Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2021
United States Department of State approved the creation of the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET). The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo approved the creation of the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies (CSET) that was first announced in 2019. The CSET Bureau was created to increase the resilience of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2021
An expert found multiple serious vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that could expose corporate networks to hack. Andrey Medov, a security researcher at Positive Technologies, found multiple serious vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that could be exploited by attackers to hack into corporate networks. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-29015, CVE-2020-29016, CVE-2020-29018, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2021
The U.S. government is going to launch the ‘Hack the Army 3.0’ bug bounty program in collaboration with the HackerOne platform. The U.S. government launched Hack the Army 3.0, the third edition of its bug bounty program, in collaboration with the HackerOne platform. The second Hack the Army bug bounty program ran between October 9 and November […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2021
Google released an Android security update that addressed tens of flaws, including a critical Android remote code execution vulnerability. Google released an Android security update that addresses 43 flaws, including a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Android System component tracked as CVE-2021-0316. Google addressed the flaws with the release of Security patch levels […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2021
A German security researcher demonstrated how to break, once again, the Google Audio reCAPTCHA with Google’s own Speech to Text API. Back in 2017, researchers from the University of Maryland demonstrated an attack method, dubbed unCaptcha, against Google’s audio-based reCAPTCHA v2. The system receives the audio challenge, downloads it, and submits it to Speech To […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2021
A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2021
The Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) is warning owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of ‘swatting’ attacks. The FBI has recently issued an alert to warn owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of so-called “swatting” attacks. Swatting attacks consist of hoax calls made to emergency services, typically reporting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2021
Today Adobe Flash Player has reached its end of life (EOL), its vulnerabilities were exploited by multiple threat actors in attacks in the wild over the years. Adobe Flash Player has reached the end of life (EOL) today, over the years, threat actors have exploited multiple vulnerabilities in the popular software. Adobe will no longer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2020
Google has addressed a bug in its feedback tool incorporated across its services that could have allowed attackers to view users’ private docs. Google has addressed a flaw in its feedback tool that is part of multiple of its services that could be exploited by attackers to take screenshots of sensitive Google Docs documents by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2020
The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warns of ransomware attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research organizations. The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a noticed to warn financial institutions of ransomware attacks aimed at COVID-19 vaccine research organizations. “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing this Notice to alert […]
