Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2020
“At-Risk Meeting Notifier Zoom” feature alerts meeting organizers of Zoombombing risk

The popular video conferencing application Zoom implemented the new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” feature to warn of Zoombombing threat. Zoom announced the launch a new feature dubbed “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” to warn conference organizers of potential Zoombombing attacks. The feature scans the web for links to Zoom meetings that have been posted online and warn organizers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2020
CISA Chief Chris Krebs expects to be fired by the White House

Chris Krebs, the director of DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, expecting to be fired as White House frustrations hit agency protecting elections. Chris Krebs, the director of DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expects the White House to fire him, as the Trump administration continues a purge of officials that are considered disloyal […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2020
Security flaws in Schneider Electric PLCs allow full take over

Schneider Electric released advisories for multiple flaws, including issues that can allow taking control of Modicon M221 PLCs. Schneider Electric released security advisories for multiple vulnerabilities impacting various products, including four issues that can be exploited by attackers to take control of Modicon M221 programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2020
Swedish court suspended the ban on Huawei equipment

A Swedish administrative court has suspended the ban on Huawei equipment from the national 5G network. A Swedish administrative court ins Stockholm has suspended the decision to ban Huawei equipment from the country’s 5G network. In October, Sweden announced the ban of Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from building its 5G network infrastructure. The ban aims at […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2020
Google and Mozilla fixed issues exploited at 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest

Mozilla and Google have already fixed the critical flaws in Firefox and Chrome exploited by bug bounty hunters at 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest. Mozilla and Google have already addressed the critical Firefox and Chrome vulnerabilities that were recently exploited by white hat hackers at the 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest. The vulnerability in Chrome exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2020
Ragnar Locker ransomware gang advertises Campari hack on Facebook

​Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators have started to run Facebook advertisements to force their victims into paying the ransom. In November 2019, ransomware operators have started adopting a new double-extortion strategy first used by the Maze gang that sees threat actors also stealing unencrypted files before encrypting infected systems. Then the attackers threaten to release the stolen […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2020
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes CVE-2020-17087 currently under active exploitation

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for November 2020 address 112 flaws, including a Windows bug that was chained with Chrome issues in attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for November 2020 address 112 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including Microsoft Windows, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Internet Explorer (IE), Edge (EdgeHTML-based and Chromium-based), ChakraCore, Exchange Server, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2020
Adobe fixes flaws in Connect and Reader Mobile

Adobe addressed vulnerabilities in its Reader Mobile and Connect products, none of them is rated as critical severity. Adobe has released security patches to address vulnerabilities in its Reader Mobile and Connect products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Connect (APSB20-69) and Adobe Reader Mobile (APSB20-71).  Adobe recommends users update their product installations to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2020
VMware finally fixed the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw in ESXi

VMware has released new patches for ESXi after learning that a fix released in October for the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw was incomplete. The virtualization giant VMware has released new fixes for ESXi after learning that a patch released in October for the critical CVE-2020-3992 flaw was incomplete. The CVE-2020-3992 vulnerability is a use-after-free bug issue that affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2020
Zero-day in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client yet to be fixed

Cisco disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client software and the availability of PoC exploit code. Cisco has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3556, in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client software with the public availability of a proof-of-concept exploit code. The CVE-2020-3556 flaw resided in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of Cisco AnyConnect […]