MasterCard Suffer Online Attack

The  multinational financial services corporation MasterCard has become one of the first hacking victims of 2013. The attack was performed by the Syrian Electronic Army who managed to submit a blog post with the title “Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army” after breaching the security of MasterCard’s…

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WordPress Pingback Vulnerability

Recently somebody posted on Reddit about a WordPress scanner that is taking advantage of a new WordPress vulnerability. The vulnerability is abusing the Pingback system, which is a well-known feature that’s used by a lot of bloggers. What is a Pingback? Quoting Wikipedia: A pingback…

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