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NationStates Suffers Major Security Breach via Application Vulnerability

Summary

NationStates took its platform offline after an attacker exploited a double-parsing vulnerability in the Dispatch Search feature to achieve remote code execution and steal user data.

Take Action:

Never use MD5 for password storage because it is trivial to crack with modern hardware, leaving your users vulnerable to credential stuffing. If you are a user of a breached service, immediately change that password everywhere else you use it to stay ahead of automated attacks.


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