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Vulnerability in OpenVPN
Two independent audit teams completed the verification of one of the most popular VPN clients today – OpenVPN. The researchers did not find any serious problems in the OpenVPN, and all small defects found by them were ...

Zomato service hacked
Attackers stole personal data from 17 million users of the resource.
Zomato is popular not only in India, but also in other states, including Europe and the United States. Every month Zomato is used by at least ...

The multifunctional Trojan.DownLoader23.60762
The multifunctional  Trojan.DownLoader23.60762, which steals logins and passwords from popular browsers, was told in the anti-virus company Doctor Web.

A virus that infects Windows computers installs other applications on the device, and also steals account data from various ...

In early May, 2017, unknown anonimus hackers launched a very unusual phishing campaign against Gmail users. The attackers exploited legitimate Google services and functions, masking their activity under links to Google Docs documents. Malicious emails using scammers to gain access ...

Phishing websites of British banks were found
DomainTools has discovered more than 300 fake bank websites posing as official websites of the largest financial institutions of Great Britain, says the correspondent of Banki.ru in Brussels.

According to the company’s report, 110 ...

Cobweb Security is a young and dynamic company founded by cyber security experts specializing in website and web server security.
Our core business is monitoring, detection and cleaning infected Websites.
Our extended experience in web security prompt us to develop ...

Google Docs users have been under a massive phishing attack
Google Docs users underwent a massive phishing attack and the problem is global in nature.
In its Twitter blog, Google has warned users around the world about a phishing e-mail ...

Magento vulnerability has put 250 000 eCommerce websites under threat
DefenceCode researchers (a company that provides consulting services in the field of information security) found a vulnerability in the Magento eCommerce platform that allows hackers to upload malware to the ...

Hackers produced the “biggest YouTube hack in the history”
The group of hackers called OurMine has hacked thousands of YouTube accounts, including profiles of famous bloggers.

The group of hackers called OurMine has hacked thousands of YouTube accounts, including profiles of ...

Thousands of routers are used to hack WordPress based websites
Wordfence specialists found that vulnerable routers are used to brute-force WordPress based websites.

Experts noticed something strange last month when the amount of cyber-attacks in Algeria jumped suddenly. The country went ...

In late February 2017 Google experts along with the Dutch Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (the center of math and informatics) proved that SHA-1 is vulnerable to collision attacks.
In other words, hackers, using SHA-1 hash collision can create a fake ...

Distil Network researchers reported the appearance of a GiftGhostBot botnet.Specialists say that the GiftGhostBot exists since February 26th, 2017 and that its main goal is gift cards fraud.
GiftGhostBot aimed at an array of websites that accept gift cards. Most ...

According to Google report https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/03/nohacked-year-in-review.html?m=1

On the State of Website Security in 2016, there was a significant increase in the amount of compromised websites.

However regrettable, the Internet did not become a safer place in the past year, compared to 2015. In ...

On the basis of the simulated situation we discussed in our previous article, one of our clients found himself in a similar problem.

A couple of days ago our client, when attempting to upload a file, received the following error message:

The ...

Security Breach in a WordPress Plugin «Wordfence Security»
A short side note: This article was made after we shared the breach with the developers of the plugin and received a response from him (the quoted response is in part II ...