Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2018
The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details on the social media accounts they’ve managed in the past five years. The US Government wants to make it mandatory for all foreigners (immigrant /non-immigrant) to provide social media details, telephone numbers, email addresses, and international travel during this period. when applying for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
A ransomware infected systems at the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India, crooks demanded 10 million Rupees to get the data back. The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India was hacked last week, attackers breached into its computer systems and stole the billing data of their customers. The hackers demanded 10 million Rupees to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
What are the advantages for adopting an SSL Certificates and why is it important to discover and analyze SSL Certificates online? Secure Socket Layer (SSL) has gained weight with the increasing concern of security for all sensitive data online. In fact, it is the only reliable source for secure business and data handling. The entire […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2018
A security researcher discovered that some of the Windows updates released by Microsoft to mitigate the Meltdown flaw introduce a severe bug. Meltdown and Spectre security updates made the headlines again, according to the security researcher Ulf Frisk some of them issued for Windows introduce a severe flaw. The Meltdown and Spectre security updates released by Microsoft in January and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3, the new version of the Transport Layer Security traffic encryption protocol. It was a long journey, the IETF has been analyzing proposals for TLS 1.3 since April 2014, the final release is the result of the work on 28 drafts. The TLS protocol […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2018
According to the lawsuit filed by San Diego city attorney Mara Elliott the Experian credit agency never notified the 2013 security breach to the affected consumers as required under California law. The City of San Diego, California is suing the Experian credit agency for the security breach that the company suffered in 2013. “San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott has filed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
The code hosting service GitHub confirmed that the introduction of GitHub security alerts in November allowed to obtain a significant reduction of vulnerable code libraries on the platform. Github alerts warn developers when including certain flawed software libraries in their projects and provide advice on how to address the issue. Last year GitHub first introduced the Dependency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Drupal Security Team confirmed that a âhighly criticalâ vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. A âhighly criticalâ vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and Drupal developers are currently working to address it. Drupal maintainers initially planned to issue a security release of Drupal 7.x, 8.3.x, 8.4.x, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Google announced that mitigations for devices with Intel processors that are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities will be available for latest stable channel update for Googleâs Chrome OS operating system. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive data. The Meltdown attack could allow attackers to read […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted the company made mistakes. Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted that his company has failed in protecting its users, but he pointed out that the company has already adopted necessary measures to prevent future […]
