Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2017
Adobe patches only two critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player in September

This month, Adobe has patched only two vulnerabilities in Flash Player, both are critical issues that could be exploited for remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2017-11281 and CVE-2017-11282, they were discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk and Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero. Both vulnerabilities are caused by memory corruption issues and affect the Flash Player […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2017
Hackers can remotely access Smiths Medical Syringe Infusion Pumps to kill patients

The US-CERT is warning of hackers can remotely access Smiths Medical Syringe Infusion Pumps to control them and kill patients. IoT devices continue to enlarge our surface of attack, and in some cases, their lack of security can put our lives in danger. Let’s thinks for example of medical devices that could be hacked by attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2017
UK Government is hiring cyber experts for Dark Web investigations

The UK Government is recruiting cyber experts and dark web analysts to crackdown criminal communities operating in the dark side of the web. The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) is recruiting cyber experts and dark web analysts to track crooks involved in illicit activities and dismantle drug rings and dark web marketplaces. The NCA aims […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2017
FDA recalls 465,000 pacemakers open to cyber attack

The United States Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling 465,000 pacemakers that could be hacked by attackers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling roughly half a million pacemakers because they are vulnerable to hacking, million people in the United States urge to get their pacemakers updated. In May, researchers from security firm White […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2017
Expert discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet

The popular Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered thousands of Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. The popular security researcher Victor Gevers, the founder of the GDI Foundation, has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. I see about 2,893 Chinese Bitcoin "Thunder mining machines" online which are accessible via telnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2017
Google mistake is the root cause of Internet Outage in Japan

A widespread internet disruption occurred in Japan on Friday, Google error it the main cause of the Internet outage that caused the panic in the country. Google error it the root cause of a widespread Internet outage in Japan that lasted for about an hour on Friday, August 25. The incident was caused by a BGM […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2017
Google adds Anti-Phishing feature also to Gmail app for iOS

To fight phishing attacks, Google has introduced a security measure for its Gmail app for iOS that will help users identify and delete phishing emails. Phishing continues to be one of the most dangerous threats, crooks continue to devise new techniques to trick victims into providing sensitive information. The technique is still the privileged attack vector for […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2017
Rapid7 warns of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exposure for millions of endpoints

According to a new research conducted by experts at Rapid7, there are 4.1 million Windows endpoints exposed online via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The researchers discovered that there are 11 million open 3389/TCP endpoints, and that 4.1 million of them are RDP. “We analyzed the responses, tallying any that appeared to be from RDP speaking […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2017
SAP Security Patch Day – August 2017 addresses 19 vulnerabilities

SAP just released another set of security patches for its products to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities, most common vulnerability type is XSS. On Tuesday, SAP released a set of security patches to address a total of 19 software vulnerabilities, most of them are rated medium. The most common vulnerability type is cross site scripting (XSS). […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Adobe patches 80 vulnerabilities in its products, including Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat

Adobe released security updates to address more than 80 flaws in products, including Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager. Adobe released security updates for its Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager products. The company addressed more than 80 vulnerabilities. Adobe has updated Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151 on all platform, this release […]