Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2016
It is the joke of these hours,users are sharing a link to crashsafari.com on social media platform that could crash friends’ iPhone and iPad. Do not open any a link to crashsafari.com on your iPhone, iPad or even Macs, visiting the website will cause the Safari application to crash and Apple device to restart. Obviously, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2016
A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages but it is still able to access data in the backups. Let’s do a summary of previous events, following the Snowden‘ revelation of the global surveillance programs operated by the NSA the IT giants reacted defending their business and announcing the defense of the privacy of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The latest variant of CryptoWall 4.0, one of the most popular and dangerous ransomware threats, has been recently added to the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. In my 2016 Cyber Security Predictions, I have predicted the criminal practices of the extortion will reach levels never seen before. Cyber criminals will threaten victims with ransomware and DDoS attack in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2016
Skype announced it will hide the userâs IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Cyber defence is a profitable Hamster Wheel Energy industry under unceasing attack in 2015 Security Affairs newsletter Round 43 â News of the week Critical OpenSSH bug leaks private crypto keys just fixed LastPass phishing attack could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2016
Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams, including the one that is monitoring your kids while sleeping. The explosion of the paradigm of the Internet of things has dramatically enlarged our surface of attack, it is quite easy to locate vulnerable devices and hack them by using search engines like Shodan and Censys. Both platforms allow finding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2016
The director of Europol Rob Wainwright announced a new European counter-terrorism centre opening this month to fight the terrorism. The terrorism is perceived as the principal threat for the Western countries, for this reason the European State members announced the creation of a new European counter-terrorism centre. The centre is opening this month, it aims […]
