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Jan 23, 2020
In a previous article [1], I've started to talk about DevSecOps and the concept of "shifting left" security.In order to move security checks to the early steps of development, a great help may be the presence of a security-aware person… read more »
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Jan 22, 2020
The recent deadly shooting last month at a naval air station in Pensacola, Fla., brought in the spotlight the issue of iOS security: attorney General William P. Barr requested Apple to provide access to two phones used by the killer.… read more »
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Jan 21, 2020
Security researcher Andrew Klaus, from Cybera, discovered a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can be used in order to generate a denial of service against the FortiSIEM Supervisor. Fortinet devices share the… read more »
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Jan 16, 2020
Recently, Microsoft released a patch that fixes a critical vulnerability in the Windows' crypto library. According to the advisory [1]: A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could exploit… read more »
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Jan 15, 2020
A popular term in DevOps context is “shift left”: it refers to the effort by a DevOps team to implement measures to guarantee application quality at the most early point in the software development life cycle. In a application security context,… read more »
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Jan 14, 2020
Many Proof-of-concept exploits has been released for the unpatched remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway products. Below a list of useful links/quotes/posts on this topic. The vulnerability The vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781), already packs a double-punch in… read more »
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Jan 10, 2020
iOS forensic is quite complex: in many cases, jailbreaking is the only way to gather all most information available in iOS devices. Ok, logical acquisition is easy, safe and it always works: however, this kind of acquisition mostly gives you… read more »
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Jan 9, 2020
Security experts from CheckPoint discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the popular TikTok app that could be chained by remote attackers to hijack any user accounts, execute malicious code on the target system and perform unwanted actions. Those vulnerabilities (that includes SMS… read more »
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Jan 8, 2020
In an interesting article, editors by Privacy International examines some aspects of digital forensics on mobile phones, from the acquisition process to the data analysis phase. All the topics in the article [1] has been discussed in detail in the… read more »
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Jan 3, 2020
Recently, digital intruders entered the Ring surveillance camera in the bedroom of an 8-year-old girl in Mississippi and started talking to her [1], then various other intrusions took place and it emerged that 3600 e-mail addresses, passwords, localizations and other… read more »
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Jan 2, 2020
100 years ago, Isaac Asimov was born: was one of the writers who brought science fiction out of its niche market and a great scientific popularizer with many articles and essays. His legacy is estimated in about 500 books of… read more »
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Jan 1, 2020
20 years ago the entire world was afraid to descend into chaos as a result of computers not being able to cope with displaying a date containing year 2000: both computer experts and general public alike were convinced that computers… read more »
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Dec 24, 2019
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is a cultural icon in science-fiction that spawned five books, stage shows, a 1981 TV series, a computer game, comic books and a major motion picture. But originally it was just a radio comedy… read more »
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Dec 23, 2019
By default, containers run in unprivileged mode, that is, we cannot run Docker daemon inside a Docker container. However, a privileged Docker container is allowed to access to all the devices on the host woth the same privileges of the… read more »
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Dec 20, 2019
POCKINT stands for “Pocket Intelligence”.
It is an OSINT multi purposes GUI program designed to be a lightweight and portable.
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Dec 19, 2019
According to a TrendMicro’s report, ‘The New Norm’, the major cybersecurity risks for organizations in 2020 comes from DevOps, third-party libraries, container components and even remote workers.
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Dec 18, 2019
Security research group Check Point Research recently uncovered a flaw in WhatsApp through which a single malicious user could crash the apps of all members of a group chat.
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Dec 17, 2019
Some days ago, I’ve been looking at a website named “IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration”: a group of brave engineer started the project of restoration of an IBM System 360 Model 20, documenting all steps of the process.… read more »
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Dec 13, 2019
Google and Facebook help connect the world and provide crucial services to billions users, but this services come at a systemic cost.
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Dec 12, 2019
British security firm Pen Test Partners tells us a creepy cybersecurity story set in a place difficult to associate with computers: the engine room of a ship.
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