Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2018
Cisco ASA software is affected by a flaw with 10 out of 10 severity rating. Patch it asap

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
Intel reportedly alerted Chinese companies before US Government about Meltdown and Spectre flaws

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
#ThinkBeyond – Security solutions from market leaders may all fail in your particular environment

Buying solutions proposed by analyst firms without carefully analyzing your organization expose it to cyber threats. It’s time to #ThinkBeyond this broken paradigm. The cybersecurity market is expected to double by 2022, analysts estimated the growth could reach three hundred thousand dollars, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.0%. In the same period, the number […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Military personnel improperly used Fitness Strava Tracker exposed their bases

Military worldwide have publicly shared online their exercise routes recorded through the fitness tracker Strava revealing the fitness sessions conducted inside or near military bases We discussed many times privacy risks related to IoT devices, here we are to discuss an alarming case, fitness tracker Strava revealed details of Military Bases. American and allied military worldwide have publicly shared their exercise […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Over the weekend Microsoft rolled out out-of-band updates to disable mitigations for Spectre v2 attacks

Over the weekend, Microsoft rolled out out-of-band updates to disable mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants because they can cause systems to become unstable. The situation is becoming embarrassing! Just after the release of the Meltdown and Spectre security updates Intel excluded any problems for their deployments citing testing activities of conducted by other tech […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
On Saturday Malwarebytes delivered a buggy update that caused excessive memory usage and crashes.

On Saturday Malwarebytes issued a buggy update to its home and enterprise products that caused serious problems for the users, including excessive memory usage, connectivity issues, and in some cases system crashes. A buggy update rolled out over the weekend by Malwarebytes to its home and enterprise products caused serious problem for the users, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The threats that most of all characterized this week are IoT botnets and malvertising. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Hurry up, update your Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro if you use Windows 7, 8 and 8.1

Lenovo has fixed a hardcoded password vulnerability in Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro affecting a dozen laptop models running Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 OS. The PC vendor Lenovo has fixed a hardcoded password vulnerability, tracked as (CVE-2017-3762), affecting a dozen Lenovo laptop models that run versions of Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2018
Maersk chair revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya Attack

The shipping giant Maersk chair Jim Hagemann Snabe revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya the attack. The shipping giant Maersk was one of the companies that suffered the NotPetya massive attack, in August 2017 the company announced that it would incur hundreds of millions in U.S. dollar losses due to the ransomware massive […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
Intel recommended to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches

Intel recommended OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors as well as end users to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. While the Linux father Linus Torvalds defines the Spectre updates “utter garbage”, Intel warns to stop installing current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. Intel explained its approach in its technical note about Spectre mitigation […]