Following shortly after the .io domain cock-up that left thousands vulnerable to domain hijacking, this week more than 750 domains were jacked via registrar Gandi. Seems like some pretty sloppy administration going on, but that’s how business goes sadly security is still a very much reactive trade. People don’t enable strict controls and audit unless […]
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Metasploit Site Hijacked by ARP Poisoning Attack
[ad] Crackers briefly hijacked hacking tools website Metasploit.com on Monday. Metasploit is an advanced open-source exploit development platform used by most pen-testers. A tool we often mention here on Darknet. On Monday the site was redirected to a page announcing the site was “hacked by sunwear ! just for fun“, as recorded by Sunbelt Software. […]
Perl.com Sends Visitors to P*rn Site!
[ad] Another tale to do with advertising, it just goes to show it’s really not a good idea to run JavaScript from a 3rd party source on your site, especially if you don’t want your visitors redirected to a p*rn site! This is just what happened to Perl.com a few days ago. Visitors to Perl.com, […]