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Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019

Flaw in Skype for Android exposes photos and contacts

A security expert found a flaw in Skype for Android that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to view photos and contacts, and even open links in the browser. Security expert Florian Kunushevci (19) discovered a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated local attacker to view photos and contacts, and also to open links in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019

New NRSMiner cryptominer NSA-Linked EternalBlue Exploit

A new variant of the NRSMiner is infecting users in the southern region of Asia, most of the victims are in Vietnam (54%), Iran (16%) and Malaysia (12%). The new version leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread, experts observed that the threat also updates existing NRSMiner installs. ETERNALBLUE is an NSA exploit that made the headlines […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019

Hackers leak data on hundreds of German Politicians, including Chancellor Merkel

German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. Data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were exposed online due to a massive leak that is the biggest data dump of its kind in the country. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019

Town of Salem RP Game hacked, more than 7.6M Players affected

BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 million players of the browser-based role-playing game Town of Salem Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. The bad news for […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2019

Adobe addressed two critical flaws in Adobe Acrobat, Reader

The first Adobe security updates for 2019 addresses two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products. Adobe addressed two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products, a use-after-free issue and a security bypass flaw. The flaws affect the latest versions of Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat Reader DC 2017 for Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2019

Hackers defaced Dublin Luas website and demand ransom

The website of the tram system in Dublin, the Luas, was hacked on Thursday, attackers claim to have the access to information stored on the organization’s systems. Attackers defaced the website of the Luas, the home page displayed a message demanding the payment of 1 bitcoin. The hackers asked the payment within 5 days threatening to “publish all data and send emails […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2019

After 3 years, Google partially fixes a bug in Android Google Chrome

Three years after its disclosure, Google has patched an information disclosure flaw in the Android version of the popular Chrome web browser. The issue exposes devices information, including device model and firmware version, an attacker could exploit this info to remotely identify unpatched devices and target them. The flaw ties the way the Android version […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2019

New unCaptcha automated system bypasses Google reCAPTCHA once again

The unCaptcha automated system can once again bypass Google’s reCAPTCHA challenges, despite major updates to the security service. It has happened again, the unCaptcha automated system is able to bypass the Google reCAPTCHA mechanism even if it was improved over the years. The unCaptcha system was created in 2017 to bypass the reCAPTCHA mechanism used to protect websites […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2019

Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net hit by the Ryuk ransomware

The Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net was hit by a ransomware-based attack on Christmas Eve that took down its systems. Data Resolution LLC provides software hosting, business continuity systems, cloud computing, and data center services to more serves than 30,000 businesses worldwide, The news was first reported by the popular investigator Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity, the company believe […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2019

wget utility potential leaked password via extended filesystem attributes

Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from […]

Breaking News

Flaw in Skype for Android exposes photos and contacts

New NRSMiner cryptominer NSA-Linked EternalBlue Exploit

Hackers leak data on hundreds of German Politicians, including Chancellor Merkel

Town of Salem RP Game hacked, more than 7.6M Players affected

Adobe addressed two critical flaws in Adobe Acrobat, Reader

Hackers defaced Dublin Luas website and demand ransom

After 3 years, Google partially fixes a bug in Android Google Chrome

New unCaptcha automated system bypasses Google reCAPTCHA once again

Cloud Hosting Provider DataResolution.net hit by the Ryuk ransomware

wget utility potential leaked password via extended filesystem attributes

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