Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2016
The security duo Markus Vervier and Jean-Philippe Aumasson have discovered multiple flaws in the Android version the popular Signal app. The security researchers Markus Vervier and Jean-Philippe Aumasson have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Android version of the secure messaging application Signal that can be exploited by a remote attacker to alter attachments and cause […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2016
Cisco has released several Security Updates to fix many vulnerabilities in its products, including a nasty RCE in WebEx Meetings servers. Cisco has issued a patch to address the remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) that affects company WebEx Meetings servers. The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2016
Are you still using Adobe Flash Player? Are you browsing the web with IE or Edge? Does your company use an Exchange Server? Apply security updates asap! It’s time to patch your systems, especially if you have installed Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has released Security updates to fix critical Flash vulnerabilities that affect any OS (Windows, Mac, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI Council) updates its standard to reduce fraudulent activities against PoS systems. The number of credit card frauds involving Point-of-Sale continues to increase, in the last months, numerous attacks targeted retails and hotels worldwide. The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI Council) has responded with the definition […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2016
Cisco disclosed the existence of the CVE-2016-6399 flaw that can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger DoS conditions in ACE products. Experts at Cisco have disclosed the existence of a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6399, that can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger DoS conditions in some of Application Control Engine (ACE) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
From January 2017, Chrome will indicate connection security with an icon in the address bar labeling HTTP connections to sites as non-secure. Google continues its effort to make the web a better place by pushing the adoption of encryption, we left the IT giant in May when it announced the decision to switch on default HTTPS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
The manufacturer USBKill.com has commercialized USB Kill 2.0, a USB dongle that is able to fry any computer through the USB ports. The Hong Kong-based technology manufacturer USBKill.com has created a USB dongle that is able to fry any computer into which it’s plugged by using an electrical discharge. The attack is simple, the USBKill use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
SWIFT discloses more attacks against banks worldwide, pressures banks on security and urged member banks to implement the new SWIFT software by November 19. In the last months, a worrisome string of attacks against banks worldwide through the SWIFT system has alarmed the banking industry. The so-called “SWIFT hackers” have conducted multiple cyber attacks against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2016
A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. Mordechai Guri, head of R&D at Ben-Gurion’s Cyber Security Center and the chief scientist officer at Morphisec Endpoint Security, and his team have devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. […]
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