Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2018
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Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2018
IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Red Hat for $34bn with the intent to enhance its cloud offerings. This is the biggest tech merger in history involving a software company. Red Hat was founded in 1993, it currently operates in 35 countries and employs some 12,000 people. The company achieved a net profit of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2018
Systemd is affected by a security vulnerability that can be exploited to crash a vulnerable Linux machine, and in the worst case to execute malicious code. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability using maliciously crafted DHCPv6 packets and modifying portions of memory of the vulnerable systems, potentially causing remote code execution. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15688, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
The media outlet The Verge obtained a copy of a contract between Google and OEMs that obliges them to two years of security updates for popular phones. Google continues the battle for securing devices of its users, this time making mandatory for device makers two years of Android security updates. One of the main problems with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is embracing the work of ethical hackers and their researches to secure medical devices. Hacking is an ever-present concern in today’s highly connected society. People typically shudder to think about their smart speakers or home security systems getting compromised, and indeed, vulnerabilities in those devices would be traumatizing. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2018
Splunk recently addressed several vulnerabilities in Enterprise and Light products, some of them have been rated âhigh severity.â Splunk Enterprise solution allows organizations to aggregate, search, analyze, and visualize data from various sources that are critical to business operations. The Splunk Light is a comprehensive solution for small IT environments that automates log analysis and integrate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2018
VMware has addressed a critical arbitrary code execution flaw affecting the SVGA virtual graphics card used by its ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products. VMware has released security updated to fix a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-6974) in the SVGA virtual graphics card used by its ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion solutions. The issue in the VMware products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2018
Juniper Networks has released security updates to address serious vulnerabilities affecting the Junos operating system. This week, Juniper Networks has patched dozens of serious security provided security patches for each of them, the security advisories are available on the company website. The most severe flaw is probably the  CVE-2018-0049, which could be exploited by an attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2018
SAP released its October 2018 set of patches, it includes the first Hot News security note for SAP BusinessObjects in over five years. SAP released its October 2018 set of patches that included 11 security notes, the company also released 4 updates to previously released notes. The patches include 15 notes, 2 rated Hot News and one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russiaâs financial sector Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russiaâs financial sector. […]
