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2018-02-28 | Alexa Top 1 Million Analysis, Burglary as a service, and How developers got password security so wrong
Wednesday, February 28
TOP STORY
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Scott Helme published his 6th installment of progress on securing the web over the last 6 months in Alexa Top 1 Million Analysis - February 2018. Read the summary for good high-level updates, one point to highlight: there has been a 32.2% increase in the number of sites redirecting to and enforcing HTTPS in the Alexa Top 1 Million. #maketheinternetsafer
HACKTIVITY
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myshopify.com domain takeover [27 upvotes] - $1,000 bounty for this report to Shopify by @0xacb.
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SSRF in https://www.zomato.com████ allows reading local files and website source code [11 upvotes] - $1,000 bounty for this report to Zomato by @nbsp.
You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
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Amazon acquires Ring, hopefully no more “burglary as a service”
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Cloudflare: How Developers got Password Security so Wrong
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Vulnerability Note VU#475445: Multiple SAML libraries may allow authentication bypass via incorrect XML canonicalization and DOM traversal
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Bureaucracy hackers needed to rescue cybersecurity policy
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