Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The sportswear company Adidas announced that it has launched an investigation after learning of a potential security breach that could impact millions of its US customers. Adidas published a security alert to warn that hackers may have stolen customer data from its US website. The German sportswear company confirmed that attackers may have had unauthorized access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The development team of the Gentoo Linux distribution notifies users that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts and planted a malicious code. Developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution announced that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts used by the organization and planted a malicious code. “Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The entertainment ticketing service Ticketmaster announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed personal and payment customer information. Hackers accessed name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details of company customers. According to the company, attackers installed a malicious code on customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies, an external […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
A massive DDoS attack hit encrypted email provider ProtonMail, experts believe it was powered by Russian hackers. On Wednesday morning, ProtonMail informed customers that its systems were under attack that was causing a delay in the delivery of the messages. Our network is under attack again. No data is breached or lost, but emails will be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
This is a very bad news for security community, the NSA-linked DoublePulsar exploit can now target Windows Embedded devices. The DoublePulsar exploit was released publicly in April 2017 by ShadowBrockers hackers that allegedly stole them from the NSA. The hackers leaked a huge trove of hacking tools and exploit codes used by the US intelligence agency, most of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2018
Seven months ago, security experts discovered a critical file deletion vulnerability that affects all WordPress versions, currently, the issue is still unpatched. The vulnerability could be exploited to complete takeover of the websites running the popular CMS and gain arbitrary code execution. The issue is severe if we consider the potential impact, WordPress is the most popular CMS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2018
A security breach suffered by the Hotel booking software provider FastBooking has affected hundreds of hotels worldwide. The Hotel booking software provider FastBooking is the last victim of a data breach, the incident exposed personal details and payment card data of guests from affected hotels. FastBooking offers hotel booking platform to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2018
Security Researchers demonstrated how a “poisoned” cellphone battery in smartphones can be leveraged to “infer characters typed on a touchscreen We’ve heard about stealing information through blinking hard drive lights and computer speakers but would you believe the battery in your cell phone can also leak potentially sensitive information? Researchers at Technion Center for Security Science and Technology (CSST), Hebrew […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2018
Several websites using the misconfigured Java web server component Jolokia, including those operated by financial organizations. are exposed to cyber attacks. Websites using a misconfigured Java web server component are exposed to cyber attacks. Several high-profile websites including those operated by financial organizations were affected by issues. The security researcher Mat Mannion discovered some flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2018
Security researchers at AlienVault uncovered a series of cyber attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges leveraging weaponized Hangul Word Processor HWP documents (Hangul Word Processor documents). The string of attacks involving the HWP documents has been attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group, and includes the hack of the South Korean virtual currency exchange Bithumb. The hackers […]
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