Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2017
According to the release notes the latest version of WordPress 4.7.2 addresses three security, including XSS, SQL Injection flaws. The WordPress development team has pushed the WordPress 4.7.2 version that fixed three security issues, including a cross-site scripting and a SQL injection vulnerability. The new update comes just two weeks after WordPress released its previous version. Two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2017
In the journey towards business-driven security one of the niche weapon is the roadmap to Advanced Security Operations Centre (ASOC). Now that we have gotten over from new year’s greetings– let’s get to the basics to refresh as what is required in terms of achieving maturity within your organisations. There is no doubt that this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2017
The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, which are possible political and technological scenarios behind the recent wave of attacks? The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, a new version called Shamoon 2 was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks. Saudi Arabia Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)’s Abdulrahman al-Friah confirmed to Al Arabiya that at least 22 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2017
Google announced Gmail will soon stop allowing users to attach JavaScript (.js) files to emails for obvious security reason. Google announced Gmail will soon stop allowing users to attach JavaScript (.js) files to emails for obvious security reason. JavaScripts files, like many other file types (i,e, .exe, .jar, .sys, .scr, .bat, .com, .vbs and .cmd) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2017
The TorWorld initiative aims to build a community area for those people that desire to set up either a Tor Relay or a Tor Exit node. We all recognize the importance of the Tor network, an important instrument to protect users’ anonymity and avoid censorship. Today I desire to present you an interesting initiative launched by Tor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2017
Tavis Ormandy, a security expert at Google Project Zero, has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Cisco WebEx browser extension. Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Cisco WebEx browser extension. Cisco’s initial fix does not appear to be complete, which has led to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
More than two years after the disclosure of the HeartBleed bug, 200,000 services are still affected. Systems susceptible to Heartbleed attacks are still too many, despite the flaw was discovered in 2014 nearly 200,000 systems are still affected. Shodan made a similar search in November 2015 when he found 238,000 results, the number dropped to 237,539 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2017
Ukrenergo confirmed that preliminary results of its investigation showed that the Ukraine power outage that occurred in December was caused by hackers. In December 2016, the Government Ukraine energy company Ukrenergo suffered a severe power outage that affected the ”North” substation at Pivnichna. The incident caused blackouts in the city of Kyiv and neighboring regions. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2017
A new ransomware campaign has targeted the not-for-profit cancer services organisation “Little Red Door” requesting a US$44,000 ransom. A new ransomware campaign has targeted a not-for-profit cancer services organisation, the Little Red Door. The organization provides a number of cancer support services, including diagnostics and treatment. The system at the agency was infected by a ransomware last Wednesday, […]
APT / February 05, 2026
