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Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2017
NSA announces it will stop surveillance activities on emails, texts and other internet communications

NSA announces a change in its surveillance activities, it will no longer spy on citizens’ emails, texts, and other Internet communications. It is official, the US NSA announced it will no longer spy on emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.The NSA issued the official statement last week, announcing a historical change of tactic […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2017
Yahoo awarded $7,000 a bug hunter for Flickr account hijacking vulnerability

Yahoo awarded $7,000 to the bug hunter Michael Reizelman, aka mishre, for Flickr account hijacking vulnerability. Reizelman was a popular bug hunter that discovered vulnerabilities in many web services, including Badoo, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Imgur, Slack, Twitter, and Uber. The expert has discovered three vulnerabilities in the company’s image and video hosting service that could have been chained together […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2017
NATO Locked Shields 2017, world’s largest cyber defence exercise just ended

Locked Shields is the world’s largest and most advanced international technical live-fire cyber defence exercise organized by the NATO since 2010. Locked Shields is the world’s largest and most sophisticated international cyber defence exercise. It is an annual event since 2010, Locked Shields is organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2017
Graph theory applied to a portion of the Dark Web shows it a set of largely isolated dark silos

A group of researchers conducted a study on the Dark Web leveraging the Graph theory. This hidden space appears as composed by sparse and isolated silos. A group of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART lab in Singapore has recently published an interesting research paper on the Dark Web. The researchers collected and analyzed the dark web […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2017
WHID Injector: How to Bring HID Attacks to the Next Level

Luca Bongiorni was working on a cheap and dedicated hardware that he could remotely control (i.e. over WiFi or BLE), that is how WHID was born. Since the first public appearance of HID Attacks (i.e.  PHUKD, Kautilya, Rubberducky), many awesome researches and results have been published [i.e. Iron HID, Mousejack and the coolest USaBUSe]. Due […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017
Lenovo warns of IBM Storwize shipped with infected initialization USB drives

Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo contain a malicious file. Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 storage systems contain a file that has been infected with malicious code. The Initialization Tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017
Turkey banned Wikipedia because its content web contents that represents a threat to national security

The monitoring group Turkey Blocks confirmed that Turkey banned Wikipedia because its content web content that represents a threat to national security. According to the telecommunications watchdog, Turkey has blocked the access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Saturday, the Government has taken this decision citing a law that allows it to ban access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017
Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over new episodes of Orange Is The New Black

The hacker ‘The Dark Overlord’ claims to have stolen and leaked online episodes from the forthcoming season of the TV show Orange Is The New Black. A hacker who goes online with the moniker “The Dark Overlord” claims to have stolen episodes from the forthcoming season of the TV show ‘Orange is the New Black.’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2017
Poorly designed apps leave millions of phones at risk of open port attack

Security experts demonstrated that insecure mobile applications leave millions of smartphones at risk of open port attack. A group of security researchers from the University of Michigan ( Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Yikai Lin, Chao Kong, and Prof. Z. Morley Mao) discovered a security hole in hundreds of applications in Google Play Store that could […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2017
Expert discovered online data belonging to the trading firm AMP

Security expert Chris Vickery reported a data breach at online trading firm AMP that exposed customer credit reports, and Social Security numbers. The popular security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new data breach that affected the AMP online trading firm that exposed thousands of files, including credit reports, passport scans, and customer chat logs. This specific […]