Sly Uduosa

Sylvester Uduosa who goes by the nickname 'Sly' is a Legal Practitioner, Certified Ethical Hacker and Python Programmer.

Code Injection Flaw Discovered In Yamale Python Package

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Yamale the Python package that allows developers to validate YAML – a data serialization language often used for writing configuration files has been discovered to be having a high severity code injection vulnerability that could be trivially exploited by adversaries to execute arbitrary Python code. The flaw tracked as CVE-2021-38305 (CVSS score: 7.8) involves manipulating […]

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Police Takes Down Multimillion-Dollar Real Estate Fraud Group

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The Europol once again have dismantled an international organized group (OGC) making millions off real estate fraud. Operations against the gang began back in 2017 however during a 10 so-called “action days” between September 2020 and September 2021 the OGC was taken down. A total of 130 suspects were identified and 116 searches conducted with

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Smishing Takes Central Stage In the Top 5 List of Common Fraud Scams

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Recent financial crime reports have stated that phishing scams conducted via texts otherwise know as smishing is now on the rise. This is ranked amongst purchase scams, where payments are made for products that never arrive, social engineering, impersonation and account take over (ATO). Smishing found its way into the Feedzai’s financial crime report top

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Hackers Attack The Live Streaming Platform Twitch

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Twitch has acknowledged a “breach” after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools. The leak is said to have happened as a result of an error in a Twitch server

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Apache Releases Patches to a Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

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Apache has issued patches to two security vulnerabilities which is tracked as CVE-2021-41773. This vulnerability affects only Apache HTTP server version 2.4.49. Ash Daulton and cPanel Security Team have been credited with discovering and reporting the issue on September 29, 2021. With this flaw, an attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs

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Google Plans To Implement A 2-factor Authentication by Default for 150million of its Users

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Google is currently making plans to enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year in an aim to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. Google will also be requiring 2 million YouTube creators to switch on the setting which it calls two-step verification (2SV), and

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Ransomware Hackers Responsible For Attacks On Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

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Ransomware operators in Ukraine have been apprehended by Law enforcement agencies. The joint exercise took place on the 28th day of September by officials from the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alongside participation from the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the INTERPOL’s Cyber Fusion Centre.

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