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Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2016
Samsung presented GAIA, a security solution for Smart TVs

Samsung Electronics has GAIA, a powerful and comprehensive three-layer security solution for protection of Tizen-based Smart TVs. Security experts have no doubts, IoT devices will be a privileged target for hackers, for this reason, security firm are designing solutions to mitigate cyber attacks against connected smart objects.Samsung is one of the company that is more […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
The Sony PlayStation Network is down worldwide

The Sony PlayStation Network is down, it is the first major issue suffered on a global scale in 2016.  Sony acknowledges the problems. The PlayStation Network is down worldwide. I’m just back home trying to play with my son when I had the ugly surprise. It is the first massive outage of the year, I searched […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
Discovered a new DB containing more than 56 million records of US Voters

A second misconfigured database has been discovered by Chris Vickery containing data of US voters, including 19 million profiles with private information on religion, gun ownership and more. A couple of weeks ago Salted Hash reported on a sensational discovery made by the security expert Chris Vickery who found a misconfigured archive containing the personal […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
China hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts belonging to Tibetan and Uighur minorities

After many years, Microsoft admitted that Chinese authorities hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities. After many years, Microsoft finally concluded that Chinese authorities indeed hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, but at the time did not warn the users, allowing the victims to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
BlackEnergy targets Ukrainian news media and electric industry

Security experts at ESET firm provided details of the new campaign based on the BlackEnergy Trojan that targeted Ukrainian news media and electric industry in 2015. A new wave of malware-based attacks is targeting media outlets and energy companies in Ukraines, the attackers rely on malicious code that is able to wipe hard drives of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2016
Mac OS X is the software with most vulnerabilities in 2015

According to data provided by the CVE Details Apple Mac OS X is the software with the highest number of vulnerabilities in 2015. Which is the software with the greatest number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? You will be surprised to know that the software with the major number of vulnerabilities is the Apple […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 41 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs InterApp, the device that can hack any Smartphone European credit card payment terminals are plagued with serious flaws The Ramnit Botnet is back after the law enforcement takedown Darkweb, a look back at 2015 events and 2016 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Turkish hackers took over a Russian Govt Instagram account

Alleged Turkish hackers have taken over the Russian Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov’s Instagram account. Events in the cyberspace are strictly correlated with facts in the real life, in many cases, disputes between countries are associated with numerous cyber events that could be analyzed by intelligence analysts. The recent crisis in Crimea between Russia and Ukraine is just […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Analyzing Ransom32, the first JavaScript ransomware variant

Ransom32 is a new crypto-ransomware variant recently reported, it is the first ransomware variant that has been developed in the JavaScript. Ransom32 is a new crypto-ransomware variant that was first reported on December 29th, 2015, by an infected user on the Bleeping Computer forums. It is the first ransomware variant that has been developed in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
@FFD8FFDB Twitter bot spies on poorly configured cameras

@FFD8FFDB is a Twitter bot that spies on poorly configured cameras tweeting the images captured by the connected devices. There is an air of mystery when you first notice @FFD8FFDB. However, the next thing you will see is that really gets on to you. There is a strange Twitter account, @FFD8FFDB, that every few minute tweets pictures taken […]