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Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could allow attackers to steal sensitive data which is currently processed on the computer. Almost every modern processor is vulnerable to the ‘memory leaking’ flaws, this has emerged from technical analysis triggered after the announcement of vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. White hackers from Google Project Zero have disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
Android Security Bulletin for January 2018, tech giant fixes multiple Critical flaws

Google patched five Critical bugs and 33 High severity flaws as part of the Android Security Bulletin for January 2018. The tech giant addressed 38 Android security vulnerabilities, 20 as part of the 2018-01-01 security patch level and 18 in the 2018-01-05 security patch level. The 2018-01-01 security patch level fixed four Critical remote code execution issue and 16 High risk elevation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Anonymous Italia hacked speed camera database and took over the police systems in Correggio

Anonymous Italy hacked and deleted the entire speed camera database and took over the police email and database system in Correggio. Last week, Anonymous hacked a Speed Camera Database in Italy, the hacktivists took control of a local police computer system in Correggio, Italy and erased the entire archive containing speed camera tickets. According to Gazzetta di Reggio, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It

Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It. It is suspected that the flaw is in the way an Intel CPU manages memory between “kernel mode” and “user mode.” Competition between IT hardware manufacturers is fierce. Decimal point differences in performance specs translate into millions of dollars won […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Marketing companies have started exploiting a flaw in browsers’ built-in password managers to track users

A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Necurs botnet involved in massive ransomware campaigns at the end of 2017

The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push many other malware, including Locky, Jaff, GlobeImposter, Dridex , […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Former NSA hacker reversed Kaspersky Lab antivirus to compose signatures capable of detecting classified documents

Former NSA hacker, demonstrated how to subvert the Kaspersky Lab antivirus and turn it into a powerful search tool for classified documents. The Kaspersky case demonstrated that security software can be exploited by intelligence agencies as a powerful spy tool. Patrick Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and former NSA hacker, demonstrated it by subverting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
CSRF Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin allows attackers to perform DROP TABLE with a single click!

The development team of phpMyAdmin has fixed a CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers for removing items from shopping cart. Researcher Ashutosh Barot has discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers to perform malicious operations like drop tables and delete records. phpMyAdmin developers released the version 4.7.7 that addresses the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Expert publicly disclosed a macOS zero-day that allows local privilege escalation

 A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day flaw that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. A security researcher that goes online with the Twitter account Siguza (@s1guza) has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. The expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Force 47 – The Vietnamese brigade tasked with fighting “wrongful views” spreading online

Force 47 is a brigade composed of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam, a new threat to freedom of speech in the country. Like many other Governments, also Vietnam is deploying a cyber army of 10000 cyber experts to fight online dissent in the country. The news was revealed by a top Vietnamese […]