Cyber Attack Knocks Nearly a Million Routers Offline

Mirai Botnet is getting stronger and more notorious each day that passes by. The reason: Insecure Internet-of-things Devices.

Last month, the Mirai botnet knocked the entire Internet offline for a few hours, crippling some of the world’s biggest and most popular websites.

Now, more than 900,000 broadband routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany knocked offline over the weekend

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Insert Html Snippet WordPress Plugin

Posted by Summer of Pwnage on Nov 29

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Cross-Site Request Forgery in Insert Html Snippet WordPress Plugin
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Yorick Koster, July 2016

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OVE-20160724-0027…

CVE-2016-5393

In Apache Hadoop 2.6.x before 2.6.5 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3, a remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the HDFS service.