Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2019
Czech Republic ‘s committee blames foreign state for Foreign Ministry Cyberattack

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic blames a foreign country state for a cyberattack that hit the Czech Foreign Ministry A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The committee did not […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2019 patch 93 bugs, including 2 dangerous wormable issues

Microsoft Patches Over 90 Vulnerabilities With August 2019 Updates Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 address more than 90 flaws, including two new ‘wormable‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 fix 93 vulnerabilities, including two new ‘wormable‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. The list […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2019
Google hacker discloses 20-year-old Windows flaw still unpatched

Tavis Ormandy, white hat hacker at Google’s Project Zero Team, disclosed technical details of a 20-year-old Windows vulnerability that is still unpatched. The popular cyber security expert Tavis Ormandy, white hat hacker at Google’s Project Zero Team disclosed technical details of 20-year-old vulnerability that is still unpatched. The vulnerability, rated as high-severity, affects all versions […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2019
Adobe Patch Tuesday for August 2019 fixed 119 flaws in 8 products

Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 addressed a total of 119 vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 addressed 119 flaws in several products, including Effects, Character Animator, Premiere Pro, Prelude, Creative Cloud, Acrobat and Reader, Experience Manager, and Photoshop products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media

The FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media for potential threats, the announcement raises concerns for user privacy. The abuse of social media passwords for malicious purpose is quite common, for this reason, the FBI is searching for contractors to monitor them. However, monitoring activity could threaten user privacy and set up possible […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Last week media reported the hack of StockX, the fashion and sneaker trading platform. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
Flaws in device drivers from 20 vendors allow hackers to install a persistent backdoor

Researchers discovered multiple flaws in more than 40 device drivers from at least 20 different vendors that could to install a persistent backdoor on Windows PCs. Experts at firmware security firm Eclypsium have conducted a study on the device drivers from major vendors and discovered serious issues in over 40 drivers from 20 companies. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 226

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! DealPly adware abuses reputation services to remain […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2019
10-year-old vulnerability in Avaya VoIP Phones finally fixed

Security researchers at McAfee have discovered that a vulnerability patched ten years ago is still affecting several Avaya phones.  Security experts at McAfee discovered that a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client discovered and fixed ten years ago is still affecting several Avaya phones. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692, could […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2019
City of Naples, Florida, lost $700K after a cyberattack

Another city in the United States was hit by a cyber attack, according to officials in the city of Naples (Florida) they lost $700,000 in a recent attack. According to officials in the city of Naples, Florida, a cyberattack caused an economic loss of $700,000. This is the last incident in order of time that […]