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Security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a Password disclosure vulnerability in Barracuda update servers which allows to gain access to employee credentials. The Egyptian information security advisor Ebrahim Hegazy( @Zigoo0 ) has found a Password disclosure vulnerability in one of Barracuda update servers which allows the attackers to gain access to all its employee data. When the system administrator needs to protect a directory with a second authentication layer (basic authentication ) besides the back-end authentication, he can do it with multiple methods, one of that methods is through the configuration of .htaccess and .htpasswd files. A proper configuration could prevent a visitor to surf reserved area (e.g /Cpanel or /admin), in this scenario a popup proposes to the user asking to enter authentication credentials, that credentials are saved inside .htpasswd file as: Username:Password In normal scenarios the .htpasswd file should be stored outside the we...

One of the most popular free calling App " Viber " for smartphones got hacked and defaced their one of the subdomain i.e https://support.viber.com/ by  Pro-Assad hacker group the   Syrian Electronic Army . According claimed to take backup of their partial database , as shown, " We weren't able to hack all Viber systems " hacker said. SEA hackers also suggested Viber (an instant-messaging and VoIP service) users to uninstall the application because company is spying and tracking each user, recording IP address of each user in database as shown above, " Warning: If you have "Viber" app installed we advise you to delete it " they tweeted . Earlier this year, Viber announced that it had over 200 million mobile users. Just today same hackers also managed to hacked into  Daily Dot News website and deleted an article against them and last weekend Millions of Phone Book records were stolen from Truecaller Database by SE...

Pro-Assad hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army claims to have breached the online news portal " Daily Dot " and deleted an article with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. SEA hackers gave an advance warning to Daily Dot editorial team via twitter , said " Dear @dailydot, please remove the attached picture in this article: https://www.dailydot.com/news/syrian-electronic-army-tango-me/ … or we will do something you will not like it. " But Daily Dot refused to comply, and hackers broke into the Gmail account of one of its staff, then into the site's administration panel and removed the article in question altogether, as challenged ! The attackers have published several pictures, including ones of emails sent out to Daily Dot staff about the Syrian Electronic Army's threat. Staff have been warned that the hackers use phishing emails to trick them into handing over their account credentials. " The stupid @dailydot administra...

A vulnerability in the latest firmware of the network-enabled Samsung TV models allows potential attackers to crash the vulnerable devices using Denial of Service ( DoS ) Attack, according to security researcher Malik Mesellem . According to Malik, The web server (DMCRUIS/0.1) installed on Smart TVs on port TCP/5600 can be crashed to reboot the device, if attacker will send a long HTTP GET request on TV's ip address. Malik successfully tested the exploit on his Samsung PS50C7700 plasma TV, as shown in the video demonstration below: In the Demo, The TV is connected by ethernet cable to a home network, and after running the exploit against TV's ip address - A few seconds later, the TV would restart and repeat the process. This means that a potential attacker only needs to obtain access to the LAN that the TV has joined, in order to attack it. This can be done either by breaking into a wireless access point or by infecting a computer on the same network with...