Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
The Democratic National Committee’s network was hacked by Russian hackers belonging to nation-state groups that have had access to the group’s communications and databases. Yesterday, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrikeâs incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers âsome […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Hacking Facebook Accounts with just a phone number is possible, experts from Positive Technologies demonstrated it exploiting flaws in the SS7 protocol. Hacking Facebook accounts by knowing phone numbers it is possible, a group of researchers from Positive Technologies demonstrated it. “Researchers have proven just that by taking control of a Facebook account with only a phone number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited the zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. According to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited a zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. The group launched a series of attacks against high-profile targets against entities in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
In February Verticalscope platform was hacked and more than 45 Million passwords from  1,000 websites running on it have been leaked online. Data breaches, a never ending saga! Recently we reported a number of clamorous data breaches, hundred thousand million credentials were offered for sale in dark web. LinkedIn, mySpace, VKontakte, and Twitter are some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Adobe states that the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) has been exploited in targeted attacks. It will be fixed later this week. Once again Adobe Flash Player is the target of hackers in the wild. Adobe has released security updates for several of its products announcing that the fix for a critical Flash Player zero-day vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
The day has come, Sharp and Philips smart TV running the Android TV OS could be infected by a ransomware dubbed FLocker ransomware. When a journalist asked me which is a possible evolution of ransomware I had no doubt, the Internet of Things. I was thinking of ransomware that infects medical devices and Smart objects in our homes. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Cyber criminals are offering for sale a hi-tech gadget named Contactless Infusion X5t to scan nearby contactless payment cards and clone them. The British Daily Mail published an interesting article on a new gadget used by crooks to clone up to 15 contactless bank cards a second from victims, and it can do it by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
The âheterogony of endâ is a famous expression formulated in 1886 by the German philosopher Wihelm Wundt, what about the Hacking Team case? After the hack of the controversial government spying and hacking tool vendor Hacking Team by an outside attacker, a large  numbers of media headlines worldwide reported the events. [1,2,3] The hacker announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2016
The Government of Seoul reported that North Korean Hackers stole defense-related documents and photos from two South Korean companies. The news that North Korean hackers have stolen thousands of records from private firms and state agencies in the South Korea is not new. In the last wave of attacks, the North Korean hackers have stolen […]
