Security Leftovers
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The Intel remote vulnerability is much, much worse than you thought
Let’s take that again: a blank password to an always-open port sidesteps every single bit of authentication and security that is otherwise present.
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The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought
A remote hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips for seven years was more severe than many people imagined, because it allowed hackers to remotely gain administrative control over huge fleets of computers without entering a password. This is according to technical analyses published Friday.
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The enduring myth of the hacker boy-band
If it had seemed to infosec that the magazine might've had to go out of its way to find such an un-diverse group of hackers ... turns out, it did. Thompson's social media post revealed that during the course of reporting the story, there was "a meeting with the woman who runs the college's official hacking group."
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SS7 flaw exploited by hackers to drain customers' bank accounts
The weakness within the protocol has been known about since 2014, and in January, criminals exploited it to bypass the two-factor authentication method that banks use to protect unauthorised withdrawals from online accounts, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported.
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Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code
The "Google Docs" phishing attack that wormed its way through thousands of e-mail inboxes earlier this week exploited a threat that had been flagged earlier by at least three security researchers—one raised issues about the threat as early as October of 2011. In fact, the person or persons behind the attack may have copied the technique from a proof of concept posted by one security researcher to GitHub in February.
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WPSeku – A Vulnerability Scanner to Find Security Issues in WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source, highly customizable content management system (CMS) that is being used by millions around the world to run blogs and fully functional websites. Because it is the most used CMS out there, there are so many potential WordPress security issues/vulnerabilities to be concerned about.
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