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Tag Archives: Hacks
Underground Market Selling Cheap Access to Hacked Servers
Kaspersky Lab uncovers the xDedic marketplace, a trading forum selling access to hacked servers.
Verizon Patches Serious Email Flaw That Left Millions Exposed
Verizon fixed a critical flaw in its Verizon.net messaging system that permitted users to hack the email settings of other customers and forward email to any email account.
51 Million iMesh Accounts Available on Black Market
Fifty-one million iMesh accounts are for sale on Dark Web for $700, bringing the number of user accounts tied to recent breaches to over 700 million.
Threatpost News Wrap, June 10, 2016
The news from the week is discussed, including how recent data breaches have fed off password reuse and how a university paid $20K after a ransomware attack.
Google Patches High Severity Browser PDF Vulnerability
Google patched a Chrome vulnerability that allowed remote code execution on targeted computers simply by viewing a specially crafted PDF.
Unpatched D-Link Wi-Fi Camera Flaw Remotely Exploitable
D-Link’s DCS930L Wi-Fi camera is vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability that can be remotely exploited.
No Simple Fix for Password Reuse
The result of the recent LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace breaches will be a virtual crime wave as hackers take stolen credentials and unlock other accounts across the web, say experts.
100M ‘Russian Facebook’ Credentials For Sale
Hackers infiltrated the European social network VK.com at some point over the last several years and made off with credentials for 100 million of its users.
NTP Patches Flaws That Enable DDoS
The network time protocol was updated to ntp-4.2.8p8, patching a handful of vulnerabilities that can be leveraged in DDoS attacks.