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Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2024

Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams

Nigerian Kolade Ojelade gets 26 years in U.S. for phishing scams that stole millions by hacking email accounts. A Nigerian national was sentenced to 26 years in prison in the US for stealing millions by compromising the email accounts of real estate businesses. The Nigerian national, Kolade Ojelade, Kolade Akinwale Ojelade (34), a resident of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021

A vulnerable honeypot exposed online can be compromised in 24 hours

Researchers deployed multiple instances of vulnerable systems and found that 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within 24 hours. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks deployed a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes to analyze how three actors target exposed services in public clouds. The company set up the honeypots between July 2021 and August 2021 to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2021

NATO releases its first strategy for Artificial Intelligence

This week, NATO Defence Ministers released the first-ever strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) that encourages the use of AI in a responsible manner. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the global defence and security environment, for this reason, NATO Defence Ministers released the first-ever strategy for this technology that promotes its development and use in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2021

EU leaders aim at boosting defense and security, including cybersecurity

During a video conference of the members of the European Council, EU leaders agreed on a new strategy aimed at boosting defense and security. During the recent video conference of the members of the European Council (25-26 February 2021), NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the importance to define a strategy to boost defense and security. “We […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2021

Lebanese Cedar APT group broke into telco and ISPs worldwide

Clearsky researchers linked the Lebanese Cedar APT group to a cyber espionage campaign that targeted companies around the world. Clearsky researchers linked the Lebanese Cedar group (aka Volatile Cedar) to a cyber espionage campaign that targeted companies around the world. The APT group has been active since 2012, experts linked the group to the Hezbollah […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2020

Recorded Future to Provide Free Access to Elite Intelligence Through New Browser Extension

Level up Your Security Program With the Same Security Intelligence Used by the World’s Largest Governments and Many of the Fortune 1000 Recorded Future, the largest global security intelligence provider, today released a free browser extension that helps prioritize SIEM alerts and vulnerability patching, in addition to providing enhanced malware analysis. With this release, Recorded […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2020

Google and Mozilla address serious flaws in Firefox and Chrome browsers

Google and Mozilla released new versions of Chrome and Firefox browsers to addressed several high-severity vulnerabilities. Mozilla has released Firefox version 75 that includes six security patches for the desktop, and two patches targeting to address vulnerabilities in the Android app. “With today’s release, a number of improvements will help you search smarter, faster.” reads the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2020

US officials meet UK peers to remark the urgency to ban Huawei 5G tech

U.S. officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain ahead of the final decision on Huawei 5G technology. U.S. officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain in the attempt to convince U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to ban Huawei 5G technology from its […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019

WordPress 5.2.3 fixes multiple issues, including some severe XSS flaws

The WordPress development team released version 5.2.3 that includes 29 fixes, enhancements, and several security patches. WordPress developers released a security and maintenance version 5.2.3 that includes 29 fixes, several enhancements and security patches. These flaws affect the versions 5.2.2 and earlier of the popular CMS. Most of the security flaws addressed with the release […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2019

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10

Microsoft presented a series of security enhancements for its Windows 10, including the removal of the password-expiration policy. Microsoft announced the removal of the password-expiration policy from its operating system starting with the next Windows 10 feature update (Windows 10 version 1903, a.k.a., “19H1” ) and Windows Server version 1903. The idea behind this change […]

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Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams

A vulnerable honeypot exposed online can be compromised in 24 hours

NATO releases its first strategy for Artificial Intelligence

EU leaders aim at boosting defense and security, including cybersecurity

Lebanese Cedar APT group broke into telco and ISPs worldwide

Recorded Future to Provide Free Access to Elite Intelligence Through New Browser Extension

Google and Mozilla address serious flaws in Firefox and Chrome browsers

US officials meet UK peers to remark the urgency to ban Huawei 5G tech

WordPress 5.2.3 fixes multiple issues, including some severe XSS flaws

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10

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