• Weekly Privacy Roundup #5

    "What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear" - Julian Assange Nintendo says 160,000 users impacted in recent account hacks Japanese gaming company Nintendo confirmed today that hackers gained unauthorized access to around 160,000 user accounts since the start of the… read more »
  • COVID-19: some concerns about Contact Tracing apps

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the most respected associations for the protection of privacy and digital rights, that fights since its beginnings against abuses of digital technologies, has published a large article that takes stock of anti-pandemic tracking apps,… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #5

    A lot of interesting links, this week: Ransonmware, new APT grops, new vulnerabilities and (as usual) some coronavirus-related news! TEMPEST@Home - Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels Have you ever listened to a photocopier or a car engine to infer what… read more »
  • Weekly Tech Roundup #4

    "I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them."— Isaac Asimov Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL Recently, COBOL has been in the news as the State of New Jersey has asked for help with a COBOL-based system for unemployment claims. The system… read more »
  • New iOS zero-days allows unassisted attacks via Mail.app

    Cybersecurity startup ZecOps discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhone and iPad devices during the analysis of a series of ongoing remote attacks that have targeted iOS users since at least January 2018. Following a routine iOS Digital Forensics and Incident… read more »
  • Weekly Privacy Roundup #4

    D'oh! A lot of dataleaks! Telsy’s report on UniCredit’s data breach went viral worldwide On the evening of April 19, Telsy denounced that the personal data of about 3000 employees of the UniCredit S.p.A. bank, one of the largest banks… read more »
  • Beware! A fully functional SMBGhost exploit will be coming soon!

    A proof-of-concept remote code execution exploit for the Windows 10 "SMBGhost" vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) was developed and presented yesterday by Yuki Koike, a researcher by Ricerca Security. The vulnerability, that only impacts specific versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server, was… read more »
  • Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup #4

    As was the case in the past weeks, threat actors attempt to capitalize on coronavirus outbreak. System32 Comics Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully BGP leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part… read more »