Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Not just infosec headlines or tech headlines, but the headlines of major consumer media the likes my mum and dad would read. Not only do they control the access rights to the mailbox, they also control DNS and MX records therefore they control the routing of emails.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Hacking websites is perhaps often underestimated yet is super interesting with all its potential for command injections and cross site scripting attacks. In fact, the word “hack” simply means to take things apart. It’s about challenging out expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

One more constellation of vulnerabilities that appeared in the infosec sky was a threesome of critical bugs in the popular SolarWinds Orion Platform – CVE-2021-25274 , CVE-2021-25275 , CVE-2021-25276. These vulnerabilities were found in-the-wild and had been used by APT and ransomware groups. Countries that are sources of web-based attacks.

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