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In two different incidents, security of high profile platforms was compromised. These platforms include jQuery and CoinHive. jQuery Earlier today, two hackers going by the online handle of “n3tr1x” and “str0ng” hacked and defaced the official blog (blog.jquery.com) of jQuery. The JavaScript library platform was using WordPress content management system (CMS) for its blog and looking at the […]
Yet another lesson in how not to secure your network. Coinhive has admitted to a security breach leading to hackers hijacking cryptocurrency mining scripts on legitimate websites. The cryptocurrency mining software provider said this week that at approximately 10 pm GMT on Monday, the firm received a note from its DNS provider, Cloudflare which warned Coinhive that […]
In September 2017, we reported that The Pirate Bay (TPB) was running a cryptocurrency miner provided by CoinHive. The code used visitor’s CPU bandwidth to generate Monero digital coins without informing them or allowing them to Opt-In or Opt-Out. In reply, TPB claimed, “the miner is being tested for a short period (~24 hours) as a new way to generate revenue.” Another […]
Websites are hijacking computers to mine digital coins. Cloudflare, an internet security company founded in 2010, has quickly become an integral part of how many websites operate. As one of the largest purveyors of protection against denial-of-service attacks, Now, the company is setting its sights on the growing trend of websites hijacking their visitors’ computers […]
Pirate Bay got this the hard way when users on Reddit lately complained regarding the site’s use of such miners. The website eventually backed away from the practice, but not after giving a fair deal. “As you may have seen we are testing a Monero javascript miner,” said the site’s administrators. “This is simply a […]
It looks like the racist and neo-nazi website DailyStormer has no place left on the regular Internet. A few days ago the website was banned by GoDaddy and Suspended by Google. Then it turned out that the site has moved to the Russian domain service RU and the Dark Web. Now, it has been reported that […]
It’s been a while now since the BitTorrent giant The Pirate Bay is offline worldwide while only thing which users can see when visiting the domain is CloudFlare cache along with an alert that “This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare always online technology, you can continue to surf the snapshot […]
We have seen some latest incidents wherein the CloudFlare Network has been mentioned to have lost its purchase records, now the company blames an unspecified inner fault for these kinds of incidents. In keeping with John Graham-Cumming, the organization’s CTO, about 1 in every 3.3 million requests that servers of the company have been managing in […]
Cloudflare has blamed an unspecified internal fault for the recent incidents in which it has been reported that the service may have lost client data. According to the company’s CTO, John Graham-Cumming, about 1 in every 3.3 million requests that the servers of the company were handling between 13th and 18th of February this way […]
Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens. Cloudflare, a service that helps optimize the security and performance of more than 5.5 million websites, warned customers today that a recently fixed software bug exposed a range of sensitive information that could have included passwords, and cookies and tokens used to […]
In this tutorial we are going to show you how to use free SSL on your wordpress site using Cloudflare’s Free Flexible SSL Note: Make sure you take a backup of your website first in case something goes wrong! How to: Step 1: Create an account at Cloudflare. Step 2: Add your website and select […]