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Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2017

Microsoft patches two critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws that have been exploited in attacks

Microsoft released the June 2017 Patch Tuesday to address more than 90 security flaws, including two critical RCE that have been exploited in attacks. Microsoft released June Patch Tuesday updates that address more than 90 vulnerabilities, including two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that have been exploited in attacks. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8464, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2017

Adobe patches tens of vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions

On Tuesday, Adobe released updates for Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions addressing a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities fixed by Adobe are critical remote code execution issue, the last release, version 26.0.0.126, addressed nine flaws in Flash Player. The vulnerabilities were tracked as CVE-2017-3075, CVE-2017-3081, CVE-2017-3083, CVE-2017-3084, CVE-2017-3076, CVE-2017-3077, CVE-2017-3078, CVE-2017-3079, and CVE-2017-3082. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2017

Weaponize a Mouse with WHID Injector for Fun & W00t

Researcher Luca Bongiorni has detailed the procedure to weaponize a new mouse with WHID Injector to show you how to create malicious HID devices. Hello there! Finally, I had some spare time to Weaponize a new Mouse, in order to show you how easy is possible to create malicious HID devices. Materials Needed: WHID Injector […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2017

Israeli Intelligence spotted IS plans for Laptop Bomb

Israeli cyber spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers and discovered they were developing a laptop bomb to hit commercial air crafts, Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2017

ICS Companies Are Worried About Cybersecurity, But Are They Worried About the Right Things?

Companies operating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have a special set of challenges to deal with. Which is the state of the art? The equipment was expected to be installed and left alone for a long time. Pressures to reduce operating costs led to this equipment being connected, and the easiest networking equipment to find was […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2017

Experts spotted Industroyer ICS Malware and linked it to Ukraine Power Outage

Researchers at antivirus firm ESET have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Industroyer, that appears to have been designed to target power grids. The experts published a detailed analysis of the malware, they speculated the malicious code has been involved in the December 2016 attack on an electrical substation in Ukraine. “Win32/Industroyer is a sophisticated piece […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2017

MacRansom: The first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service

Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted MacRansom, it is the first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service. Malware researchers at security firm Fortinet have spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed MacRansom that targets Mac machines. The malware is available with Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model through a hidden service in the TOR network. Experts believe […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2017

Analyzing the attack landscape of the Dark Web. There is no honor among thieves.

Security researchers at Trend Micro used Tor honeypots to conduct a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, Security experts at Trend Micro have conducted a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web in order to analyze […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2017

Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5

Security experts have discovered a critical kernel command line injection vulnerability in the Motorola handsets Moto G4 and Moto G5. Security researchers from Aleph Research Motorola have discovered a critical kernel command line injection flaw in the Motorola handset Moto G4 and Moto G5 models. The flaw affects also handsets running the latest Motorola Android bootloader […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2017

US Defense is working on new multifactor authentication systems

DARPA is currently developing a multifactor authentication system that will replace the current common access card (CAC). According to a report published by American Security Today, the DARPA High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program is designing technology for the creation of safe and secure cyber-physical systems. DARPA is currently developing a multifactor authentication system that aims to […]

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Microsoft patches two critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws that have been exploited in attacks

Adobe patches tens of vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Captivate and Digital Editions

Weaponize a Mouse with WHID Injector for Fun & W00t

Israeli Intelligence spotted IS plans for Laptop Bomb

ICS Companies Are Worried About Cybersecurity, But Are They Worried About the Right Things?

Experts spotted Industroyer ICS Malware and linked it to Ukraine Power Outage

MacRansom: The first Mac ransomware offered as a RaaS Service

Analyzing the attack landscape of the Dark Web. There is no honor among thieves.

Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5

US Defense is working on new multifactor authentication systems

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