Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2018
Saleem Rashid, a 15-year-old researcher from the UK, has discovered a severe vulnerability in cryptocurrency hardware wallets made by the Ledger company. Hardware wallets enable transactions via a connection to a USB port on the user’s machine, but they don’t share the private key with the host machine impossible malware to harvest the keys. Saleem Rashid has found a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2018
A critical flaw in the Windows Remote Assistance tool allows someone you trust to take over your PC so they can help you fix a problem, and vice-versa. A critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows Remote Assistance (Quick Assist) feature affects all versions of Windows to date, including Windows 10, 8.1, RT 8.1, and 7. The flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2018
Orbitz, the travel website owned by Expedia announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a security breach that affected hundreds of thousands of users. Orbitz.com has millions of users, it was acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $1.6 billion. Orbitz confirmed that attackers gained access to a legacy platform between October 1 and December 22, 2017, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2018
A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to comply the request the authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2018
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 20, 2018
On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks. Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images. The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered an unauthorized access to its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian Last week, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. The US-CERT blamed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
Experts at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign conducted by TEMP.Zagros group targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. Iranian hackers are one of the most active in this period, researchers at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data harvested by Facebook to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. A team of academics had collected a huge amount of user data and shared the information with Cambridge Analytica which is a commercial data analytics company that allegedly used it to target US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
Security experts at Core Security have disclosed the details of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects MikroTik RouterOS in versions prior to the latest 6.41.3. MikroTik is a Latvian vendor that produce routers used by many telco companies worldwide that run RouterOS Linux-based operating system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7445, could be exploited by a remote attacker with […]
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