Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2018
Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2018
Lenovo discovered a firmware backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. Security experts at Levono have spotted a firmware backdoor, tracked CVE-2017-3765, in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. An authentication bypass affects only in RackSwitch and BladeCenter switches running ENOS (Enterprise Network Operating System), the tech giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2018
A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone. Drones have created a new threat to people’s privacy. Anyone with a drone equipped with a video camera can potentially violate our privacy by streaming the subject in his/her private space over an encrypted first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
It’s official, Microsoft’s Skype is rolling out a new feature called Private Conversations, which uses end-to-end encryption. The latest version of Skype implements end-to-end encryption and introduces the support for the Signal protocol. which is the protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, and Signal. Attackers will not able to snoop on Skype Private Conversations will support text, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-0802 in MS Office. Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including a zero-day vulnerability in MS Office. 16 security updates are rated as critical, 38 as important, 1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
VirusTotal announced the availability of a visualization tool, dubbed VirusTotal Graph, designed to help with malware analysis. The VirusTotal Graph should allow investigators working with multiple reports at the same time, to try to pivot between multiple data points (files, URLs, domains and IP addresses). The observation of the connections across different samples of malware could allow investigators to collect more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
Microsoft officially confirmed that Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns contrary to what initially thought. Just after the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, many security experts argued that forthcoming patches will have a significant impact on the performance (30% degradation), but Intel pointed out that average users will not notice any difference. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2018
The Wi-Fi Alliance introduced several key improvements to the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) security protocol and announced its successor WPA3.Wi-Fi security will be dramatically improved with the introduction of the WPA3 protocol. The arrival of WPA3 protocol was announced on Monday by the Wi-Fi Alliance, it is the successor of WPA2 protocol for the security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2018
Many users claim the Security Update for Windows KB4056892, the Microsoft Meltdown/Spectre patch, bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines. Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will continue to create a lot of problems to users and chip vendors. As you know, tech giants like Apple, Cisco and Microsoft admitted the problem for their products and started rolling out security […]
