input validation

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2017
A bug in Gnome pic parser can be exploited to run malicious VBScripts

A bug in your image thumbnailer could represent a new attack vector for hackers that can exploit it for script injection. Another day, another bug in a popular application. A bug in your image thumbnailer could represent a new attack vector for hackers that can exploit it for script injection. To create image thumbnails, Gnome Files allows […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2016
Cyber Criminal can easily get access to your YesBank Internet Banking using stolen Debit/Credit Card Number and PIN

A security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in the online banking service of the YesBank that promptly fixed the issue. I am a customer of YesBank and I hold my savings account with them. I also use the YesBank’s online banking application and I strongly feel that the application of the bank must be secured. So, as […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016
Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]