Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2018
The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. Reporting an event is one action that can help. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. in 2017 totaled 1,579, a nearly 44.7 percent increase from the previous year. Data breaches, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2018
Linux Kernel is affected by two denial-of-service (DoS) flaws, both vulnerabilities are NULL pointer deference issues Linux Kernel is affected by two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities, the issues impact Linux kernel 4.19.2 and previous versions. Both flaws are rated as Medium severity and are NULL pointer deference issues that can be exploited by a local attacker to trigger a DoS condition. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2018
Nicholas Truglia, a 21-years-old man from New York, has stolen $1 million from Silicon Valley executive via SIM swap, and targeted other indivisuals. Nicholas Truglia, a 21-years-old man from New York, has been accused of stealing $1 million from Silicon Valley executive via SIM swap. He gained access to his phone number and used it impersonate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2018
Researchers at AppRiver uncovered a very trivial phishing campaign targeting the streaming service Spotify, anyway, it is important to share info about it. Security researchers at AppRiver uncovered a phishing campaign targeting the popular streaming service Spotify. The phishing campaign was discovered earlier November, attackers used convincing emails to trick Spotify users into providing their account credentials. The messages include a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2018
The case is making the headlines, the German chat platform Knuddels.de (“Cuddles”) has been fined âŹ20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text. In July hackers breached the systems of the company Knuddels and leaked online its data. In September, an unknown individual notified Knuddels that crooks published user data of roughly 8,000 members on Pastebin and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2018
VMware released security updates to address a vulnerability (CVE-2018-6983) that was recently discovered at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition. VMware released security updates to address a vulnerability (CVE-2018-6983) that was recently discovered by Tianwen Tang of Qihoo 360âs Vulcan Team at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition. White hat hackers earned more than $1 million for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2018
Malware researcher discovered 13 fraudulent apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed more than 560,000 times. Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko from security firm ESET discovered 13 malicious apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed over half a million times (+560,000). The malicious apps could allow attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2018
Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple macOS, chaining them it is possible to take over a Mac computer. Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13890, CVE-2018-4176, CVE-2018-4175) affecting the Apple macOS operating system, an attacker could chain them to remotely execute arbitrary code on a targeted Mac computer. The attacker only needs to trick victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2018
The authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed, an attacker could impersonate any other citizen. The nightmare comes true, the authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed and a flaw could allow an attacker to allow identity spoofing and changing the date of birth. The situation is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2018
Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn’t target Internet of Things devices, the bot was specifically developed to target Linux servers. The Hadoop YARN is vulnerability is a command injection […]
