Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.

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Lenovo's computers vulnerable to MITM

From September 2014 to January 2015 Lenovo precharged in some of their PCs a software, called Superfish, capable of intercepting HTTPS traffic, using self-signed root certificates, to insert...

References:

lenovo.com

us-cert.gov

lenovo.com

xataka.com

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Visa contactless payment 'security flaw'

Researchers at the University of Newcastle, UK, have released a security flaw in Visa contactless payment cards. This failure can be used to authorize transactions without manual authorization and...

References:

gizmodo.com

bbc.com

ncl.ac.uk