Social Login Flaws in Popular Websites Risked Billions of User Accounts

By Deeba Ahmed The critical API security flaws in the social sign-in and OAuth Open Authentication implementations affected high-profile companies like… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Social Login Flaws in Popular Websites Risked Billions of User Accounts...

25 most popular websites vs Malwarebytes Browser Guard

Do you know how many see-everything-you're-doing-on-the-web trackers get loaded into your browser when you watch a YouTube video? Would you care to guess? It's about sixty. Sixty. Six zero. Sixty trackers when you load one video. I know this because I decided to take Browser Guard, the...

400 popular Drupal based websites hacked to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas Vulnerability in Drupal CMS Converted Popular Websites into Monero mining This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 400 popular Drupal based websites hacked to mine cryptocurrency...

Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You. A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. The researchers at the security firm,...

New Trojan Targets User Credentials on Popular Sites

A new information-stealing Trojan, believed to be of Chinese origin, has been identified by Avira researchers. This malware targets usernames and passwords for a variety of popular websites, including YouTube, Google, and PayPal, as well as Chinese sites like Youku, Tudou, Sogou, and Soho. The...

EFF and Tor Launch HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

Two prominent privacy-rights organizations, the Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have launched a new Firefox extension that encrypts all of the browser’s communications with some prominent Web sites. The extension, called HTTPS Everywhere, is designed to create secure HTTPS...

OpenX Ad Serving SW Attacked

Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week. Read the full article. Computerworld...