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Nov 5, 2019
It was just a matter of time: the first "mass exploiting" of BlueKeep vulnerability is spotted in the wild.If you haven’t already patched your servers, do it asap! Last sunday, security researcher Kevin Beaumont posted a tweet about a large… read more »
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Nov 4, 2019
A lot of links this week! Today let's talk about #KKNPP, #DKIM, #DFIR and #TimelineExplorer, #iPhone, #Whatsapp and #NSOGroup, #Powertool, #Protonmail, #Unicredit, #linustorvalds, #guidovanrossum and #python, #themandalorian and #bladerunner. Cybersecurity It's official, administrative network at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was… read more »
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Nov 1, 2019
Yesterday, Google engineers released an urgent update for the Chrome browser to patch an actively exploited zero-day. The release of Chrome 78.0.3904.87 fix two high severity vulnerabilities, one affecting Chrome's audio component (CVE-2019-13720) while the other resides in the PDFium… read more »
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Nov 1, 2019
How feasible are Warp Drives?A new theory opens the door to the possibility of creating a real warp drive (in the future!). The trick is to make space-time travelling around the ship and not the other way around, but the… read more »
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Oct 31, 2019
Recently, a team of cybersecurity researchers from Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Hoai Viet Nguyen and Luigi Lo Iacono) has disclosed a new cache poisoning attack against CDN systems that could be used to force a website into delivering error… read more »
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Oct 30, 2019
Remember the Tamagotchi?Simone Margaritelli/Evilsocket created the Pwnagotchi, a mix between a game from the 90s and a wardriving tool, with a touch of machine learning. Pwnagotchi is a DIY, open source gadget running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W for… read more »
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Oct 29, 2019
On October 29, 1969, a first data packet was transmitted between two computers. It was the spark that started Internet. Although the birth of the world wide web itself is twenty years later, on March 12, 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee… read more »
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Oct 28, 2019
Happy Birthday, Unix! Technology Celebrating 50 years of Unix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3GADLe__M We are commemorating Unix’s anniversary with the Unix50 event, a two-day celebration that will reflect on Unix’s past and explore the future of computing. Speakers and panelists include many of… read more »
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Oct 25, 2019
Some days ago I've published a post about retrogaming: today I'd like to talk about another piece of modern art, floppy disks! In these years, when most of us have switched to USB sticks, someone has never abandoned them: the… read more »
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Oct 24, 2019
A very appreciated feature of VirtualBox is the possibility to be used in a headless environment, without a GUI. So, today I want to share the workflow I use for creating virtual machines using only the command line. 1. Create… read more »
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Oct 23, 2019
I admit, the polemical title is just to get attention: VPNs are still useful! During the last weekend, security researcher hexdefined tweeted that NordVPN was compromised as the private keys for their web site certificate were publicly leaked on the… read more »
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Oct 22, 2019
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that archives digital versions of computer games, books, audio recordings and videos. For vintage games lovers, Internet Archive has been preserving and adding games from the '70s, '80s and '90s on a… read more »
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Oct 21, 2019
Last week in few keywords: OpenAI, SpaceX, DoH, Android, Firefox, Apple and Tencent, Microsoft, VLang, Onionshare and…Batman! Technology Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmp0uGtShk We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like… read more »
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Oct 18, 2019
A spacecraft that would allow humans to reach every corner of the Universe? Currently is just a dream, even if what gives us hope today is the idea of David Burns, a NASA engineer who has proposed his concept of… read more »
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Oct 17, 2019
Recently, researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team Unit 42 have uncovered the first instance case of a cryptojacking worm that propagates via malicious Docker images. According with the report: Unit 42 researchers identified a new cryptojacking worm we’ve… read more »
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Oct 16, 2019
Three scientists at MIT (Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan) have created the world’s first psychopath artificial intelligence, called Norman, with the purpose of demonstrate that AI cannot be unfair and biased unless such data is fed into it.… read more »
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Oct 15, 2019
Last week, Netflix released "El Camino: a Breaking Bad Movie", a good sequel of the well know TV series with Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. In the second part of the movie, during a flashback with this two actors, comes… read more »
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Oct 14, 2019
Nobel prize, Breaking Bad and (oh no, again!) Simjacker! Cybersecurity These are the 29 countries vulnerable to Simjacker attacks Adaptive Mobile -- the cyber-security company that discovered the Simjacker attack -- published today a list of countries where local mobile operators ship… read more »
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Oct 11, 2019
The name of cat utility is derived from its function to concatenate files, so nothing about kittens, i'm sorry! Cover image courtesy of Ivo The Cat cat is a tool which reads data from one locations and writes it to… read more »
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Oct 10, 2019
On October 2019 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released patches for CVE-2019-1166 and CVE-2019-1338, two serious vulnerabilities that may leading to a full Active Directory domain compromise. Two researchers from Preempt, Yaron Zinar and Marina Simakov, discovered two security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's NTLM authentication… read more »