• Hacking Android Smart TVs using the IR remote control

    Valerio Mulas published an interesting analysis about the security of Android-based Smart TVs. The analysis points out the default configuration of most Android-based TVs, which allows you to enable the ADB, install unsigned applications and theoretically gain full control of… read more »
  • What do browsers say when they phone home?

    Professor Douglas Leith from Trinity College in Ireland, tested six web browsers to determine what data they were sharing. According to research [1], tested browsers splits into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective.In the first group, the most private, lies… read more »
  • Some thoughts about the Signal Messaging Protocol

    The Signal protocol is provides end-to-end encryption for instant messaging in WhatsApp, Wire, and Facebook Messenger among many others, serving well over 1 billion active users. Some years ago, a team of researchers (Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Cas Cremers, Benjamin Dowling, Luke… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #131

    These are hard times but, everything will be fine! Italians are singing songs from their windows to boost morale during coronavirus lockdown https://twitter.com/Veritatisvis/status/1238552631548747777 Videos have been shared on social media of Italian citizens singing and dancing during a nationwide lockdown… read more »
  • How to block Windows 10 telemetry using "hosts" file

    Since Windows 8, Microsoft has moved to a new commercial strategy: in addition with traditional selling of OS licenses, started got revenues from searches, apps and games. But to do this, MS has started the collection of “telemetry” data, considered… read more »
  • SMBGhost (CVE-2020-0796): a new wormable Windows SMBv3 vulnerability

    Security firms inadvertently leaked info about a 0-Day 'wormable' vulnerability found in the SMBv3 protocol. UPDATE - 2020/03/13 Microsoft released the KB4551762 security update to patch the vulnerability: update ASAP! After the release of Patch Tuesday fixes, Fortinet [2] and Cisco Talos [3] published… read more »
  • Load Value Injection (CVE-2020-0551): a new Side-Channel attack affects Intel's CPUs

    Many processors made by Intel are vulnerable to a new type of attack named Load Value Injection. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0551, was first reported to Intel in April 2019 by Jo Van Bulck from the KU Leuven research university… read more »
  • Security analysis of Telegram Messenger

    Do you need a secure and private messenger? You shouldn't be use Telegram! In the past, I've already written about security laks of major messenger systems [1]. So, today I'd like to share some interesting highlight from a post by… read more »