It seems as for some, a serious hacking operation is not enough to make them learn about the importance of a secured website. After not long ago they fell victim to a data breach as a result of which many of their customers were left exposed, Comodo proves that it learned very little from the incident. Team Elite di... |
19 December 2011
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An anonymous person revealed yesterday that he found a flaw in the official website of the Pan American Games held at Guadalajara in Mexico. The weakness seems to make accessible the personal information of all the journalists that cover the event.
According to Winnipeg Free Press, the tipster contacted a reporter ... |
25 October 2011
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The "Let's Hack Sony marathon" continues as hackers announced a new compromise of one of the company's websites and disclosed exploitable vulnerabilities affecting another.Hacking outfit LulzSec, which recently targeted FOX and stole the personal details of 250,000 X Factor USA auditionees, hacked into the ... |
24 May 2011
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The hackers who disclosed vulnerabilities in MySQL.com also published details about SQL injection flaws in older Sun Microsystems websites.Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle at the beginning of 2010 and its products were integrated into the latter's portfolio.However, given the sheer size of Sun many of its... |
28 March 2011
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Password management service LastPass has fixed a serious cross-site scripting vulnerability on its website which could have been exploited to obtain sensitive information about other people's accounts.LastPass allows users to generate secure passwords for each of their accounts and store them inside an encrypted... |
1 March 2011
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A vulnerability on the University of Sydney (USyd) website allowed sensitive student data to be accessed by anyone, for possibly as long as four years.According to the Sydney Morning Herald, which learned of the flaw and notified the university about it, the data included student names, home addresses, emails, as we... |
20 January 2011
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An Indian security expert and whitehat hacker claims that as much as 90% of websites operated by the Indian government are vulnerable to various types of attacks.Vineet Kumar is CEO of Security Brigade, a security consultancy and auditing firm, and also leads the Indian National Anti-Hacking Group (NAG), a non-profit... |
28 December 2010
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Mozilla has extended its security bug bounty program to also reward the discovery of Web vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection (SQLi) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF), in its websites.Mozilla's vulnerability reward program, one of the first of its kind, was originally limited to only... |
15 December 2010
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A security researcher has identified multiple vulnerabilities on ESPN's Fantasy Football website, which enables players to make unauthorized changes to their opponents' teams.In fantasy sports games like Fantasy Football, the participants build virtual teams by drafting real players at the beginning of a se... |
23 September 2010
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Robert Graham, expert at Erata Security, the person who was first to find the vulnerability behind the UN website attack in 2007, reported on his blog that United Nations security admins failed to fix the problem. The UN website is still as vulnerable as it was two years ago to massive SQL injection as it can be see... |
15 August 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Websites belonging to no less than six antivirus vendors have been found to suffer from cross-site scripting weaknesses that could facilitate phishing attacks. Most of these companies were faced with similar flaws affecting their online resources in the past. A grey-hat hacker, going by the name of Methodman, who se... |
11 May 2009
06:26 GMT |
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