vBulletin

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2016
vBulletin vulnerabilities exposed more than 27 million users’ records

Security vulnerabilities in the vBulletin platform have exposed more than 27 million accounts, many of them belonging to gamers on mail.ru. The Data breach monitoring service LeakedSource has disclosed 11 new data breaches. Security vulnerabilities in the vBulletin platform have exposed more than 27 million accounts, the majority of which belongs to three games on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2016
vBulletin resets passwords after a targeted attack

vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week that breached one of the Germany servers, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset. vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset. According to the vBulletin developer Paul Marsden one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2015
vBulletin security patches and zero-day exploit available online

Rumors on the Internet says that the hackers who breached vBulletin forum website exploited a zero-day flaw, the company issued emergency security patches. On Sunday, the vBulletin official website has been hacked, according to DataBreaches.net, vBulletin, Foxit Software forums have been hacked by Coldzer0 that has stolen hundreds of thousands of users’ records. The hacker published screenshots […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
The official website of the popular vBulletin forum has been hacked

The website of the vBulletin forum software is down for maintenance following a data breach that exposed personal information of hundreds of thousands users On Sunday, the vBulletin official website has been hacked by an attacker using the moniker “Coldzer0.” The website has been defaced and the vBulletin forum was displaying the message “Hacked by Coldzer0.” At the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2014
openSUSE Forum hacked. Pakistani hacker compromised internal database

A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE accessing to the database. A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE. The new shocking hack is shaking the IT security community, a few days after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2013
MS Silverlight 5 flaw exposes 40M Netflix users to security risk

Users of Netflix, the provider of on-demand Internet streaming media, must beware of Silverlight exploit that could allow attackers to hack their systems. A vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight 5 exposes to the risk of cyber attacks nearly 40 million Netflix streamers, the flaw is being exploited to execute arbitrary code on victim’s systems without any […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2013
A vBulletin exploit used to hack thousands of websites

Security firm Imperva revealed that more than 35000 websites based on vBulletin CMS have been hacked exploiting a known vulnerability. Security experts warn of a massive attack against web sites that exploits  security flaw sites powered by the forum software vBulletin. On August vBullettin authors warned on “Potential vBulletin Exploit (vBulletin 4.1+, vBulletin 5+)”. The exploits […]