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Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2018
Security expert Ankit Anubhav discovered a Command and Control server for the Owari botnet protected with weak credentials. An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server. Security expert Ankit Anubhav from Newsky Security discovered an IoT botnet that was controlled by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2018
HR Software Firm PageUp is the last victim of a data breach, the company has 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. Another day another data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the HR Software Firm PageUp. PageUp is an Australian company with 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
Security experts from British software firm Snyk have discovered a critical vulnerability, dubbed ‘Zip Slip’ that affects thousands of projects across many industries. The flaw, that remained hidden for years, could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable systems. The Zip Slip is an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could be triggered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
A security researcher discovered email addresses and hashed passwords of roughly 92.3 million Myheritage users stored on a private server outside the company. The huge trove of data was contained in a file named “,” according to the experts the information is authentic and comes from Myheritage. “Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
The author of the Sigrun Ransomware is providing the decryption key to Russian victims for free, others have to pay a ransom of $2,500 worth of Bitcoin or Dash for the victims. We have reported several cases where Russian malware authors avoid infecting computers in their country, but the case we are going to discuss is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
Two months after the release of the security updates for the drupalgeddon2 flaw, experts continue to see vulnerable websites running on flawed versions of Drupal that hasn’t installed security patches. In March, the Drupal developers Jasper Mattsson discovered a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, aka drupalgeddon2, affecting Drupal 7 and 8 versions. Both Drupal 8.3.x and 8.4.x are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
Security experts at security firm Intezer have recently discovered backdoor, associated with the operation of the Iron cybercrime group, that is based on the leaked source code of Remote Control System (RCS). The Remote Control System (RCS) is the surveillance software developed by the HackingTeam, it was considered a powerful malware that is able to infect also mobile […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
Facebook APIs granted access to the data belonging to FB users to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung so that they could implement Facebook messaging functions. After the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook is now facing new problems because it is accused of sharing user data with over 60 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub, but at the time of writing there is no news about how much Microsoft paid for the platform. Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015, but at the time of writing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2018
Security experts reported widespread Google Groups misconfiguration exposes sensitive information. Administrators of organizations using Google Groups and G Suite must review their configuration to avoid the leakage of internal information. Security researchers from Kenna Security have recently discovered that 31 percent of 9,600 organizations analyzed is leaking sensitive e-mail information. The list of affected entities also includes […]
