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Mark Zuckerberg’s own Facebook timeline hacked by Palestinian researcher

19

Aug

2013

Like many companies these days Facebook offers a bug bounty program for security researchers to disclose vulnerabilities in return for a cash payment. As long as the bugs qualify under Facebook’s whitehat terms and conditions, researchers can expect a reward of $500 or more. Khalil Shreateh, an IT graduate from Palestine, recently discovered a vulnerability […]

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Online Gaming Spyware Downloads Backdoor

15

Aug

2013

ONLINEG, a spyware known to steal online gaming credentials, appears to be adding backdoors to its resume. We found a variant (specifically TSPY_ONLINEG.OMU) that aside from the usual data theft routine, also downloads a backdoor onto the infected system, making it vulnerable to more damage. TSPY_ONLINEG.OMU was recently found on certain South Korean websites, which […]

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Chinese Underground Creates Tool Exploiting Apache Struts Vulnerability

14

Aug

2013

About a month ago, the Apache Software Foundation released Struts 2.3.15.1, an update to the popular Java Web application development framework. The patch was released because vulnerabilities in older versions of Struts could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. Since then, we’ve found that hackers in the Chinese underground have created an […]

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