Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
Security experts at Sucuri have discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Security experts at Sucuri have discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, one of the most popular WordPress plugins, that is currently installed on over 300,000 websites. The SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
WikiLeaks released a new batch of documents that detail the CIA tool OutlawCountry used to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. WikiLeaks has released a new batch of documents from the Vault 7 leak that details a CIA tool, dubbed OutlawCountry, used by the agency to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
The security researcher Elad Erez developed Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner that could be used to assess networks. Now systems administrators and hackers have a new free tool, dubbed Eternal Blues, to scan networks looking at computers vulnerable to the NSA EternalBlue exploit. EternalBlue is one of the hacking tools that the ShadowBrokers hacker group stolen to the NSA-linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
Experts at CISCO discovered severe remote code execution vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software while conducting internal testing. Cisco warned users of serious vulnerabilities in IOS software that can be exploited by authenticated, remote attackers for code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Experts at CISCO discovered the vulnerabilities while conducting internal testing. “The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
Ukraine secret service announces joint investigation with Europol, FBI, and NCA to attribute the recent Notpetya massive attack. While security experts are investigating real motivation behind the massive NotPetya attack, Ukrainian authorities called for support in the investigation from European and US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The country’s security service SBU announced the international co-operation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
The Music streaming service 8tracks suffered a major data leak, 18 million user accounts have been exposed and is available online. Music streaming service 8tracks has been affected by a major data leak that exposed ‘millions’ of customer details. The leak seems to have been caused by a staffer that erroneously exposed 18 million user accounts. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
Microsoft is warning sysadmins to check their Azure Active Directory Connect installs and patch them against an important Privilege Escalation flaw. Microsoft fixed an important privilege escalation vulnerability in Azure Active Directory (AD) Connect, tracked as CVE-2017-8613, that can be exploited by attackers to hijack the accounts of privileged users. Azure Active Directory Connect allows organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
UK.gov leaves data dashboard users’ details on publicly accessible on a third-party system. Users are urge to reset their password. Are you a user of the UK Government website UK.gov? Change your password now! Users of the government’s data dashboard have been notified that their information was accidentally made public so they urge to change their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
According to the researchers, the Petya variant (NotPetya) used in the massive attack is a wiper disguised by a ransomware. In these hours the massive global attack based on Petya variant made the headlines, computers in many countries were infected, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the US. A new analysis conducted on the ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
A remote attacker can trigger the buffer overflow vulnerability to execute malicious code on affected Linux systems with just a malicious DNS response. Chris Coulson, Ubuntu developer at Canonical, has found a critical vulnerability Linux that can be exploited to remotely hack machines running the popular OS. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9445, resides in the Systemd init system […]
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