Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2018
Nginx developers released security updates to address several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities affecting the nginx web server. nginx is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, it is used by 25.28% busiest sites in October 2018. Nginx development team released versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 to address two HTTP/2 implementation vulnerabilities that can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
VMware released security patches for a critical virtual machine (VM) escape vulnerability that was recently discovered at a Chinese hacking contest. VMware has released security patches for a critical virtual machine (VM) escape vulnerability (CVE-2018-6981 and CVE-2018-6982) that was recently discovered by the researcher Zhangyanyu at the Chinese GeekPwn2018 hacking contest. The cause for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach. Almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach, the shocking news was confirmed by the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing. “According to a recent report we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Snowden warns of abuse of surveillance software that also had a role in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The popular US whistleblower Edward Snowden has reported the abuse of surveillance made by many governments, he blamed the Israeli company NSO Group for developing and selling surveillance software to Saudi Arabia. Speaking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018 – LulzSec Italy announced credit a string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. In celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018, LulzSec Italy announced credit for a massive string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. Included in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Security researchers at 360 Netlab have discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that likely already infected around 400,000 machines to date. Security experts from 360 Netlab security firm have recently discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that mainly targets routers that have the BroadCom UPnP feature enabled. The BCMPUPnP_Hunter was first spotted in September, but researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
There’s a growing risk of companies receiving substantial fines for not complying with cybersecurity standards under False Claims Act. However, an emerging concern for businesses that act as contract-based service providers for government entities is that those establishments could also be liable under the False Claims Act (FCA). What Is the False Claims Act? The False […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
Records associated with 689,272 plaintext records Amex India customers were exposed online via unsecured MongoDB server. Personal details of nearly 700,000 American Express (Amex India) India customers were exposed online via an unsecured MongoDB server. The huge trove of data was discovered by Bob Diachenko from cybersecurity firm Hacken, most of the records were encrypted, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China. China Telecom was a brand of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) CNMF is sharing malware samples with the cybersecurity industry via VirusTotal intelligence service. The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is providing unclassified malware samples to VirusTotal intelligence service with the intent of sharing them with cybersecurity industry. The USCYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) is going to share the unclassified malware samples on […]
