Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2019
Paying attention to cybersecurity is more important than ever in 2019. But, some companies are still unwilling to devote the necessary resources to securing their infrastructures against cyberattacks, and naive individuals think they’re immune to the tactics of cybercriminals, too. For people who still need some convincing that cybersecurity is an essential point of focus, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2019
Security expert Robert Baptiste (akaElliot Alderson) discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6447) in the ES File Explorer that potentially expose hundreds of million Android installs. The ES File Explorer is an Android file manager that has over 100,000,000 installs and more than 500 million users worldwide according to its developer. Baptiste discovered that the application uses a local […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
Experts at Malwarebytes have reported that the code for the recently discovered Flash zero-day flaw was added to the Fallout Exploit kit. Experts at Malwarebytes observed a new version of the Fallout Exploit kit that include the code to exploit a recently discovered Flash zero-day vulnerability. The Fallout Exploit kit was discovered at the end […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the “Protect my Tweets” option from the account’s “Privacy and safety” settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
Threat actors in the wild are leveraging a recently discovered flaw in the ThinkPHP PHP framework to install cryptominers, skimmers, and other malware. Multiple threat actors are leveraging a recently discovered code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-20062) in the ThinkPHP framework. The flaw was already addressed by the Chinese firm TopThink that designed the framework, but security expert Larry […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2019
The popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt has uncovered a massive data leak he called ‘Collection #1’ that included 773 million records. The name ‘Collection #1’ comes from the name of the root folder. Someone has collected a huge trove of data through credential stuffing, the ‘Collection #1’ archive is a set of email addresses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2019
Drupal released security updates for Drupal 7, 8.5 and 8.6 that address two “critical” security vulnerabilities that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. The first vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code. The flaw resides in the phar stream wrapper implemented in PHP and is related to the way […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2019
A critical flaw in online flight ticket booking system developed by Amadeus could impact almost half of the fight travelers of 141 airlines around the world A critical flaw in online flight ticket booking system developed by Amadeus could be exploited by a remote attacker to access and modify travel details and claim his frequent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2019
By using multi-gesture trackpad along with Safari browser in MacBook Pro, one can view sensitive data which is cached in your Safari browser. (Note: This is not a back button browsing vulnerability) I figured out this issue while playing around with Safari browser, looks like the most recent activity of any authenticated or un-authenticated website is stored in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2019
Security researchers at Check Point have discovered several flaws in the popular game Fortnite that could be exploited to takeover gamers’account. Security experts at Check Point discovered several issues in the popular online battle game Fortnite. One of the flaws is an OAuth account takeover vulnerability that could have allowed a remote attacker to takeover […]
