Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2018
The Tribune announced to have âpurchasedâ a service that provided it an unrestricted access to the residents’ records in the Aadhaar system. According to The Tribune, hackers have breached the Unique Identification Authority of India’s Aadhaar biometric system and gained access to personally identifiable information (i.e. names, addresses, phone numbers) of more than 1 billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre attacks – According to Intel, by the end of the next week, the company will have issued security patches for more than 90% of chips commercialized in the past 5 years. White hat hackers from Google Project Zero this week disclosed the details of Meltdown and Spectre attacks targeting CPUs from major manufacturers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2018
Security experts at F5 discovered a new Linux Monero crypto-miner botnet dubbed PyCryptoMiner spreading over the SSH protocol. F5 researchers discovered a new Linux crypto-miner botnet dubbed PyCryptoMiner spreading over the SSH protocol. The Monero miner botnet is based on the Python scripting language, it leverages Pastebin as command and control server infrastructure when the original C&C isnât available. If all C&C servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2018
A privacy incident suffered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exposed data related to 247,167 current and former federal employees. A data breach suffered by the Department of Homeland Security exposed data related to 247,167 current and former federal employees that were employed by the Agency in 2014. The data breach affected a database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2018
The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could allow attackers to steal sensitive data which is currently processed on the computer. Almost every modern processor is vulnerable to the âmemory leakingâ flaws, this has emerged from technical analysis triggered after the announcement of vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. White hackers from Google Project Zero have disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2018
Google patched five Critical bugs and 33 High severity flaws as part of the Android Security Bulletin for January 2018. The tech giant addressed 38 Android security vulnerabilities, 20 as part of the 2018-01-01 security patch level and 18 in the 2018-01-05 security patch level. The 2018-01-01 security patch level fixed four Critical remote code execution issue and 16 High risk elevation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
Anonymous Italy hacked and deleted the entire speed camera database and took over the police email and database system in Correggio. Last week, Anonymous hacked a Speed Camera Database in Italy, the hacktivists took control of a local police computer system in Correggio, Italy and erased the entire archive containing speed camera tickets. According to Gazzetta di Reggio, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It. It is suspected that the flaw is in the way an Intel CPU manages memory between “kernel mode” and “user mode.” Competition between IT hardware manufacturers is fierce. Decimal point differences in performance specs translate into millions of dollars won […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2018
The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push many other malware, including Locky, Jaff, GlobeImposter, Dridex , […]
