Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
The US DoJ has charged the US contractor Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. A couple of months ago, the FBI announced the arrest of an NSA contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, over a massive secret data theft. The US DoJ has charged Harold Thomas Martin (51) with theft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
A security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in the online banking service of the YesBank that promptly fixed the issue. I am a customer of YesBank and I hold my savings account with them. I also use the YesBankâs online banking application and I strongly feel that the application of the bank must be secured. So, as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2016
Experts disclosed a new Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed Dirty COW that could be exploited by an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges. The security expert Phil Oester discovered in the Linux kernel a new flaw, dubbed ‘Dirty COW‘ that could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name âDirty COWâ is due to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
Experts from Kaspersky have discovered a new APT dubbed FruityArmor APT using a zero-day vulnerability patched this month by Microsoft. A new APT group, dubbed FruityArmor, targeted activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. According to experts at Kaspersky Lab, the FruityArmor APT conducted targeted attacks leveraging on a Windows zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-3393, recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
A group of security experts discovered that the Microsoft Skype Messaging service exposes user keystrokes during a conversation. A group of researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) and two Italian Universities discovered that the popular Skype Messaging service expose user keystrokes during a call. The researchers have devised a method to record the acoustic emanations of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
A flaw in Intel chips could be exploited to launch âSide channelâ attack allowing attackers bypass protection mechanism known as ASLR. A vulnerability in the Intel’s Haswell CPUs can be exploited to bypass the anti-exploitation technology address space layout randomization (ASLR) that in implemented by all the principal operating systems. The ASLR is a security mechanism […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2016
Czech police, working with the FBI, has arrested a Russian man at a hotel in Prague that is suspected to be involved in the 2012 LinkedIn hack. Czech authorities, with the support of the FBI, have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of conducting cyber criminal activities against the US. “Policemen investigation department of the Criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in component ja-k2-filter-and-search (https://www.joomlart.com/joomla/extensions/ja-k2-search) of Joomla, a popular open-source Content Management System (CMS). This component has been used in various Joomla sites. Through the use of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
According to a security researcher, the Trump Organization’s mail servers run on an outdated version of Microsoft Windows Server. Hillary Clinton is over in the storm for the violation of its private email server, even Trump has used the case to attack the rival. The irony of fate, now we are here discussing because also Trump’s staff […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Security experts have spotted an interesting exfiltration technique adopted by crooks to exfiltrate card data from Magento platforms. Security experts from Sucuri and RiskIQ have spotted an interesting exfiltration technique adopted by crooks to exfiltrate payment data from compromised e-commerce websites powered by the Magento platform. Cybercriminals have been using image files to store and exfiltrate […]
