NSA: Snowden Email Refutes Protests of Agency Surveillance

The National Security Agency has released an email from Edward Snowden sent last April to the Office of General Counsel that refutes the whistleblower’s contention that he notified authorities about the NSA’s surveillance reach. In an accompanying statement, the NSA said the message is the only o...

Thousands of Wordpress blogs compromised to perform DDOS attack

There is currently a Mega cyber attack campaign being launched on a large number of WordPress websites across the Internet. In April, 2012 we reported about a large distributed brute force attack against millions of WordPress sites were occurring, out of that hackers are successful to compromise...

New Botnet Campaign 'Fort Disco' Brute-Forcing Thousands of WordPress, Joomla Websites

Password theft has been a growing problem within the security community. Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at fort.forsythe.com

Security researcher LostBrilliance, has submitted on 30/06/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting fort.forsythe.com, which at the time of submission ranked 864277 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 12/07/2009. It i...