Facebook Hit With record-breaking $1.3 Billion Fine
Facebook (now Meta) has faced many allegations and litigations in the past 10 years. Most are related to privacy, data protection, and surveillance in other…
Month: May 2023
How to Track Ransomware Attacks: A Comprehensive Guide
Ransomware attacks have become a growing concern in recent years, with cybercriminals targeting individuals, businesses, and even government organizations. The ability to track these attacks…
How I hacked Facebook and received a $3,500 USD Bug Bounty
Find out how our Security Researcher Frans Rosén hacked Facebook and found a stored XSS for which he received a bug bounty reward. I recently found…
MDBotnet For DDoS Attacks Sold On Dark Web For 2500 Russian Rubles
The DDoS-as-a-Service market has found new malware to overwhelm networks with excessive traffic: MDBotnet for DDoS attacks, as dubbed by researchers. MDBotnet for DDoS Attacks…
Samy Kamkar’s Security@ San Francisco Keynote
If you were into social networks during the MySpace era, you might recall the Samy Worm of 2005. The worm spread through friend invitations, infecting…
How to avoid shadow AI in your SOC
Samsung’s recent discovery that employees had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT should serve as a reminder for security leaders to tread carefully when it comes…
Server-side Javascript Injections and more!
Today’s updates fill the needs of many of you out there! You asked for it, and now it’s in the Detectify engine! Here’s a breakdown…
Navigating the quantum leap in cybersecurity
In this Help Net Security interview, we sit down with Dr. Atsushi Yamada, the newly appointed CEO of ISARA, a security solutions company specializing in…
6 ChatGPT risks for legal and compliance leaders
Legal and compliance leaders should address their organization’s exposure to six specific ChatGPT risks, and what guardrails to establish to ensure responsible enterprise use of…
Malvertising via brand impersonation is back again
Ads containing the official website of an impersonated brand are running again, allowing fraudsters to scam users. Web search is about to embark on a…
Hacking The Planet – Hack The World 2017 Recap
After 1 month of our community’s best and brightest going head to head to be named Hack The World 2017 champion, we are ready to…
Update now! Apple issues patches for three actively used zero-days
Apple issued information about patches against three actively exploited zero-days in WebKit. One vulnerability is new, two were patched earlier this month. Apple has rolled…