Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Chaining 3 zero-days allowed pen testers to hack Apple macOS computers

Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple macOS, chaining them it is possible to take over a Mac computer. Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13890, CVE-2018-4176, CVE-2018-4175) affecting the Apple macOS operating system, an attacker could chain them to remotely execute arbitrary code on a targeted Mac computer. The attacker only needs to trick victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Flaw allowing identity spoofing affects authentication based on German eID cards

The authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed, an attacker could impersonate any other citizen. The nightmare comes true, the authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed and a flaw could allow an attacker to allow identity spoofing and changing the date of birth. The situation is […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw

Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn’t target Internet of Things devices, the bot was specifically developed to target Linux servers. The Hadoop YARN is vulnerability is a command injection […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
A flaw in US Postal Service website exposed data on 60 Million Users

US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users, some 60 million users were affected. The news was […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Facebook increases rewards for its bug bounty program and facilitate bug submission

Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Facebook announced an important novelty for its bug bounty, the social media giant is going to pay out as much as $40,000 for vulnerabilities that can be exploited to hack into accounts without […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Amazon UK is notifying a data breach to its customers days before Black Friday

Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak. The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Experts found flaws in Dell EMC and VMware Products. Patch them now!

Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released security updates for Dell EMC Avamar Client Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server and Dell EMC Integrated Data […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Sofacy APT group used a new tool in latest attacks, the Cannon

Sofacy APT group (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) has a new weapon in its arsenal dubbed Cannon. The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Experts at Palo Alto Networks spotted a new campaign in late October and early November, spear-phishing messages used Word […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2018
Hackers target Drupal servers chaining several flaws, including Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW

Hackers targeted Drupal web servers chaining some known vulnerabilities, including Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW issues. Security experts at Imperva reported an attack against Drupal Web servers running on Linux-based systems. Hackers exploited the Drupalgeddon2 flaw (CVE-2018-7600) along with other issues. The Drupalgeddon2 could be exploited to take over a website, it affects Drupal versions 6, 7 and 8. The other flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2018
Two hackers involved in the TalkTalk hack sentenced to prison

Two men from Tamworth, Staffordshire were sentenced to prison for their roles in the 2015 TalkTalk hack. Two men, Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, pleaded guilty to charges of hacking. Allsopp has been sentenced to 8 months in jail and Hanley to 12 months. In October 2015, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc publicly disclosed that four […]