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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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The Tibetan Alliance of Chicago hit by cyber waterholing attack

16

Aug

2013

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud has detected that the website of the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago has been compromised to serve malicious code. In the last two days, the BBC website reported news about a waterholing attack against the Central Tibetan Administration website. Over the last two years, attacks like these have targetted pro-Tibet websites and other human rights […]

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Central Tibetan Administration Website Strategically Compromised as Part of Watering Hole Attack

12

Aug

2013

A snippet of code on the Central Tibetan Administration website redirects CN speaking visitors to a Java exploit that drops an APT-related backdoor. For some context, the site claims the administration itself as “…the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this is the continuation of the government of independent Tibet.” The […]

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