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<\/p>\nSo it’s back to normal programming today, here’s a look back at 2014 (ups and down) and interesting happenings over the past 12 months – including tools and news stories.<\/p>\n
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So Bitcoin<\/a> and cryptocurrency in general was a pretty hot topic in 2014, and the year started out with Yahoo! spreading malware via adverts on their portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Later in the year in May, some smart pirates infested the hottest new game Watchdogs with Bitcoin mining malware<\/a> and made themselves a fortune. There was also an academic paper about hiding a Bitcoin Mining Botnet in the Cloud<\/a> using free tier accounts – pretty interesting stuff.<\/p>\n There was of course some massive drama too with some large scale vulnerabilities that got everyone in a panic like the SSL bug Heartbleed<\/a>, the OTHER SSL bug POODLE<\/a> and the BASH Shellshock<\/a>.<\/p>\n It turns out nothing really major happened due to either of them, as far as we know anyway..<\/p>\n There were some large scale hacks\/compromises in 2014 though such as Target<\/a>, eBay<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Code Spaces<\/a>, the massive celeb leak<\/a>\/fappening, JPMorgan<\/a>, ICANN<\/a> and the mother of all hacks in 2014 and possible ever – Sony Pictures who got totally owned<\/a>.<\/p>\n There was loads of vulns found in Microsoft software (Schannel was pretty important<\/a>), as usual – so we won’t bother listing all of those out. Some other fairly inconsequential stuff like bugs in WordPress and a pretty nifty (really ancient) bug in FTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s been some pretty neat stuff released this year, with highlights being:<\/p>\n You may have overlooked some of these, so do check them out if you did!<\/p>\n Enjoy 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So it’s back to normal programming today, here’s a look back at 2014 (ups and down) and interesting happenings over the past 12 months – including tools and news stories. 2014 News Stories So Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general was a pretty hot topic in 2014, and the year started out with Yahoo! spreading malware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"A look back at 2014 including the tools released and big news stories that happened as we move into 2015 - happy new year from the Darknet team.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10666],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2014 Best Hacking Tools<\/h3>\n
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Bonus – Top 10 Most Viewed Posts From 2014<\/h3>\n
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