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DoubleClick by Google refers to the DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform which is a separate division within Google. This is Google’s most advanced advertising tools set, which includes five interconnected platform components.

DoubleClick Campaign Manager: the ad-serving platform, called an Ad Server, that delivers ads to your customers and measures all online advertising, even across screens and channels.

DoubleClick Bid Manager – the programmatic bidding platform for bidding on high-quality ad inventory from more than 47 ad marketplaces including Google Display Network.

DoubleClick Ad Exchange: the world’s largest ad marketplace for purchasing display, video, mobile, Search and even Facebook inventory.

DoubleClick Search: is more powerful than AdWords and used for purchasing…

Adam Bannister

11 August 2021 at 10:58 UTC

Updated: 11 August 2021 at 11:02 UTC

Pen testers and vendor disagree over appropriate mitigations

Security researchers have achieved remote code execution (RCE) on web hosting platform cPanel & WHM after bypassing CSRF protections and escalating privileges via a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

cPanel & WHM is a suite of Linux tools that enable the automation of web hosting tasks via a graphical user interface (GUI). cPanel is used in the hosting of more than 168,000 websites, according to Datanyze.

During a black-box pen test, RCE was also demonstrated via a “more convoluted” cross-site WebSocket hijacking attack that was…

Adam Bannister

11 August 2021 at 10:58 UTC

Updated: 11 August 2021 at 14:32 UTC

Pen testers and vendor disagree over appropriate mitigations

Security researchers have achieved remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation on web hosting platform cPanel & WHM via a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

cPanel & WHM is a suite of Linux tools that enable the automation of web hosting tasks via a graphical user interface (GUI). cPanel is used in the hosting of more than 168,000 websites, according to Datanyze.

During a black-box pen test, RCE was also demonstrated via a “more convoluted” CSRF bypass chained with a cross-site WebSocket hijacking attack that was possible…

Hosting a website involves carefully weighing a great number of disparate factors, such as search engine optimization (SEO) and security, in addition to the amount of expected visitors per month, the type of content hosted on the website, etc. 

More importantly, a website is more than just a collection of data. It’s an amalgamation of many different but essential components that help you provide a cohesive and professional experience to all visitors. There’s the database, which is home to all your data. An email service to help you communicate with your clients. A properly configured web server that ensures visitors to your website have a seamless and smooth experience when accessing the different parts of your website. Even apart from that, there’s a whole other piece of…

Hosting a website involves carefully weighing a great number of disparate factors, such as search engine optimization (SEO) and security, in addition to the amount of expected visitors per month, the type of content hosted on the website, etc. 

More importantly, a website is more than just a collection of data. It’s an amalgamation of many different but essential components that help you provide a cohesive and professional experience to all visitors. There’s the database, which is home to all your data. An email service to help you communicate with your clients. A properly configured web server that ensures visitors to your website have a seamless and smooth experience when accessing the different parts of your website. Even apart from that, there’s a whole other piece of…