Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2017
A security researcher demonstrated how to use a pocket-sized microcomputer BBC’s Micro:bit to take control of a quadcopter drone. In a talk at the at year’s DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, Damien Cauquil, a security researcher at Econocom Digital Security, demonstrated how to use a pocket-sized microcomputer such BBC’s Micro:bit to sniff out keystrokes from a wireless keyboard or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2017
Malware researchers at the Russian anti-virus firm Dr.Web have spotted the Triada Trojan in the firmware of several low-cost Android smartphones. Another case of pre-installed malware make the headlines, malware researchers at the Russian anti-virus firm Dr.Web have spotted the Triada Trojan in the firmware of several low-cost Android smartphones, including Leagoo M5 Plus, Leagoo M8, Nomu S10, and Nomu […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2017
A team of security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent has once again demonstrated how to remotely hack a Tesla Model vehicle. Security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent have once again demonstrated how to remotely hack a Tesla Model vehicle. Once the experts reported the flaws to the car makers it promptly patched them. In a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2017
BlackHat 2017 – Security expert at Positive Technologies claims ApplePay vulnerable to two distinct attacks. At the Black Hat USA hacking conference, security researchers from Positive Technologies announced to have devised two distinct attacks against ApplePay exploiting weaknesses in the mobile payment method. ApplePay is considered today one of the most secure payment systems, but Positive Technologies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
Experts discovered flaws in widely deployed Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs) that could be triggered to raise false alarms and worse. This week at Black Hat in Las Vegas, researchers at information security firm IO Active, disclosed their findings on radiation monitoring devices from Ludum, Mirion, and Digi that were found to contain multiple unpatched vulnerabilities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
BLACK HAT USA – Experts show how hackers can cause physical damage to vehicles and injure drivers by remotely hacking a connected car washing machines. What about hacking into Internet-connected car wash machines? It is a scarring scenario, hackers from anywhere in the world could transform car washing machines into death traps. In a talk at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
Security experts from ESET that spotted the Industroyer malware used against Ukraine’s power grid released a free tool for ICS Malware analysis ESET researchers Robert Lipovsky and Anton Cherepanov have released a free tool for the analysis of ICS malware. The security duo is the same that discovered the CrashOverride/Industroyer malware that targeted the Ukraine’s power […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
Wikileaks published another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak, it includes details of the Imperial project. Today another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak was published by Wikileaks. The documents are related to a CIA project codenamed ‘Imperial,’ they include details of three CIA hacking tools and implants that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2017
Greek Police arrested a Russian man and accused him of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. Greek Police have arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik (38) and they accuse the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2017
Google has identified a new strain of Android malware, the Lipizzan spyware, that could be used as a powerful surveillance tool. Malware researchers at Google have spotted a new strain of Android spyware dubbed Lipizzan that could exfiltrate any kind of data from mobile devices and use them as surveillance tools. The Lipizzan spyware is a project developed […]
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