Security Affairs Archives - Page 914 of 1040

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018

Hackers can easily access 3D printers exposed online for sabotage and espionage

Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center discovered that thousands of 3D printers are exposed online without proper defense. The news is worrisome, thousands of 3D printers are exposed online to remote cyber attacks. According to the experts at SANS Internet Storm Center that scanned the internet for vulnerable 3D printers, a Shodan query has found […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018

Experts warn of 7,500+ MikroTik Routers that are hijacking owners’ traffic

The security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered more than 7,500 MikroTik routers that have been compromised to enable Socks4 proxy maliciously Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. The campaign started in Brazil, but it is rapidly expanded […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018

Parental control spyware app Family Orbit hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were exposed

The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password. According to Motherboard that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018

Compromising Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) using VoLTE

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) facilitates telecom operators in delivering multimedia applications and voice traffic over IP transport. Proxy Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) is the first node in IMS Platform (figure 1) to interact with the User Equipment (UE) when initiating a VoLTE call. figure 1 – Placement of Proxy Call Session Control Function in IMS Platform Identify […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018

Google paid million dollars to track offline purchases using Mastercard Data

Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users, the news was revealed by Bloomberg. New problems for Google, experts discovered a secret agreement of the tech giant with Mastercard to track user purchases offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars to access offline transactions of its users. The embarrassing […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2018

Critical remote code execution flaw patched in Packagist PHP package repository

Maintainers of Packagist, the largest PHP package repository, have recently addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Packagist is the default package host behind Composer, it has over 435 million package installs. The vulnerability was reported by the security researcher Max Justicz, the expert discovered that the “Submit Package” input field for submitting new PHP packages via the package […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2018

Arjen Kamphuis, the Dutch associate of Julian Assange, went missing in Norway

Julian Assange associate and author of “Information Security for Journalists” Arjen Kamphuis has disappeared, the Norwegian police is working on the case. Media agencies worldwide are reporting the strange disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, the Julian Assange associate. The news was confirmed by WikiLeaks on Sunday, the man has been missing since August 20, when he left his hotel […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2018

TrendMicro links Urpage hacking crew to other threat actors

Last week, security researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new threat actor, tracked as Urpage, that shares similarities with other three hacking crews. Researchers from Trend Micro linked a recently discovered actor, tracked as Urpage, to the hacking groups known as Bahamut, Confucius, and Patchwork. Trend Micro first connected the Confucius group to the Patchwork […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2018

The cyber threat against Danish financial sector is very high

A report published by the Centre for Cyber Security (Center for Cybersikkerhed) states that the threat to the Danish financial sector is very high. According to a report by the Centre for Cyber Security (Center for Cybersikkerhed), a department of military security agency FET (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste), the cyber threat against the Danish financial sector is very […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2018

Wireshark fixed three flaws that can crash it via malicious packet trace files

The Wireshark team has addressed three serious vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash the analyzer. The Wireshark development team has fixed three serious flaws that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a DoS condition in the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. The three vulnerabilities […]