Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2018
A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone. Drones have created a new threat to people’s privacy. Anyone with a drone equipped with a video camera can potentially violate our privacy by streaming the subject in his/her private space over an encrypted first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
Security expert discovered a new vulnerability in macOS High Sierra that could be exploited by users logged as admins to unlock the AppStore Preferences in System Preferences by providing any password. Security expert discovered a new vulnerability in macOS High Sierra that could be exploited by users logged as admins to unlock the AppStore Preferences in System Preferences by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
An attacker can secretly eavesdrop on your private end-to-end encrypted group chats on WhatsApp, Threema and Signal messaging apps. Even if the messaging services implement end-to-end encryption, an attacker or someone in the company that provides the service can decrypt your messages. A Group of researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Germany discovered that anyone who controls […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
Researchers at security firm We Are Segment have discovered a vulnerability in Gmail, a “distorted” message shuts down the most famous webmail in the world. This Cybersec company We Are Segment, part of the Interlogica group, discovered a severe vulnerability in Gmail. Last month the Italian firm made the headlines due to the discovery of the Tormoil […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
The development team behind the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet app has issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in the company bitcoin wallets. Electrum is a free application that’s used by many cryptocurrency sites to store bitcoin. Administrators can run their own Electrum server and the software supports hardware wallets such as Trezor, Ledger and Keepkey. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Turla APT group’s espionage campaigns now employs Adobe Flash Installer and an ingenious social engineering technique, the backdoor is downloaded from what appears to be legitimate Adobe URLs and IP addresses. Security researchers from ESET who have analyzed recent cyber espionage campaigns conducted by the dreaded Turla APT group reported that hackers leverage on malware downloaded from […]
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 […]
