Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2019
Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2019
Microsoft revealed that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking. Microsoft discovered that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking because of using of compromised passwords. Experts from the Microsoft threat research team analyzed a database containing 3 billion leaked credentials […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2019
Adobe released the Patch Tuesday security updates for December 2019 that address flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Photoshop CC, ColdFusion, and Brackets. Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates for December 2019 address a total of 25 flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Photoshop CC, ColdFusion, and Brackets. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Acrobat and Reader (APSB19-55), […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2019
The popular virtual private network (VPN) service provider NordVPN announced the launch of a public bug bounty program. The virtual private network (VPN) service provider NordVPN announced the launch of a public bug bounty program. White hat hackers will receive payouts between $100 and $5,000 for each reported vulnerability. NordVPN will also pay much more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2019
Google has released the source code of a tool, dubbed PathAuditor, designed to help developers identify vulnerabilities related to file access. Google decided to release the source code of a tool dubbed PathAuditor designed to help developers identify vulnerabilities related to file access. PathAuditor has been released by the tech giant as open-source, the company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2019
Google addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could trigger a permanent denial of service (DoS) condition in Android. Google released December 2019 security updates for its Android mobile OS that addressed several flaws, including a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could result in a permanent denial of service (DoS). Google addressed more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2019
Experts from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security flaws in OpenBSD, one of which is a type authentication bypass issue. Researchers from Qualys Research Labs discovered four high-severity security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, a type authentication bypass issue and three privilege escalation bugs. The three issued could be exploited by local users or malware to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2019
Ohio detected and neutralized a cyber attack against its election systems earlier this month, it was traced to a Russian-owned company. Ohio officials thwarted a cyber attack against its election infrastructure earlier this month, the state’s elections chief announced. According to the Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the cyber attack was “relatively unsophisticated” and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2019
Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. Security researchers from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered that multiple Fortinet products use a weak encryption cipher (“XOR” with a static key) and cryptographic keys to communicate with the FortiGuard Web Filter, AntiSpam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from the Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission is also requesting to the government to assign subsidies to […]
