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Bug Bounty In 2020

Bug Bounty and Cybersecurity in 2020

Hacking is rather seen as dangerous or in a bad light. But many hackers make their living out of using their hacking skills for ethical purposes. Bug Bounty refers to the programs organized by companies, software developers and websites to find and report bugs in exchange for recognition and compensation. Bug Bounty Industry Bug Bounties…
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Spyware company FinFisher office raided over illegal exporting of confidential software

FinFisher, a Munich-based German spyware company got raided on the suspicion of illegally exporting their product to foreign countries. FinSpy, a very powerful spying tool used by various governments around the world owned by FinFisher, was found to be used by oppressive and doubtful regimes for spying on opposition parties, journalists and NGO’s which suggests…
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Operation SideCopy: Cyber Espionage targeting Indian Army – The Hack Report

Quick Heal researchers warn the government of a new cyber attack suspected to be routed by Pakistan based APT-31 and backed by China.Seqrite, Quick Heal’s threat intelligence group, recently found evidence of an Advanced Persistence Threat(APT) against the Indian Army and allied forces. The operation is dubbed as “Operation SideCopy.”The operation is said to be…
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Instagram vulnerability

Instagram Vulnerability Capable of Exploiting Smartphone by RCE, Now Fixed

Facebook patched a major vulnerability in Instagram, which was large enough to take over the whole smartphone. The issue was found in the android application of Instagram. The issue privately told to Facebook, the owner of Instagram, by Check Point was present in a third party project Mozpeg.  Mozpeg is a third-party open source project utilized…
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German Ransom

A German Patient Dies After Ransomware Attack Paralyzes German Hospital Systems

In an unusual case, a German woman died of ransomware. German police have launched a homicide case against the hackers.  In a first of it is kind, a female patient from Dusseldorf, Germany, due to getting a life-saving treatment died as a result of a cyber-attack at Dusseldorf University Hospital which resulted in locking the…
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firefox

Exploitation of LAN vulnerability found in Firefox for Android

New Vulnerability in SSDP engine of firefox for android discovered, can be exploited without any malicious links or website click and launch as applications without user permission, says Australian based exploit researcher Chris Moberly. Recently, firefox application(v 68.11.0 and below) for android devices was found to be vulnerable because of a faulty code that could…
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New Unpatched Bluetooth Flaw

Bluetooth 4.2 and 5.0, supporting dual-mode are vulnerable to key overwriting, says the Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Purdue University in independent researches. The devices from iPad Pro to iPhone 11 run on these vulnerable Bluetooth versions. Cross Transport Key Derivation(CTKD), which is responsible to authenticate keys, when pairing two…
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INVDOS

Invdos Bug That Could Have Crashed Bitcoin and Other Blockchain Nodes Finally Fixed After Two Years

Years old vulnerability finally revealed to the public upon rediscovery after being patched for two years. A protocol engineer by profession, Javed Khan, rediscovered a vulnerability during the Decred Bug Bounty program, an open program aimed to find bugs in the software which led the vulnerability to be disclosed to the world, which was rather kept…
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Best free resource for learning cybersecurity online

Looking to secure your business from cyber frauds or wanting a job in IT security, or just fascinated by the movies and want to hack like them. You have to start somewhere. We will provide you some of the best, free of cost online resources to kick start your career today. Cybersecurity is the hot…
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FBI and NSA expose new Linux Russian malware Drovorub

The cold war started in 1947, leading to the race of nuclear weapons that might have ended in 1991, but the relations between the two world powers have never been friendly. The two nations never hesitate to trouble each other. But this time, the FBI has shown serious concerns regarding a Russian“wood cutter.” What is…
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