Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Over the summer, the Apache Solr team addressed a remote code execution flaw, not a working exploit code was published online. The bug addressed by the Apache Solr team fixed over the summer is more dangerous than initially thought. Apache Solr is a highly reliable, scalable and fault-tolerant, open-source search engine written in Java. Solr […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Livingston School District in New Jersey is the last victim of a ransomware attack that caused a two hour delayed opening. Students at the Livingston public school district in New Jersey are undoubtedly happy for a two hour delayed opening tomorrow. A new ransomware attack hit a school district in the US, the malware has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from the Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission is also requesting to the government to assign subsidies to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2019
The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain.The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain. Catch Hospitality Group announced that a PoS malware has infected its payment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2019
Kaspersky researchers found dozens of flaws in four popular open-source virtual network computing (VNC) systems. Experts from Kaspersky analyzed several different implementations of a remote access system called Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and identified a number of memory corruption vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities found by the experts could lead to remote code execution. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
Security duo discovered personal and social information 1.2 billion people exposed online on an unsecured Elasticsearch server. Researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unsecured Eslasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts. The database, discovered on October 16, 2019, contained more than 4 terabytes of data is the largest data leaks from a single […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. The cybersecurity team at T-Mobile discovered an unauthorized access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
Security experts from vpnMentor discovered that Gekko Group, an AccorHotels subsidiary, exposes hotels and travelers in a massive data leak. Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns smaller hospitality brands, including Teldar Travel & Infinite Hotel. The AccorHotels subsidiary has a combined customer base of 600,000 hotels worldwide. vpnMentor discovered a database exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2019
Google announced that it will increase bug bounty rewards for Android, it will pay up to $1.5 million for bugs that allow to hack new Titan M security chip. At the end of 2018, Google announced its Titan M dedicated security chip that is currently installed on Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2019
A critical flaw in the Jetpack WordPress Plugin could be exploited by threat actors to hack WordPress websites running flawed versions of the plugin. A critical vulnerability affects the Jetpack WordPress Plugin version Jetpack 5.1. and later, admins and owners of WordPress websites are urged to update their installs to Jetpack version 7.9.1. Jetpack is a […]
