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Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Google will block Huawei from using Android and its services

The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software. The Israeli firm is now […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Unpatched Ethereum Clients expose the ecosystem to 51% Attack risk

Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 214 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018 Hacking the ‘Unhackable eyeDisk USB stick Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Salesforce faced one of its biggest service disruption of ever

Salesforce is facing a huge outage, it shut down a good portion of its infrastructure due to change to the production environment. A change in the production environment is the root cause of the broad outage suffered by Salesforce. The service disruption affected its Pardot B2B marketing automation system, the cloud CRM company’s change broke […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Dutch intelligence investigate alleged Huawei ‘backdoor’

Dutch intelligence services are probing Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in equipment of major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence probes Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in the equipment used by major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence shares the concerns raised by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2019
Unistellar attackers already wiped over 12,000 MongoDB databases

Unistellar attackers have already wiped roughly 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases exposed online over the past three. Every time hackers deleted a MongoDB database they left a message asking the administrators to contact them to restore the data. Unfortunately, the criminal practice of deleting MongoDB databases and request a ransom to restore data is common, experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2019
Facebook banned Archimedes Group, misinformation made in Israel

A new political misinformation campaign was uncovered and blocked by Facebook, this time it was not operated by Russia but Israel’s Archimedes Group Facebook uncovered and blocked a misinformation campaign powered by Israel’ Archimedes Group, the corporation used fake accounts to manipulated political campaigns. According to Facebook, the Archimedes Group used hundreds of pages, accounts, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2019
Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached TeamViewer in 2016

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel According to the media outlet, Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the Winnti trojan malware to infect the systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2019
A flaw in Slack could allow hackers to steal, manipulate downloaded files

A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted user’s downloaded files. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, Security researcher David Wells from Tenable discovered a critical flaw in version 3.3.7 of the Slack desktop app […]