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Joomla patches critical remote execution bug

15

Dec

2015

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers. Sucuri, a company that specializes in securing websites, wrote on Monday that attackers have been trying exploit the flaw for the last two days. Read More

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Ashley Madison members ‘easy target for extortion’

24

Aug

2015

Less than a week after the Impact Team dumped data on the dark web that taken from the infidelity website Ashley Madison, the fallout from this major data breach continues to widen. One of the key concerns for members – former and current – is the possibility that their unfaithfulness will be made public, impacting […]

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Open SSH bug opens brute force attack window

24

Jul

2015

A newly disclosed bug in widely-used OpenSSH software allows attackers to make thousands of password guesses in a short space of time. The bug has existed in OpenSSH since 2007, according to Ars Technica, and means that attackers have much longer than usual to brute-force a password. Normally OpenSSH allows just three or six login […]

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