Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2019
Hackers breached at least 62 college and university networks exploiting a flaw in Ellucian Banner Web Tailor, a module of the Ellucian Banner ERP. US Department of Education warned that hackers have breached at least 62 college and university networks by exploiting a vulnerability in the Ellucian Banner Web Tailor module of the Ellucian Banner ERP. The module is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2019
The airline company WizzAir informed its customers that it had reset the account passwords due to a technical issue in the system. The airline company WizzAir had reset the account passwords of its users due to a technical issue in its system. In an email message sent to the customers, the company explained that it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2019
The principal Twitter account of Scotland Yard, which has more than 1.2 million followers, was hacked and tweeted a series of bizarre messages on Friday night. Hackers took over the Scotland Yard’s principal Twitter account and tweeted a dozen bizarre messages on Friday night, some of the tweets referred to the British rapper Digga D. Digga D, real name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2019
The former NSA contractor who pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of data from the Agency, was sentenced to nine years in prison The former National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III, who was accused and subsequently pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of classified NSA data, was sentenced to nine years in prison. The man was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2019
Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 20-year old man for allegedly developing Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders. Dutch authorities announced have arrested a 20-year old man that is accused to be the author of Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders. The man lives in Utrecht, it created and distributed Rubella, Cetan and Dryad toolkits. “Recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2019
Poland and Lithuania are probing the potential privacy and security risks of using a Russian-made app FaceApp. Millions of people recently downloaded the FaceApp app and are taking part in the “#FaceApp Challenge” to show friends how they can look like when they will be old and grey. Many security experts are warning of the risks of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2019
The Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act may provide business owners with access to government-level tools to secure small business against attacks. Perhaps the best approach to rampant malware, ransomware and cybercrime is stronger cooperation between the public and private sectors. The American Congress took a stab at that kind of ecumenical solution to the looming […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2019
Experts at AT&T’s Alien Labs recently discovered an ongoing campaign conducted by StrongPity threat actor that abuses malicious WinBox installers to infect victims. AT&T’s Alien Labs experts recently discovered an ongoing campaign conducted by StrongPity APT group that abuses malicious WinBox installers to infect victims. The activity of the group was initially uncovered in 2016 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2019
Drupal developers urge users to update their installs to version 8.7.5, which addresses the CVE-2019-6342 flaw that allows hackers to take control of Drupal 8 sites. Drupal developers informed users that version 8.7.4 is affected by a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-6342, that could be exploited by attackers to take control of Drupal 8 websites. […]
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