Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who'd turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected ...

17-years-old kid hacks US air force for the good

By Uzair Amir In April 2017, it was reported that the US Department of Defence This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 17-years-old kid hacks US air force for the good...

Alexa, Are You Spying On Me? Not Really, Maybe, It's Complex!

Do you own an Amazon Echo? So are you also worried about hackers turning out your device into a covert listening device? Just relax, if there's no NSA, no CIA or none of your above-skilled friends after you. Since yesterday there have been several reports on Amazon Echo hack that could allow a...

Hacker Leaks Data From Mandiant (FireEye) Senior Security Analyst

Reportedly, at least one senior cyber security analyst working with Mandiant, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm owned by the FireEye, appears to have had its system compromised by hackers, exposing his sensitive information on the Internet. On Sunday, an anonymous group of hackers posted some...

A week in security (July 17 – July 23)

Over the last week, we have covered Play Protect, android’s new security system and how the Dutch police ran Hansa Market after the take down of Alpha Bay, both major players on the Dark Web. We also provided some tips on how to stay cyber safe this summer. We also saw how the Terror exploit kit...

CoinDash Hacked During its ICO

Hackers hijacked CoinDash’s initial coin offering Monday, stealing $7.7 million in cryptocurrency from the nascent trading platform. The attack occurred during a 15-minute period for “whitelist contributors” prior to the public ICO. During that time, the hackers were able to compromise the CoinDa...

Over 70,000 Memcached Servers Still Vulnerable to Remote Hacking

Nothing in this world is fully secure, from our borders to cyberspace. I know vulnerabilities are bad, but the worst part comes in when people just don't care to apply patches on time. Late last year, Cisco's Talos intelligence and research group discovered three critical remote code execution RC...

Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked! Over $1 Million Worth Bitcoin and Ether Stolen

One of the world's largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrencies exchanges Bithumb has recently been hacked, resulting in loss of more than $1 Million in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user accounts compromised. Bithumb is South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange with 20% of global ethe...

CIA Exploits Against Wireless Routers

WikiLeaks has published CherryBlossom, the CIA's program to hack into wireless routers. The program is about a decade old. Four good news articles. Five. And a list of vulnerable routers...

Article on the DAO Ethereum Hack

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June 27, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Helen Keller” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! June 27, 2017 - Headlines 'Petya' ransomware attack strikes companies across...

physics.dur.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.physics.dur.ac.uk/profiles/profile.php?userid=%22%3Etrolo%3Ci%3Etralala%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 29.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly...

Wannacry depth of analysis: the first stage tasksche-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

WannaCry ransomware is a 2017 of the most popular ransomware, which uses a Microsoft vulnerability in the global range attacks make the world more than 100 countries, hundreds of thousands of users by the impact. Has a global range of network security education for all. As a security industry...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

A week in security (Jun 05 – Jun 11)

Last week, we interviewed our very own Pieter Arntz to get to know him a little better. We also touched on the importance of HTTPS and focused on a new social engineering scheme that triggers on mouse movement. We also took a deeper look at LatentBot, a Trojan that is being distributed by the RIG...

Joomla Payage 2.05 Component - aid Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Joomla Payage 2.05 - SQL Injection Exploit Author: Persian Hack Team Discovered by : Mojtaba MobhaM Mojtaba Kazemi Vendor Home : https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/e-commerce/payment-systems/payage/ My Home :...

Joomla! Component Payage 2.05 - aid SQL Injection

Joomla! Component Payage 2.05 - aid SQL Injection Exploit Title: Joomla Payage 2.05 - SQL Injection Exploit Author: Persian Hack Team Discovered by : Mojtaba MobhaM Mojtaba Kazemi Vendor Home : https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/e-commerce/payment-systems/payage/ My Home :...

Joomla! Component Payage 2.05 - 'aid' SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Joomla Payage 2.05 - SQL Injection Exploit Author: Persian Hack Team Discovered by : Mojtaba MobhaM Mojtaba Kazemi Vendor Home : https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/e-commerce/payment-systems/payage/ My Home : http://persian-team.ir/ Google Dork :...

LinkedIn Hacker, Wanted by US & Russian, Can be Extradited to Either State

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the Czech police in Prague last October on suspicion of massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, can be extradited to either the United States or Russia, a Czech court ruled on Tuesday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, a 29-years-old Russian national, ...

On EternalRocks, WannaCry, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including the EternalRocks worm, the latest on WannaCry, a subtitle hack, and a Twitter flaw. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMay262017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...