Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2018
DELL EMC addressed two critical flaws in VMAX enterprise storage systems

Dell EMC addressed two critical vulnerabilities that affect the management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. The Dell EMC’s VMAX Virtual Appliance (vApp) Manager is an essential component of a wide range of the enterprise storage systems. The first flaw tracked as CVE-2018-1215 is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that could be exploited by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
UK Foreign Office Minister blames Russia for NotPetya massive ransomware attack

The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The UK Government formally accuses the Russian cyber army of launching the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office “attributed the NotPetya cyber-attack to the Russian Government.” According to the UK, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
SAP Security Notes – February 2018 addresses tens of flaws including High Risk issues

SAP Security Notes – February 2018: SAP Security Notes February 2018 addressed several vulnerabilities including High-Risk flaws. SAP has released February 2018 Patches that addressed some high-risk vulnerabilities in its software, a total of 26 Security Notes (5 high-, 19 medium- and 2 low-risk). Once again, the missing authorization check is the most common vulnerability type this month. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
Hackers have exploited a zero-day in Bitmessage client to steal Electrum wallet keys

Bitmessage developers have issued an emergency update for the PyBitmessage client that patches a critical remote code execution vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks. Bitmessage development team has rolled out an emergency patch to address a zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage client for Bitmessage, which a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications protocol used to send encrypted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
Windows Analytics now includes Meltdown and Spectre detector

Good news for administrators of Windows systems, Microsoft has added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to its telemetry analysis tool Windows Analytics. Microsoft has added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to its telemetry analysis tool Windows Analytics. The Meltdown-and-Spectre detector was available since Tuesday when Microsoft announced the new capabilities implemented in the free Windows Analytics service.  The new capabilities allow […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addresses 14 critical flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addressed a total of 50 vulnerabilities in affecting Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, web browsers and other products of the tech giant. Fourteen issues are listed as critical, 34 are rated as important, and only two of them are rated as moderate in severity. The list of critical vulnerability includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
All You Need to Know About North Korea and its cyber army

What Type Of Technology Does North Korea Have? How Did The Country Begin Using Hackers? How Do Hacking Efforts Comply with the Political Situation? North Korea is not known for technological sophistication.  The country does not have any global technological franchises, such as Apple or Samsung, and its citizens continue to have limited access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 149 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground ·      More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2018
Researcher found multiple vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Routers, update them now!

Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. Netgear has just released many security updates that address vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. The vulnerabilities have been reported by security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave, which conducted a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected ·      Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised ·      Iran-linked APT OilRig target IIS Web Servers […]