Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2018
Intel releases patches to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre attacks

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 04, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

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 ‘memory leaking’ 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
Android Security Bulletin for January 2018, tech giant fixes multiple Critical flaws

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
Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It

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
Marketing companies have started exploiting a flaw in browsers’ built-in password managers to track users

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
Former NSA hacker reversed Kaspersky Lab antivirus to compose signatures capable of detecting classified documents

Former NSA hacker, demonstrated how to subvert the Kaspersky Lab antivirus and turn it into a powerful search tool for classified documents. The Kaspersky case demonstrated that security software can be exploited by intelligence agencies as a powerful spy tool. Patrick Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and former NSA hacker, demonstrated it by subverting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
CSRF Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin allows attackers to perform DROP TABLE with a single click!

The development team of phpMyAdmin has fixed a CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers for removing items from shopping cart. Researcher Ashutosh Barot has discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers to perform malicious operations like drop tables and delete records. phpMyAdmin developers released the version 4.7.7 that addresses the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Expert publicly disclosed a macOS zero-day that allows local privilege escalation

 A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day flaw that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. A security researcher that goes online with the Twitter account Siguza (@s1guza) has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. The expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2018
Hackers can remotely control thousands of Sonos and Bose speakers

Security experts at Trend Micro have demonstrated that certain models of Sonos and Bose speakers are affected by vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to hijack them. Hackers can trigger the flaws to access the speakers and use them to play spooky sounds or to issue Alexa commands. Only specific models of the two companies are […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2017
A new Facebook security feature reveals fraudulent Facebook-like mails

A new Facebook security feature protects users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. Facebook has rolled out a new security feature to protect users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. […]