How Ticket Scalping Impacts Asia’s Live Entertainment Industry

Asia’s booming live entertainment industry has recently been plagued by a growing problem of ticket scalping. The term refers to the act of purchasing live event tickets in bulk by individuals, often through the use of automation aka bots, to later resell them at exorbitant prices. The issue isn’...

MySQL Performance Tuning: Top 5 Tips for Blazing Fast Queries

By Owais Sultan Patience is no longer a virtue when talking about website or app performance. Users get frustrated after waiting for… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MySQL Performance Tuning: Top 5 Tips for Blazing Fast Queries...

Windows Installer vulnerability becomes actively exploited zero-day

Sometimes the ways in which malicious code gets in the hands of cybercriminals is frustrating for those in the industry, and incomprehensible to those on the outside. A quick summary of the events in the history of this exploit: A researcher found a flaw in Windows Installer that would allow an...

Security pros agree about threats—convincing everyone else is the problem

How about that Colonial Pipeline? As troubling as this event may be, for those of us working in the world of cybersecurity it can be hard to convince others to take dangers like this seriously—regardless of how real and immediate they are. “Sadly, the upper leadership team does not understand the...

Yeezy Fans Face Sneaker-Bot Armies for Hot Kicks Releases

Shopping bots are likely to make it tough for everyday sneakerheads to get their hands on a pair of new Adidas Yeezy shoes from Kanye West as more styles become available through retailers in the next few months. Researchers at Cequence Security track bots across the internet, and the company’s...

Magic: CSRF in generating developer api_key

Hi At https://dashboard.forttmatic.com when developer tries to generate new apikey for his application, a POST request is sent to https://api.forttmatic.com which doesn't have any tokens to guard against CSRF attacks. CSRF POC : history.pushState'', '', '/' On submitting the above request, a new...

Mobile Menace Monday: FakeGift is the gift that keeps on frustrating

Last spring, we found yet another piece of riskware on Google Play we call Android/PUP.Riskware.FakeGift. Based on Hindi characters found in the code, we can assume it originates from India. With over 50,000 installs before being removed from Google Play, FakeGift apparently kept on...

Proposed NIST Password Guidelines Soften Length, Complexity Focus

A comment period has closed on NIST’s new password guidelines for federal agencies that challenge the effectiveness of traditional behaviors around authentication such as an insistence on complex passwords and scheduled resets. As more tech companies move away from passwords and toward multistep...

Uzbey: Suck My Motherfucking Dick

Hey You Motherfucker When You Gonna Approved My Bug Reports You Are Fucking Take So Much Time To Review I Gonna Fuck You In the Ass You Fucking Son Of Bitches And You Know What Your Birth Certificate Is An Apology From The Condom Factory...

Intelligence Insiders Disclose Bug Information With Tor

The executive director of the Tor Project told the BBC that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies are in an internal cat and mouse game, with one faction trying to break the anonymity network, and another one sharing bugs anonymously with Tor developers. Andrew Leman, in an extensive...

MS-DOS: Injecting Distrust and Disbelief in Addicted Gamers

Hi, Here Attacker worried parents can ask Victim their children who are addicted towards gaming to play Pong for MS-DOS.Playing this kinda pong may lead to frustration, headache and eventually total distrust in gaming PS: This feature can save millions of young children who are addicted...