Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2015
A study conducted by the Intelligence firm RecordedFuture demonstrates the efficiency of the analysis of hacker forums through traffic analysis-like techniques. Hacker forums still exist, hacking communities are with good shape and growing. Hacker Forums are normally hard to find and once you find them you will see them change again. Most prolific Hacker forums […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2015
#OpNimr – Anonymous targets Saudi websites to protest against a death sentence of crucifixion to a 17-years old for alleged anti government activities. The popular collective Anonymous has launched the #OpNimr campaign against the Government of Saudi Arabia to protest against it continuous violation of human rights. Anonymous targets Saudi websites is in response to the death sentence handed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2015
Nasty surprise for Uber users who have found themselves credited several rides through the streets of China, the company is investigating on the cases. A nasty surprise for Uber users who have found themselves credited several rides through the streets of China. Unfortunately, fraudsters have targeted Uber to take free rides, in the following picture […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2015
A recent survey conducted by Grant Thornton global revealed that one in six businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past twelve months. It is always interesting to report findings of studies related to the impact of the cybercrime worldwide, today I want to present you the results of the research conducted by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. AVG will sell userâs personal data to third-parties A string could be used to crash Google Chrome Pentagon on manual mission to build nation-wide security database Tech finds 1.5M […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2015
A group of hackers is launching aerospace probes in the aim of spying on governments and organizations by collecting signals in the stratosphere. A group of techies has recently created and tested an aerospace probe, so as to help gather a lot of data deriving from communication, leading to a whole new concept of how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2015
Talos has developed a Python script for customers to scan their own network to identify routers that may have been compromised by the SYNful_Knock hack. A couple of weeks ago I published the news of the SYNful_knock security issue involving CISCO routers. CISCO issued an alert to warn enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
Apple recently released its first update to the new iOS 9, but experts noticed that it doesn’t fix the lock screen bypass vulnerability. Apple has already released its first update for the release iOS, the version iOS 9.0.1 was issued last week to fix a number of bugs. Last week Jose Rodriguez reported the lock screen bypass vulnerability affecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
Hilton Worldwide has issued an official statement informing its customers that the alleged data breach is currently under investigation. As reported by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, several sources are claiming that Point-of-Sale (PoS) registers utilized by several businesses operating within a large quantity of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States. These claims result from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2015
A new collection of GCHQ’s documents published by The Intercept reveals how the British Agency tried to track Web visits of âevery visible user on Internetâ A new revelation made by The Intercept confirms that the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has conducted  a massive online surveillance starting from the 2007. The documents accessed by The Intercept detailed an operation […]
