Glastonbury ticket hijack vulnerability fixed

The Glastonbury ticket website was vulnerable to a relatively simple attack that that allowed ticket theft and data leakage. What’s the issue? An attacker could scrape collaborative ticket buying information e.g. on Reddit to gather people’s details, use a flaw in the registration process and...

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’...

Top 5 Most Vicious Bad Bots

Classified by The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP as ‘automated threats’, bad bots can be used to perform a plethora of actions on the application layer, from basic requests to elaborate sessions with sophisticated requests. Some of these bots are more malicious than others. This make...

Sign of the Times: Shmoocon Tickets Scalped on eBay

How do you know when your alt.hacking conference has arrived? Maybe when scalpers are offering tickets for the event on eBay for almost three times the face value. That’s the situation the organizers of hacking conference Shmoocon have found themselves in, as illicit auctions for tickets to next...