Security

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2019
Venezuelan Minister declares Venezuela’s Blackout may be caused by cyberattack carried by US

Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez blamed US cyberattack for Venezuela’s blackout. Last week, Venezuela had suffered a major blackout and Nicolas Maduro immediately blamed on opposition “sabotage” of a hydroelectric dam. The power outage hit 22 of 23 states of the country and also the capital Caracas went in the dark. On […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2019
Cisco security updates fix dozens of flaws in Nexus Switches

Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches. Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches, including denial-of-service (DoS) issues, arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation flaws. Cisco published security advisories for most of the vulnerabilities, many of them impact the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2019
Coinbase CEO confirms that Ex-Hacking Team members will ‘Transition Out’ of Neutrino

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that all the three former members of the controversial Hacking Team will “transition out” of Neutrino. Coinbase, the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet announced in February the acquisition of the Italian blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino. Neutrino was founded in 2016 by Giancarlo Russo, Marco Valleri, and Alberto Ornaghi. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2019
Google Chronicle announced Backstory to protect businesses

Google Chronicle launched Backstory, the first global security telemetry platform designed to allow companies monitoring cyber threats. Google Chronicle announced Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that allows companies quickly investigate incidents, discover vulnerabilities and hunt for cyber threats. Google aims at analyzing network data and logs generated by enterprises on a daily basis […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2019
Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10

Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 systems to apply mitigations against the Spectre attacks. Over the weekend, Microsoft started distributing software updates for Windows 10 systems to enable the Retpoline mitigations against Spectre attacks.  In January 2018 security experts at Google Project Zero disclosed Meltdown and Spectre side-channel attacks that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2019
German police storing bodycam footage on Amazon servers

Privacy advocates and cyber security experts raised concerns on the choice of German police to store bodycam footage, which may be used as evidence, on Amazon servers. The choice of the German police of storing bodycam footage on Amazon cloud storage has raised privacy and security concerns. The news was first reported by the Neue […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2019
The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0

The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The Wireshark Foundation announced the release of Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The new version addresses several bugs and introduces tens of new features, it also improved existing features. The most important changes is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2019
Adobe releases patches to address ColdFusion 0day exploited in the Wild

Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a critical flaw in ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. Adobe has released out-of-band updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in the ColdFusion web application development platform that has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-7816, has been described by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2019
Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663 RCE flaw in wireless routers

Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663critical flaw in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. Cisco released security updates to address a critical flaw (CVE-2019-1663) in several wireless routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute code on the impacted devices. The CVE-2019-1663 flaw received a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2019
CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. The service made the headlines across the years because it was used by crooks to abuse computational resources of the victims that were visiting compromised websites hosting the Coinhive script. Coinhive was initially launched as a legitimate […]