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Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2018
OpenSSL alpha adds TLS 1.3 support in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1

OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2018
A new text bomb threatens Apple devices, a single character can crash any apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac

Researchers discovered a new dangerous text bomb that crashes Apple devices, only a single character of the Indian Telugu language could create the chaos. A new ‘text bomb’ threatens Apple devices, just a single character of the Indian alphabet (precisely the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people) can crash your device […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2018
DELL EMC addressed two critical flaws in VMAX enterprise storage systems

Dell EMC addressed two critical vulnerabilities that affect the management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. The Dell EMC’s VMAX Virtual Appliance (vApp) Manager is an essential component of a wide range of the enterprise storage systems. The first flaw tracked as CVE-2018-1215 is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that could be exploited by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
UK Foreign Office Minister blames Russia for NotPetya massive ransomware attack

The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The UK Government formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office “attributed the NotPetya cyber-attack to the Russian Government.” According to the UK, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
SAP Security Notes – February 2018 addresses tens of flaws including High Risk issues

SAP Security Notes – February 2018: SAP Security Notes February 2018 addressed several vulnerabilities including High-Risk flaws. SAP has released February 2018 Patches that addressed some high-risk vulnerabilities in its software, a total of 26 Security Notes (5 high-, 19 medium- and 2 low-risk). Once again, the missing authorization check is the most common vulnerability type this month. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
Android Security Bulletin – Google fixed several Critical Code Execution vulnerabilities

Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 – Google has fixed tens of vulnerabilities for Android OS, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. The Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 addresses 26 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, most of which are elevation of privilege flaws. The 2018-02-01 security patch level fixed 7 vulnerabilities, 6 in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
Hackers have exploited a zero-day in Bitmessage client to steal Electrum wallet keys

Bitmessage developers have issued an emergency update for the PyBitmessage client that patches a critical remote code execution vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks. Bitmessage development team has rolled out an emergency patch to address a zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage client for Bitmessage, which a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications protocol used to send encrypted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
Windows Analytics now includes Meltdown and Spectre detector

Good news for administrators of Windows systems, Microsoft has added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to its telemetry analysis tool Windows Analytics. Microsoft has added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to its telemetry analysis tool Windows Analytics. The Meltdown-and-Spectre detector was available since Tuesday when Microsoft announced the new capabilities implemented in the free Windows Analytics service.  The new capabilities allow […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addresses 14 critical flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addressed a total of 50 vulnerabilities in affecting Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, web browsers and other products of the tech giant. Fourteen issues are listed as critical, 34 are rated as important, and only two of them are rated as moderate in severity. The list of critical vulnerability includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
DoubleDoor, a new IoT Botnet bypasses firewall using two backdoor exploits

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet dubbed DoubleDoor that is able to bypass firewall as well as modem security using two backdoor exploits. IoT devices continue to be a privileged target of cyber criminals, cyber attackers against so-called smart objects has seen a rapid evolution. Security researchers at NewSky Security (NewSky Security) have detected a new IoT botnet […]