Best Practices for Optimizing Web Development Standards for Media Sites

By Owais Sultan Boost user engagement and SEO ranking with these key web development practices for media sites. Discover responsive design, page speed optimization, user-friendly CMS, SEO structure, and accessibility best practices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Best...

Hackers Targeted Hong Kong Apple Devices in Widespread Attack

Visitors to pro-democracy and media sites in the region were infected with malware that could download files, steal data, and more...

Millions of Android Users Scammed in SMS Fraud Driven by Tik-Tok Ads

Threat actors are using malicious Android apps to scam users into signing up for a bogus premium SMS subscription service, which results in big charges accruing on their phone bills. Jakub Vavra from the threat operations team of security firm Avast uncovered the campaign, which he dubbed UltimaS...

Iran Media Websites Seized by U.S. in Disinformation Campaign

The Department of Justice has seized the domains of 36 Iranian media sites that officials say weren’t just operating in violation of sanctions, but were part of a widespread government-backed malign-influence operation targeting the U.S. The DoJ said that 33 of the sites are run by the Iranian...

Deliberately Playing Copyrighted Music to Avoid Being Live-Streamed

Vice is reporting on a new police hack: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens, trying to provoke social media sites into taking the videos down and maybe even banning the filmers: In a separate part of the video, which Devermont says was filmed later that same afternoon, Devermo...

Sixt GmbH & Co. Autovermietung KG BBP: Cross domain token leakage via Referer header

Summary: The password reset link of user account on critical sixt+ domain/product can be obtained using the page https://www.sixt.com/php/profile/loginorpasswordforgotten. This page requires email address and surname/lastname of the user to send password reset link on email. This link contains th...

Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It

The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?...

Metasploit Exploit Module for IE Zero-Day Vulnerability

It’s been 14 days since Microsoft issued an advisory and temporary mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, one being actively exploited in the wild and called by some experts as severe a browser bug as you can have. Yet users have since had little more to shield them from...

WordPress Update 3.5.2 Patches Seven Vulnerabilities

WordPress, which has been a jumping off point for a number of targeted attacks and other high-profile hacks, has been updated and the latest version includes a number of security patches. Version 3.5.2, released late last week, includes seven security fixes and some additional hardening, accordin...

Popular WordPress Themes, Plug-Ins Vulnerable to Attack

Since late March, no fewer than a half-dozen high profile attacks have involved a compromised website built on the WordPress platform. Attackers abuse vulnerabilities in the content management system’s customizable plug-ins and themes to pull off anything from drive-by downloads to watering hole...

Hacked Media Sites Serving Fake AV Malware

Websites belonging to a number of Washington, D.C.-area media outlets have been compromised in a series of opportunistic attacks with criminals using a watering-hole tactic to spread scareware, or phony antivirus software. Popular D.C. radio station WTOP, sister station Federal News Radio, and th...

The World Now, "Third Age" Cyber Crime !

The year 2010 was a crime of great team and could prove to mark the beginning of a "third age" of computer crimes, security expert Graham Cluley of Sophos, said before the review of the latest threats Company year. The first period was marked by amateur hackers and virus creation on the PC, the...

High Profile Education, Government Sites Hacked

The Web sites of some of the nation’s top universities were discovered to be serving up links to bogus online stores offering everything from popular software by Microsoft to student visas and Viagra, according to a report from security firm zScaler. Portions of Websites belonging to Harvard...

It's Time For a New Privacy Model

The current raft of stories about privacy problems on Facebook and other high-profile sites is leading to a renewed consideration in some circles of whether there’s a need for tighter government regulation of sites’ privacy policies and user notifications. Regulation, experts say, may be the only...