Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada. Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada. The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Incâs Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software. The Israeli firm is now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
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Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Salesforce is facing a huge outage, it shut down a good portion of its infrastructure due to change to the production environment. A change in the production environment is the root cause of the broad outage suffered by Salesforce. The service disruption affected its Pardot B2B marketing automation system, the cloud CRM company’s change broke […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Dutch intelligence services are probing Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in equipment of major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence probes Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in the equipment used by major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence shares the concerns raised by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
According to a study conducted by IBM, the number of hacktivist attacks that caused quantifiable damage has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active, the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 […]
