Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
Security researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab discovered a severe flaw in the call management application Truecaller. Recently, security researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab discovered a severe loophole in the popular phone call management application Truecaller. This vulnerability allows anyone to steal Truecaller users’ sensitive information, potentially opening doors for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Redaction error reveals Feds ordered Lavabit to spy on Snowden Olympic Vision BEC attacks target businesses worldwide with keyloggers Security Affairs newsletter Round 52 – News of the week A iOS zero-day allows iCloud photos and videos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
The VNC Roulette service is exposing on the Internet thousands of computer systems using insecure and easy to hack VNC connections. CCTV surveillance cameras, medical equipment, electricity generators, desktops, home alarm equipment and many other systems are not properly protected and open on the Internet. Now a website named VNC Roulette is offering a ransom access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
The Petya ransomware causes a blue screen of death (BSoD) by overwriting the MBR and leaves a ransom note at system startup. Ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats of this first part of the year, recently experts at TrendMicro has spotted a new malicious code dubbed Petya (RANSOM_PETYA.A) that overwrites MBR to lock users out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2016
A security researcher has discovered that surveillance cameras sold by more than 70 vendors worldwide were vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). According to the security researcher Rotem Kerner, surveillance cameras from 70 vendors are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). The researcher noticed that the vendors are selling products using the same firmware that is affected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2016
Terrorists behind Bruxelles attacks were spying on an eminent nuclear researcher planning a nuclear plant attack and the building of a dirty bomb. The news is disconcerting, the two brothers behind the Brussels attacks, Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, were also spying on an eminent researcher and were planning to build “dirty bomb.” The Belgium’s Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2016
Japan – The police has found on a server of a company more than 18 million login credentials, 90% of which belongs to customers of Yahoo Japan. The Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the president and a number of employees at the Tokyo-based Nicchu Shinsei Corp in November. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2016
Google has issued a new security update for its Chrome 49 that patches a number of flaws, most of them discovered by external researchers. Google has updated Chrome 49 for all the available versions in order to patch several critical vulnerabilities, including the flaw discovered thanks its bounty program that were rewarded with dozen thousands of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2016
Researchers at Fox-IT warn that the website of security certification provider EC Council has been compromised to host the malicious Angler Exploit Kit. No one is secure, we are all potential targets, even if you are a skilled expert and the fact that I’m going to tell you demonstrates it. The website of security certification provider […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2016
Hackers reportedly stole the records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise which are offered for sale in the criminal underground. According to KrebsOnSecurity, data leaked after a security reach at Verizon Enterprise Solutions are available in the cyber criminal underground. Records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise are available for sale, the entire archive is offered for $100,000, but […]
