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Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2014
Fake Googlebots used to run application-layer DDoS

Security experts at Incapsula are observing a surge in the used of fake Googlebots to launch and carry out application-layer DDoS. Googlebots crawl websites are the software used to index and rank the content of websites for the popular search engine. It’s not a mystery that the visits of Googlebots are not considered a possible indicator […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2014
Gmail hacking, a mine of data for phishing and spam attacks

An Israeli researcher disclosed a Gmail vulnerability, fixed by Google, that exposes an indefinite number of Gmail addresses and business emails. Google company has fixed a critical vulnerability, disclosed by the Israeli researcher Oren Hafif,  that exposes an indefinite number of Gmail addresses. Technically the experts has discovered that it is possible to bruteforce a token […]