Collaborate Disseminate
ReCaap’s July 2018 Monthly Report recorded not only a year-on-year decline in piracy incidents for January to July compared to 2017, but also a significant reduction in the number of violent incidents. ReCaap recorded no ‘Category 1’ … Continue reading Violent Piracy in Southeast Asia – A Feature of the Past?
An approach by a pirate action group (PAG) using a mother ship approximately 280NM south of Lomé, Togo, during July marked the furthest offshore incident recorded by NYA since 17 September 2015. On 22 July at 1500 UTC, the duty officer on board a … Continue reading Gulf of Guinea: Mother ships used to target vessels deep offshore
This week, Paul reports on hackers hijacking Nintendo Switch, Salon website gives you a choice: turn off your ad blocker or let us mine cryptocurrency, and Google Chrome marking all non-HTTPS sites insecure in July 2018! Tim Helming of DomainTools join… Continue reading Microsoft, Lenovo, Romance Scans, and Crypto Mining – Hack Naked News #161
The hackers tweeted out love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: “We love turkish soldiers, we love Erdogan, we love Turkey.” Continue reading Hijackers DM @realDonaldTrump from former Fox News hosts’ accounts
Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom – how could they have prevented it? We’ve got some advice Continue reading Hacked Twitter account spits out poison – make sure yours isn’t next
Visa, MasterCard, and Symantec among dozens affected by “suspicious” BGP mishap. Continue reading Russian-controlled telecom hijacks financial services’ Internet traffic
I would like to reduce the likelihood of session hijacking by implementing a cookie based token solution.
The idea is to generate a SHA256 hash based on client related information such as:
PHP
$_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]
A generic wireless camera manufactured by a Chinese company and sold around the world under different names and brands can be easily hijacked and/or roped into a botnet. The flaw that allows this to happen is found in a custom version of GoAhead, a lightweight embedded web server that has been fitted into the devices. This and other vulnerabilities have been found by security researcher Pierre Kim, who tested one of the branded cameras – … More → Continue reading 185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked
Yesterday, researcher Simon Kenin of Trustwave SpiderLabs released information about an authentication bypass flaw affecting a wide variety of Netgear routers, as well as PoC attack code for triggering it. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-5521) can be exploited by attackers to discover the password required to take over control of an affected device. “The bug is exploitable remotely if the remote management option is set and can also be exploited given access to the router over LAN … More → Continue reading Can your Netgear router be hijacked? Check now!
The DNSChanger exploit kit is back and more effective than ever, and is being used in a widespread malvertising attack whose goal is to compromise small/home office routers. According to Proofpoint researchers, the attacker’s current main goal is to change DNS records on the target router, so that it queries the attacker’s rogue DNS servers, and the users are served with ads that will earn the attackers money. But, “when attackers control the DNS server … More → Continue reading Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers