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Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2016
The Turkish Government has blocked the Tor access once again

The Turkish Government has applied restrictions on the Tor anonymity network, the discovery was made the Turkey Blocks internet censorship watchdog. “Our study indicates that service providers have successfully complied with a government order to ban VPN services.” reads a blog post published by the Turkey Blocks. Users in the country started reporting connectivity issues around the same time, a circumstance […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2016
LinkedIn Lynda.com online learning platform started notifying users of data breach

Lynda.com is notifying customers a data breach, according to the company an unauthorized third party accessed a database containing user information. Lynda.com is an online learning platform that was acquired last year by LinkedIn. The company started notifying its customers over the weekend, hackers accessed learning data, including attempted courses and contact data. At the time […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2016
Russian hacker Rasputin allegedly stole logins from the US election agency EAC

The Russian-speaking hacker Rasputin was attempting to sell the allegedly stolen login credentials from the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC). According to the security firm Record Future, a Russian-speaking hacker was offering for sale stolen login credentials for a U.S. agency that tests and certifies voting equipment, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC Agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2016
Security expert disclosed a full zero-day drive-by exploit for Linux leveraging SNES

The security expert Chris Evans has disclosed a zero-day exploit successfully tested on Ubuntu and Fedora distributions that may affect other distros. The security expert Chris Evans has disclosed a zero-day exploit for Ubuntu and Fedora distributions. The flaw is a full drive-by download exploit that may impact also other Linux distributions. The researcher successfully the full […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2016
DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign

Security experts observed malvertising campaign leveraging the DNSChanger malware to compromise multiple models of home routers. The Christmas season can be the busiest time of the year for online shopping in many countries. Researchers at Proofpoint have recently announced the discovery of a new and improved version of the DNSChanger Exploit Kit. “Since the end […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 91 – 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 THANK YOU! President Obama orders full review of alleged Russian hacking in US Election Georgia traced an […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2016
Cryptolulz666 hacked the Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Bombay

Cryptolulz666 is once again in the headlines, this time he hacked the Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Bombay, one of the best Indian colleges. Cryptolulz666 is back, now he hacked the Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Bombay, one of the best Indian colleges, that has a current world rank of 200. The hacker broke into the database of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2016
Odinaff Trojan behind financial attacks mostly in Turkey

Akbank, one of the largest Turkish banks seems to be the latest victim of the Odinaff trojan, a threat similar to the Carbanak malware. Odinaff; a malware similar to Carbanak, has been targeting financial institutions around the world since the beginning of the year. “Since January 2016, discreet campaigns involving malware called Trojan.Odinaff have targeted a number […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2016
Hacking Apple Mac encryption password in Just 30 Seconds with PCILeech device

A hacker devised a $300 device, dubbed PCILeech, that could be exploited by an attacker to gain full control of a Mac or MacBook. The Swedish hacker and penetration tester Ulf Frisk has devised a $300 device, dubbed PCILeech, that could be exploited by an attacker to gain full control of a Mac or MacBook. The device is able […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016
Cryptolulz666 continues targeting Government websites with DDoS

 Cryptolulz666 is back targeting government websites to demonstrate that it is very simple for hackers to bring down them with DDoS attacks. A few days ago a reported the attack conducted by the black hat hacker Cryptolulz ( @Cryptolulz666), a former member of the Powerful Greek Army, who hacked the website of Russian embassy of Armenia (www.embassyru.am). […]