security

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2019
German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon servers

Privacy advocates and cyber security experts raised concerns on the choice of German police to store bodycam footage, which may be used as evidence, on Amazon servers. The choice of the German police of storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud storage has raised privacy and security concerns. The news was first reported by the Neue […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Android Pie introduces important security and privacy enhancements

The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. Google experts worked on OS hardening and the implementation of anti-exploitation mechanisms with a great attention to the user privacy. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2018
Project Strobe, what will change after the Google security breach?

Google announced a security breach that may have exposed data of over 500,000 users of its Google+ social network, these are the measures in response to the incident. Yesterday Google announced a security breach that may have exposed data of over 500,000 users of its Google+ social network. Security experts and privacy advocated criticized the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2018
GitHub started warning users when adopting compromised credentials

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. Last week the popular software code hosting service GitHub has introduced a new feature to protect its users, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2018
Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 … kill them now!

The Internet-Draft document if approved formally deprecates Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 (TLS 1.0) [RFC2246] and 1.1 (TLS 1.1) [RFC4346]. In March, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) finally announced the approval of TLS 1.3, the new version of the Transport Layer Security traffic encryption protocol. It was a long journey, the IETF has been analyzing proposals for TLS 1.3 since April 2014, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2018
Analyzing the SAP June 2018 Security Patch Day

SAP June 2018 Security Patch Day addresses two security notes, the company fixed five issues for previously released notes, including two critical flaws rated Hot News. The most common flaw types are Cross-Site Scripting and Remote Command Execution,  followed by implementation flaws and information disclosure. “It seems that the downward trend in the number of monthly […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2018
A “highly critical” flaw affects Drupal 7 and 8 core, Drupal security updates expected on March 28th

Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. A “highly critical” vulnerability affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and Drupal developers are currently working to address it. Drupal maintainers initially planned to issue a security release of Drupal 7.x, 8.3.x, 8.4.x, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Uber Self-Driving Car struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona

An Uber self-driving car has struck and killed a woman pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The incident raises questions about the safety and security of this kind of vehicles. This is a sad page of the book of technology evolution, an Uber self-driving car has struck and killed a woman pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The news […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2018
Facebook improves link security infrastructure by implementing HSTS Preloading

Facebook has implemented HSTS preloading that instructs a browser to always use SSL/TLS to communicate with eligible websites. Facebook has upgraded its link security infrastructure to include HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preloading that instructs a browser to always use SSL/TLS to communicate with eligible websites. Facebook and Instagram links will automatically update from HTTP […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2018
RubyGems 2.7.6 addresses several flaws and implements some improvements

The RubyGems 2.7.6 update released last week for RubyGems includes several security improvements and addresses several types of vulnerabilities. The new RubyGems 2.7.6 release addresses several vulnerabilities in Ruby Gems and implements several security improvements. The updates prevent path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root and during gem installation. The updates also […]