Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
Antivirus solutions from different vendors are having malfunctions after the installation of Windows security patches released on April 9, including McAfee, Avast and Sophos. Antivirus solutions from different vendors are showing malfunctions after the installation of Windows security patches released on April 9. Antivirus solutions from Sophos, Avira, ArcaBit, Avast, and recently McAfee reported security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
Google this week announced that it is going to block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) phishing attacks. Phishing attacks carried out by injecting malicious content in legitimate traffic are difficult to detect when attackers use an embedded browser framework or any other automated tool for authentication. For example, the embedded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2019
A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. The popular French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to break into Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for encrypted communications between officials and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2019
Lab Dookhtegan hackers leaked details about operations carried out by Iran-linked OilRig group, including source code of 6 tools. A hacker group that goes online with the name Lab Dookhtegan have disclosed details about operations conducted by the Iran-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as OilRig, APT34, and HelixKitten. OilRig is an Iran-linked APT group that has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2019
The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework released updates that patch five vulnerabilities, three affecting the Drupal CMS. The development team of the Symfony PHP web application framework released security updates for five issues, three of which also affects Drupal 7 and 8. The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework addressed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2019
Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2019
Cisco released security patches for 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit. The critical vulnerability in ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit is tracked as CVE-2019-1710 (CVSS score of 9.8). The flaw could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2019
The European Commission confirmed that has no evidence of issues associated with using products designed by Kaspersky Lab. In June 2018, European Parliament passed a resolution that classified the security firmâs software as âmaliciousâ due to the alleged link of the company with the Russian intelligence. The call for a ban on Kasperskyâs software among […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Cyber security firm FireEye announced the release of FLASHMINGO, a new open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files. FireEye released FLASHMINGO, a new open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files. Adobe Flash is one of the most exploited software components of the last decade, even […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
The Apache Software Foundation has released new versions of the Tomcat application server that address an important remote code execution vulnerability. The new versions of the Tomcat application server address an important remote code execution vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious code and take control of a vulnerable server. […]
