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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 18th, 2016
Core Tor Contributor Leaves Project, Plans to Shut Down Crucial Server

Core Tor Contributor Leaves Project, Plans to Shut Down Crucial Server

"Ethics" mentioned in his decision announcement

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 16th, 2016
Nearly 200,000 Parked Domains Used to Show Rogue Ads, Hijack Traffic

Nearly 200,000 Parked Domains Used to Show Rogue Ads, Hijack Traffic

Chinese domain reseller accused of shady tactics

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 11th, 2016
Bulletproof Hosting Providers Migrating to Middle East & North African Countries

Bulletproof Hosting Providers Migrating to Middle East & North African Countries

Cyber-crime moves to new regions of the world

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 23rd, 2016
Criminals Set Up Fake Companies to Hijack and Sell IPv4 Addresses

Criminals Set Up Fake Companies to Hijack and Sell IPv4 Addresses

50 incidents detected, 25 since September 2015

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 15th, 2016
xDedic Is an Underground Marketplace for Hacked Servers

xDedic Is an Underground Marketplace for Hacked Servers

Service offers for rental over 70,000 hacked servers

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 12th, 2016
Email Server Glitch Exposes Email Addresses for 7,618 Let's Encrypt Users

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

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 9th, 2016
Hackers Break into Websites Using SQL Injections to Leave SEO Spam Behind

Hackers Break into Websites Using SQL Injections to Leave SEO Spam Behind

Over 700 websites infected during recent campaign

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 3rd, 2016
WordPress Sites Under Attack from New Zero-Day in WP Mobile Detector Plugin

WordPress Sites Under Attack from New Zero-Day in WP Mobile Detector Plugin

Over 10,000 sites were exposed to hacking

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 2nd, 2016
The World's Biggest Companies Use Outdated WordPress and Drupal Installations

The World's Biggest Companies Use Outdated WordPress and Drupal Installations

Many of these face similar Panama Papers-level data breaches

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 27th, 2016
Companies Are Slow to Patch Latest OpenSSL Flaw

Companies Are Slow to Patch Latest OpenSSL Flaw

37.42 percent of the Alexa 10,000 sites remain vulnerable

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 25th, 2016
Tor to Use Never-Before-Seen Distributed RNG to Generate Truly Random Numbers

Tor to Use Never-Before-Seen Distributed RNG to Generate Truly Random Numbers

Devs test new Tor RNG algorithm at last week's meeting

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 24th, 2016
WPAD Protocol Bug Puts Windows Users at Risk

WPAD Protocol Bug Puts Windows Users at Risk

WPAD name collision issue can lead to MitM attacks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 16th, 2016
New Simple Attack on Squid Proxies Leverages Malicious Flash Ads

New Simple Attack on Squid Proxies Leverages Malicious Flash Ads

Popular ISP utility exposed to new cache poisoning attack

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 18th, 2016
UK Hosting Provider Accused of Deleting Customer Sites via "Rogue Script" <em>UPDATED</em>

UK Hosting Provider Accused of Deleting Customer Sites via "Rogue Script" UPDATED

A risky marketing stunt or a real "epic fail"?

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 16th, 2016
Backdoor in JBoss Java Platform Puts 3.2 Million Servers at Risk

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

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 15th, 2016
WordPress Sites Targeted with New Attacks Using C99 PHP Webshell

WordPress Sites Targeted with New Attacks Using C99 PHP Webshell

Unpatched WordPress plugins are to blame, yet again

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 14th, 2016
Hosting Provider Irreversibly Deletes All Customer Data by Mistake

Hosting Provider Irreversibly Deletes All Customer Data by Mistake

Sir! Step away from the "rm -rf /" command

 
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