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Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
Just 24 hours later, Apple issued a security update for macOS High Sierra that addresses the bug that allowed Root access with no password Yesterday I published a post on an embarrassing flaw affecting the macOS High Sierra, tracked as CVE-2017-13872, that that can be exploited to gain root access to a machine with no password. The vulnerability is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
A federal judge in the California court has ruled that cryptocurrency exchange portal Coinbase must hand over details of over 14,000 users to the US IRS. In November 2016, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force the US-based cryptocurrency exchange portal to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
Clarkson, one of the world’s largest providers of shipping services publicly disclosed a security breach. Clarkson confirmed the  hackers may release some of the stolen data, it hasn’t provided further details due to the ongoing law enforcement investigation. The information disclosed by the company suggests cyber criminals blackmailed the company requesting the payment of a ransom in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
Palo Alto Networks discovered a custom RAT dubbed UBoatRAT that has been used in targeted attacks on personnel or organizations related to South Korea. Security experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered custom remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed UBoatRAT that has been used in targeted attacks on personnel or organizations related to South Korea and the video gaming […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
Siemens published a security advisory to confirm that four of the seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities affect some of its SCALANCE products In October, Google security experts disclosed seven distinct vulnerabilities in the Dnsmasq software package. From the authors’ website, “Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.” In practice, the Dnsmasq code has been widely leveraged in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
The development team of the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) cryptocurrency is warning all users users about a security breach involving its Windows version of wallet app The development team of the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) cryptocurrency is warning all users users about a security breach involving the official Windows wallet application offered for download via its official website. Bitcoin Gold […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo hack that affected three billion accounts. The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) (Kay, a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov), has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected three billion accounts. Karim Baratov was arrested in Toronto at his home by the Toronto Police […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
macOS High Sierra is plagued by a vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root access to a machine with no password. An easy exploitable vulnerability in macOS 10.13, aka macOS High Sierra, could be triggered by users to gain admin rights, or log in as root, without a password. The vulnerability is exploitable via the authentication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
The experts from the security firm UpGuard have discovered another S3 bucket containing documents from INSCOM, that is a joint US Army and NSA agency. A couple of weeks ago sensitive data from the US Army’s CENTCOM and PACOM divisions was exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, experts from the security firm UpGuard found terabytes of US military social media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
Google identified a new family of Android malware dubbed Tizi spyware by using Google Play Protect, it spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. In May, Google introduced the defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the Android devices, it implements a machine learning and app usage analysis to identify any malicious activity on the […]
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