Ibrahim Raafat

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2014
Flickr affected by critical SQL Injection and Remote Code Execution bugs

The security expert Ibrahim Raafat discovered critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in Flickr Photo Books which allow attackers to gain complete control of the server and its database. The giant of online photo management and sharing Flickr, a Yahoo-owned company, was affected by critical vulnerabilities which allow attackers to gain access to the webserver website database. The alarming discovery […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2014
Critical flaw in Yahoo allows Hacker to delete 1.5M records

Vulnerability in Yahoo allowed Egyptian hacker to delete more than 1 million and half records from Yahoo database. Yahoo immediately fixed it. The Egyptian cyber security expert Ibrahim Raafat has discovered a serious flaw  in the Yahoo! website. The hacker demonstrated on his blog how to exploit the “Insecure Direct Object Reference Vulnerability” vulnerability in the Yahoo! sub-domain (suggestions.yahoo.com) to delete all […]