Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2018
Ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, sellers are flooding the cybercrime underground markets with data from voter databases. Experts at cybersecurity company Carbon Black found tens of different state voter databases available for sale on the dark web. “Carbon Black researchers found 20 different state voter databases available for purchase on the dark web, several from swing states.” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2018
The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information of the members of its loyalty scheme. The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information (name, address (including country of residence), email address, and in some cases, company name, phone number, Radisson Rewards member number, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2018
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. US DoJ accuses the Chinese intelligence to have recruited hackers and insiders to steal confidential information from companies in aerospace and tech companies. US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
A few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1 the iPhone bug hunter Jose Rodriguez has found a new passcode bypass issue that could be exploited to see all contacts’ private information on a locked iPhone. “Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, contacted The Hacker News and confirmed that he discovered an iPhone passcode bypass bug in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security breach, hackers accessed data of 2,800 girls and their families. Hackers breached the Orange County, Calif. branch of the Girl Scouts of America, potentially exposing personal information for 2,800 members and their families. According to the Girl Scouts of Orange County, an unknown threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implemented the ability to run in a secure sandbox mode. The mechanisms allow detonating an application in a safe environment that is isolated from the operating system and other applications. This means that even if the application is compromised it will not affect the overall system if it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6 million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. A New Jersey court sentenced the author of the Mirai botnet, Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, after pleading guilty to violating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2018
Security experts from Radware have spotted a new botnet dubbed DemonBot that it targeting Hadoop clusters to launch DDoS attacks against third parties. Operators behind the DemonBot botnet target an unauthenticated remote command execution in Hadoop YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator). DemonBot bot only infects central servers, at the time of the report experts found over 70 active exploit servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2018
IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Red Hat for $34bn with the intent to enhance its cloud offerings. This is the biggest tech merger in history involving a software company. Red Hat was founded in 1993, it currently operates in 35 countries and employs some 12,000 people. The company achieved a net profit of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2018
Systemd is affected by a security vulnerability that can be exploited to crash a vulnerable Linux machine, and in the worst case to execute malicious code. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability using maliciously crafted DHCPv6 packets and modifying portions of memory of the vulnerable systems, potentially causing remote code execution. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15688, […]
