Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2020
Maintainers of the OpenCV library addressed two buffer overflow flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Maintainers of the OpenCV library addressed two high-severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open-source library of programming functions mainly aimed at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2020
Cisco has released software updates for its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product to address several critical and high-severity issues. Cisco has released software updates that address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product. All the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2020
The Irish government has published its National Cyber Security Strategy, it is an update of the country’s first Strategy which was published in 2015. The 2019 National Cyber Security Strategy aims to allow Ireland to continue to safely enjoy the benefits of the digital revolution and play a full part in shaping the future of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2020
Developers at Starbucks left exposed an API key that could be used by an attacker to access internal systems and manipulate the list of authorized users. The development team at Starbucks left exposed an API key that could be used by an attacker to access company internal systems and manipulate the list of authorized users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2019
Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared the results of an investigation on computer errors that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016, authorities were not able to associate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2019
Russia is one of the most advanced cyber states, but according to the media President Vladimir Putin ‘s personal PC is apparently still running Win XP. The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2019
NVIDIA released a security update for the Windows NVIDIA GeForce Experience app that addresses CVE-2019-5702 high severity flaw. NVIDIA addresses a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2019-5702) in Windows NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) app that could be exploited by local attackers to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition or escalate privileges on systems running the vulnerable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2019
The 2020 Cybersecurity Landscape – Below Pierluigi Paganini’s cybersecurity predictions for the next twelve months. Here we are again for the annual prediction of the events that I believe will impact the cybersecurity landscape in the next year. Let’s try to imagine what threats and bad actors will influence the cyber arena in the next […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2019
Google addressed a new set of vulnerabilities, dubbed Magellan 2.0, that could be exploited for remote code execution inside the Chrome browser. Google has fixed five SQLite vulnerabilities, dubbed Magellan 2.0, that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute malicious code inside the Chrome browser. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
A flaw in the Twitter app for Android could have been exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information or take over an account. Twitter has recently addressed a security vulnerability that affected the Android version of the app, it could have been exploited by hackers to access sensitive information of the users (direct messages, protected […]
