Security

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2017
Securing smart grid and advanced metering infrastructure

The year is 2020, high economic, military and cultural tension between Russia & the US. You are at the London office, entering a video meeting with the sales team in America, the American team presents with enthusiasm the sales achievement of the recent quarter, then, suddenly the call is disconnected. You are trying to re-establish […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2017
Russian firm provides North Korea with second Internet route

Dyn Research discovered traffic coming from North Korea running over the Russian TransTeleCom network, this is the second internet route of the regime. North Korea gets a second Internet connection thanks to the support of a state-owned Russian firm. From the perspective of security analysts, this second connection will improve in a significant way the cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2017
Which are most frequently blacklisted apps by enterprises?

Mobile security firm Appthority published an interesting report that revealed which Android and iOS applications are most frequently blacklisted by enterprises. The company Appthority has published an interesting report that reveals which mobile apps, both Android and iOS, are most frequently blacklisted by enterprises. “The mobile ecosystem in an enterprise comprises apps from managed devices, BYOD and COPE. Appthority compiled […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2017
High-severity flaw opens Siemens Industrial Switches to attacks

Siemens has started releasing security patches to fix a high severity access control vulnerability in its industrial switches tracked as CVE-2017-12736. The flaw was discovered by experts at Siemens and could be exploited by remote attackers to hack some of Siemens industrial communications devices. The vulnerability affects SCALANCE X industrial Ethernet switches, and Ruggedcom switches and serial-to-ethernet […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2017
FBI Director – Terrorists could launch drone attacks very soon

FBI director Christopher Wray warns of terrorists are planning to use drones in attacks, the threat is considered as imminent. This week, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that terrorists may use drones in attacks against the United States, the official described the threat as imminent. “We do know that terrorist organizations have an interest in using […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2017
Oracle releases security patches for Apache Struts CVE-2017-9805 Flaw exploited in the wild

Oracle fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited in the wild for the past few weeks. Oracle has released patches for vulnerabilities affecting many of its products, the IT giant has fixed several issues in the Apache Struts 2 framework, including the flaw CVE-2017-9805 that has been exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2017
Google released a Chrome 61 update that patches 2 High-Risk Flaws

Google has just released an updated version of Chrome 61, version 61.0.3163.100, that addresses 3 security flaws, two of which rated high-severity. The new version is already available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users and includes a total of three vulnerabilities. The first high-risk bug, tracked as CVE-2017-5121, is an Out-of-bounds access in V8 reported by Jordan […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2017
Was Torrent Site The Pirate Bay Being Sneaky or Creative By Tricking Visitors Into Monero Mining

Users noticed a cryptocurrency miner surfaced on The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest torrenting for a day over the weekend. Pop quiz: would you rather A) see ad banners displayed at the top of the website, or B) mine Monero cryptocurrency when you visit a website? Judging by the number of downloads for ad blocking browser […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2017
Chrome will label Resources delivered via FTP as “Not Secure”

Google continues the ongoing effort to communicate the transport security status of a given page labeling resources delivered via FTP as “Not secure” in Chrome, Last week, Google announced that future versions of Chrome will label resources delivered via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as “Not secure.” The security improvement will be implemented starting with […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2017
Kaspersky Lab solutions banned from US government agencies

The US Department of Homeland security banned government agencies for using software products developed by Kaspersky Lab Bad news for security firm Kaspersky, the US Department of Homeland security banned government agencies for using software products developed by Kaspersky Labs. The ban was the response to the concerns about possible ties between Kaspersky and Russian […]