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RESOLVED. Fatal error: Call to a member function do_all_hook() on a non-object in /home/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 837

The latest version of WordPress is v4.7.  It is always recommended to upgrade to the latest released to minimize vulnerabilities (exposure) and improve use of content management service. Always backup before you upgrade, copy your WordPress files and download the database. This will give us way to roll-back just in case we run into "unknown" issue. It is not always perfect when you upgrade. During my upgrade to v4.7 to one of my customer website. I've got this error. Fatal error: Call to a member function do_all_hook() on a non-object in /home/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 837 A quick fix is to re-upload the plugin.php file from my old backup to the /wp-includes folder.  This works! But I want to use the latest plugin.php file not the old copy. Searching the internet trying to find out if anyone has encounter the same error when upgrading to the latest version of wordpress. No surprise! It is already been discussed, issue and alternative solutions

A new phishing attack targeting Office 365 business email users

A new phishing attack targeting Office 365 business email users was found using Punycode to go undetected by both Microsoft’s default security and desktop email filters, Avanan security researchers warn. The attack is meant to steal Office 365 credentials and abuses a vulnerability in how Office 365 anti-phishing and URL reputation security layers deal with Punycode. The attack starts with fake FedEX email that include benign looking URLs meant to take users to malicious website. See image below. By using Punycode and leveraging said flaw in the phish-detection engine, the URL actually resolves to two different domains, one safe, which is detected by Office 365, and the other malicious, which is followed by the browser. The underlining issue is that Office 365’s default security treats the domain as plain ASCII when verifying whether it is legitimate or not. Because all modern browsers support Unicode character, the address is translated to its Unicode format when launched in

CTF – Hacking Mr. Robot

Another learning experience to improve my penetration testing skills by  hacking Mr. Robot virtual machine  as my target machine. My private network for this penetration testing exercise. Kali Linux, my tool to exploit the target machine. IP Address  192.168.159.131 Mr.Robot, my target machine. IP Address:  Unknown Let's begin. My objective is to find the three hidden keys. Sponsored by  Termed.com  Life Insurance . I have no knowledge of my target machine (Mr. Robot) IP Address, so let me begin running nmap tool. Of course, you can also use other network discovery tool to scan your network. I prefer nmap tool, it is available to my pentest machine. root@kali:~#  nmap -T4 192.168.159.0/24 Starting Nmap 7.31 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-11-30 10:41 EST Nmap scan report for  192.168.159.131 Host is up (0.00037s latency). Not shown: 997 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp closed ssh 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https MAC Address: 00:0C:29:F8:73:37 (VMware) Nm

Gooligan malware breached 1Million Android smart phone users

FYI Android users, you have to read this article courtesy by HelpNetSecurity.com if you're an Android smart phone user. I actually read it first from CNN website and again today. Check Point security researchers have revealed a new variant of Android malware, breaching the security of more than one million Google accounts. Key findings The campaign infects 13,000 devices each day and is the first to root over a million devices. Hundreds of email addresses are associated with enterprise accounts worldwide. Gooligan targets devices on Android 4 (Jelly Bean, KitKat) and 5 (Lollipop), which represent nearly 74% of Android devices in use today. After attackers gain control over the device, they generate revenue by fraudulently installing apps from Google Play and rating them on behalf of the victim. Every day Gooligan installs at least 30,000 apps on breached devices, or over 2 million apps since the campaign began. Check Point reached out to the Google security team imm

CTF – Hacking Necromancer

Capture The Flag - Necromancer . Practicing my penetration testing skills to hack a target machine.  Here's my test environment in my own private virtual network. I setup my Kali Linux in  host virtual network  and my target machine ( Necromancer ) which I downloaded a OVA image from VulnHub website. When I started my Kali Linux virtual machine, I have an assigned IP Address  192.168.231.129 . This most likely a different IP address when you setup your own private network. And my target machine Necromancer IP address is  192.168.231.128 . I saw this when I started the Necromancer virtual machine. This save me some time to scan all /24 within my network. Anyway, if you still want to scan your network you can use "netdiscover" tool. If you're not sure what options to use simply run "netdiscover --help". Okay, got it? Now run # netdiscover -r 192.168.231.0/24 [Enter] to scan your private network. Here's the result of my network. I run "ifconfig