Totally Pwning the Tapplock Smart Lock

TL;DR – How to open a Tapplock over BLE in under two seconds: Totally Pwning the Tapplock Smart Lock A couple of weekends ago, a YouTuber called JerryRigEverything posted a teardown of a “smart” padlock, called the Tapplock. He discovered that, using a sticky GoPro mount, he could remove the back...

Researcher Finds Credentials for 92 Million Users of DNA Testing Firm MyHeritage

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million of its users. MyHeritage says it has no reason to believe other user data was...

CVE-2016-10646

CVE-2016-10646 affects the Node wrapper resourcehacker, which downloads binary resources over HTTP. The underlying issue is insecure HTTP delivery, enabling MITM attackers to intercept the response and replace the requested binary with attacker-controlled code, potentially leading to remote code ...

anti-hacker-alliance.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-625722 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| anti-hacker-alliance.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

This Week in Security News: ePrivacy and Hack Back

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. This week, the Council of the European Union reviewed a bill dubbed the “ePrivacy” Regulation, which targets message-sharing services like WhatsApp and...

Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years

By Carolina The same hacker was once known as "international hacker-for-hire." Karim Baratov, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Yahoo hacker involved in 500 million accounts breach jailed for 5 years...

Yahoo! Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach

Fortune 500 breaches seem to be a theme this week. As the Yahoo attacker responsible for the company’s 500 million-account data breach has been sentenced, Coca-Cola disclosed an insider stole the information of 8,000 employees. A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last year to a “hacking-for-hire”...

All Hands Memo to Owners of Home / Small Office Routers: Reboot Them!

This last week or so of May has been busy with security news and incidents, as the FBI put out an unprecedented call to do a massive wave of reboots of home and small office routers, while Intel confirmed the existence of yet another Spectre / Meltdown variant. And, yes, we had yet another...

Facebook Graph OpenSearch Phone Number Metadata Crosswalk Mapping

!/usr/bin/perl Facebook 'Graph' OpenSearch 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...

10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web

By Waqas The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web...

Mail.ru: Clickjacking Vulnerability on https://support.my.com/games/ticket/xxxx/

Hi There, I have found a Clickjacking vulnerability on your site. Steps to reproduce: 1.Go to https://support.my.com this site 2.Generate a Clickjacking script, save it as .html and run into your browser Script: iframe width: 800px; height: 500px; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; filter:...

WiFi hacker: 10 best Android & Desktop WiFi hacking apps free download

By Waqas Hacking is no more the specialty of experts and professionals This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WiFi hacker: 10 best Android & Desktop WiFi hacking apps free download...

Valve: Unfiltered input allows for XSS in "Playtime Item Grants" fields

Enter "test in any of the 3 fields, save it and reload the page. Impact Stored XSS, could possibly break some internal features too as the stored value is not an integer. The hacker selected the Cross-site Scripting XSS - Stored weakness. This vulnerability type requires contextual information fr...

Hacker access critical code of British cell operator EE

By Waqas EE, a British mobile network giant owned by BT Group has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker access critical code of British cell operator EE...

Man who hacked West Point military academy website arrested from LA

By Waqas A hacker who hacked and defaced more than 11,000 websites This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man who hacked West Point military academy website arrested from LA...

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...