Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Security expert discovered that Skype has a malloc(): memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered while users share some media/file with someone during a call. Tested on: Linux zero 4.15.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:39:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Product affected: Skype for linux (skypeforlinux_8.27.0.85_amd64.deb)Steps to reproduce this issue: 1. Open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Security researcher discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, has discovered that many misconfigured Tor sites using SSL certificated could expose the public IP addresses of underlying servers. Properly configured servers hosting hidden services have to listen only on the localhost (127.0.0.1) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that thousands of 3D printers are exposed online without proper defense. The news is worrisome, thousands of 3D printers are exposed online to remote cyber attacks. According to the experts at SANS Internet Storm Center that scanned the internet for vulnerable 3D printers, a Shodan query has found […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
The security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered more than 7,500 MikroTik routers that have been compromised to enable Socks4 proxy maliciously Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. The campaign started in Brazil, but it is rapidly expanded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password. According to Motherboard that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) facilitates telecom operators in delivering multimedia applications and voice traffic over IP transport. Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) is the first node in IMS Platform (figure 1) to interact with the User Equipment (UE) when initiating a VoLTE call. figure 1 – Placement of Proxy Call Session Control Function in IMS Platform Identify […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2018
Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users, the news was revealed by Bloomberg. New problems for Google, experts discovered a secret agreement of the tech giant with Mastercard to track user purchases offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users. The embarrassing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2018
Maintainers of Packagist, the largest PHP package repository, have recently addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Packagist is the default package host behind Composer, it has over 435 million package installs. The vulnerability was reported by the security researcher Max Justicz, the expert discovered that the “Submit Package” input field for submitting new PHP packages via the package […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2018
Julian Assange associate and author of “Information Security for Journalists” Arjen Kamphuis has disappeared, the Norwegian police is working on the case. Media agencies worldwide are reporting the strange disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, the Julian Assange associate. The news was confirmed by WikiLeaks on Sunday, the man has been missing since August 20, when he left his hotel […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2018
Last week, security researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new threat actor, tracked as Urpage, that shares similarities with other three hacking crews. Researchers from Trend Micro linked a recently discovered actor, tracked as Urpage, to the hacking groups known as Bahamut, Confucius, and Patchwork. Trend Micro first connected the Confucius group to the Patchwork […]
