Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada. Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada. The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software. The Israeli firm is now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
According to a study conducted by IBM, the number of hacktivist attacks that caused quantifiable damage has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active, the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
Dozens of Linksys router models are affected by a flaw that causes the leak of data that can be used by attackers …. and the company won’t fix it. Security researcher Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, discovered that over 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are leaking full historical records of every device ever connected to them. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2019
Unistellar attackers have already wiped roughly 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases exposed online over the past three. Every time hackers deleted a MongoDB database they left a message asking the administrators to contact them to restore the data. Unfortunately, the criminal practice of deleting MongoDB databases and request a ransom to restore data is common, experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted userâs downloaded files. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, Security researcher David Wells from Tenable discovered a critical flaw in version 3.3.7 of the Slack desktop app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
Cisco had issued security updates to address 57 security flaw, including three flaws in networks management tool Prime Infrastructure. One of the flaws addressed by Cisco in the Prime Infrastructure management tool could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on PI devices. “Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2019
The popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow announced on Thursday that is has suffered a data breach. The news of a data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow. The company announced on Thursday that it has discovered unauthorized access to its production systems […]
