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Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

Adam Levin

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and 750,000 active users, announced that hackers had breached their systems. .

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Hacking Apple for Profit

Schneier on Security

Five researchers hacked Apple Computer’s networks — not their products — and found fifty-five vulnerabilities. Lots of details in this blog post by one of the hackers. So far, they have received $289K.

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Hacking Pickleball

Schneier on Security

Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules. My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind , has a lot of sports stories. I don’t understand pickleball at all, so that explanation doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. (I But it looks like an excellent example.

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US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack

Schneier on Security

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials. From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred.

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High-School Graduation Prank Hack

Schneier on Security

This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. A spokesperson for the D214 school district tells WIRED they can confirm the events in Duong’s blog post happened. It has a happy ending: no one was prosecuted.

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Worried About Your Phone Getting Hacked? Secure Your Device With The Best Antivirus!

Quick Heal Antivirus

The post Worried About Your Phone Getting Hacked? appeared first on Quick Heal Blog. Ever felt like there’s a tiny, invisible threat lurking in your pocket? Well, guess what? You might be. Secure Your Device With The Best Antivirus!

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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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