cyber security

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Adobe issued security updates for 47 vulnerabilities in Acrobat DC and Reader

On Monday, Adobe issued security updates for 47 vulnerabilities in the Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat DC (Consumer and Classic 2015), Acrobat Reader DC (Consumer and Classic 2015), Acrobat 2017, and Acrobat Reader 2017. Many vulnerabilities are ranked as critical and could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2018
European Central Bank announced a framework for cyber attack simulation on financial firms

Last week, the European Central Bank has published the European framework for testing financial sector resilience to cyber attacks. The framework aims to simulate the effects of cyber attacks on critical systems in the banking industry in the European Union. The move is the response to the numerous cyberheists that hit the financial industry in the past […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2018
Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated with a flawed library are exposed to brute-force attacks

Multiple vulnerabilities in the SecureRandom() function expose Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated by the flawed library to brute-force attacks. Old Bitcoin web wallet addresses generated in the browser or through JavaScript-based wallet apps might be affected by a cryptographic vulnerability that could be exploited b attackers to steal funds. According to the experts, the popular  […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Public services at the Caribbean island Sint Maarten shut down by a cyber attack

A cyber attack shut down the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. public services were interrupted. A massive cyber attack took offline the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Government building remained closed after the attack. “The Ministry of General Affairs hereby informs […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2018
With Android P Google Plans To Prevent Cellphone Spying Through Your Camera and Microphone

Android P, is expected to include a neat feature that prevents apps running in the background from spying on you through the camera or microphone on your cell phone. Do you cover the lens on your webcam to prevent someone from spying on you? You should, and it seems like every security vendor has a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground ·      More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected ·      Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised ·      Iran-linked APT OilRig target IIS Web Servers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
UK Government Advices Industry Sectors To Comply With Guidance Or Pay $17 Million Fine

Aiming to tackle threats from rogue nations and hackers The UK Government urges to boost security measures of services in critical sectors. On November 2016 United Kingdom published the National Cyber Security Strategy to address cyber threats from rogue nations like Iran, Russia, China, terrorists, states sponsored hackers and cyber menaces like ransomware against the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 147 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      A hospital victim of a new SamSam Ransomware campaign paid $55,000 ransom ·      OnePlus admitted hackers stole credit card information belonging to up to 40,000 customers ·      Researchers found misconfigured Jenkins servers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 146 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities ·      Lenovo spotted and fixed a backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switches […]