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Security: Indian Railways and WinRAR

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  • How I could have hacked lakhs of IRCTC accounts and get access to all your private info including easily cancelling booked tickets
  • Major Flaw Allows Attackers To Cancel Tickets On IRCTC Website

    The website of the Indian Railways has been a subject of ridicule owing to the various security flaws that have been discovered in its website over the years. When it comes to protecting user data, the website has been lacking in many ways.

    The website was previously hacked in 2016 when the details of over 1 crore users were leaked. Last year, Kanishk Sanjani, an ethical hacker had ordered food from the IRCTC website for Rs 7. This vulnerability remained unpatched for well over 7 months even after informing concerned authorities.

  • Web Application Security [Ed: a bit spammy]

    Common targets for web application attacks are content management systems (e.g., WordPress), database administration tools (e.g., phpMyAdmin) and SaaS applications.

  • This 19-Year-Old WinRAR Flaw Lets Hackers Load Malware To PCs

    he popular windows file archival tool WinRAR has been in use for over two decades now. The software is used to view, create, pack and unpack archives in both ZIP and RAR formats. A recent report by The Register has revealed that the tool has a bug that has remained undetected since 2005.

  • WinRAR Has Serious Flaw That Can Load Malware to PCs

    The popular file archiving tool WinRAR has had a bug for at least 14 years that can be exploited to take over your PC.

    The bug can pave the way for archive files that can trigger WinRAR to actually install whatever malware is secretly inside, according to the security firm Check Point, which discovered the software flaw.

    "The exploit works by just extracting an archive, and puts over 500 million users at risk," the company said in a detailed report published on Wednesday.

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