Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
According to a security advisory issued by Lenovo, two critical vulnerabilities in Broadcom chipsets affects at least 25 models of Lenovo ThinkPad. The affected models are ThinkPad 10,  ThinkPad L460, ThinkPad P50s, ThinkPad T460, ThinkPad T460p, ThinkPad T460s, ThinkPad T560, ThinkPad X260 and ThinkPad Yoga 260. One of the flaws was discovered in June by Google that publicly disclosed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
VMware has provided detailed instruction on how to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in several of its products. VMware is releasing patches and workarounds for its Virtual Appliance products affected by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. Netgear has just released many security updates that address vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. The vulnerabilities have been reported by security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave, which conducted a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2018
Intel is releasing new firmware updates that should address Spectre vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 for Skylake processors. Intel is releasing new firmware updates limited to Skylake processors to address Spectre vulnerabilities, patches for other platforms are expected very soon. The Spectre attack allows user-mode applications to extract information from other processes running on the same system. It can also be exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2018
Cisco has rolled out new security patches for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in its CISCO ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) software. At the end of January, the company released security updates the same flaw in Cisco ASA software. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote and unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2018
Aiming to tackle threats from rogue nations and hackers The UK Government urges to boost security measures of services in critical sectors. On November 2016 United Kingdom published the National Cyber Security Strategy to address cyber threats from rogue nations like Iran, Russia, China, terrorists, states sponsored hackers and cyber menaces like ransomware against the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2018
Siemens has patched three security vulnerabilities in its Plant Management Product, the Siemens TeleControl Basic system. The system is used in water treatment facilities, traffic monitoring systems, and energy distribution plants. The TeleControl Basic control center runs the TeleControl Server Basic software. The Siemens TeleControl Basic system allows organizations to monitor and control processes in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
Three Dutch Banks (ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank) and Tax Agency were targeted by a coordinated DDoS Attacks a few days the revelation of the Russian APT Hack. Early this week a massive DDoS attack targeted three Dutch banks, ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank, and the Dutch Taxation Authority (Belastingdienst). The attack against the system of ABN AMRO started over the weekend, while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
Cisco released security updates to address a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in Cisco ASA software Cisco addressed a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote and unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition causing the reload of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
According to the Wall Stree Journal, Intel reportedly alerted Chinese companies before US Gov about Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. There is no peace for Intel, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal the company warned Chinese tech giants about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities before notifying them to the US government. Citing unnamed […]
