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According to information security specialists, ZoneAlarm, the firewall software produced by security firm Check Point, was the victim of a data breach that compromised the information stored in one of the company’s online forums. After infiltrating the ZoneAlarm forum, threat actors gained illegitimate access to the full names, dates of birth, email addresses and passwords […]
An animal abuse website or otherwise called a “bestiality” platform (whose name will not be shared here as it is not appropriate) has been hacked and as a result, its database containing personal information of registered users has been stolen. The breach took place on September 25th, 2019 and confirmed by Troy Hunt of HaveIbeenPwned […]
Regardless of its usage, any software implementation can present serious security errors. A researcher in vulnerability testing that remains anonymous for the time has revealed details about zero-day vulnerability in vBulletin, the most widely used Internet forum creation software nowadays. The problem is that it appears that the person in charge of publishing this information […]
Last week, security researchers have published the details of two possibly critical flaws affecting version 5 of the vBulletin forum software. vBulletin is the most popular forum software, which is based on PHP and MySQL database server. It’s currently used by over 100,000 websites, including Fortune 500 and Alexa Top 1 million organizations websites and […]
vBulletin, also known as vB, is a widespread proprietary Internet forum software package developed by vBulletin Solutions, Inc., based on PHP and MySQL database server. vBulletin powers many of the largest social sites on the web, with over 100,000 sites built on it, including Fortune 500 and Alexa Top 1M companies websites and forums. According […]
According to the latest research from Italy based security company TRUELIT’s researcher and an independent security expert, the widely used internet forum software vBulletin has two critical yet unpatched security flaws. One of these flaws can lead to letting an attacker remotely execute malicious code on the application server of vBulletin. It must be noted […]
Software maker issued security patch hours after reports surfaced it was breached. Developers of the vBulletin software package for website forums released a security patch Monday night, just hours after reports surfaced that a hack on the developers’ site leaked password data and other sensitive information belonging to almost 480,000 subscribers. vBulletin officials have put […]