Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2021
SolarWinds hackers also used common hacker techniques, CISA revealed

CISA revealed that threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack also used password guessing and password spraying in its attacks. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack also employed common hacker techniques to compromise the networks of the targeted organizations, including password guessing and password spraying. “Frequently, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2021
Nvidia releases security updates for GPU display driver and vGPU flaws

Nvidia has released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Nvidia GPU display driver and vGPU software.  Nvidia has addressed a total of 16 flaws, including high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Nvidia GPU display driver and vGPU software.   The addressed flaws may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, data tampering, or information disclosure. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2021
Welcome Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET)

United States Department of State approved the creation of the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET). The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo approved the creation of the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET) that was first announced in 2019. The CSET Bureau was created to increase the resilience of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2021
Multiple flaws in Fortinet FortiWeb WAF could allow corporate networks to hack

An expert found multiple serious vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that could expose corporate networks to hack. Andrey Medov, a security researcher at Positive Technologies, found multiple serious vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that could be exploited by attackers to hack into corporate networks. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-29015, CVE-2020-29016, CVE-2020-29018, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2021
US Govt kicked off ‘Hack the Army 3.0’ bug bounty program

The U.S. government is going to launch the ‘Hack the Army 3.0’ bug bounty program in collaboration with the HackerOne platform. The U.S. government launched Hack the Army 3.0, the third edition of its bug bounty program, in collaboration with the HackerOne platform. The second Hack the Army bug bounty program ran between October 9 and November […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2021
Google fixed a critical Remote Code Execution flaw in Android

Google released an Android security update that addressed tens of flaws, including a critical Android remote code execution vulnerability. Google released an Android security update that addresses 43 flaws, including a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Android System component tracked as CVE-2021-0316. Google addressed the flaws with the release of Security patch levels […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2021
How to bypass the Google Audio reCAPTCHA with a new version of unCaptcha2 attack

A German security researcher demonstrated how to break, once again, the Google Audio reCAPTCHA with Google’s own Speech to Text API. Back in 2017, researchers from the University of Maryland demonstrated an attack method, dubbed unCaptcha, against Google’s audio-based reCAPTCHA v2. The system receives the audio challenge, downloads it, and submits it to Speech To […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2021
British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2021
FBI warns swatting attacks on owners of smart devices

The Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) is warning owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of ‘swatting’ attacks. The FBI has recently issued an alert to warn owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of so-called “swatting” attacks. Swatting attacks consist of hoax calls made to emergency services, typically reporting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Today Adobe Flash Player reached the end of life (EOL)

Today Adobe Flash Player has reached its end of life (EOL), its vulnerabilities were exploited by multiple threat actors in attacks in the wild over the years. Adobe Flash Player has reached the end of life (EOL) today, over the years, threat actors have exploited multiple vulnerabilities in the popular software. Adobe will no longer […]