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The number of DDoS attacks targeting e-commerce in Europe has increased four-fold over the last eight months. According to research by Stormwall, between February and October 2020, the number of DDoS attacks targeted at online retail services quadrupled compared to the same period last year...

A consumer rights group has found security vulnerabilities in 11 popular smart doorbell products available on two of the world’s biggest online marketplaces. Which? enlisted the help of researchers at NCC Group to run tests on the smart devices they found on eBay and Amazon, many of which had...

TikTok has patched two common types of vulnerability which a researcher combined to create a “one-click” account takeover attack. Submitted by Muhammed Taskiran via HackerOne back on August 26, the bugs were originally labelled medium severity before being upgraded to high (CVSS 8.2) a few days...

Consequently, say you have 3 accounts, all have $1000 balance.. 1. - Seem throught alot of similar items (say you want to order a wireless bluetooth speaker) - Look through 10 or 20 different bluetooth speaker, before you order the main one you want ------------------------- installment...

The PenTesters Framework (PTF) is a Python script designed for Debian/Ubuntu/ArchLinux based distributions to create a similar and familiar distribution for Penetration Testing. As pentesters, we've been accustom to the /pentest/ directories or our own toolsets that we want to keep up-to-date...

Using 0xsp mongoose you will be able to scan a targeted operating system for any possible way for privilege escalation attacks, starting from collecting information stage until reporting information through 0xsp Web Application API. user will be able to scan different Linux os system at the same...

Police in Chicago have arrested a former track and field coach for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit images from female athletes under false pretenses. Chicago resident Steve Waithe was arrested on April 7 and charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of cyberstalking. Waithe...

The number of suspicious unemployment-related emails targeting Americans rose by 50% after the third round of stimulus checks was announced in late February, according to new data from Tessian’s threat intelligence team. News of the phishing surge comes after the United States Department of...

Application security threat modeling solutions provider IriusRisk has announced the appointment of Dr Gary McGraw to its threat modeling technical advisory board. Dr McGraw – who has a PhD in computer science and cognitive science – joins existing advisor Adam Shostack and will assist in the...

A notorious threat actor appears to have published 1.9 million user records for the popular online photo editing site Pixlr, putting customers at risk of follow-on attacks. “ShinyHunters” dumped the files over the weekend for free on an underground forum, claiming the site was breached at the...

Interpol has issued a global warning that dating app users are being groomed for investment fraud scams. The policing body’s Purple Notice claimed that lonely hearts are picked off online, when the fraudsters establish an “artificial romance” with their victims. Once they have built up a level...

An annual religious service held in Atlanta in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day was disrupted by a cyber-attack. Threat actors reportedly targeted a Shabbat service that was being broadcast live over the internet from Atlanta synagogue The Temple on January 15. The attack occurred as US...

The United States National Security Agency has announced the appointment of Roy Joyce as the new leader of its Cybersecurity Directorate. Joyce will take over from Anne Neuberger, who was first to lead the NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate when it was established in October 2019. Neuberger was...

The UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) experienced an 18% rise in personal data loss incidents in the financial year 2019/20, according to official figures analyzed by the Parliament Street Think Tank. The UK government’s defense department revealed there were 546 reported incidents of personal...

Multinational technology company Thales and global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications TT Electronics have announced a partnership to enable the development of operational technology cybersecurity initiatives and research. These programs will be delivered...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed that cyber-criminals who raided the organization in December have leaked some of those documents online. In a brief statement on Tuesday, it noted that the docs “related to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines belonging to third parties. “The agency...

A well-known Muslim prayer app has been recording and selling the location data of users, leading to fears this information will be abused. This is according to a report by Vice, which said granular location data from Salaat First, an app that reminds Muslim users of when to pray, is being sold...

A social networking app used by millions is seeking a new home after being suspended by big tech over claims of failure to remove egregious content from its platform. Parler was launched in 2020 as an antidote to sites like Twitter and Facebook that take action to censor particular content and...

Poor-quality software cost America over $2tn last year, according to a new report by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). The "Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2020 Report," which was co-sponsored by American software company Synopsys, found that the cost of poor...

is another famous penetration testing tool. It allows auditing the security of the web applications. It supports both GET and POST HTTP methods for the vulnerability check. Features: Generates vulnerability reports in various formats It can suspend and resume a scan or an attack Fast and easy...