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Nov 12, 2019
Some days ago, a group of servers belonging to multiple VPN providers has been breached.After this events, many people have expressed doubts about the real usefulness of VPNs. In my opinion, VPNs are great privacy tools, but some providers tryes… read more »
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Nov 11, 2019
Over the past seven days, i've read a lot of interesting news.So, today let's talk about the BerlusconiMarket shutdown, LulSecITA and FifthOfNovember, ransomware attack on a hospital, GoLang birthday, Apple vs. Electron, EA and VisualStudio, GraphQL, strange naming policies for… read more »
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Nov 8, 2019
FireEye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage campaign to eavesdrop on text messages, violating telco servers: yet another example that demonstrates why end-to-end message encryption is so important. A new malware, dubbed “Messagetap”, developed by the Chinese APT41 [2] hacker group… read more »
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Nov 7, 2019
Security researchers from Akamai published interesting details about the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) protocol, which they say can be abused to launch massive DDoS attacks. What is WS-Discovery? WS-Discovery is a multicast protocol that can be used on local networks… read more »
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Nov 6, 2019
Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, demonstrated that is possible to hack smart voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google using a lasers beam to send them inaudible commands. This new technique, dubbed… read more »
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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 »