Security

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2018
Expert discovered it was possible to delete all projects in the Microsoft Translator Hub

Microsoft has addressed a serious vulnerability in the Microsoft Translator Hub that could be exploited to delete any or all the projects hosted by the service. Microsoft has fixed a severe vulnerability in the Microsoft Translator Hub that could be exploited to delete any or all projects hosted by the service. The Microsoft Translator Hub “empowers businesses and communities […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018
Cisco fixes critical and high severity flaws in Policy Suite and SD-WAN products

Cisco has found over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products. The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite. The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374, CVE-2018-0375, CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing. Two of these flaws could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2018
Code hosting service GitHub can now scan also for vulnerable Python code

The code hosting service GitHub added Python to the list of programming languages that it is able to auto-scan for known vulnerabilities. Good news for GitHub users, the platform added Python to the list of programming languages that it is able to auto-scan for known vulnerabilities. In March, the code hosting service GitHub confirmed that the introduction […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2018
Trump might ask Putin to extradite the 12 Russian intelligence officers

A few hours before the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the US President said he might ask the extradition to the US of the 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of being involved in attacks against the 2016 presidential election. Ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki on Monday, the US President announced that he […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2018
12 Russian Intel Officers charged of hacking into U.S. Democrats

The week closes with the indictment for twelve Russian intelligence officers by a US grand jury. The charges were formulated just three days before President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Vladimir Putin. The special Counsel Robert Mueller, who indicted on February 13 Russians for a massive operation aimed to influence the 2016 Presidential election, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2018
Spambot aims at targets WordPress sites in World Cup-Themed spam scam

Imperva observed a spambot targeting WordPress sites aimed at tricking victims into clicking on links to sites offering betting services on FIFA World Cup Security experts from Imperva recently observed a spike in spam activity directed at WordPress websites, attackers aimed at tricking victims into clicking on links to sites offering betting services on the 2018 FIFA […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2018
Intel pays a $100K bug bounty for the new CPU Spectre 1.1 flaw

A team of researchers has discovered new variant of the famous Spectre attack (Spectre 1.1), and Intel has paid a $100,000 bug bounty as part of its bug bounty program. Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new vulnerabilities that are related to the first variant of the Spectre attack (CVE-2017-5753), for this reason, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2018
Adobe July Patch Tuesday fixes over 100 flaws in Adobe Acrobat and Reader

Adobe released July Patch Tuesday security updates that address over 100 flaws in Acrobat and Reader, and other issues in Flash Player, Experience Manager, and Connect. Adobe on Tuesday has released July Patch Tuesday security updates that addressed more than 100 flaws in its products, including 105 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader, two in Flash […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2018
Just using a $39 device it is possible to defeat new iOS USB Restricted Mode

Once USB Restricted Mode is enabled on a device, no data communications occur over the Lightning port, but experts found a way to reset the countdown timer. Recently Apple released the iOS 11.4.1 that introduced a new security feature, dubbed USB Restricted Mode, designed to protect your devices against USB accessories used by forensics experts and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2018
Polar fitness app broadcasted sensitive data of intelligence and military personnel

The Mobile fitness app Polar has suspended its location tracking feature due to the leakage of sensitive data on military and intelligence personnel. A new privacy incident involved Fitness application and military. this time the Mobile fitness app Polar has suspended its location tracking feature due to the leakage of sensitive data on military and intelligence […]