Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Microsoft officially confirmed that Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns contrary to what initially thought. Just after the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, many security experts argued that forthcoming patches will have a significant impact on the performance (30% degradation), but Intel pointed out that average users will not notice any difference. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Apple released iOS 11.2.2 software, a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update, and Safari 11.0.2 to fix Spectre flaws. On Monday, Apple released patches to fix Spectre flaws in Safari, macOS, and iOS, the tech giant released iOS 11.2.2 software a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update. The patches also fixed vulnerabilities in Apple WebKit, the web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Dell EMC informed its customers that its Avamar Server, NetWorker Virtual Edition and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products are affected by 3 zero-day flaws. Dell EMC informed its customers that its Avamar Server, NetWorker Virtual Edition and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products are affected by vulnerabilities that can be chained by an attacker to take complete control of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2018
According to Coinhive, the BlackBerry Mobile website was hacked by exploiting a critical security vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce software. The spike in the value of some cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is attracting the interest of cyber criminals. The numbers of incidents and cyber attacks involving miners and mining scripts continue to increase and the last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2018
Many users claim the Security Update for Windows KB4056892, the Microsoft Meltdown/Spectre patch, bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines. Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will continue to create a lot of problems to users and chip vendors. As you know, tech giants like Apple, Cisco and Microsoft admitted the problem for their products and started rolling out security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2018
Malware researchers at Talos group have discovered a strain of Zeus banking Trojan that abuses the legitimate website of the Ukraine-based accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM). The experts discovered that the version of the ZeuS banking Trojan used in this attack is the 2.0.8.9 that was leaked in 2011. The attack occurred in August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2018
Hackers are already targeting the Pyeongchang Olympic Games with spear phishing attacks aimed at stealing sensitive or financial information. Security researchers from McAfee reported hackers are already targeting Pyeongchang Olympic Games, many organizations associated with the event had received spear phishing messages. Most of the targeted organizations is involved with the Olympics either in providing infrastructure or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2018
Google expert discovered a new stack-based overflow vulnerability in AMD CPUs that could be exploited via crafted EK certificates, Chip manufacturers are in the tempest, while media are continues sharing news about the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, the security researcher at Google’s cloud security team Cfir Cohen disclosed a stack-based overflow vulnerability in the fTMP of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2018
A developer published a proof-of-concept project dubbed CoffeeMiner for hacking public Wi-Fi networks and mine cryptocurrencies. The spike in the values of Bitcoin is attracting the interest of crooks that are adopting any method to steal crypto wallets or computational resources from the victims. A developer named Arnau has published a proof-of-concept project dubbed CoffeeMiner for hacking public Wi-Fi […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2018
Cisco is going to release security patches for Meltdown and Spectre attacks, the company is currently investigating its entire products portfolio. Cisco published a security advisory on the CPU Side-Channel information disclosure vulnerabilities that are exploited in the Spectre and Meltdown attacks and announced it is going to release security updates to protect its customers. Switchzilla announced it […]
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