Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2017
UK car insurance company AA accidentally sent out a ‘password update’ email to its customers, the incident was caused by a human error. UK car insurance company AA accidentally sent out a “password update” email to its customers, the messages led the motorists to log into the motoring organization’s website to change their passwords. The concurrent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2017
Several government websites were hacked by a pro-ISIS group that is calling itself Team System DZ, including those of the Ohio Governor John Kasich. Several government websites in Ohio and Maryland, including the one belonging to Ohio Governor John Kasich, had to be shut down Sunday after being defaced by pro-ISIS hackers. The hackers breached the websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2017
The Google Project Zero expert Tavis Ormandy has found a flaw in Windows Defender that allow attackers to bypass the Microsoft anti-virus tool. The popular Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a new bug in Windows Defender that allow attackers to circumvent the Microsoft anti-virus tool. Ormandy publicly disclosed the news of the vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2017
The UK Parliament has suffered the biggest ever cyber attack against the email systems, it shut down external access to mitigate the threat. The UK Parliament has shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday after a cyberattack. According to the authorities, the attack was “sustained and determined,” hackers launched a prolonged brute-force attack against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2017
Security experts at FoxâIT have demonstrated that is possible sniff AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet) with a cheap equipment. Security experts at FoxâIT have demonstrated that is possible to power a side-channel attack to wirelessly extract secret AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2017
A massive dump of Microsoft’s confidential Windows 10 internal builds, and the source codes for private software has been leaked online. A huge trove of Microsoft internal Windows operating system builds and portions of core source code have leaked online. The news was first reported by The Register, the 32TB of official and non-public installation images […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2017
According to the US intelligence, Russian hackers tried to compromise electoral networks in 21 unnamed US states, but voting tallies hadn’t been hacked. According to Homeland Security officials, the attack against the 2016 Presidential election was more sophisticated than first thought. In a public hearing into the Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election held by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2017
Experts have devised the GhostHook Attack technique to install rootkits on machines running the Windows 10 operating system. Security flaws in Microsoft PatchGuard kernel protection could be exploited by attackers to install rootkits on machines running the secure Windows 10 operating system. The PatchGuard, also known as Kernel Patch Protection, is a software protection utility that been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2017
OpenVPN fixed several vulnerabilities that could be exploited by remote attackers, the flaws were not detected in a recent audit. Recently two distinct audits were conducted to discover security issues in the OpenVPN, many flaws were found but some vulnerabilities were not spotted by the experts. Four of the vulnerabilities in OpenVPN 2.4.2, were found by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2017
Drupal team released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw CVE-2017-6922 exploited in spam campaigns. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2017-6922 that has been exploited in spam campaigns. The CVE-2017-6922 flaw was fixed with the […]
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