- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 18th, 2016
Core Tor Contributor Leaves Project, Plans to Shut Down Crucial Server
"Ethics" mentioned in his decision announcement
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 16th, 2016
Nearly 200,000 Parked Domains Used to Show Rogue Ads, Hijack Traffic
Chinese domain reseller accused of shady tactics
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 11th, 2016
Bulletproof Hosting Providers Migrating to Middle East & North African Countries
Cyber-crime moves to new regions of the world
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2016
Criminals Set Up Fake Companies to Hijack and Sell IPv4 Addresses
50 incidents detected, 25 since September 2015
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 15th, 2016
xDedic Is an Underground Marketplace for Hacked Servers
Service offers for rental over 70,000 hacked servers
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 12th, 2016
Email Server Glitch Exposes Email Addresses for 7,618 Let's Encrypt Users
Glitch exposed details for 1.9% of users, before Let's Encrypt admins intervened and fixed the problem
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 9th, 2016
Hackers Break into Websites Using SQL Injections to Leave SEO Spam Behind
Over 700 websites infected during recent campaign
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 3rd, 2016
WordPress Sites Under Attack from New Zero-Day in WP Mobile Detector Plugin
Over 10,000 sites were exposed to hacking
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 2nd, 2016
The World's Biggest Companies Use Outdated WordPress and Drupal Installations
Many of these face similar Panama Papers-level data breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 27th, 2016
Companies Are Slow to Patch Latest OpenSSL Flaw
37.42 percent of the Alexa 10,000 sites remain vulnerable
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 25th, 2016
Tor to Use Never-Before-Seen Distributed RNG to Generate Truly Random Numbers
Devs test new Tor RNG algorithm at last week's meeting
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 24th, 2016
WPAD Protocol Bug Puts Windows Users at Risk
WPAD name collision issue can lead to MitM attacks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 16th, 2016
New Simple Attack on Squid Proxies Leverages Malicious Flash Ads
Popular ISP utility exposed to new cache poisoning attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 18th, 2016
UK Hosting Provider Accused of Deleting Customer Sites via "Rogue Script" UPDATED
A risky marketing stunt or a real "epic fail"?
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 16th, 2016
Backdoor in JBoss Java Platform Puts 3.2 Million Servers at Risk
2,100 servers are still infected, in danger of being exploited to deliver the SamSam ransomware variant
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 15th, 2016
WordPress Sites Targeted with New Attacks Using C99 PHP Webshell
Unpatched WordPress plugins are to blame, yet again
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 14th, 2016
Hosting Provider Irreversibly Deletes All Customer Data by Mistake
Sir! Step away from the "rm -rf /" command