Security

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
CISCO fixed severe vulnerabilities in Network Management and Security Products

Cisco released security patches for some of its products that fix critical and high severity flaw that could be remotely exploited by hackers. Cisco has released security patches for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities in the CISCO Management and other security products. One of the flaws, a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (CVE-2016-1416), […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by hackers

According to the 2015 version of the ‘Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan’ the transportation industry is increasingly exposed to cyber threats. The transportation industry is considered part of the critical infrastructure of a country, and according to the IBM’s X-Force security team is it a privileged target for hackers. The report, Security Trends in the Transportation […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
Russia is going to pass the new anti-terrorism bill, many are skeptical

In these days, a new anti-terrorism bill is becoming law in Russia, it includes a large number of issues related to internet monitoring. The terrorism is one of the dreaded threats on a global scale, almost every government is spending a significant effort in order to prevent plots against their population. Modern Terrorism is technological, it makes a large […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
The global terror database World-Check was leaked online

The Thomson Reuters terrorist database World-Check used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide was leaked online, 2.2 million records exposed. There is a terrorist database used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide, it is called World-Check and unfortunately, it was leaked online. The leaked database is dated back 2014 and contains some 2.2 million records. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Lenovo fixed two high severity flaws in Lenovo Solution Center

Lenovo fixed two flaws (CVE-2016-5249, CVE-2016-5248) in the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware. Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-5249, and CVE-2016-5248, in its Lenovo Solution Center that could be exploited by hackers to gain access to vulnerable machines and to kill any process running on them.  The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Apple confirms iOS 10 kernel source code left unencrypted intentionally

Apple confirms iOS 10 kernel code left unencrypted intentionally to improve OS performance and ensures that it will have no impact on security. The news is intriguing, while Apple announced the new release of its mobile operating system, the iOS 10, the experts discovered that its kernel is unencrypted. The researchers from MIT Technology who reviewed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Severe Swagger Remote Code Execution flaw compromises NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, Java

This disclosure of an unpatched Remote Code Exec flaw in the Swagger API framework compromises NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, and Java. Swagger is a representation of RESTful API that allows developers to get interactive documentation, client SDK generation and discoverability. The Swagger generators are privileged tools for organisations to offer developers easy access to their APIs. Currently, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2016
WordPress 4.5.3 fixed several security vulnerabilities

WordPress has recently issued the version 4.5.3 that patches more than two dozen vulnerabilities, including 17 bugs introduced in the last three releases. WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems for this reason is a privileged target of hackers. It is quite easy to scan the web searching for websites running old version affected […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2016
Security issues in Libarchive file compression library affect hundreds of projects

Experts from Cisco Talos discovered multiple security issues in the Libarchive library that is used by hundreds of other projects, including FreeBSD. Security vulnerabilities in the popular open source compression toolkit Libarchive affect countless of other projects that include the library. The flaw was discovered by experts from the Cisco Talos team that supported the Libarchive development team to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2016
Ops … also Zuckerberg covers the webcam with tapes

Like the FBI Director Comey also Zuckerberg use tapes to cover the webcam of his laptop, evidently he fear that someone could spy on him. A Facebook post published by Mark Zuckerberg to celebrate more than 500 million people now use Instagram is attracting the attention of IT experts. In the image that is included in the […]