Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2019
Aircraft warning lights, an essential component of the aviation infrastructure, but they pose a serious risk if controlled by hackers. The independent researcher Amitay Dan discovered that control panels for aircraft warning lights were exposed to the Internet, potentially allowing attackers to control them with unpredictable and catastrophic consequences. Aircraft warning lights are important components of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2019
Some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts from Twitter and Facebook, the social media companies claim. Facebook and Twitter revealed that some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts without their consent. According to the company, the cause of behavior that violates their policies is a couple of “malicious” software […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2019
Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. Security researchers from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered that multiple Fortinet products use a weak encryption cipher (âXORâ with a static key) and cryptographic keys to communicate with the FortiGuard Web Filter, AntiSpam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Over the summer, the Apache Solr team addressed a remote code execution flaw, not a working exploit code was published online. The bug addressed by the Apache Solr team fixed over the summer is more dangerous than initially thought. Apache Solr is a highly reliable, scalable and fault-tolerant, open-source search engine written in Java. Solr […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Livingston School District in New Jersey is the last victim of a ransomware attack that caused a two hour delayed opening. Students at the Livingston public school district in New Jersey are undoubtedly happy for a two hour delayed opening tomorrow. A new ransomware attack hit a school district in the US, the malware has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Malware Hunter – One year after its launch, Marco Ramilli shared the results of its project that has analyzed more than 1 Million malware samples. Malware Hunter – One year ago I decided to invest in static Malware Analysis automation by setting up a full-stack environment able to grab samples from common opensources and to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cut off government funding for equipment from the Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE due to security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission is also requesting to the government to assign subsidies to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Crooks behind the Raccoon Stealer have adopted a simple and effective technique to circumvent popular anti-spam messaging gateways. Cybercriminals behind the Raccoon Stealer have adopted a simple and effective technique to circumvent Microsoft and Symantec anti-spam messaging gateways. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April, it was designed to steal victimsâ credit card data, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2019
Twitter announced that its users can protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. Twitter is going to allow its users to protect their accounts with 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) even if they don’t have a phone number. 2FA is already implemented on Twitter, currently, the users of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Experts found undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 â Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365 Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season Experts report […]
