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Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2016
UN seeking solutions to stopping drug trade on dark web

The United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime published its annual report and placed special emphasis on curbing the illicit trade on the Dark Web. The United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published its annual report on Thursday and placed special emphasis on curbing the illicit trade on the Dark Web. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
WhatsApp vs Telegram in Terms of Encryption and Features

Compare and contrast WhatsApp and Telegram, so as to see which of the two messaging apps offers the best option for encrypted chat. Messaging apps have been increasing rapidly in popularity. WhatsApp has gone over one billion users and Telegram claims to have over 350,000 people a day signing up for its services. So, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
ThinkPwn UEFI Zero-Day flaw allows hackers to disable security features

The researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk published details of ThinkPwn flaw, a UEFI zero-day that could be exploited by hackers to disable security features. Once again the IT giant Lenovo is in the headlines, some products of the company and some others from other PC vendors, are affected by a UEFI vulnerability, dubbed ThinkPwn, that can be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
Terrorism – WEEKLY DIGEST–THREAT INTELLIGENCE FEED – 23rd Jul 2nd

Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT Global Intelligence Insight delivers weekly reports on worldwide jihadist operations with a particular focus on the Middle East and North of Africa, partnering with SecurityAffairs.co and Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Karsten Nohl

For the cyber security experts, Karsten Nohl doesn’t need to be introduced, he is volcanic, a shining professional. Karsten Nohl is one of the most famous hackers in the world, laymen know him as the hacker that revealed to the world how to spy on anyone through the vulnerability in the SS7 protocol. Karsten Nohl […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
Hacking a Facebook profile with a fake passport

Hacking a Facebook profile -An unidentified hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport Today I desire to discuss with an interesting case, a hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack. The hacker demonstrated that it is possible to bypass any […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites

Two security experts have conducted a study that allowed them to spot over 100 snooping Tor HSDir Nodes spying on Dark Web Sites. The attempts of snooping traffic from Tor nodes are not a novelty, in the past, we have reported the activity of threat actors that set up malicious exit nodes to de-anonymize users. Early 2014, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
A Chinese gang in Pakistan specializes in ATM Skimmer attacks

The Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan is investigating a Chinese organization that is specialized in attacking ATM machines by using skimmer devices. A few days ago I reported the story of the security expert Benjamin Tedesco that has spotted an ATM skimmer during his vacation in Vienna. The ATM skimmer was quite impossible to detect to common people and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 67 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html Locky Ransomware is back! 49 domains compromised! PunkeyPOS might have already stolen millions of payment card numbers Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
Do you want enter in the US? Give me your social media details

The US border authority seeks individuals that want to enter in the Country into providing their social media details in order to improve their screening. It is not a joke, travellers that ask for a visa waiver entry to the US may be asked to provide their social media details. I’m speaking about a proposal of […]