Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2019
Facebook announced it would stop Huawei from pre-installing social networking apps on its smartphones to comply with US sanctions. Facebook announced it will no longer allow pre-installation of its social networking apps on Huawei smartphones to comply with the US ban on the Chinese tech giant. “We are reviewing the Commerce Department’s final rule and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2019
On June 6, for more than two hours China Telecom re-routed through its infrastructure a large chunk of European mobile traffic. In November security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt published a paper that detailed how China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China over the past years. The experts speculate that they were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. The sender of the email, later identified as Gbenga A. Fadipe, requested a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
A new version of the popular Tor Browser was released by the Tor Project, it is Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, the new version of the popular anonymizing browser. This release includes a temporary fix for a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
VMware has informed its users that it has patched two high-severity vulnerabilities that affect its Tools and Workstation software. VMware has patched two high-severity flaws that affect its Tools and Workstation software. The first security flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-5522, affects VMware Tools 10.x on Windows. The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds read issue in the vm3dmp driver in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
Cisco disclosed several flaws in its CISCO Industrial Network Director product, including a high severity code execution vulnerability. Cisco employees discovered several vulnerabilities in CISCO Industrial Network Director product, including a high severity code execution flaw. The Cisco Industrial Network Director is used to manage industrial networks, it helps operations teams gain full visibility into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2019
Google aims at eliminating the use of deceptive installation tactics among Chrome browser extensions introducing a new policy. Google announced a new policy for Chrome browser extensions to eliminate the use of deceptive installation tactics. The additional changes are part of the Project Strobe presented by Google in October 2018 in the aftermath of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018 Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2019
Apple released security updates for Windows versions of iTunes and iCloud, to address recently disclosed SQLite and WebKit security flaws. Apple released security updates to address recently disclosed SQLite and WebKit security vulnerabilities affecting Windows versions of iTunes and iCloud. Apple released iTunes for Windows 12.9.5 that addresses a total of 25 flaws, four SQLite […]
