In this tutorial, i would show how to exploit a BASH Shellshock vulnerability successfully and getting a reverse shell while keeping yourself anonymous. Who is vulnerable to shellshock??: CGI scripts using bash variables or commands and CGI scripts written in bash can be exploited remotely. Moreoever, any service listeing on a port and using bash […]
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Hackers are exploiting the Bash vulnerability, codenamed Shellshock, to mount a variety attacks across the world, according to researchers at FireEye and Trend Micro. To make matters worse, the initial patch fix has proved ineffective. FireEye threat researchers Michael Lin, James Bennett and David Bianco reported a wave of Shellshock attacks in a blog post,
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By Hayley Tsukayama Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team. Join us today for our weekly live chat, Switchback. We’ll kick things off at 11 a.m. Eastern time. You can submit your questions now, right here. FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones “FBI Director
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Researchers have classified severity of bug as ‘catastrophic’ NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Say hello to the bash bug, a lesson in why Internet-connected devices are inherently unsafe. Computer security researchers have discovered a flaw in the way many devices communicate over the Internet. At its most basic, it lets someone hack every device in your house,
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BY ANDY GREENBERG As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world’s most notorious black hat hacker, breaking into the networks of companies like IBM, Nokia, Motorola, and other targets. After a stint in prison, he reinvented himself as a white hat hacker, selling his skills as a penetration tester and security consultant. With his latest
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Now serving four-year federal sentence, Ricky Joe Mitchell spread viruses as teen. by Sean Gallagher “We sell hammers” was the justification Home Depot managers gave for cheaping out on security to IT employees. When Home Depot suffered a breach of transaction data that exposed as many as 52 million credit card transactions earlier this year,
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By Knowtechie (Content Partner) Anyways, whatever you thought you learned about hackers, throw it all away. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: Hackers are not what Hollywood paints them to be. You know the type: someone living in a basement, never leaves the house, inaudible techno music, and so on and so
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by Leslie Hitchcock (@LSH), Sam O’Keefe (@samok) For the second year in a row, TechCrunch is jumping across the pond and bringing the iconic Disrupt and our Hackathon to Europe. We’re heading your way, London! Cheerio! The Vault at Old Billingsgate will be filled with developers and engineers working through the night on projects
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Whistleblowing organisation hits out at German government for not blocking developers from downloading the software WikiLeaks has revealed it used weaponised malware FinFisher to reveal which governments were snooping on their residents and to improve detection systems to protect people’s PCs and mobiles. The whistleblowing organisation said releasing the files would also allow researchers to
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A popular Brazilian newspaper has been hacked by attackers who used code that attacked readers’ home routers, says researcher Fioravante Souza of web security outfit Sucuri. Attackers implanted iFrames into the website of Politica Estadao, which, when loaded, began brute force password guessing attacks against users. Souza says the attackers aimed to change the DNS
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