IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
PayPal addresses reflected XSS bug in user wallet currency converter

PayPal has addressed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected the currency converter feature of user wallets.  PayPal has fixed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was discovered in the currency converter feature of user wallets on February 19, 2020, close one year ago. The ‘reflected XSS and CSP bypass’ vulnerability was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 301

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. COMB breach: 3.2B email and password pairs leaked online Hacking Nespresso machines to have unlimited funds to purchase […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
FBI’s alert warns about using Windows 7 and TeamViewer

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. The FBI issues this week a Private Industry Notification (PIN) alert to warn companies about the risks of using out-of-date Windows 7 systems, poor account passwords, and desktop sharing software TeamViewer. The alert comes […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2021
Court documents show FBI could use a tool to access private Signal messages on iPhones

Court documents obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool that allows accessing private Signal messages on iPhones. Court documents related to a recent gun-trafficking case in New York and obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool to access private Signal messages. The documents revealed that encrypted messages can be intercepted from […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2021
The Importance of a Proactive Cyber Defense Solution To Protect Your Critical Data

Personal and Corporate data is now regularly targeted and traded by unscrupulous actors, protect it with a proactive Cyber Defense solution. If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for them. If they are in superior strength, evade them. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2021
Gmail users from US most targeted by email-based phishing and malware

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
Yandex security team caught admin selling access to users’ inboxes

Russian internet and search company Yandex discloses a data breach, a system administrator was selling access to thousands of user mailboxes. Russian search engine and internet provider Yandex discloses a data breach, the company revealed that one of its system administrators was caught selling access to 4,887 user email accounts. The security incident was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) discovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Researchers at TIM’s Red Team Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered a new critical vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. The flaw has not addressed by IBM, because the product version 8.5.0.0 is in End-of-life. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
Microsoft warns of the rise of web shell attacks

Researchers from Microsoft are warning that the number of monthly web shell attacks has doubled since last year. Microsoft reported that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, its experts observed an average of 140,000 of these software installs on servers on a monthly basis, while in 2020 they […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
The “P” in Telegram stands for Privacy

Security expert Dhiraj Mishra analyzed the popular instant messaging app Telegram and identified some failures in terms of handling the users’ data. Summary: While understanding the implementation of various security and privacy measures in Telegram, I identified that telegram fails again in terms of handling the users data. My initial study started with understanding how self-destructing […]