Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2018
A former NASA contractor has pleaded guilty for a cyberstalking scheme, the man blackmailed seven women threatening to publish their nude pictures. Richard Bauer (28), an ex-NASA contractor has pleaded guilty for a cyberstalking, the man allegedly threatened to publish nude pictures of the women unless they sent him other explicit pictures. Richard Bauer of Los Angeles, who worked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     APT28 group return to covert intelligence gathering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2018
Security expert published the PoC exploit code for the recently fixed critical remote code execution flaw in Edge web browser tracked as CVE-2018-8495. The October 2018 Patch Tuesday addressed 50 known vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s products, 12 of them were labeled as critical. One of the issues is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Edge web browser […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2018
Pentagon – Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The Pentagon revealed that the Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The data breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2018
Security experts from Palo Alto Networks warn of fake Adobe Flash update hiding a miner that works as legitimate update and really update the software. A fake Adobe Flash update actually was used as a vector for a malicious cryptocurrency miner, the novelty in this last campaign is represented by the tricks used by attackers to stealthily […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2018
The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the efforts to secure the NHS IT infrastructure, with a focus on WannaCry overall costs. The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the spent to secure the IT infrastructure in a report titled “Securing cyber resilience in health […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2018
Security agencies belonging to Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have released a joint report that details some popular hacking tools. Experts from cybersecurity agencies from Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a report that provides technical details on most popular hacking tool families and the way to detect and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2018
A group of hackers is targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including Drupalgeddon2, patched earlier this year to install a backdoor on compromised servers. Security experts from IBM are targeting Drupal vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-7600 and CVE-2018-7602 flaws, aka Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3, to install a backdoor on the infected systems and tack full control of the hosted platforms. According to the IBM experts, this last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2018
Our team of security researchers was researching dating apps client-side security, and one of the main focus targets was the social search mobile app Tinder. After initial reconnaissance steps were done, a Tinder domain with multiple client-side security issues was found â meaning hackers could have access to usersâ profiles and details. Immediately after finding these vulnerabilities, we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2018
Juniper Networks has released security updates to address serious vulnerabilities affecting the Junos operating system. This week, Juniper Networks has patched dozens of serious security provided security patches for each of them, the security advisories are available on the company website. The most severe flaw is probably the  CVE-2018-0049, which could be exploited by an attacker to […]
