Best of CybersecurityDecember 2021

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    Avatar of systemweaknessSystem Weakness·4y

    How To Hack Any Website

    Niveet Palan explains how to hack any website. He covers Subdomain enumeration, Authentication bypasses, IDOR vulnerability, File Inclusion, SSRF, Cross-site Scripting, Command Injection. This is the third and final installment to this series.

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    Avatar of thnThe Hacker News·4y

    Second Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046) Discovered — New Patch Released

    Apache Software Foundation pushes out new fix for Log4j logging utility. The previous patch for the recently disclosed Log4Shell exploit was deemed as "incomplete in certain non-default configurations" The latest update arrives as fallout from the flaw has resulted in a "true cyber pandemic"

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    Avatar of thnThe Hacker News·4y

    Apache Log4j Vulnerability — Log4Shell — Widely Under Active Attack

    Telemetry signs point to exploitation of the flaw nine days before it even came to light. Threat actors are weaponizing unpatched servers affected by the newly disclosed "Log4Shell" vulnerability. Threats such as Mirai and Muhstik are setting their sights on vulnerable systems to spread the infection.

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    Avatar of laravelLaravel·4y

    Log4j Vulnerability Update

    Log4j is a Java library by Apache used to log debug messages within applications. The vast majority of servers provisioned by Forge will not be vulnerable. If you have manually installed applications such as ElasticSearch your server may be affected. To check if your server is affected, you can use a script such as log4j_checker_beta .

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    Avatar of ciscoCisco·4y

    Log4j Developer Response

    A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4j library. If exploited, the vulnerability allows attackers to gain full control of affected servers and your application. There are a few key things you can do as a developer to contain the threat.