Security

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2020
GoDaddy apologized for insensitive phishing email sent to its employees offering a fake bonus

GoDaddy made the headlines for an initiative that is dividing cybersecurity community, it sent phishing messages offering bonuses to its employees. GoDaddy sent an email to its employee that promised a Christmas bonus to help them to face economic problems caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The web provider apologized Thursday for the cyber security test […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2020
CrowdStrike releases free Azure tool to review assigned privileges

CrowdStrike released a free Azure security tool after it was notified by Microsoft of a failed attack leveraging compromised Azure credentials. While investigating the impact of the recent SolarWind hack, on December 15th Microsoft reported to CrowdStrike that threat actors attempted to read CrowdStrike’s emails by using a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller’s account. “Specifically, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2020
VMware and Cisco also impacted by the SolarWinds hack

The IT giants VMware and Cisco revealed they were impacted by the recently disclosed SolarWinds supply chain attack. VMware and Cisco confirmed to have been both impacted by the recent SolarWinds hack. A recent advisory published by the NSA is warning that Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw to steal sensitive information from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2020
Dell Wyse ThinOS flaws allow hacking think clients

Multiple Dell Wyse thin client models are affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote attacker to take over the devices. Critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-29492 and CVE-2020-29491 affect several Dell Wyse thin client models that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious code and gain access to arbitrary files. In computer […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2020
NATO is checking its systems to determine the impact of SolarWinds hack

NATO announced it is assessing its systems after the SolarWinds supply chain attack that impacted multiple US government agencies. NATO announced it is checking its systems after the SolarWinds supply chain attack to determine if they were infected with a backdoor. “At this time, no evidence of compromise has been found on any NATO networks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2020
NSA warns of cloud attacks on authentication mechanisms

The US National Security Agency (NSA) warns of two techniques abused by threat actors for escalating attacks from local networks to cloud infrastructure. The US National Security Agency has published a security advisory that describes two techniques abused in recent attacks against cloud infrastructure. The attack techniques are abused by hackers are using to escalate […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
All-source intelligence: reshaping an old tool for future challenges

An enhanced version of the old all-source intelligence discipline could serve the purpose. By Boris Giannetto Hybrid, interconnected and complex threats require hybrid, interconnected and complex tools. An enhanced version of the old all-source intelligence discipline could serve the purpose. Today’s society hinges on technologies and they will have most likely an ever-increasing clout in […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
Microsoft confirms breach in SolarWinds hack, but denies its clients were affected

Microsoft confirms that it was also breached in the SolarWinds supply chain hack, but excluded that the attack impacted its customers. Microsoft has confirmed that it was one of the companies breached in the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, but the IT giant denied that the nation-state actors compromised its software supply-chain to infect its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
Launched OSSISNa, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System

On 11th December 2020, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System (OSSISNa) was officially announced. On 11th December 2020, during the international scientific conference on CBRNe events “SICC 2020”, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System (OSSISNa) was officially presented. OSSISNa is a project created within the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
HPE discloses critical zero-day in Systems Insight Manager

HPE has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the latest versions of its HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software for both Windows and Linux. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has disclosed a zero-day remote code execution flaw that affects the latest versions of its HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software for Windows and Linux. HPE SIM is a […]