Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2019
Adobe September 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address two code execution bugs in Flash Player and a DLL hijacking flaw in Application Manager. Adobe has released September 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address two code execution vulnerabilities in Flash Player and a DLL hijacking flaw in Application Manager. The two flaws addressed with the Flash Player 32.0.0.255 release […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2019 address 80 flaws, including two privilege escalation issues exploited in attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2019 address 80 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. The updates cover Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2019
The WordPress development team released version 5.2.3 that includes 29 fixes, enhancements, and several security patches. WordPress developers released a security and maintenance version 5.2.3 that includes 29 fixes, several enhancements and security patches. These flaws affect the versions 5.2.2 and earlier of the popular CMS. Most of the security flaws addressed with the release […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2019
How to improve technical skills? Would it be better a university course, a professional certification or an experience in a cybersecurity firm? Today I’d like to share a simple and personal thought about teaching models on cybersecurity. Quite often students ask me how to improve their technical skills and the most common question is: “would […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2019
Apple replied to Google about the recent report suggesting iPhones may have been hacked as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple criticized the report recently published by Google that claims that iPhones may have been hacked by threat actors as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple defines the report as inaccurate and misleading. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2019
New problems to Facebook, phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. The data was found by Sanyam Jain, a security researcher […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2019
Cisco released security updates for Cisco IOS XE operating system to address a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass authentication. Cisco released security updates for Cisco IOS XE OS to address a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-12643, that could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass authentication. “On […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2019
Recently, Google announced a new bug bounty program for experts that can report the abuses of Google API, Chrome, and Android user data. Google announced the Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP), a new bounty program aimed at security experts that discover data abuse issues in popular Android applications, OAuth projects, and Chrome extensions. Researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2019
HackerOne announced that five more hackers have become millionaires thanks to their contributes to the bug bounty programs managed by the platform. Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that four more hackers have become millionaires after participating in the bug bounty programs managed by the platform. In March, HackerOne announced that two of its members have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2019
The open-source emulator QEMU is affected by a flaw that could be exploited to trigger a (DoS) condition or gain arbitrary code execution. QEMU (short for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator that performs hardware virtualization. It emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a […]
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