Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2016
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a draft of a self-assessment tool named Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder. The tool is based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the risk management mechanisms of NIST cybersecurity framework. The Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder was designed to help enterprises to measure the effectiveness of their implementation of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2016
Mozilla plans to fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity. The flaw affects certificate pinning protections implemented by Mozilla. Mozilla plans to release a Firefox update to address the cross-platform remote code-execution vulnerability recently patched in the Tor browser. The tor is inviting its users to install the security update urgently, and Mozilla follows close […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2016
The British intelligence agency GCHQ is planning to create to protect the country from cyber attacks by creating a national firewall. The news was announced, during the Billington CyberSecurity Summit held in Washington DC, by the GCHQ director general of cyber security Ciaran Martin. The British GCHQ recently created the National Cyber Security Centre, led by Martin, that has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2016
The security duo Markus Vervier and Jean-Philippe Aumasson have discovered multiple flaws in the Android version the popular Signal app. The security researchers Markus Vervier and Jean-Philippe Aumasson have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Android version of the secure messaging application Signal that can be exploited by a remote attacker to alter attachments and cause […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2016
Cisco has released several Security Updates to fix many vulnerabilities in its products, including a nasty RCE in WebEx Meetings servers. Cisco has issued a patch to address the remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) that affects company WebEx Meetings servers. The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2016
Are you still using Adobe Flash Player? Are you browsing the web with IE or Edge? Does your company use an Exchange Server? Apply security updates asap! It’s time to patch your systems, especially if you have installed Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has released Security updates to fix critical Flash vulnerabilities that affect any OS (Windows, Mac, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI Council) updates its standard to reduce fraudulent activities against PoS systems. The number of credit card frauds involving Point-of-Sale continues to increase, in the last months, numerous attacks targeted retails and hotels worldwide. The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI Council) has responded with the definition […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2016
Cisco disclosed the existence of the CVE-2016-6399 flaw that can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger DoS conditions in ACE products. Experts at Cisco have disclosed the existence of a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6399, that can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger DoS conditions in some of Application Control Engine (ACE) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
From January 2017, Chrome will indicate connection security with an icon in the address bar labeling HTTP connections to sites as non-secure. Google continues its effort to make the web a better place by pushing the adoption of encryption, we left the IT giant in May when it announced the decision to switch on default HTTPS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
The manufacturer USBKill.com has commercialized USB Kill 2.0, a USB dongle that is able to fry any computer through the USB ports. The Hong Kong-based technology manufacturer USBKill.com has created a USB dongle that is able to fry any computer into which it’s plugged by using an electrical discharge. The attack is simple, the USBKill use […]
