Cryptanalysis, Researchers Say

The Flame cyber-espionage malware makes use of a previously unknown cryptographic attack variant that required world-class cryptanalysis to develop, experts from the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science (CWI) said on Th

How Charles Dickens Helped Crack Your Linkedin Password

Researchers are using words from classic novels to crack the LinkedIn password hashes

1.5M eHarmony Passwords Stolen Along With LinkedIn Data

This week's high-profile LinkedIn-password hack just got more interesting; an additional 1.5 million passwords for online-dating site eHarmony were also apparently stolen and posted on a Russian forum for hackers.

Flame Authors Order Infected Computers to Remove All Traces of the Malware

Flame self-desctruct module overwrites file data to prevent forensic analysis

Dating Site Eharmony Confirms Password Breach

Password hashes for eHarmony were released on the same Russian forum which published the LinkedIn hashes