Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability. Wix boasts some 87 million users, among them two million paying subscribers. Contrast Security researcher Matt Austin (@mattaustin) dug up the […]
Remember the time when Swedish police took down The Pirate Bay in late 2014? The online torrent files index and repository, IsoHunt announced its Open Bay Project, the idea behind this was “a new way for Internet users to work together so the torrenting service would always be available on a domain”. But with The Pirate Bay is back online, it […]
According to various sources and local media houses, WordPress.com has been banned in Pakistan. This shocking decision was today taken by the Pakistani government. They have ordered the Internet Service Providers to temporarily block the content management website. The world famous blogging platform WordPress.com and the websites hosted on it can not be accessed in […]
Famous Turkish hacker going with the handle of @AgentCorporatio from Turkish Agent Hacker Group has hacked and defaced the official website of telecom giant Vodafone Iceland. As a result of hack, the hacker has leaked around 77k user accounts with customers SMS logs. The hacker who contacted me on Twitter explained that reason for targeting Vodafone was to […]
The online hackavist group Anonymous has claimed to breach the Thayer Learning Center (TLC) [] a military based, Christian boarding school boot camp for troubled teens in Kidder, Missouri, as a result the admin data and surveillance logs on children’s phone calls have been exposed and leaked online. One of the hacker who contacted me explained that they had found vulnerability on […]