Views: 4,262 So after the massive DDoS attack trend in 2016 it seems like 2018 is going to the year of the Memcached DDoS amplification attack with so many insecure Memcached servers available on the public Internet. Unfortunately, it looks like a problem that won’t easily go away as there are so many publically exposed, […]
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0-Day Flash Vulnerability Exploited In The Wild
Views: 4,146 So another 0-Day Flash Vulnerability is being exploited in the Wild, a previously unknown flaw which has been labelled CVE-2018-4878 and it affects 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions for both Windows and Mac (the desktop runtime) and for basically everything in the Chrome Flash Player (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS). The full Adobe […]
Uber Paid Hackers To Hide 57 Million User Data Breach
Views: 4,267 Uber is not known for it’s high level of ethics, but it turns out Uber paid hackers to not go public with the fact they’d breached 57 Million accounts – which is a very shady thing to do. Getting hacked is one thing (usually someone f*cked up), but choosing as a company to […]
Terabytes Of US Military Social Media Spying S3 Data Exposed
Views: 7,957 Once again the old, default Amazon AWS S3 settings are catching people out, this time the US Military has left terabytes of social media spying S3 data exposed to everyone for years. It’s not long ago since a Time Warner vendor and their sloppy AWS S3 config leaked over 4 million customer records […]
Ethereum Parity Bug Destroys Over $250 Million In Tokens
Views: 3,728 If you are into cryptocurrency or blockchain at all, you will have heard about the Ethereum Parity Bug that has basically thrown $280 Million value or more of Ethereum tokens in the bin. It’s a bit of a mess really, and a mistake by the developers who introduced it after fixing another bug […]