Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
The government of Berlin approved new measures to rein in the activities of BND agency after its scandalous support to NSA surveillance activity. In April 2016, the German government replaced the head of the external intelligence service after a barrage of criticism over the support offered by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) to the NSA in spying […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
Security experts confirm that a growing number of cyber-attacks continue to hit hospitals threatening unpatched medical devices. In late 2015, MaineGeneral Health, a new state of the art hospital located in Augusta, Maine, reported that it had fallen victim to a cyberattack that leaked the names, addresses, and phone numbers for patients of its radiology services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
Cloud security provider Avanan discovered a number of Cerber Ransomware variants targeting corporate Office 365 users with malicious emails. Cloud security provider Avanan spotted a number of Cerber Ransomware variants that are targeting corporate Office 365 users with spam or phishing emails leveraging on malicious file attachments. Threat actors sent an Office document that embedded malicious macros to download […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
A Google Widevine DRM flaw in the Chrome browser can be exploited to easily download videos streamed from websites such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. The flaw was discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Germany. According to the experts, the issue exists […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
According to The Intercept, FBI has at its disposal âhundreds of millions of dollarsâ for developing technology to use in its investigations. The FBI has at its disposal âhundreds of millions of dollarsâ for developing technology to use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations, including surveillance. But, the FBI wonât release that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
Security experts from Sucuri firm have discovered a large botnet of compromised CCTV devices used by crooks to launch DDoS attacks in the wild. Researchers have encountered a denial-of-service botnet that’s made up of more than 25,000 Internet-connected closed circuit TV devices. We discussed several times about the IoT and the lack security by design that makes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
Security experts from the firm SentinelOne monitored a recent CryptXXX Ransomware campaign that allowed crooks to make $50,000 in a few weeks. Security experts from security firm SentinelOne have analyzed the activity related to CryptXXX ransomwareâs operators. They discovered that the gang made around $49,700 from the payment of ransoms between June 4 and June 21, 2016, the money […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2016
Experts from the ISACA organization confirmed that SWIFT hackers have stolen $10 million from a Ukrainian bank through SWIFT system. It is happened again, unknown hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank through SWIFT loophole. The news was spread by the Kyiv branch of ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, that confirmed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2016
The Saudi-based group of hackers known as OurMine has another illustrious victim, after Mark Zuckerberg they have also hacked the Google CEO Sundar Pichaiâs Quora account. OurMine is a hacking collective that is scaring IT giants, the list of victims is very long and include names like Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, David Guetta Daniel Ek, former […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2016
Lenovo fixed two flaws (CVE-2016-5249, CVE-2016-5248) in the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware. Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-5249, and CVE-2016-5248, in its Lenovo Solution Center that could be exploited by hackers to gain access to vulnerable machines and to kill any process running on them.  The […]
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