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Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Critical code execution flaw in Electron framework impacts popular Desktop apps such as Skype and Signal

A critical RCE vulnerability in the Electron framework impacts popular desktop applications, including Skype, Signal, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, and WordPress.com. A remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-1000006 was fixed in the Electron framework, which is used by popular desktop applications, including Skype, Signal, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, and WordPress.com. Electron is a node.js, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Are you a Tinder user? Watch out, someone could spy on you

Experts at security firm Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder mobile apps that could be exploited to spy on users. Security experts at Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder Android and iOS dating applications that could be exploited by an attacker on the same wi-fi network as a target to spy […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Less than 10% of Gmail users enabled two-factor authentication

According to Google software engineer Grzegorz Milka, less than 10 percent of its users have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) for their accounts. The availability of billions of credentials in the criminal underground due to the numerous massive data breaches occurred in the last years makes it easy for crooks to take over users’ accounts. We always […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Bell Canada suffers a data breach for the second time in less than a year

Bell Canada is notifying customers about a data breach that exposed personal data of roughly 100,000 individuals, this is the second security breach in a few months. Bell Canada is notifying customers about a data breach that exposed personal data of roughly 100,000 individuals, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and account numbers. “The protection […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Satori’s threat actors are behind the new Masuta botnet that is targeting routers in the wild

Masuta botnet targets routers using default credentials, one of the versions analyzed dubbed “PureMasuta” relies on the old network administration EDB 38722 D-Link exploit. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the botnet. “We analyzed two variants of an IoT botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
According to TrendMicro Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks could reach $ 9 billion in 2018

According to a report published by the security firm TrendMicro, Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks could reach $ 9 billion in 2018. The report highlights the growth of damage caused by hackers who adopts new attack vectors techniques like the ones used recently by Lebanese intelligence agency Dark Caracal According to a report published by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
Intel recommended to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches

Intel recommended OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors as well as end users to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. While the Linux father Linus Torvalds defines the Spectre updates “utter garbage”, Intel warns to stop installing current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. Intel explained its approach in its technical note about Spectre mitigation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017

WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017. The statistics were derived from our up-to-date WordPress Vulnerabilities Database. We are monitoring a large number of sources to add new vulnerabilities to the database on a daily basis. The year in figures We added 221 vulnerabilities to our database. The total number of vulnerabilities decreased by 69%. During […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
SaaS webservice for Seagate’s GoFlex Home Storage devices vulnerable to MiTM and XSS

Security expert found more than 33000 Seagate’s GoFlex Home network-attached storage (NAS) devices vulnerable exposed online. Seagate has patched several vulnerabilities in its Personal Cloud and GoFlex products, but unfortunately, some flaws remain unpatched. In September, researcher Aditya K. Sood discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
Google hacker found a critical flaw in Blizzard Games that expose millions of PCs to DNS Rebinding attacks

The white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a severe flaw in Blizzard games that expose millions of PCs to DNS Rebinding attacks. The notorious white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy at the Google’s Project Zero team made the headlines again, this time he discovered a severe flaw in Blizzard games that could be exploited by remote […]