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Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2016
Pwn2Own 2016 – Keen Team won $215k by hacking Nexus 6p and iPhone 6S

Tencent Team Keen won $215k at PWN2OWN Mobile by hacking Nexus 6p and using two exploits for the iPhone iOS 10.1 … all in just 5 minutes each round. Yesterday I was writing about the possibility to hack an Apple device just by opening an image or a PDF, today I desire to inform you […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2016
Cellebrite digital forensics tools leaked online by a reseller

The firmware used by the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was leaked online by one of its resellers, the McSira Professional Solutions. Do you know Cellebrite? It is an Israeli firm that designs digital forensics tools that are used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to examine mobile devices in investigations. It became famous when […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2016
Domain Hijacking – An Invisible and Destructive Threat We Should Watch For

The Morphus Labs warns about another major threat, the domain hijacking incident, a threat that can completely subvert your information security strategy. The Morphus Labs warns this week about another major threat. Renato Marinho and Victor Pasknel treated a domain hijacking incident, a threat that can completely subvert your information security strategy. They give details […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2016
Two Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Joomla 3.6.4. Update it asap!

Joomla has released the new version Joomla 3.6.4 that fixes two critical account creation vulnerabilities affecting the popular CMS. Recently we discussed cyber attacks in the wild leveraging on compromised websites running Joomla CMS. For example, in February, security experts observed a spike in the number of compromised Joomla-base websites used in Admedia attacks. This week […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016
Upgrade your iPhone to iOS 10.1 or you can get hacked by opening a JPEG or a PDF

Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG may lead to arbitrary code execution, a boobytrapped JPEG could compromise your iPhone. Upgrade to iOS 10.1 Even a simple action such as looking a JPEG image or opening a PDF document could cause serious problems, an attacker, in fact, could hijack your Apple mobile device (iPhone, iPad, and iPod). Yes, it’s correct! […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016
Kaspersky Lab launched the new Lab ICS-CERT

Kaspersky Lab has launched a new global computer emergency response team (CERT), the Kaspersky Lab ICS-CERT, focusing on industrial control systems (ICS).. Kaspersky has anticipated launching an Industrial Control Systems CERT. Of course, I’m joking, anyway I always sustained that the creation of a similar structure represents an important achievement for the cyber security of any government. Kaspersky […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016
Millions of Android smartphones exposed to new Drammer Android attack

A new method of attack dubbed DRAMMER could be exploited to gain ‘root’ access to millions of Android smartphones and take control of affected devices. Earlier last year, security researchers from Google’s Project Zero outlined a way to hijack the computers running Linux by abusing a design flaw in the memory and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016
Hacking GSM A5 crypto algorithm by using commodity hardware

Researchers demonstrated how to crack GSM A5/1 Stream Cipher using a general-purpose graphics processing unit computer with 3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX690 cards. A group of security researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), demonstrated that the crypto scheme used in the GSM mobile phone data can be easily hacked within seconds. Actually, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2016
Discovery of Weapons Cache Reignites Fears ISIS Will Use Chemical Weapons in Battle for Mosul

The battle in Mosul of the international coalition against the ISIS is expected to become the largest battle fought in Iraq since the US-led operation in 2003. According to the Iraqi army, approximately 50 villages have been taken from the ISIS since last Monday, as the army prepares for the onslaught on Mosul, where 5,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2016
The German parliament passes controversial a surveillance law

The German Parliament passed a controversial surveillance law that seems to give more power to the BND intelligence agency. The German Parliament last week approved a controversial espionage law that theoretically will tighten oversight of the BND intelligence agency, but that according to privacy advocates will give more power to the authorities. The experts focused their […]