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Attacks Target TimThumb Vulnerability

08

Nov

2011

We were recently alerted to the reports of an attack leveraging a vulnerability in TimThumb – a PHP script for cropping, zooming, and resizing Web images (.JPG,.PNG, .GIF) and used as an add-on script on WordPress. The said vulnerability enables cybercriminals to perform local file insertion. When successfully exploited, it inserts a PHP script, which […]

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French Magazine Suffers Web Hack, Firebombing

03

Nov

2011

To celebrate the recent victory of the Tunisian Islamist party, the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” published a special issue in which it named the prophet Muhammad (also spelled Mohammad) as its editor-in-chief. Late night, the magazine’s offices in Paris were destroyed by a Molotov cocktail attack. The entire French political establishment has condemned this […]

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How to check if your details have been compromised

02

Nov

2011

Ever wonder where the term “Pwned” came from? Rumour has it that is started with the game World of Warcraft (WoW), where a map designer, intending to write “the player has been owned”, mistyped it as “the player has been pwned”. In any case, it is widely used today to mean you have been screwed […]

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