Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Crooks exploiting Word documents laced with malicious macros to compromise Apple Mac systems exactly in the same way they do with Microsoft machines. It’s amazing the number of Apple Mac users that tell me their systems are immune from malware. This false sense of security is very dangerous and I believe it is important to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2017
Starting from June 1st search engine companies will block queries to links to pirated content, including films, TV shows, and copyright-protected content. It will be even more difficult to search for torrents of ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, The Pirate Bay and equivalent services. In the past copyright holders accused the search engine companies of doing too little to ban infringing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
A new serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. A security serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-3135, was patched this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in the BIND DNS software. The vulnerability in the BIND DNS software was reported by Ramesh Damodaran and Aliaksandr Shubnik of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html Anonymous hacked Freedom Hosting II, a fifth of the Dark Web is down Security Affairs newsletter Round […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
Prosecutors confirmed that the failed cyber attack on Brussels airport a few hours after 2016 bombings was launched by a US minor. Prosecutors confirmed that the failed cyber attack on Brussels airport a few hours after dramatic 2016 bombings in Belgium’s capital was launched by a US minor. On March 2016, suicide bombers attacked Zaventem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
According to the Russian forensic firm Elcomsoft the Apple iCloud saved deleted Safari browsing history over the years open the door to surveillance. According to digital forensics firm Elcomsof, Apple iCloud maintained deleted internet Safari browsing history over the years. The experts at Elcomsof discovered the issue while trying to extract records from iCloud accounts, they were able to retrieve supposedly deleted Safari browser […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
Sports Direct, the UK’s largest sports retail business, was hacked last year, and still hasn’t disclosed the incident to its staff. The Register confirmed that the Sports Direct, the UK’s largest sports retail business, was hacked last year, and still hasn’t disclosed the incident to its staff. In the autumn a hacker broke into the internal systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
According to Privacy groups, the FBI search warrant used to hack into thousands of computers around the world in the PlayPen case was unconstitutional, Privacy groups are claiming the FBI hacking campaign against the Playpen child pornography community violated international law. According to the court documents, the FBI monitored the Playpen bulletin board Tor hidden service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
The infamous Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware. Which are the most active malware in the wild? According to a research conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017. The Kelihos botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2017
According to security firm WordFence, the content injection flaw in WordPress recently disclosed has already been exploited to deface over 1.5M websites. A recently patched security vulnerability in the popular WordPress CMS has been exploited to deface roughly 1.5 million web pages. The vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher at firm Sucuri who explained that […]
