The Hacking Hit Parade
October 12, 2018
Beyond Search readers may find “Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2017 interesting.” Many of these may seem to be small potatoes compared to the allegedly hacking of Supermicro motherboards, but intriguing nevertheless.
The top three techniques, according to the write up, are:
- Coming in at number three is a method for spoofing customer support tickets. The key is “implicit trust.”
- At number two is Web cache deception. The idea is to put data into a Web cache in order to get the good stuff.
- And, the number one, hacking method for 2017 was use of server side request forgery. Now this method is like a multiple warhead weapon; that is, once can use some quite interesting methods of delivery and create what the innovator calls “quick fun”.
We will provide more information in our November 27, 2018, DarkCyber news program.
Stephen E Arnold, November 27, 2018
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