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Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2018
Russian authorities have arrested some employees at the Russian Federation Nuclear Center facility because they are suspected for trying to using a supercomputer at the plant to mine Bitcoin. The peaks reached by the values of principal cryptocurrencies is attracting criminal organizations, the number of cyber-attacks against the sector continues to increase, and VXers are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
Buying or selling goods through online auctions is more popular than ever. Which are the best practices to follow for buyers and sellers for an online auction? Buying or selling goods through online auctions is more popular than ever. Today, there are a number of different auctions sites available where sellers can post new and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
According to a security advisory issued by Lenovo, two critical vulnerabilities in Broadcom chipsets affects at least 25 models of Lenovo ThinkPad. The affected models are ThinkPad 10,  ThinkPad L460, ThinkPad P50s, ThinkPad T460, ThinkPad T460p, ThinkPad T460s, ThinkPad T560, ThinkPad X260 and ThinkPad Yoga 260. One of the flaws was discovered in June by Google that publicly disclosed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
VMware has provided detailed instruction on how to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in several of its products. VMware is releasing patches and workarounds for its Virtual Appliance products affected by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
The group of hackers known as ‘fail0verflow’ has discovered a vulnerability in the gaming console Nintendo Switch that could be exploited to install a Linux distro. The hackers announced their discovery in a post on Twitter, the published an image of a console running the Debian Linux distro after the hack. đ§đ§đ§đ§ #switch pic.twitter.com/4iTjTk9D59 — fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
Security expert Paulos Yibelo has discovered a vulnerability in Hotspot Shield VPN from AnchorFree that can expose locations of the users. Paulos Yibelo, a security researcher, has discovered a vulnerability that can expose users and locations around the globe compromising their anonymity and privacy. The company has about 500 million users globally. VPN services providers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
A new PoS malware dubbed UDPoS appeared in the threat landscape and implements a novel and hard to detect technique to steal credit card data from infected systems. The UDPoS malware was spotted by researchers from ForcePoint Labs, it relies upon User Datagram Protocol (UDP) DNS traffic for data exfiltration instead of HTTP that is the protocol used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. Netgear has just released many security updates that address vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. The vulnerabilities have been reported by security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave, which conducted a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
The source code for Apple iOS iBoot secure bootloader has been leaked to GitHub, now we will try to understand why this component is so important for the iOS architecture. The iBoot is the component loaded in the early stages of the boot sequence and it is tasked with loading the kernel, it is stored in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
Swisscom data breach – Telco company Swisscom confirmed it has suffered a data breach that affected roughly 800,000 of its customers, roughly 10% of the Swiss population. Swiss telco company Swisscom confirmed it has suffered a data breach that affected roughly 800,000 of its customers, roughly 10% of the Swiss population. According to Swisscom, unauthorized parties gained access to data in […]
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