Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
A number of Cisco wireless devices have been designed with hardcoded passwords, including Wi-Fi gear, WLAN controllers, and ISE.Cisco wireless points designed with hardcoded passwords. Bad days for IT giants, recently an unwanted code was discovered in Juniper appliances and a hardcoded backdoor affects some Fortinet Firewalls. Problems of a different nature, but equally uncomfortable, afflicts Cisco wireless LAN controllers, the Cisco […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
Faulty ransomware derived from an open source ransomware project makes files unrecoverable due to a serious coding error. The story I’m gong to tell you is incredible, a cyber criminal gang has developed a very singular ransomware called RANSOM_CRYPTEAR.B and now I’ll tell you why? According to the experts at TrendMicro, the Ransomware has built starting from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
The IS has developed an Android app dubbed Amaq Agency app demonstrating how powerful modern communications technology can be for a radical group. Which are the communication channels used by members of the ISIS? Which are the messaging services they use? These are the main questions for the Western Intelligence that is attempting to track […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
Microsoft patched a Silverlight zero-day discovered by analyzing internal emails stolen to Hacking Team about Silverlight exploit. Microsoft recently fixed a number of vulnerabilities with the MS16-006 critical bulletin, including a Silverlight flaw CVE-2016-0034 that could be exploited for remote code execution. The Silverlight flaw discovered by the experts at Kaspersky Lab as a result of an investigation on the Hacking Team arsenal disclosed in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2016
Security experts at Symantec detect a new strain of the Android Bankosy malware that steals passwords sent through voice calls generated by 2FA systems. One-time passcodes, a crucial defense for online banking applications, are being intercepted by a malware program for Android, according to new research from Symantec. One-time passcodes (OTPs) in two-factor authentication scheme […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2016
A group of researchers from Vectra Threat Labs explained how to exploit IoT devices like 30$ D-Link DCS web cameras as a backdoor. Vectra Threat Labs, part of Vectra Networks has invested time testing some IoT solutions available in the market, and one of the most interesting products its always the Wi-Fi security web cameras. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2016
Another SSH backdoor? Researchers have discovered highly suspicious code in the Fortinet FortiOS firewalls that were shipped with hardcoded logins. After Juniper, another Enterprise security vendor is in the headlines, this time it is Fortinet for the presence of a SSH ‘backdoor in its firewalls. Less than a month ago, an “unauthorized code” was discovered in the operating system for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2016
The Europol announced the arrest of two individuals suspected of being tied to the DD4BC criminal group specialized in extortion activities. According to a press statement issued by the Europol, in December a joint operation of law enforcement from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, and the U.K. allowed the identification and the arrest of two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2016
Head of US intelligence James Clapper owned by the same hacker who broke into CIA director Brennan’s personal email account. According to Motherboard, a hacker associated with the “Crackas With Attitude” group has accessed accounts belonging to the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Yes, you are right, Crackas With Attitude is the same teenager who took […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2016
According to a group of researchers from the University of Trier two critical flaw affects the oAuth 2.0 authentication protocol. The OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol is widely used on social networking sites, every day billion of users access their profiles on Facebook and Google+ using it. According to researchers Daniel Fett, Ralf Küsters and Guido […]
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