Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2018
GitHub, world’s leading software development platform, forced password reset for some users after the discovery of a problem that caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. GitHub urged some users to reset their passwords after a problem caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. Some users published on Twitter the communication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2018
Konrads Voits, the man who hacked into the computer system of Washtenaw County Jail to alter inmate records and gain early release for his friend, gets 7-Years in prison. In March 2017, Konrads Voits (27), hacked into the computer system of Washtenaw County Jail to alter inmate records and gain early release for his friend. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2018
Researchers from security firm Check Point discovered a security vulnerability in a driver in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE 2018-8781, that leads to local privilege escalation. The CVE 2018-8781 flaw, introduced 8 years ago, could be exploited by a local user with access to a vulnerable privileged driver to escalate local privileges and read from and write to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2018
Social networks could be a privileged attack vector to rapidly spread a malware to a huge audience, FacexWorm targets cryptocurrency users by spreading through Facebook Messenger. Social networks could be a privileged attack vector to rapidly spread a malware to a huge audience. In the last hours, a new threat is spreading through leveraging an apparently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2018
Jan Koum, one of the WhatsApp founders, reportedly plans to leave the company in the wake of increasing concerns about Facebook’s approach to users’ privacy. Jan Koum, the co-founder of WhatsApp, reportedly plans to leave the company in the wake of increasing concerns about Facebook’s privacy policy. “It is time for me to move on . […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2018
The NATO team is the winner of the Cyber Defence Exercise Locked Shields 2018 that took place on April 23-26 in Tallinn, Estonia. The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2018 took place on April 23-26 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are impressive. A total of 22 Blue Teams participated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2018
SamSam ransomware made the headlines again, crooks now spreading thousands of copies of the ransomware at once into individual targeted organizations. Ransomware continues to be one of the most dangerous cyber threat and incident like the one suffered by the city of Atlanta demonstrates that their economic impact on victims could be severe. SamSam ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2018
According to a security expert, Oracle appears to have botched the CVE-2018-2628 fix, this means that attackers could bypass it to take over WebLogic servers. Earlier April, Oracle patched the critical CVE-2018-2628 vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic server, but an Alibaba security researcher @pyn3rd discovered that the proposed fix could be bypassed. https://twitter.com/pyn3rd/status/990114565219344384 The CVE-2018-2628 flaw was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2018
The Thai authorities with the support of the ThaiCERT and security first McAfee have seized a server used by North Korean Hidden Cobra APT as part of the Op GhostSecret campaign. The Thai authorities with the support of the ThaiCERT have seized a server used by North Korean hackers in the attack against Sony Picture. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2018
Security experts at Kromtech discovered a MongoDB exposed personal details of 25,000 users tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency. Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Kromtech have discovered a MongoDB database containing the personal details of over 25,000 Bezop (BEZ) cryptocurrency users. There are 1384 cryptocurrencies as of Jan 2018. One of them had a database of 25K active […]
