Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
The No More Ransom initiative celebrates its fifth anniversary, over 6 million victims of ransomware attacks recover their files for free saving almost €1 billion in payments. No More Ransom is celebrating its 5th anniversary, the initiative allowed more than 6 million ransomware victims to recover their files for free saving roughly $1 billion in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
Researchers demonstrated how to hide malware inside an image classifier within a neural network in order to bypass the defense solutions. Researchers Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, and Xiang Cui presented a technique to deliver malware through neural network models to evade the detection without impacting the performance of the network. Tests conducted by the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2021
Microsoft published mitigations for the recently discovered PetitPotam attack that allows attackers to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. Microsoft has released mitigations for the recently discovered PetitPotam NTLM attack that could allow attackers to take over a domain controller. A few days ago, security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam) has discovered a vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2021
A researcher found a flaw in Windows OS, tracked as PetitPotam, that can be exploited to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. Security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2021
How businesses can benefit from the adoption of an identity and access management solution. Businesses that use outdated manual processes to grant and control access to their IT resources are getting left behind. This article describes what an identity and access management solution is and how it can benefit your business. Identity Is the New […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2021
Multiple major websites, including Steam, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, went offline due to Akamai DNS global outage. A software configuration update triggered a bug in the Akamai DNS which took offline major websites, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, AWS, Google, and Salesforce. “A software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS (domain name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2021
Oracle released its Critical Patch Update for July 2021, it fixes hundreds of flaws, including Critical Remotely Exploitable vulnerabilities in Weblogic Server. Oracle this week released its quarterly Critical Patch Update for July 2021 that contains 342 new security patches for multiple product families. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed by the IT giant could be remotely exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2021
Experts discovered a Local Privilege Escalation, tracked as CVE-2021-33909, that could allow attackers to get root access on most Linux distros. Qualys researchers discovered a local privilege escalation (LPE) tracked as CVE-2021-33909, aka Sequoia, an unprivileged attacker can exploit the flaw to get root privileges on most Linux distros. The issue is a size_t-to-int type […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2021
Experts warn of a 16-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2021-3438) in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that an attacker could exploit to gain admin rights on systems. Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2021
Fortinet fixes a serious bug in its FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code as root. Fortinet has released security updates to address a serious bug, tracked as CVE-2021-32589, affecting FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions. The CVE-2021-32589 vulnerability is a Use After Free issue that an attacker […]
