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Disclosure comes two years after privacy-busting flaw was discovered A zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media Super Hub 3 routers enables attackers to unmask the true IP addresses of (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vpn) users, security researchers have revealed. Fidus Information Security, a UK (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/pen-testing) consultancy, has published details of the flaw nearly two years after first alerting Virgin Media, […]
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a companion feature released by Microsoft in 2016 to run a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing administrators to use Linux command-line tools without using a virtual machine. This was a novel implementation, although immediately doubts about security in this development began to arise. While […]
Nearly 40 different models sold by 20 different brands Millions of home Wi-Fi routers are under attack by botnet malware, just a week after a researcher put up a blog post showing how to exploit a vulnerability in the routers’ firmware. The researcher, Evan Grant, isn’t entirely at fault for this. He’s the one who found […]
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in HAProxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAProxy) , a widely used open-source load balancer and proxy server, that could be abused by an adversary to possibly smuggle HTTP requests, resulting in unauthorized access to sensitive data and execution of arbitrary commands, effectively opening the door to an array of attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-40346 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40346), […]
Two vulnerabilities in the site-building plugin could be useful tools in the hands of a skilled attacker, researchers warned. Two vulnerabilities have been found in the Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin for WordPress, which is installed on more than 1 million websites. They could allow arbitrary plugin installation, post deletions and access to […]