Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2017
Security researchers from firms McAfee and FireEye are warning of a Windows zero-day attack in the wild that put Microsoft users at risk of hack. Security researchers from security firms McAfee and FireEye are warning of hackers exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Just opening an MS Word document could put you at risk, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2017
Millions of websites are affected by a buffer overflow zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-7269, that resides in the IIS 6.0. The II6 6.0 zero-day flaw was discovered by two researchers with the Information Security Lab & School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China who published a PoC code exploit on GitHub. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2017
Thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. Bad news for thousands of users of the Microsoft searchable Docs.com service who have inadvertently exposed passwords and other private information on the Internet. The Docs.com service allows people to easily exchange documents, it implements a useful […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2016
Enterprises running Exchange Server using two-factor authentication on Outlook Web Access (OWA) could be hacked due to a design flaw. New troubles for enterprises running Exchange Server, two-factor authentication implementations on Outlook Web Access (OWA) could be easily bypassed due to a design flaw. An attacker can bypass two-factor authentication to access email inboxes, calendars, contacts and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2016
Are you still using Adobe Flash Player? Are you browsing the web with IE or Edge? Does your company use an Exchange Server? Apply security updates asap! It’s time to patch your systems, especially if you have installed Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has released Security updates to fix critical Flash vulnerabilities that affect any OS (Windows, Mac, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2016
Once again Microsoft failed in fixing a severe Secure Boot vulnerability that can be exploited to install rootkits on Windows devices. Microsoft has accidentally leaked the Secret keys to Bypass UEFI Secure Boot. The Secure Boot is a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) feature that should prevent the execution of unauthorized code during the boot process. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2016
A security expert revealed a number of flaws in the big playerâs two-factor authentication methods that could allow crooks to steal money. Social media bug bounty hunter, Arne Swinnen, has revealed a number of flaws in the big playerâs 2 factor authentication (2FA) methods that could enable a malicious user to illicit large sums of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2016
A Chinese security researcher has discovered a Windows design flaw dubbed BadTunnel that affects all versions of Windows. The Chinese researcher Yang Yu, director of Xuanwu Lab of Tencent has discovered a design flaw in Microsoft Windows that affects all versions of the popular operating system. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack a target organizationâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2016
Be careful, Microsoft is alerting all Windows users of a new type of a Self-propagating ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior to propagate itself. Microsoft is alerting all Windows users of a new type of ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior. “We are alerting Windows users of a new type of ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior. This […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2016
Researchers at the Microsoftâs Malware Protection Center are warning of a new wave of attacks leveraging malicious macros using a new sneaky trick. Researchers at Microsoftâs Malware Protection Center are warning of a new technique attackers are using to allow macro malware elude detection solutions. The experts first spotted the technique while analyzing a file […]
