2012-06-24

CloudFlare Hacked - Google's 2FA is Flawed

This just goes on to show how sophisticated attacks are becoming.
While an authentication flaw, social engineering, and questionable account recovery methods all played a part in the attack, CloudFlare admits, in Prince’s own words, that they “did some dumb things” 
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Update: 06-Jun-2012:
Google now starts informing users in case they think they have been victims of state sponsored attack. No details are however being disclosed.

Update: 15-Jun-2012:
Details around what 0-day vulnerability is being used

Update: 20-Jun-2012:
European aeronautical supplier's website infected, with this same exploit.

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