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Another month, another cryptocurrency exchange hacked and 'millions of dollars' stolen by miscreants
2020-09-14 10:15

"We want to reassure everyone that this event won't stop our journey. After the security audit of renowned global companies, our operations will continue. We will announce the date of the reopening of the ETERBASE Exchange platform as soon as possible."

If you're running Multi-Factor Authentication or Palo Alto's Captive Portal interface, an attacker can exploit a buffer overflow to ultimately gain code execution as root.

A timing attack on HTTPS and other things that use TLS/SSL, dubbed the Raccoon Attack, has been documented.

"Raccoon allows attackers under certain conditions to break the encryption and read sensitive communications," the brains behind it explained.

A teenager is right now facing felony charges after allegedly taking down a Miami school's networks with a DDoS attack.


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