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Hackers are scanning the internet for vulnerable Salt installs, Ghost blogging platform hacked

Security Affairs

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The same vulnerabilities in the Salt platform have been exploited during the weekend to hack the infrastructure of Lineageos. Pierluigi Paganini.

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HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS?

Security Affairs

The Internet was shutdown several days and more than 80 websites, most of them news and political sites, were blocked. Qurium forensics report: Internet blocking in Belarus. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] 14, 2014: “Greetings Noel, “We’d like to offer Jordan Bloom the position of PHP developer reporting to Mike Morris for 75k CAD/Year. Abusewith[.]us

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Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic

Security Affairs

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Lab Walkthrough?—?Shockin’ Shells: ShellShock [CVE-2014–6271]

Pentester Academy

Lab Walkthrough — Shockin’ Shells: ShellShock [CVE-2014–6271] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Introduction Around mid-September 2014, the security community experienced a seemingly simple, yet nuanced bug in the popular shell interpreter bash. Originally published at [link].

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SFO discloses data breach following the hack of 2 of its websites

Security Affairs

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).