Never leak secrets to your GitHub repositories again
GitHub is making push protection – a security feature designed to automatically prevent the leaking of secrets to repositories – free for owners of all…
Month: May 2023
Mastermind Behind Twitter 2020 Hack Pleads Guilty and Faces up to 70 Years in Prison
May 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Social Media A U.K. national has pleaded guilty in connection with the July 2020 Twitter attack affecting numerous high-profile…
Test your site for the latest WordPress plugin XSS vulnerabilities
We have recently added a bunch of new security tests to Detectify, so you can now check your WordPress site for XSS vulnerabilities in popular…
A Mysterious New Hacker Group, Red Stinger, Is Lurking in Ukraine’s Cyberspace
The unidentified attackers have targeted people on both sides of Russia’s war against Ukraine, carrying out espionage operations that suggest state funding. Source link
WhatsApp Cannot be Trusted, Warns Elon Musk
After a Twitter engineer posted photos of an Android dashboard showing his WhatsApp microphone being used while he slept, Elon Musk declared that WhatsApp could not…
Twitter Hacker Arrested, 23-Year-Old Pleads Guilty
A 23-year-old U.K. citizen pleaded guilty in New York for his role in several online crimes including the Twitter hacking in 2020. Joseph James O’Connor,…
The World’s Elite Hackers Share Tips and Insights
As many hackers on the HackerOne platform know, you can make a good living out of bug-hunting. But a few of our hackers have made a really good…
U.S. Government Neutralizes Russia’s Most Sophisticated Snake Cyber Espionage Tool
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia’s…
Nebulon aims Tripline at ransomware detection in storage
Nebulon has launched Tripline, a ransomware detection capability that samples input/output (I/O) every 30 seconds to test for unusual volumes of encrypted data, with claims…
Newly added security tests, September 21, 2017: Zend, cPanel and WordPress plugins
We have been busy this week, adding 14 new security tests to our service. The main focus of this update are various WordPress plugin vulnerabilities…
How the Risk-Averse DoD Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hackers
There are few, if any, organizations more risk-averse than the U.S. Department of Defense. But even this staid agency has realized the security benefits of…
Microsoft May 2023 Patch Fixes Critical Vulnerabilities
Microsoft May 2023 Patch Update is here! Microsoft has unveiled its highly anticipated patch update for May 2023, addressing 38 flaws including three zero-day vulnerabilities.…