Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2018
Red Hat is going to release updates that are reverting previous patches for the Spectre vulnerability (Variant 2, aka CVE-2017-5715). Just after the release of Spectre and Meltdown patches many experts argued a significative impact on performance and stability of systems running them. While Meltdown and Spectre Variant 1 could be theoretically being addressed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2018
US Government missed a historic opportunity to reform a dangerous surveillance law that opens to a global surveillance, instead it has signed a version that makes it worse. The U.S. legal framework related to the domestic surveillance has been signed by President Trump one day after the Senate approved it with 65 votes against 34. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
Intel has published the results of the test conducted on the Meltdown and Spectre patches and their impact on performance confirming serious problems. According to the tech giant systems with several types of processors running Meltdown and Spectre patches may experience more frequent reboots. A few days ago Intel reported that extensive test conducted on home and business PCs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
North Korean hackers belonging to the North Korea Group 123 have conducted at least six different massive malware campaigns during 2017. North Korean hackers have conducted at least six different massive malware campaigns during 2017, most of them against targets in South Korea. Security researchers from Cisco’s Talos group who have monitored the situation for 12 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Oracle rolled out the January 2018 Critical Patch Update that includes 237 security fixes in its products, the majority of which is remotely exploitable without authentication. The January 2018 Critical Patch Update also includes security updates that address Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. âThe January 2018 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for certain Oracle products for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2018
Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2018
Lenovo discovered a firmware backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. Security experts at Levono have spotted a firmware backdoor, tracked CVE-2017-3765, in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. An authentication bypass affects only in RackSwitch and BladeCenter switches running ENOS (Enterprise Network Operating System), the tech giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2018
A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone. Drones have created a new threat to people’s privacy. Anyone with a drone equipped with a video camera can potentially violate our privacy by streaming the subject in his/her private space over an encrypted first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
It’s official, Microsoft’s Skype is rolling out a new feature called Private Conversations, which uses end-to-end encryption. The latest version of Skype implements end-to-end encryption and introduces the support for the Signal protocol. which is the protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, and Signal. Attackers will not able to snoop on Skype Private Conversations will support text, […]
