A recent data breach at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, was caused by attackers exploiting a critical vulnerability patched the same day.
Multiple code repositories from Nissan North America became public this week after the company left an exposed Git server protected with default access credentials.
Citrix confirms ongoing DDoS attack impacting NetScaler ADCs
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06:26 AM
Citrix has confirmed today that an ongoing DDoS attack pattern using DTLS as an amplification vector is affecting Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) networking appliances with EDT enabled.
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is a communications protocol for securing delay-sensitive apps and services that use datagram transport.
DTLS is based on the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and it is designed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering, and to protect data privacy.
Reports of the attack have startedtrickling in on December 21st, with customers reporting an ongoing DDOS amplify attack over UDP/443 against Citrix (NetScaler) Gateway devices.
Hacker earns $2 million in bug bounties on HackerOne
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Inhibitor181 (aka Cosmin) is the first bug bounty hunter to earn more than $2,000,000 in bounty awards through the vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program HackerOne.
HackerOne says that Cosmin was also the 7th hacker to reach $1 million in earnings in just two years, as announced 334 days ago.
He was able to get to the 7-figure payout mark by bringing in roughly $300,000 in bounties over just 90 days.
The first millionaire hacker, 19-year-old Argentinian Santiago Lopez, was announced by HackerOne in March 2019, one year after he started to learn about hacking as a 16-year-old.