Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2016
Google announced a new feature in the Safe Browsing warning set, it will warn users when they will receive an email message from an unauthenticated sender. Google always takes care of security, the last features announced by the IT giant will warn Gmail users when they receive an email message from an unauthenticated sender. Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2016
The US-CERT warns of the presence of multiple flaws in the Nuuo NVRmini and other network video recorders of the same vendor. The US-CERT has issued a security advisory related to the presence of multiple vulnerabilities in the Web interface of a Netgear ReadyNAS Surveillance video recorder and various devices manufactured by the video recording company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2016
FireEye documented more than 1,500 vulnerabilities affecting ICS disclosed in the past 15 years, and some of them are still present. Security of critical infrastructure is a pillar of the cyber strategy of any government, both the NIS directive and Warsaw NATO summit stressed the importance of a proper security posture to protect our systems from cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2016
Researchers have demonstrated how crooks can make ATMs spit out thousands of dollars in cash in just a few minutes by using data stolen from EMV cards. When the EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) was introduced, the vast majority of security experts believed solved the problems caused by easy to clone magnetic stripe cards. EMV chip-equipped […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2016
We bring to the attention of the Security Affairs readers the interesting speech and interview dated 29/06/2016 of CIA Director John O. BRENNAN at the CFR We bring to the attention of the Security Affairs readers the interesting speech and interview dated 29/06/2016 of CIA Director John O. BRENNAN at the Council on Foreign Relations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2016
The Italian model with regard to issues of cyber security and intelligence is in the process of evolution through a NATIONAL FRAMEWORK. The economic and technological systems of Western countries are highly dependent on CyberSpace, they require more and more accurate risk analysis and management of threats relate to a significant increase in cyber attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2016
The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the popular hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang designed Introspection Engine, an interesting anti-surveillance device. While the number of mobile devices is outclassing the number of desktop ones, the concern about the surveillance activities conducted by governments is growing as never before also thanks the Snowden revelations. Mobile devices, often unprotected, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2016
18 out of 276 vulnerabilities fixed by Oracle with the last Patch Update resides in the OIT libraries that are used by products of numerous major vendors. The last critical Patch Update released by Oracle this week is in the headlines for the number of patches it includes. It includes the fixes for 276 vulnerabilities, 19 of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2016
The popular OpenSSH is affected by a user enumeration bug that could be exploited by a remote attacker to check a list of hacked credentials. A bug (CVE-2016-6210) in the popular OpenSSH crypto library could be exploited by a remote attacker to enumerate users on systems running SSHD. An attacker can exploit the bug to check […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2016
DARPA organized a challenge where 7 finalists will battle it out with the Artificial Intelligence system to detect flaws and scan networks for exploits. The Rio Olympics 2016 is something everyone is looking forward to. The sportsmanship, the record making, medals the spirit of the game and the hilarious doping scandals like the 1920’s grafting […]
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