Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2018
The Apache Software Foundation has rolled out security updates for the Tomcat application server that address several flaws. The Apache Software Foundation has released security updates for the Tomcat application server that address several vulnerabilities, including issues that trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or can lead to information disclosure. Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java Servlet Container that implements […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2018
Cisco released security patches for more than 30 vulnerabilities, including five Critical arbitrary code execution issues affecting the NX-OS Software Cisco released security patches for more than 30 vulnerabilities including five Critical arbitrary code execution issues affecting the NX-API feature of NX-OS Software (CVE-2018-0301) and the Fabric Services component of FXOS Software and NX-OS Software […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
Researchers from cybersecurity firm VDOO have discovered several vulnerabilities affecting nearly 400 security cameras from Axis Communications. Researchers from cybersecurity firm VDOO have conducted a study on IoT devices and discovered seven vulnerabilities in cameras manufactured by Axis Communications. According to the vendor, nearly 400 models are affected by the issue and Axis has released […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2018
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University has devised a method to cause physical damage to hard drives by using sonic and ultrasonic signals. An attacker just needs to play ultrasonic sounds through a built-in speaker of a target computer or by using a speaker in its proximity. The principle is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2018
On Friday, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced security updates for BIND DNS software that address two vulnerabilities rated with a “medium” severity rating. Both vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, the first issue tracked as CVE-2018-5737 can also cause severe operational problems such as degradation of the service. “A problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2018
Researchers Paulos Yibelo explored a vulnerability he found in SaferVPN Chrome Extension. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-10308 should help malicious actors to retrieve vital information such as IP addresses when a user visits a website. After my last month’s finding in Hotspot Shield, I decided to look at and audit more VPNs to see how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2018
Security experts at Cisco’s Talos group have discovered a total of 17 vulnerabilities in Moxa EDR-810 industrial routers manufactured by Moxa. The Moxa EDR-810 is an integrated industrial multiport router that implements firewall, NAT, VPN and managed Layer 2 switch capabilities. These devices are used in industrial environments to protect systems such as PLC and SCADA systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2018
Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular networking software to fix two critical vulnerabilities. Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular open-source networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in HP remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in its remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3 that equip the family of HP ProLiant servers. The Hewlett-Packard iLO is composed of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2017
The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message […]
