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Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2016
Cyanogen is shutting down CyanogenMod, it will go on as Lineage, maybe

The most popular custom Android ROM, the Cyanogen OS, Announced That it is closing its services starting from December 31, 2016. Bad news for users of the most popular custom Android ROM, the Cyanogen OS, that is now closing its services. Cyanogen was launched with the intent to provide an improved version of the Google Android operating […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2016
Obama moves to end dual-hat arrangement separating Cybercom from NSA

President Obama urges to the end the dual-hat arrangement to separate the heads of the U.S. Cyber Command from National Security Agency. Cyber security is one of the most important topics on the agenda of any Government and it will be one of the most debated arguments at the next G7 summit that will be […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2016
Hacker Interviews – R.I.U. crip (@cripthepoodle) – Security Affairs

@cripthepoodle was one of the members of the dreaded PoodleCorp hacker crew recently he targeted Steam platform, let’s meet him. You are a talented hacker that is very active online, could you tell me more about you. Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking? I started to get into […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2016
The Turkish Government is investigating more than 10,000 people in terror probe

The Turkish Government is investigating 10000 people suspected of terror-related activity on the internet,accused of propaganda or apologizing for terrorism The Turkish authorities are investigating more than 10000 individuals over online terror activities. The suspects are accused of being responsible for the sharing of material and post against government officials. According to the Interior Ministry, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Cryptolulz666 hacked the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in HK

@Cryptolulz666 and his colleague Kapustkiy broke into the systems of another website belonging to a HK corporation, the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The hacker @Cryptolulz666, with a little help from the colleague Kapustkiy, has broken into the website of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (http://www.dutchchamber.hk/). The hacker accessed data belonging to around 200 users, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Malware distribution tactics used in phishing campaign

Experts from Proofpoint discovered a new phishing campaign designed to steal banking data leveraging tactics associated with malware distribution. Security experts from Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that presents many similarities with campaigns used to spread the Cerber ransomware and the Ursnif banking Trojan. Cyber criminals adopted a technique that leverages on the distribution […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Merry Xmas, @Kapustkiy hacked Russian Visa center in USA

The notorious white hat hacker Kapustkiy hacked the Russian Visa Center in the USA and accessed information of around 3000 individuals. The Russian Visa Center is an organization that helps Americans to obtain Russian Visa, this morning the white hat hacker Kapustkiy informed me that he broke into the database its website and accessed data of around […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 92 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign Security expert disclosed a full zero-day drive-by exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Moscow wants Apple to unlock iPhone of the killer of the Russian Ambassador

The Russian and Turkish authorities asked Apple to unlock iPhone belonging to the assassin of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov. The Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was killed on Monday during an exhibition in Ankara. The killer is a lone Turkish gunman that shouted “God is great!” and “don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!” The shooter was killed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2016
Hackers breached the “The Standard Hong Kong” newspaper

The hacker @Cryptolulz666 and his colleague @EvoIsGod have broken into the website of the Hong Kong English newspaper “The Standard Hong Kong” (www.thestandard.com.hk) The hackers breached the database of the website and uploaded data to Pastebin. I reached the hackers who confirmed to have hacked the website by exploiting a SQL Injection flaw in their CMS. The hackers posted only […]