Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
Google ‘0Day In the Wild’ project tracks zero-days exploited in the Wild

White hat hackers at Google Project Zero are tracking cyber attacks exploiting zero-days before the vendor released security fixes. Experts at Google Project Zero are tracking cyber attacks exploiting zero-days as part of a project named 0Day ‘In the Wild.’ “Today, we’re sharing our tracking spreadsheet for publicly known cases of detected zero-day exploits, in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
Microsoft renewed its Attack Surface Analyzer, version 2.0 is online

Microsoft has renewed its Attack Surface Analyzer tool to take advantage of modern, cross-platform technologies. The first version of the Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0 was released back in 2012, it aims at detecting and changes that occur in the Windows operating systems during the installation of third-party applications.  The Analyzer has been released on GitHub, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
A flaw in Google Titan Security Keys expose users to Bluetooth Attacks

Titan Security Keys are affected by a severe vulnerability, for this reason, Google announced it is offering a free replacement for vulnerable devices. Google announced it is offering a free replacement for Titan Security keys affected by a serious vulnerability that could be exploited by to carry out Bluetooth attacks. The Titan Security Keys were introduced by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 fixes many missing authorization checks

SAP released SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 that includes 8 Security Notes, 5 of which are updates to previously released Notes. Five Security Notes included in SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019 addressed missing authorization checks in SAP products, including Treasury and Risk Management, Solution Manager and ABAP managed systems, dbpool administration, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Twitter inadvertently collected and shared iOS location data

Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses dangerous RDS flaw that opens to WannaCry-like attacks

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS flaw allowing WannaCry-Like attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry-like attack. The zero-day vulnerability addressed by Microsoft Patch Tuesday […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Adobe patches over 80 flaws in Flash, Acrobat Reader, and Media Encoder

Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a critical flaw in Flash Player and more than 80 vulnerabilities in Acrobat products. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a total of 84 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products for Windows and macOS. The tech company addressed many critical vulnerabilities in its products, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2019
CVE-2019-11815 Remote Code Execution affects Linux Kernel prior to 5.0.8

Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2019
Security breach suffered by credit bureau Equifax has cost $1.4 Billion

Equifax revealed its earnings release related to the security breach suffered in 2017, the incident has cost about $1.4 billion plus legal fees. Equifax revealed this week its earnings release related to the security breach suffered by the credit bureau back in 2017, the incident has cost about $1.4 billion plus legal fees. In 2017 Equifax confirmed it has suffered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2019
Cisco Talos warns of hardcoded credentials in Alpine Linux Docker Images

Since December 2015, Alpine Linux Docker images have been shipped with hardcoded credentials, a NULL password for the root user.  Security researchers from Cisco revealed that Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal since December 2015 have been using a NULL password for the root account, The NULL password for the root […]