Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2017
According to the US intelligence, Russian hackers tried to compromise electoral networks in 21 unnamed US states, but voting tallies hadn’t been hacked. According to Homeland Security officials, the attack against the 2016 Presidential election was more sophisticated than first thought. In a public hearing into the Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election held by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2017
Drupal team released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw CVE-2017-6922 exploited in spam campaigns. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2017-6922 that has been exploited in spam campaigns. The CVE-2017-6922 flaw was fixed with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5 · Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period · US Defense is working on new multifactor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2017
BC Arabic and the Danish newspaper Dagbladet accuse British BAE Systems of selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East. The British company BAE Systems has been selling mass surveillance software called Evident across the Middle East, the findings are the result of a year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and the Danish newspaper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2017
Cisco èiblished two security advisories to warn customers of the presence of two critical vulnerabilities in the CISCO Prime Data Center Network Manager, Cisco warns its customers of the presence of two critical vulnerabilities in the CISCO Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) that can be exploited by remote attackers for code execution and to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2017
Is the hack back legal? There is a heated debate about the concept of active defense. What about the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act? In a time where attribution of cyber crimes is all but impossible, the idea of allowing companies to ‘hack back‘ at their attackers seems far-fetched. However, Tom Graves (R-GA) has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · British Airways cancels thousands of flights, there is no evidence of cyber-attacks · Security Affairs newsletter Round 112 – News of the week · Tainted Leaks – Widespead Russias disinformation campaign hit 39 Countries · Austrian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Google is rolling out Google Play Protect, a machine-learning system to protect Android users · Medical Devices infected by WannaCry Ransomware in US hospitals · Researchers found a link between the APT3 Threat Group and the Chinese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2017
Researchers at Citizen Lab documented a Russia’s campaign of cyberespionage and disinformation that leveraged tainted leaks. According to the researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a Russian disinformation campaign targeted 39 countries. The cyber attacks against the DNC were part of a larger campaign orchestrated by a nation state actor against government, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2017
Researchers at ESET security firm have discovered that someone has released 200 master keys for the latest variants of the prominent Crysis ransomware. While security experts continue to investigate the WannaCry attack, someone has released 200 master keys for the latest variants of the prominent Crysis ransomware. The file encrypted by this version have the .wallet and […]
