Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2014
Vodafone has recently issued the Law Enforcement Disclosure Report to reveal the existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance. Vodafone, one of the largest mobile carrier of the world has issued a document, titled “Law Enforcement Disclosure Report“, which describes the collaboration provided by the company to many governments for lawful interception for some of its 400 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2014
Microsoft has announced the official patch for the critical vulnerability discovered recently in the Internet Explorer. Microsoft has published the “Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2014” in which are released seven security Bulletins addressing different vulnerabilities in the company’s products. The notification includes two critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities affecting the products Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, MS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2014
The OpenSSL Foundation has fixed a series of new vulnerabilities, two of them considered critical. Organizations are invited to apply patches asap. The Open SSL has provided a collection of updates for its libraries to fix a series of new vulnerabilities recently reported. The exact number of vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL is 6 and two of them are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2014
Experts at security firm Codenomicon discovered a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the GnuTLS software. GnuTLS, a free software implementation of SSL/TLS/DTLS protocols, it offers a set of application programming interface (API) to enable secure communication over their network transport layer. News of the day is that the widely used cryptographic library is vulnerable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2014
A last revelation on the surveillance activities of British intelligence GCHQ confirms the existence of spy base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East. In the last year Edward Snowden has leaked many disconcerting documents for the surveillance activity conducted by the NSA and GCHQ intelligence agencies, the last revelation is related Britain covert spying programme, in particular the information on clandestine British base […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2014
The DoJ and the FBI announced a multinational effort to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet responsible for the theft of millions of dollars worldwide. The U.S. DoJ in collaboration with FBI and foreign law enforcement agencies revealed early this week a joint effort to disrupt Gameover Zeus, one of the most long-lived and dangerous botnet composed by a number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2014
A Portuguese security expert has uncovered the Cupid attack, a new Heartbleed attack vector which can impact Android devices, enterprise wireless networks and other connected devices. Cupid is the name of the new Heartbleed attack method recently proposed by Portuguese security researcher Luis Grangeia, unlike the original version of the attack, which took place on TLS connections over TCP, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2014
Security Experts discovered a new attack method to defeat Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) can be circumvented on around half of PCs that use it, security researcher Corey Kallenberg from nonprofit research organization Mitre has demonstrated it at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2014
Sporting events are an excellent scenario for hacktivists, protest against the World Cup in Brazil are increasing and hackers announced a major cyber attack. The football World Cup in Brazil 2014 is coming soon, the infrastructure used for the event are a prime target for each category of bad actors, state-sponsored hackers intent on cyber espionage, cyber criminals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2014
Security researchers at Sucuri firm have discovered multiple serious vulnerabilities in the popular ‘All In One SEO Pack’ plugin for WordPress. WordPress in one of most targeted CMS platforms due its large diffusion, attackers are able to compromise victim instance exploiting flaws in outdated version or in vulnerable plugins . The Netcraft internet services company, in […]
