Bad Bots – How To Fight Them and What Are They

Author: Asim Rahal Bad internet bot traffic rose by 18.1% in 2019, and it now accounts for nearly one-quarter of all internet traffic The figure above, which comes from Imperva’s 2020 Bad...

Facebook Sponsors 0day Exploit For Tails OS To Help The FBI Catch A Pedophile

Facebook helped the FBI catch a pedophile and sponsored the creation of a 0-day exploit for Tails An amazing story was published on its pages by Vice Motherboard . It turned out that...

Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp Users

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users that could be...

Russian Military Hackers Sandworm Exploiting Mail Software Says NSA

By Sergiu Gatlan The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) says that Russian military threat actors known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software...

WordPress Plugin PageLayer leaves 200k sites vulnerable

Author: Sergiu Gatlan Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions. PageLayer is a WordPress...

Adobe Critical Vulnerability Patch Released

Adobe has released an unscheduled critical vulnerability fix ( CVE-2020-9586 ) in its Adobe Character Animator motion capture application. Exploiting the vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely execute code on a vulnerable...

Senate Vote An The FBIs Warrant-less Claim To Your Browsing History. Will a VPN...

(Getty Images) As many of you are aware, the US Senate recently passed a bill to extend elements of the Patriot Act. Notably, this legislation included parts that would increase the FBI and...

How A College Student Made 10k From Bug Bounties

Author: Tilson Galloway API keys, passwords, and customer data are accidentally posted to GitHub every day. Hackers use these keys to login to servers, steal personal information, and rack up absurd...

A New Critical Vulnerability Affects vBulletin Forums – Update Now

If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical...

Monero-Mining Campaign Blue Mockingbird Exploits Web Apps

The cybercriminals are utilizing a deserialization weakness, CVE-2019-18935, to accomplish remote code execution before moving horizontally through the enterprise. A Monero digital currency mining effort has developed that abuses a...
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