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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
Dozens of Linksys router models are affected by a flaw that causes the leak of data that can be used by attackers …. and the company won’t fix it. Security researcher Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, discovered that over 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are leaking full historical records of every device ever connected to them. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
A new political misinformation campaign was uncovered and blocked by Facebook, this time it was not operated by Russia but Israel’s Archimedes Group Facebook uncovered and blocked a misinformation campaign powered by Israel’ Archimedes Group, the corporation used fake accounts to manipulated political campaigns. According to Facebook, the Archimedes Group used hundreds of pages, accounts, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel According to the media outlet, Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the Winnti trojan malware to infect the systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted userâs downloaded files. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, Security researcher David Wells from Tenable discovered a critical flaw in version 3.3.7 of the Slack desktop app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
Cisco had issued security updates to address 57 security flaw, including three flaws in networks management tool Prime Infrastructure. One of the flaws addressed by Cisco in the Prime Infrastructure management tool could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on PI devices. “Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
The popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow announced on Thursday that is has suffered a data breach. The news of a data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow. The company announced on Thursday that it has discovered unauthorized access to its production systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
A vulnerability in the Live Chat Support plugin for WordPress could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious scripts in websites using it Researchers at Sucuri have discovered a stored/persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WP Live Chat Support plugin for WordPress. The flaw could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious […]
