Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2016
A research discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities residing in the official BMW web domain and ConnectedDrive portal that allow remote hack. Once again IoT devices are affected by a serious flaw that could be exploited by hackers to compromise them, this time we speak of Car Hacking. Almost any modern connected vehicle uses a drive-by-wire system that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2016
A vulnerability in the firmware running on many D-Link products allows attackers to take over cameras and other 120 products. A month ago, the Senrio research team discovered and exploited a remote code execution vulnerability in the latest firmware of the D-Link DCS-930L Network Cloud Camera. The vulnerability allows code injection which lets the attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
The EU has passed the new NIS directive that establishes minimum requirements for cyber-security on critical infrastructure operators. The European Parliament has passed the new network and information security (NIS) directive that establishes minimum requirements for cyber-security on critical infrastructure operators. The NIS directive has a significant impact on all the businesses that supply essential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
A newly emerging strain of malware dubbed Satana, which was first spotted last week, appears to be basing itself on crypto-lockers Petya and Mischa. Experts from Malwarebytes Labs have described the malicious software to be in the stage of âmalware-in-developmentâ with expected growth and evolution to occur over the coming weeks as its popularity and use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
Researchers devised a method to unmask malware’s use of TLS without decrypting the data flow. The technique relies on analysis of observable data features. A team of security experts from Cisco demonstrated that it is possible to detect a malware in TLS connections without decrypting the traffic and block it. The researchers Blake Anderson, Subharthi Paul […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
New threat dubbed Zepto Ransomware is spreading out with a new email spam campaign. It is a variant of the recent Locky Ransomware. The news was recently reported in a blog post by the Cisco Talos team: âWe are watching Zepto very carefully. Itâs closely tied to Locky, sharing many of the same attributes,â said Craig Williams, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
A malicious application named EasyDoc Converter.app delivers a sophisticated malware dubbed Eleanor malware that opens a Tor backdoor on the victim’s machine. Experts from security firm Bitdefender have spotted a new malware, dubbed Eleanor malware (Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor), that once compromised Macs set up a backdoor through Tor network. The malicious application, dubbed EasyDoc Converter.app, pretend to be a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Chinese Ad company Yingmob âs developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices. Chinese Ad company Yingmobâs developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices which is reportedly generating an income of around $300,000 USD per month. CheckPoint, the security company famous for their network […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Cifas, a leading group in fraud protection, recently released its report on the fraud landscape for 2016 and the numbers are staggering. The first lesson taught to anyone working with classified data is that if someone can get all the little pieces of the picture, theyâll eventually have the whole picture. Unfortunately, many users of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
If we want to be realistic we must say that the world is not only what we see. Our linear thinking, in fact, tends to not consider the “intangible”; we don’t see it and we can not measure, quantify and predict it. We need a complex thinking to imagine a ‘geopolitics’ that is, simultaneously, geo-philosophy, […]
