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Change.org, a famous online petition website is sending emails to its registered petitioners encouraging them to change their account password on the website. The email came days after Google employee, Tavis Ormandy of Project Zero exposed Cloudbleed bug that seems to have leaked sensitive and personal information passing through websites using CloudFlare’s service. The email […]
Filippo Valsorda, a researcher from Cloudflare, recently discovered a bug in F5’s BIG-IP Networks. The flaw has been dubbed as Ticketbleed, keeping in mind its similarity with another such bug, Heartbleed. How does Ticketbleed work? Ticketbleed is a vulnerability in the BIG-IP SSL networks that allows for SSL sessions to be leaked which are as large as 31 bytes. This happens due to the […]
In this tutorial we will be scanning a target for the well known Heartbleed SSL Bug using the popular Nmap tool on Kali Linux. The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library and was introduced on 31 December on 2011 and released in March 2012. This weakness allows the attacker to steal information […]
A well-known figure known as the radio voice of Anonymous, LoraxLive, Adam Bennet who had also been arrested last year when he was found guilty of computer crimes, will eventually come to find out on March 11 about what exactly he had been charged with. It had been expected that this will take place this […]
Romanian hackers used Bash Bug flaw to hackYahoo servers, according to a recent security news update. Jonathan Hall, President of the IT consulting firm, Future South Technologies and a security researcher, has affirmed that a group of Romanian hackers used the Shellshock vulnerability to compromise Yahoo servers, which was also confirmed by Yahoo! Hall said […]
They call it Shellshock bug, they say it is way more dangerous than the previous Heartbleed bug which left all the secure SSL system vulnerable, but this bug has power to compromise any system and run commands to install malicious softwares on your device or computer. Hackers may already be accessing people’s personal data by exploiting […]
If you thought that Heartbleed is out of date now, and the whole cyber world is secure, then you have to change your perception because Luis Grangeia, a partner and security services manager at SysValue discovered an exploit, which he named Cupid. He proved that the same vulnerability could also be utilized against any device […]
The password manager, LastPass, allows you to check if the saved sites are affected by the bug through its ‘LastPass Heratbleed Checker. LastPass’s Security Check tells you which sites have updated their certificates, and whether you need to change your password for that site. Image credit: Cnet In the latest attempt to safeguard against the openSSL programming […]