The security expert Dawid Golunski disclosed critical vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB and PerconaDB can lead fully compromise of servers. Critical vulnerabilities affecting the MySQL, MariaDB and PerconaDB can lead fully compromise of servers. The flaws could be exploited by attackers to arbitrary code execution, root privilege escalation and, of course, server compromise. Dawid Golunski (@dawid_golunski) from Legal […]
Stealth Cell Tower, it is an antagonistic GSM base station concealed in an office printer that could be used for surveillance purposes. Are you angry with your boss or your colleagues? Do you want to spy on them? The engineer Julian Oliver has demonstrated how to do it with a tiny cellphone base station concealed in […]
Executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group revealed that Windows Kernel zero-day recently disclosed was used by the Fancy Bear APT. On Oct. 31, the Google Threat Analysis Group publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that is actively being exploited by threat actors in the wild. The zero-day could be exploited […]
Experts from ERPScan revealed that a SAP flaw patched in September still impacts more than 900 SAP systems exposed to the Internet. An information disclosure vulnerability in SAP that was patched in September impacts more than 900 SAP systems that are exposed to the Internet. According to the expert Sergiu Popa from Quenta Solutions who reported the […]
Google has disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability after 7-day deadline it gives vendors when the flaw is actively exploited in the wild by hackers. Google has once again publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting current versions of Windows operating system and Microsoft still hasn’t issued a patch. Yes, you’ve got it right! There is a […]
Security researchers at CRITIFENCE cyber security labs publicly announced this morning (November 1, 2016) major cyber security vulnerabilities affecting one of the world’s largest manufacturers of SCADA and Industrial Control Systems, Schneider Electric. The zero-day vulnerabilities dubbed PanelShock, found earlier this year by Eran Goldstein, CTO and Founder of CRITIFENCE, a leading Critical Infrastructure, […]
The ShadowBrokers hacker group leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The notorious Shadow Brokers hacker group has posted a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The hackers disclosed the […]
The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networks’ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom, also known as Elise and Esile, is behind a new cyber espionage campaign that is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networks’ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. With this […]
Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a spike in the number of attacks in less than 24 hours after Joomla released patches for two critical flaws. On October 25, Joomla released the version 3.6.4 to fix two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-8870, and CVE-2016-8869. The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-8870, could be exploited by attackers to create user accounts even if […]
An 18-year-old man from Arizona, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, was arrested this week because he is suspected for the severe disruption of 911 service. A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber-Security Research Center demonstrated how it is possible to significantly disrupt the US’ 911 emergency call system. An attacker […]