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The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy
As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...
LC4: Another Pen-and-Paper Cipher
Interesting symmetric cipher: LC4: Abstract: ElsieFour LC4 is a low-tech cipher that can be computed by hand; but unlike many historical ciphers, LC4 is designed to be hard to break. LC4 is intended for encrypted communication between humans only, and therefore it encrypts and decrypts plaintexts...
Man Who Hacked Jail Systems to Release His Friend Early Gets 7-Years in Prison
Remember a young hacker who hacked jail systems in an attempt to release his prison inmate early? Well, that hacker will now be joining his inmate behind bars. Konrads Voits of Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison for attempting to hack the Washtenaw...
Uber Tightens Bug Bounty Extortion Policies
Uber is tightening policies around its bug-bounty program after a 2016 data breach exposed deep flaws in its policies around handling extortion. The ride-sharing company has updated its program to include clarity around the boundaries between research versus blackmail. The changes come after a 20...
Amazon Alexa Has Got Some Serious Skills—Spying On Users!
"Alexa, are you spying on me?" — aaaa.....mmmm.....hmmm.....maybe!!! Security researchers have developed a new malicious 'skill' for Amazon's popular voice assistant Alexa that can turn your Amazon Echo into a full-fledged spying device. Amazon Echo is an always-listening voice-activated smart ho...
Use of ‘StegWare’ Increases in Stealth Malware Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are warning of an uptick in the malicious use of steganography as a vehicle for delivering malware. Steganography, they say, is increasingly becoming a go-to tool for cybercriminals not just for infection, but also command-and-control, data exfiltration and as an...
Woman who hacked airline network busted through VPN logs
By Waqas VPN Logs Lead to Capturing of an Ex-PenAir Employee Who This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Woman who hacked airline network busted through VPN logs...
Automated Bots Growing Tool For Hackers
SAN FRANCISCO – The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found. A honeypot experiment, detailed by Cybereason at this year’s RSA Conference, showed the commoditization of using bots to perform low-level tasks. The honeyp...
Facebook Graph Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept
!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users with fake news...
Facebook Graph Phone Number Metadata Crosswalk Mapping Proof Of Concept
!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' Phone Number metadata crosswalk mapping PoC 2018 Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: Criminal hacker CRACKER can take advantage of this weakness by creating a specialized database to manipulate facebook users...
360 security browser to fix more Chrome kernel vulnerabilities and plugging the hacking of door-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
Recently, a new version of 360 browser first to fix the Google Chrome kernel exposed a number of security vulnerabilities, of which more than half of the vulnerabilities are high-risk vulnerability that could be used for arbitrary code execution or DoS attacks. Since the 360 browser uses IE and...
Zomato: Clickjacking: Delete Account, Change privacy settings, Rate business, follow/unfollow (IE)
Inspired by report 337219. Please note that this report includes a clear security impact as well as a proof of concept. CVSS ---- medium 5.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Description ----------- The application does not send a X-Frame-Options header, thus allowing pages to be...
SSH / SSL RSA Private Key Passphrase Dictionary Enumerator Exploit
This is a script to perform SSH/SSL RSA private key passphrase enumeration with a dictionary attack. !/usr/bin/perl SSH/SSL RSA Private Key Passphrase dictionary enumerator Copyright 2018 c Todor Donev https://ethical-hacker.org/ https://facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg email protected$ ssh-keygen -...
U.S. DoD Hopes To Stamp Out Threats With Bug Bounty Program
The U.S. Department of Defense is doubling down on routing out vulnerabilities in its massive government systems. On Monday, the DoD announced it was expanding its bug bounty program to include the agency’s massive Defense Travel System. The “Hack the DTS” program launched in partnership with bug...
Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US
A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 and possibly compromising personal details of over 100 million users, has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, of Moscow was arrest...
ATM hacker behind $1 billion malware heists arrested in Spain
By Waqas In a joint operation, Europol along with the law enforcement authorities from Belarus, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ATM hacker behind $1 billion malware heists arrested in Spain...
Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37
Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times's network and for reporting Chelsea Manning's theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapt...
Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37
By Waqas Adrian Lamo, a hacker who was once in the news This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37...
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37
Adrian Lamo, the hacker who tipped off the FBI about Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, dies at the age of 37, according to a Facebook post by his father Mario Lamo-Jiménez. "With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian's friends and acquaintances that he is dead. ...