Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2019
Hacker who disrupted Sony gaming gets a 27-months jail sentence

Austin Thompson (23) from Utah, the hacker who carried out massive DDoS attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam gets a 27-months prison sentence. The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2019
Magento fixed security flaws that allow complete site takeover

Magento addressed flaws that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. Magento addressed security vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. The attacker would first exploit a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to inject […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2019
Tens of VMware Products affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness flaws

Tens of VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. At least 30 VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and reboot vulnerable systems. Impacted products […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Old known issue in Firefox allows HTML files to steal other files from victim’s system

Opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a weakness in the popular web browser. The security expert Barak Tawily demonstrated that opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a 17-year-old known bug in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0: Silence APT goes global

Group-IB believes Silence APT, the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang, is likely to be behind the attack on Dutch Bangla Bank’s ATMs resulting in the theft of $3M, Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has established that Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group is likely to be behind the brazen attack on Dutch […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
China installs a surveillance app on tourists’ phones while crossing in the Xinjiang

Chinese border guards are secretly installing a surveillance app on smartphones of tourists and people crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from Kyrgyzstan. Are you entering in the Xinjiang (China) from Kyrgyzstan? There is something that you need to know, Chinese border guards are secretly installing surveillance software on the mobile devices of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Google addressed three critical code execution flaws in Android Media Framework

Google released the July 2019 security patches for the Android OS that address a total of 33 vulnerabilities, including 9 issues rated as Critical. The most severe flaw addressed by Google is a critical security issue (CVE-2019-2106) affecting the Media framework that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Chinese smart home solutions vendor Orvibo leaks two billion user logs

Experts found a Chinese smart home solutions vendor that has been leaking billions of logs from devices managed via its cloud platform. Experts at vpnMentor discovered a massive data leak in Orvibo’s user database. The research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, has found an open database managed by Orvibo Smart Home vendor. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2019
A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency

Some court websites of a Georgia state were brought offline after their systems were infected by ransomware in a cyber attack. A Georgia state agency confirmed that a cyberattack has brought offline some court websites. According to local media, hackers infected the systems of the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts with ransomware, “News outlets […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2019
Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors

Firefox finally addressed the issues with antivirus apps crashing HTTPS websites starting with the release of Firefox 68. Mozilla announced that it will resolve the issues that caused antivirus apps crashing HTTPs websites with the release of Firefox 68 version. The problems began after the release of Firefox 65 in December 2018, since then experts […]