Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018 Hacking the âUnhackable eyeDisk USB stick Security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Salesforce is facing a huge outage, it shut down a good portion of its infrastructure due to change to the production environment. A change in the production environment is the root cause of the broad outage suffered by Salesforce. The service disruption affected its Pardot B2B marketing automation system, the cloud CRM company’s change broke […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Dutch intelligence services are probing Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in equipment of major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence probes Huawei for possibly spying for the Chinese government by using a “back door” in the equipment used by major telecoms firms. Dutch intelligence shares the concerns raised by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
According to a study conducted by IBM, the number of hacktivist attacks that caused quantifiable damage has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active, the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
Dozens of Linksys router models are affected by a flaw that causes the leak of data that can be used by attackers …. and the company won’t fix it. Security researcher Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, discovered that over 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are leaking full historical records of every device ever connected to them. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
Unistellar attackers have already wiped roughly 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases exposed online over the past three. Every time hackers deleted a MongoDB database they left a message asking the administrators to contact them to restore the data. Unfortunately, the criminal practice of deleting MongoDB databases and request a ransom to restore data is common, experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
A new political misinformation campaign was uncovered and blocked by Facebook, this time it was not operated by Russia but Israel’s Archimedes Group Facebook uncovered and blocked a misinformation campaign powered by Israel’ Archimedes Group, the corporation used fake accounts to manipulated political campaigns. According to Facebook, the Archimedes Group used hundreds of pages, accounts, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel According to the media outlet, Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the Winnti trojan malware to infect the systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted userâs downloaded files. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, Security researcher David Wells from Tenable discovered a critical flaw in version 3.3.7 of the Slack desktop app […]
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