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Websites of Pakistan Army, Vatican Catholic Church and Italian Chamber of Commerce Vulnerable to SQL Injection

A hacker going with the handle of @WilyXem on Twitter has claimed to found SQL vulnerabilities on the official website of Pakistan Army,  Vatican Catholic Church and  Italian Chamber of Commerce. WilyXem explained that these vulnerabilities can be further exploited easily to deface or access the secret information on the server. Details of each vulnerability with its screenshot is mentioned below, […]

WordPress Default Leaves Millions of Sites Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks

Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS attack against a large gaming website, in which WordPress played a key role, yet again. Typically, such application layer DDoS attacks are carried out by host botnets, but this time team Incapsula were surprised to see that the attack originated from approximately 2,500 WordPress sites, including some very […]

Pakistani Researcher Founds Critical XSS Vulnerability on Brazzers, BMW, Toyota and Ford Website

Earlier I updated readers with latest vulnerabilities that were found on IndiaTimes and ASK.com by a Pakistani security researcher Danish Tariq, this time he is back with couple of more vulnerabilities.  Danish claims to have found critical cross site scripting vulnerability (XSS) on Brazzers.com, leaving the paid customer to loose thousands of dollars in few seconds. Brazzers.com […]

Hacker Maps Internet by Enslaving Thousands of Vulnerable Machines

A security researcher has raveled some fantastic results over the percentage of vulnerable networks and devices around the world. His technique as a hacker was pretty straightforward and was a big time a matter of concern for all the people around the world. Let’s then see what the researcher found through his researches and how was he […]

Polish President’s Computer Network hacked, attempts to spread malware

The computer network at Polish presidential office has been breached by hackers trying to spread a malicious malware through an email attachment. The office has refused to give further details but accepts that there was an attempt with harmful content and the access to the president’s computers have been restricted. A Polish website Niebezpiecznik that […]

Mircosoft to Fix Some Critical Vulnerabilities by Tuesday

Microsoft has found seven vulnerabilities in its programs and has deemed of them critical. The critical are so serious that officials have said: “drop-everything-and-fix-this-now”. These loop holes are found in the following programs: Microsoft office, Windows, Internet explorer, Windows server and Silverlight. While commenting on the type attacks lay down through vulnerabilities the officials said […]