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Light Commands: hacking voice assistants via laser beam

On November 6, 2019 By Andrea Fortuna In Cybersecurity

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 …

A brand-new mass attack uses BlueKeep exploit to infect with Monero miners

On November 5, 2019 By Andrea Fortuna In Cybersecurity

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!

CVE-2019-13720: new Chrome 0-day bug exploited in the wild

On November 1, 2019 By Andrea Fortuna In Cybersecurity

Yesterday, Google engineers released an urgent update for the Chrome browser to patch an actively exploited zero-day.

CPDoS in a nutshell

On October 31, 2019 By Andrea Fortuna In Cybersecurity, Featured

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 …

Pwnagotchi: the open source gadget for WiFi pwning!

On October 30, 2019 By Andrea Fortuna In Cybersecurity

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.