Hacks

Researchers discovered as critical vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt affects cable modems from different manufacturers across the globe. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to gain complete control over the modem through its endpoint. Successful exploitation allows attackers to intercept private messages, redirect traffic, or participate in botnets. Cable Haunt vulnerability was discovered by a team of Danish security researchers in Broadcom cable modems. Cable Haunt Attacks Middleware The vulnerability targets the middleware running on the chip used in the Broadcom  cable  modems, the middleware is the real-time operating system in cable modems that runs all the networking tasks. It affects multiple vendors as the same software being used by various cable modem manufacturers to create their cable modem firmware. All the traffic goes through the cable modem middleware (CM), by gaining control over it attackers can manipulate any traffic going through t...

Following a series of  security mishaps  and  data abuse  through its social media platform, Facebook today expanding its bug bounty program in a very unique way to beef up the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform. Last year, Facebook launched " Data Abuse Bounty " program to reward anyone who reports valid events of 3rd-party apps collecting Facebook users' data and passing it off to malicious parties, violating Facebook's revamped data policies. Apparently, it turns out that most of the time, Facebook users' data that had been misused was exposed in the first place as the  result of a vulnerability  or  security weakness  in third-party apps or services. The Facebook ecosystem contains millions of third-party apps, and unfortunately, very few of them have a vulnerability disclosure program or offer bug bounty rewards to white-hat hackers for responsibly reporting bugs in their codebase. Because of this...