April 2011 Security Advisory: Rootkits And Breaches Summary

Apr 04, 2011 •

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	Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 (Version 3.0, Release 22). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.
	Analysis: How MySQL.com and Sun.com got hacked (Mar 31)
	There are lots of red faces at Oracle this morning, as two of its sites, MySQL.com and Sun.com, were pwned over the weekend by veteran Romanian extremely-dark-gray-hat hacker TinKode and sidekick Ne0h. The sites were the victims of an as-yet-unidentified "blind" SQL injection technique -- the exact type of attack you'd think the devs and admins at MySQL would know how to protect against. Apparently, you'd be wrong.
	Bank Of America Accounts Hacked (Mar 28)
	Thousands of Bank of America customers' account information could be in jeopardy after a major security breach. Christy Clark went to a Royal Oak drug store Friday, but when her debit card was declined, she knew something was wrong. "I was very embarrassed," Clark said.