Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
OpenBSD releases Version 11 code update that addresses the Meltdown vulnerability by implementing the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD addresses the Meltdown vulnerability with the release of a Version 11 code. The update implements the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD’s Phillip Guenther provided further details on the implementation. “When […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2018
The Drupal development team addressed many vulnerabilities in both Drupal 8 and 7, including some flaws rated as “critical”. Drupal maintainers have fixed many vulnerabilities in Drupal 7 and 8, including some flaws rated as “critical.” One of the critical security vulnerabilities is related to partial cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention mechanisms that was addressed with Drupal 8.4.5 and 7.57 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2018
Intel released a stable microcode update to address the Spectre vulnerability for its Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake processors in all their various variants. Intel has released microcode to address the CVE-2017-5715 Spectre vulnerability for many of its chips, let’s this time the security updates will not cause further problems. The Spectre attack allows user-mode applications to extract information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The RubyGems 2.7.6 update released last week for RubyGems includes several security improvements and addresses several types of vulnerabilities. The new RubyGems 2.7.6 release addresses several vulnerabilities in Ruby Gems and implements several security improvements. The updates prevent path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root and during gem installation. The updates also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers examines the cyberattacks cost that malicious cyber activities cause to the U.S. economy. How much cost cyber attacks to the US? According to a report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers last week, the cyberattacks cost between $57 billion and $109 billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
The Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS losing data under certain conditions. A few days ago a ‘text bomb‘ bug was reported for Apple iOS and macOS apps, the issue can crash any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac. Now the Apple expert Mike Bombich discovered an APFS Filesystem vulnerability that could lead macOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
On Saturday, Germany defense minister Ursula von der Leyen told CNBC that cyber attacks are the greatest challenge threatening global stability. The cybersecurity is a pillar of modern states, the string of recent massive attacks including NotPetya and WannaCry is the demonstration that we are all potential targets. Cyber attacks could hit governments, private companies and citizens in every […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Online safety for your kids is very important. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it needs to be hard work. The key thing is to learn how to get parental controls set up properly so that you won’t have to worry as much about online safety when your kids start to use the internet for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
The special prosecutor Robert Mueller has accused thirteen Russian nationals of tampering with the 2016 presidential election and charged them with conspiring against the United States. Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian entities have been indicted for a massive operation aimed to influence the 2016 Presidential election. The special prosecutor Robert Mueller has accused the defendants of tampering with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, […]
