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Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Lenovo fixed two high severity flaws in Lenovo Solution Center

Lenovo fixed two flaws (CVE-2016-5249, CVE-2016-5248) in the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware. Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-5249, and CVE-2016-5248, in its Lenovo Solution Center that could be exploited by hackers to gain access to vulnerable machines and to kill any process running on them.  The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Cesar Cerrudo

Today I propose you an interview with Cesar Cerrudo, CTO at IOActive Labs, famous for his research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. Cesar Cerrudo is CTO at IOActive Labs, leading the team in producing ongoing cutting edge research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. But Cesar, first of all, has chosen the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2016
Have you ever seen an ATM skimmer at an automated teller machine?

The cyber security expert Benjamin Tedesco during his vacation in Vienna, Austria, has spotted an ATM skimmer quite impossible to detect to common people. Have you ever seen a skimmer while using an ATM? Unfortunately, we have to admit that it isn’t so easy to find it, in the majority of cases, the victims are not […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2016
PunkeyPOS might have already stolen millions of payment card numbers

Experts are continuing to monitor the PunKeyPos malware in the wild, the threat might have already stolen millions of payment card numbers. Experts are continuing to monitor the PunKeyPos malware in the wild, the threat might have already stolen millions of payment card numbers. Security experts from PandaLabs spotted a new strain of the PoS malware dubbed PunkeyPos which seems […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 66 – 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 The value of the Ethereum Digital Currency is Plummeting after a hack Be careful, a new phishing tactic […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2016
Locky Ransomware is back! 49 domains compromised!

Locky ransomware starts up again its illegal activity of stealing money from their victims after a temporary inactivity since the end of May. This time, it comes with hard-coded javascript A new Locky campaign appears in the wild with, experts observed million malicious email messages starting from June 20. Researchers at Proofpoint observed that this […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
Facebook logic flaw allowed an expert to delete any video

Facebook has fixed a serious logic flaw that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video uploaded in comments on someone’s Facebook post. Facebook has fixed a serious security vulnerability in the Facebook’s platform that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video uploaded in comments on someone’s Facebook post. The security […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Rahul Sasi (@fb1h2s)

Today I propose you an interview with Rahul Sasi, the Founder of Machine learning based cloud security company CloudSek. Rahul Sasi (@fb1h2s) is the Founder of Machine learning based cloud security company CloudSek. He was an Admin member for Garage4hackers.com. He is ePrior to founding CloudSek he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix where he held […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
PayPal fixed a flaw that allowed attackers to deliver malicious images

PayPal has fixed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by attackers to deliver malicious images through the payment pages of the website. The Security researcher Aditya K Sood discovered a vulnerability that could have been exploited by attackers to deliver malicious image through the payment pages of the PayPal website. The expert noticed that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Fansmitter – exfiltrating data from Air-Gapped devices via fan noises

Fansmitter is a new acoustic data exfiltration method devised by a group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We all know that air-gapped networks aren’t totally secure, in the past, many research groups have devised methods to steal data from computers disconnected from the Internet. It is possible, for example, to exfiltrate data […]