Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2021
IBM has released security patches to address high- and medium-severity vulnerabilities impacting some of its enterprise solutions. IBM has released security updates to address several high- and medium-severity flaws affecting some of its enterprise products, including IBM Java Runtime, IBM Planning Analytics Workspace, and IBM Kenexa LMS On Premise. Two issues, tracked as CVE-2020-14782 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2020
IBM addressed a shared memory vulnerability in its Db2 data management solutions that could lead to information disclosure. IBM fixed a shared memory vulnerability in its Db2 data management products that can be exploited by malicious local users to access sensitive data. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2020-4414, was discovered by researchers from Trustwave, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2020
Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft has joined Amazon and IBM in banning the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments, the tech giants are also urging for federal laws to regulate the use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2020
IBM has addressed two critical vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application Server that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. In April, a security researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘tint0’ discovered three serious deserialization issues affecting the IBM WebSphere Application Server. Two of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4450 and CVE-2020-4448) are remote code execution issues that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2020
A security researcher disclosed details of four zero-day flaws impacting an IBM security product after the IT giant refused to address them. The security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, Director of Research at Agile Information Security, has published details about four zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) after the company refused to address the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2018
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is planning to use Artificial Intelligence to assign the CVSS scores to reported vulnerabilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score between 0.0 and 10.0 that is assigned to each flaw according to its severity. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2018
IBM announced it is going to buy the open source company Red Hat for $34bn with the intent to enhance its cloud offerings. This is the biggest tech merger in history involving a software company. Red Hat was founded in 1993, it currently operates in 35 countries and employs some 12,000 people. The company achieved a net profit of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2016
IBM has targeted hackers, bringing Watson (its computer brain) in the game, with the help of eight prominent US universities IBMâs computer brain, or else Watson, has been known to multitask, already involved in fighting cancer and cooking and so many other things. Right now, the focus of IBM has been placed towards dealing with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2016
According to a research conducted by IBM the healthcare industry was a privileged target of cybercriminals last year, more than 100M Records Compromised. The healthcare industry was the number one target of cybercriminals in 2015, new research indicates. Previously, the banking industry held the top position. In 2015, more than 100 million healthcare records were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
Corebot is a new data stealer discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their solutions. Corebot is the name of a new data stealer malware discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their product, the Trusteer Apex […]
