Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Snowden warns of abuse of surveillance software that also had a role in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The popular US whistleblower Edward Snowden has reported the abuse of surveillance made by many governments, he blamed the Israeli company NSO Group for developing and selling surveillance software to Saudi Arabia. Speaking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018 – LulzSec Italy announced credit a string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. In celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018, LulzSec Italy announced credit for a massive string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. Included in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2018
Security researchers at 360 Netlab have discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that likely already infected around 400,000 machines to date. Security experts from 360 Netlab security firm have recently discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that mainly targets routers that have the BroadCom UPnP feature enabled. The BCMPUPnP_Hunter was first spotted in September, but researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
There’s a growing risk of companies receiving substantial fines for not complying with cybersecurity standards under False Claims Act. However, an emerging concern for businesses that act as contract-based service providers for government entities is that those establishments could also be liable under the False Claims Act (FCA). What Is the False Claims Act? The False […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
Records associated with 689,272 plaintext records Amex India customers were exposed online via unsecured MongoDB server. Personal details of nearly 700,000 American Express (Amex India) India customers were exposed online via an unsecured MongoDB server. The huge trove of data was discovered by Bob Diachenko from cybersecurity firm Hacken, most of the records were encrypted, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China. China Telecom was a brand of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) CNMF is sharing malware samples with the cybersecurity industry via VirusTotal intelligence service. The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is providing unclassified malware samples to VirusTotal intelligence service with the intent of sharing them with cybersecurity industry. The USCYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) is going to share the unclassified malware samples on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2018
Security expert discovered a stored XSS flaw in the Evernote app for Windows that could be exploited to steal files and execute arbitrary commands. A security expert that goes online with the moniker @sebao has discovered a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote application for Windows that could be exploited by an attacker to steal files and execute […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2018
The United States Air Force announced earlier this week that it has launched the third bug bounty program called Hack the Air Force 3.0. The United States Air Force launched earlier this week its third bug bounty program, called Hack the Air Force 3.0, in collaboration with HackerOne. “Thank you for your interest in participating in HackerOne’s U.S. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2018
A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability affects eCommerce website running on WordPress and using the WooCommerce plugin. A critical vulnerability affects eCommerce website running on WordPress and using the WooCommerce plugin. WooCommerce is one of the major eCommerce plugins for WordPress that allows operators to easily build e-stores based on the popular CMS, it accounts for more than 4 million installations with 35% […]
