Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2019
Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 addressed a total of 119 vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 addressed 119 flaws in several products, including Effects, Character Animator, Premiere Pro, Prelude, Creative Cloud, Acrobat and Reader, Experience Manager, and Photoshop products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2019
The FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media for potential threats, the announcement raises concerns for user privacy. The abuse of social media passwords for malicious purpose is quite common, for this reason, the FBI is searching for contractors to monitor them. However, monitoring activity could threaten user privacy and set up possible […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2019
Cisco has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches. Cisco released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches, including two critical issues. The most important flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-1913, could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2019
The experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab discovered a new wave of attacks linked to the cyber espionage campaign tracked as Roma225. Introduction Few months ago we started observing a cyber operation aiming to attack private companies in various business sectors, from automotive to luxury, education, and media/marketing. The attack attribution is still unclear but the large scale of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2019
Security experts from ESET uncovered a cyber-espionage group tracked as Machete that stole sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. Security experts from ESET reported that a cyberespionage group tracked as Machete has stolen sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. The group has been active since 2010 and hit military organizations and other high-profile targets worldwide. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2019
Facebook announced it dismantled covert influence campaigns in some countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, including one tied to the Saudi government. Facebook uncovered two separate influence campaigns, one originated in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, and another in Saudi Arabia. The campaigns appeared to be distinct and involved “coordinated inauthentic behavior” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2019
Cisco is going to pay $8.6 million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. The case was filed in the Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2019
Facebook recently announced that it removed multiple pages, groups, and accounts tied to Russia involved in psyops ahead of the election in Ukraine. Facebook spotted four campaigns that appear independent, three of them associated with Russian threat actors. One of the operations involved 18 Facebook accounts, nine pages, and three groups. Threat actors attempted to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
Stock trading service Robinhood announced that the passwords of a number of users were stored in plaintext, the company is informing impacted ones. Stock trading service Robinhood admitted to have stored passwords of a number of users in plain text, the company is informing impacted ones via email. “When you set a password for your […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
New problems for Huawei, the Czech unit of telecoms giant secretly collected personal data customers, officials and business partners. Huawei made the headlines again, according to the Czech public radio the Czech unit of Chinese telecoms giant secretly collected personal data of customers, officials, and business partners. The radio cited two former Huawei managers as […]
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