This is a pretty sad case, and one which I’m sure all of us have followed since it first started. Surprisingly it hasn’t gotten a whole lot of media attention, but then this legal precedent sticks it to the man and has some consequences regarding the infosec industry – and who would want to publicize […]
Exploits/Vulnerabilities
Evernote Hacked – ALL Users Required To Reset Passwords
The big news in the past week or so was the Evernote hack, being a user of Evernote I was interested by this one – it seems to be a pretty pervasive hack with user IDs and e-mail addresses being leaked. Thankfully the passwords are salted hashes, so it’s unlikely they’ll get brute forced any […]
Apple, Facebook & Hundreds More Hacked By 0-Day Java Exploit
There’s an awful lot of high profile hacks going on lately, with some people linking them to the Chinese and a large-scale attack on Western companies. Before this, Twitter Breach Leaks 250,000 User E-mails & Passwords – was probably the most high profile case. Now Apple, Facebook and quite possibly hundreds of other companies have […]
Weevely – PHP Stealth Tiny Web Shell
Weevely is a stealth PHP web shell that provides a telnet-like console. It is an essential tool for web application post exploitation, and can be used as stealth backdoor or as a web shell to manage legit web accounts, even free hosted ones. Weevely is currently included in Backtrack and Backbox and all the major […]
Twitter Breach Leaks 250,000 User E-mails & Passwords
The big news for the past few days was a rather sizable Twitter hack, although it’s only a small percentage of the 140 million strong Twitter user-base – 250,000 is still a large number. If you were affected you will have received a password reset e-mail and will be prompted to change your password if […]