Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2019
Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation notified the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. The data leaked online includes customers’ names, payment card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, gender, and dates of birth. “The Belgian Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. “A vulnerability reported in Lenovo Solution Center version 03.12.003, which is no longer supported, could allow log […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Experts at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect systems. Malware researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect Windows and Mac systems. Asruex first appeared in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryptocurrency. The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. The incident was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Cisco provided updates for security advisories for three flaws affecting Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches patched in early August. Cisco has updated security advisories for three vulnerability in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that have been patched in early August. The three vulnerabilities were reported by the security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Cisco released security patches to address 17 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting some Cisco Unified Computing products (UCS and IMC). Cisco has released security fixes to address 17 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting some Cisco Unified Computing products. Most of the flaws affect the Integrated Management Controller (IMC) that is a baseboard management controller that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Isn’t public Wi-Fi great? If you’re having a tea or coffee in a cafe or restaurant you can check your emails and social media. If you’re waiting for a flight what better way to pass the time than logging onto your favourite website, checking your bank account or even doing a bit of online shopping? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Crooks behind the attacks against Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data. The cybercriminals behind the wave of attacks that hit 23 Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data. The attacks started in the morning of August 16 and security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
A new zero-day vulnerability in the for Windows impacting over 96 million users was disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. A news zero-day flaw in the Steam client for Windows client impacts over 96 million users. The flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability and it has been publicly disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. Kravets is one of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Researchers explained that carrying out attacks against the most used default Tor bridges would cost threat actors $17,000 per month. According to security researchers Rob Jansen from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr from Georgetown University, launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against most commonly used default Tor bridges would cost attackers […]
