Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2018
The UE issued new recommendations to tackle illegal content online, it asked internet companies to promptly remove terror content from their platforms within an hour from notification. On Thursday, the UE issued new recommendations to internet companies to promptly remove “harmful content,” including terror content, from their platforms. “As a follow-up, the Commission is today recommending a set […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2018
VISA – The cases of counterfeit fraud had dropped by 70% in September 2017 compared to December 2015 thanks to the diffusion of the diffusion in the storefronts of payment systems for EMV cards. The introduction of chip-and-PIN card technology in the United States improved in a significant way the security of merchants and has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2018
Security researchers at Core Security have discovered a dozen vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Linux-based Email Encryption Gateway. Security researchers at Core Security have discovered a dozen flaws in Trend Micro Linux-based Email Encryption Gateway, some of them have been rated as critical and high severity. The flaws received the CVE identification numbers CVE-2018-6219 through CVE-2018-6230. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
Small Business is a privileged target of attackers, in fact, there is a high risk of having problems with hackers if you are a large company or even a media player. Do you have a small company? If the answer is yes, and you think that no cyber attack will ever affect you, think again. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
OpenBSD releases Version 11 code update that addresses the Meltdown vulnerability by implementing the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD addresses the Meltdown vulnerability with the release of a Version 11 code. The update implements the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD’s Phillip Guenther provided further details on the implementation. “When […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
The Drupal development team addressed many vulnerabilities in both Drupal 8 and 7, including some flaws rated as “critical”. Drupal maintainers have fixed many vulnerabilities in Drupal 7 and 8, including some flaws rated as “critical.” One of the critical security vulnerabilities is related to partial cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention mechanisms that was addressed with Drupal 8.4.5 and 7.57 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2018
Intel released a stable microcode update to address the Spectre vulnerability for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. Intel has released microcode to address the CVE-2017-5715 Spectre vulnerability for many of its chips, let’s this time the security updates will not cause further problems. The Spectre attack allows user-mode applications to extract information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The RubyGems 2.7.6 update released last week for RubyGems includes several security improvements and addresses several types of vulnerabilities. The new RubyGems 2.7.6 release addresses several vulnerabilities in Ruby Gems and implements several security improvements. The updates prevent path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root and during gem installation. The updates also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers examines the cyberattacks cost that malicious cyber activities cause to the U.S. economy. How much cost cyber attacks to the US? According to a report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers last week, the cyberattacks cost between $57 billion and $109 billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
The Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS losing data under certain conditions. A few days ago a ‘text bomb‘ bug was reported for Apple iOS and macOS apps, the issue can crash any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac. Now the Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS […]
