Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
Cisco has released a new round of security patches to address potentially serious WebExec Webex flaw first addressed one month ago. One month ago, Cisco addressed the CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability, also tracked as WebExec by Counter Hack researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin who discovered it. The flaw affects Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop and has been rated as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2018
The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. Reporting an event is one action that can help. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. in 2017 totaled 1,579, a nearly 44.7 percent increase from the previous year. Data breaches, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released security updates for Dell EMC Avamar Client Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server and Dell EMC Integrated Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2018
The Japanese government’s cybersecurity strategy chief Yoshitaka Sakurada is in the middle of a heated debate due to his admission about his cyber capability. Yoshitaka Sakurada admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, despite the Japanese Government, assigned to the politician the responsibility for cybersecurity of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sakurada was only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2018
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CISA bill that creates a new cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CISA bill that creates a new cybersecurity agency at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In October, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2018
Kaspersky Lab starts data processing for European users in Zurich and also launched the first Transparency Cente under the announced Transparency Initiative From today, malicious and suspicious files shared by users of Kaspersky Lab products in Europe will start to be processed in data centers in Zurich, initiating the first part of a relocation commitment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2018
Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 addresses three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 fixes three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. The most severe issue is an information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15979, due to the availability of the proof-of-concept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2018
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 fixed more than 60 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows flaw. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 addressed 63 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows privilege escalation vulnerability. Twelve of the flaws were rated as “Critical”, 49 are rated Important, two vulnerabilities were publicly known at the time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Snowden warns of abuse of surveillance software that also had a role in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The popular US whistleblower Edward Snowden has reported the abuse of surveillance made by many governments, he blamed the Israeli company NSO Group for developing and selling surveillance software to Saudi Arabia. Speaking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
There’s a growing risk of companies receiving substantial fines for not complying with cybersecurity standards under False Claims Act. However, an emerging concern for businesses that act as contract-based service providers for government entities is that those establishments could also be liable under the False Claims Act (FCA). What Is the False Claims Act? The False […]
