Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2020
On Thursday, four JavaScript packages have been removed from the npm portal because they have been found containing malicious code. NPM staff removed four JavaScript packages from the npm portal because were containing malicious code. Npm is the largest package repository for any programming language. The four packages, which had a total of one thousand of downloads, are: plutov-slack-client […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2020
Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of attacks from nation-state actors. Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2020
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to urge organizations to patch CVE-2020-16952 RCE vulnerability in MS SharePoint Server. The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn of the risks of the exploitation for the CVE-2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server and urges organizations to address […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps. This attack is the largest distributed denial of service attack recorded to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
Juniper Networks has addressed tens of vulnerabilities, including serious flaws that can be exploited to take over vulnerable systems. Juniper Networks has addressed tens of vulnerabilities, including serious issues that can be exploited to take control of vulnerable systems. The vendor has published 40 security advisories related to security vulnerabilities in the Junos OS operating system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
Britainâs information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. In September 2018, British Airways suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 400,000 customers. The hackers potentially accessed the personal data of approximately 429,612 customers and staff. Exposed data included names, addresses, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, the largest barbecue restaurant chain in the US, suffered a POS breach, card details for 3 Million customers were posted online. Dickeyâs Barbecue Pit is a family-owned American barbecue restaurant chain, the company suffered a POS breach and card details of more than three million customers have been posted on the carding portal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
Adobe released a series of out-of-band security fixes to address multiple Magento vulnerabilities that lead to code execution, customer list tampering. Adobe has released a series of out-of-band security fixes to address multiple Magento vulnerabilities that lead to code execution, customer list tampering. Eight of the vulnerabilities are considered either critical or important, only one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2020
Iran âs cybersecurity authority revealed that two governmental departments were hit by cyberattacks this week, state media reported. State media reported on Thursday that Iranâs cybersecurity authority acknowledged cyberattacks on two unnamed governmental departments. The state-owned IRAN daily newspaper revealed that the cyberattacks took place on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Iranian authorities are investigating the […]
