Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2015
A honeypot set up by researchers at the SANS institute has shown that hackers  have already attempted to exploit the Juniper backdoor. Shortly after Juniper posted the advisory related to the presence of unauthorized code in the OS of some of its Firewalls, HD Moore, the developer of the Rapid7ⲠMetasploit Framework, revealed that approximately 26,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
The independent researcher  Indrajeet Bhuyan has demonstrated that is possible to crash the popular messaging app Whatsapp by sending crazy smileys. Crash our Friends’ WhatsApp could be quite easy, this is what the independent researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan has demonstrated by sending crazy smileys. Nearly 4000 simple Smileys are enough to crash our friends’ WhatsApp, the trick works on both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
Who planted the Authentication Backdoor in the Juniper ScreenOS? Security experts are making their speculation, but interesting revelations are coming out. While the FBI is investigating the case searching for responsible for the introduction of a backdoor in a number of Juniper network devices, a number of speculation are circulating on the Internet.  Juniper Networks is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
Iranian hackers penetrated the industrial control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, raising concerns about the security of US critical infrastructure. It is official, Iranian hackers violated the online control system of a New York dam in 2013. According to reports, the hackers penetrated the control system of the dam and poked around […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2015
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher âKafeineâ has discovered a new variant of the popular Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-8446). Kafeine reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a spear phishing campaign managed by Chinese hackers that is targeting Taiwan Opposition and Media ahead of the vote in January. According to FireEye a group of Chinese hackers is targeting Taiwan’s opposition party and journalists, security experts and officials. The attacks are occurring weeks away from a Taiwanese presidential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
The security expert Ariel Sanchez presented the results of the test conducted on 40 iOS banking apps, comparing them to the ones obtained 2 years ago. The banking industry is looking with an increasing interest in mobile platform, financial institutes are offering a growing number of services accessible through mobile devices, but what about security? The security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
Step by step the HTML5 language is replacing the flawed Flash that hackers have exploited in an impressive number of cyber attacks in the wild. It may help the fact that Facebook is leaving Flash behind and it is adopting HTML5 (YouTube has done in the a recent past). “We recently switched to HTML5 from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs LATENTBOT, one the highly obfuscated backdoor in the wild Torrent websites infected 12 million Internet users per month Iranian Government says Daesh doesnât pose a threat to Iran Gift cards and return merchandise fraud scheme Is Vuvuzela […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
At tonightâs Democratic national debate Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton calls tech companies to work on a new Manhattan Project for Encryption. At tonightâs Democratic national debate Hillary Clinton calls tech companies cooperate to create âa Manhattan-like project.â The US Government is expressing its concerns about the possible misuses of encryption that today represents a serious obstacle […]
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