Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2023
Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest Western Europe-led cyber exercise that took place in Tallinn with 34 teams from 11 countries. The Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest training exercise organised by the Army Cyber Association to allow personnel from across the Armed Forces to build their skills within the cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2023
Threat actors are actively exploiting the Fortinet FortiNAC vulnerability CVE-2022-39952 a few hours after the publication of the PoC exploit code. This week, researchers at Horizon3 cybersecurity firm have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-39952, in Fortinetâs FortiNAC network access control solution. Last week, Fortinet has released security updates to address two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2023
The European Commission has banned its employees from using the Chinese social media app TikTok over security concerns. The European Union has banned the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok from the mobile devices of its employees over security concerns. The app developed by the Chinese firm ByteDance has over 1 billion active users worldwide, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2023
Tech giant Apple discloses three new vulnerabilities affecting its iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems. Apple updated its advisories by adding three new vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-23520, CVE-2023-23530 and CVE-2023-23531, that affect iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. An attacker can trigger the CVE-2023-23530 flaw to execute arbitrary code out of its sandbox or with certain elevated privileges. The vulnerability resides in the Foundation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2023
US CISA added actively exploited flaws in IBM Aspera Faspex and Mitel MiVoice to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. US CISA added the following actively exploited flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: CVE-2022-47986 (CVSS score: 9.8) – IBM Aspera Faspex Code Execution Vulnerability – A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2023
VMware released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20858, in the Carbon Black App Control product. VMware addressed a critical injection vulnerability, tracked as (CVSSv3 score 9.1), Carbon Black App Control. VMware Carbon Black App Control allows organizations to ensure that only trusted and approved software is allowed to execute on their critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2023
Samsung introduces a new protection feature called Message Guard to protect users from zero-click malware attacks. Samsung announced the implementation of a new security feature called Message Guard that aims at protecting users from malicious code that can be installed via zero-click attacks. Zero-click exploits allow attackers to compromise the target device without any user interaction, for example, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2023
Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual. This scenario must undoubtedly force organizations to prepare adequately to be able to recognize […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2023
Twitter has announced that the platform will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers. To date, Twitter has offered three methods of 2FA: text message, authentication app, and security key. However, the company has announced that it will limit the use of SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2023
Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet has addressed two critical vulnerabilities impacting its FortiNAC and FortiWeb products. Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb solutions. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-39952 and CVE-2021-42756, are respectively an external control of file name or path in Fortinet FortiNAC and a collection […]
