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Deceptive search engine ads used in Bitcoin wallet attacks
Jun24
on June 24, 2014
at 10:00 am
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Fraudsters are exploiting loopholes in the presentation of ads by major search engines in order to lure victims to phishing sites. Searching for “blockchain”, the name of a popular Bitcoin wallet provider, caused deceptive ads to be displayed at the top of search results pages from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo. In contrast to the […]
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You may have noticed an addition to the Update Company Information page, located under the Company tab in Manage2. It now includes a Purchase CloudLinux Url or email address field. This field allows you to determine the visibility and functionality of EasyApache’s Upgrade to CloudLinux button. You can take one …
is.gd goes down, takes a billion shortened URLs with it
May20
on May 20, 2014
at 2:08 pm
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The popular is.gd URL shortening service has been offline for more than two days, taking with it more than a billion shortened URLs.
Debian: 2849-1: curl: information disclosure
Feb01
on February 1, 2014
at 4:27 pm
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(Jan 31) Paras Sethia discovered that libcurl, a client-side URL transfer library, would sometimes mix up multiple HTTP and HTTPS connections with NTLM authentication to the same server, sending requests for one user over the connection authenticated as a different user. [More…]
Incentives for Phishing Site Reporters
Nov14
on November 14, 2013
at 4:51 pm
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As of the 1st November 2013, the Netcraft Anti-Phishing community has helped to block over 6.9 million phishing attacks worldwide. We incentivise phishing reports from the community, and have now added a Netcraft USB Flash Drive to our list of incentives: Prize
When Netcraft USB Flash Drive
after 100 validated phishing reports Netcraft Mug
after 250 Netcraft Polo Shirt
after 500 Targus Laptop […]
Debian: 2740-1: python-django: cross-site scripting vulner
Aug27
on August 27, 2013
at 12:44 am
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(Aug 23) Nick Brunn reported a possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in python-django, a high-level Python web development framework. The is_safe_url utility function used to validate that a used URL is on [More…]
(Jun 24) Timo Sirainen discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability due to bad checking of the input data in the curl_easy_unescape function. [More…]
Debian: 2660-1: curl: exposure of sensitive infor
Apr23
on April 23, 2013
at 10:22 am
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(Apr 20) Yamada Yasuharu discovered that cURL, an URL transfer library, is vulnerable to expose potentially sensitive information when doing requests across domains with matching tails. Due to a bug in the tailmatch function when matching domain names, it was possible that [More…]
(Feb 12) curl could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a malicious URL.