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Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 101 – News of the week

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 ·        An implementation bug in Zerocoin helped hackers steal ZCoins worth $585,000 ·        Security Affairs newsletter Round […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2017
US Oil and Gas Industry unprepared to mitigate risks in operational technology (OT) environments

A study commissioned by Siemens revealed that US oil and gas industry is unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology environments. A new study commissioned by the engineering firm Siemens revealed that oil and gas industry in the United States is largely unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology (OT) environments. The survey was conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2017
Shamoon 2 malware, ASERT has shed light on the C2 and the infection process

The analysis conducted by Arbor Networks on the Shamoon 2 malware has shed light on the control infrastructure and the infection process. Security researchers from Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have conducted a new analysis of the Shamoon 2 malware discovering further details on the tools and techniques used by the threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2017
A wave of ransom attacks is targeting MySQL Databases worldwide

A wave of ransom attacks is threatening thousands of MySQL databases that are exposed online, the hackers are brute forcing poorly secured MySQL servers. Databases exposed online with a poor security continues to be a privileged target of hackers. Early this year, experts warned of a spike in the number of attacks against MongoDB systems, crooks […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2017
Carder forum claims 150 million logins for sale from CloudBleed case

The carder forum CVV2Finder claims to have more than 150 million logins from several popular services, including Netflix and Uber. The carder forum CVV2Finder claims to have more than 150 million logins, from several popular services, including Netflix and Uber. The operators in the forum are offering the precious commodity to the VIP members. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2017
Apple internal development servers compromised by a malware

Apple’s design lab internal development servers was infected by a malware so the company ended its relationship with Supermicro server supplier. It was mid-2016 when Apple’s design lab internal development servers was infected by a malware that was masquerading as a fake firmware patch. In response to the security incident, Apple purged its data centers of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2017
Gmail accounts lockout the users. Glitch or hack, it’s a mystery

A huge number of Gmail accounts lockout their users and forced them to log in again. What has happened? Is it the result of a massive cyber attack? A huge number of Gmail accounts lockout the users, the strange behavior leads the experts into believing that something has happened. Is it a computer glitch or a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2017
Cloudbleed flaw exposes sensitive data from millions sites behind CloudFlare

Cloudflare was leaking a wide range of sensitive information, including authentication cookies and login credentials, the flaw was dubbed Cloudbleed. The notorious Google security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, recently made and astonishing discovery, Cloudflare was leaking a wide range of sensitive information, including authentication cookies and login credentials, the flaw was dubbed Cloudbleed. “On February 17th 2017, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2017
Out-of-band resource load in Google allows attacker to launch a DDoS attack from its servers

A security researcher discovered an Out-of-band resource load flaw in Google’s servers that allowed him to perform a DDoS attack on remote hosts. Young security researcher, Luka Sikic from Croatia found a serious vulnerability in Google. He was able to servers of the IT giant to perform a DDoS attack on remote hosts. Out-of-band resource load (classified […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2017
SHAttered attack, Google and CWI conducted the first SHA-1 collision attack

Experts at Google and CWI conducted the first real world collision attack against popular SHA-1 hashing algorithm, so called shattered-attack. Researchers at Google and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands succeeded in conducting the first real world collision attack against popular SHA-1 hashing algorithm. The researchers created two documents with different content but […]