Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
British Airways Executive Club member accounts were hacked, it isn’t a data breach but hackers used credentials available in the underground. The popular security expert Graham Cluley reported that Members of British Airways Executive Club are noticing suspicious activities for their accounts. The Members of British Airways Executive Club observed that their accounts were mysteriously emptied of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
Security experts have discovered al least two different vendors offering stolen Uber customer logins in a black market on the Dark Web. ArsTechnica has discovered that two vendors on a marketplace in the underground are offering active Uber credential. During the weekend the vendors “Courvoisier” “ThinkingForward” are claiming to sell valid Uber logins respectively for $1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands of websites to exploit kits, a researcher has warned. Security experts at Germanyâs Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Bund) and Yonathan Klijnsma reveals that at least 3,000 websites have been compromised by attackers exploiting a known vulnerability in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
Iran is improving its cyber capabilities faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’ and increased cyber-security spending 12-fold since2013. The British Business Insider published an interesting post on the Iranian cyber capabilities, according the experts the Government of Teheran is improving expertise in the cyber domain faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’. Iran is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
Security experts at Minded Security firm have recently discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS X AFNetworking. The researchers Simone Bovi and Mauro Gentile at the security firm Minded Security discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS XÂ AFNetworking. The researchers found the flaw while were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2015
Secunia firm issued its annual report on vulnerabilities exploited in 2014 in most popular software, a document which includes key figures and facts. Secunia has recently released its annual study of trends in software vulnerabilities, an interesting report that highlights the impact of the presence of flaws in common software and provide useful details on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2015
The exploitation of the Dell System Detect tool would allow threat actors to remotely install malware on users’ your Dell computers. This specific subject was already talked in mid-November 2014 when it was discovered and reported to Dell which patched it in January 2015, but it’s uncertain if the fix closed all the “holes”. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2015
The presence of a vulnerability in the ANTLabs InnGate devices used in hotels and conference centers exposes users to risk of remote exploit. Recently the security firm Cylance has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2015-0932) affecting the ANTLabs InnGate devices that are popular Internet gateway for visitor-based networks like the one we find in hotels and convention centers. The exploitation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2015
Bar Mitzvah is the name of a new attack on RC4-Based SSL/TLS encryption that allows disclosure of sensitive data by exploiting  a 13-Year-Old Vulnerability. Both Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocols rely on the Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) algorithm to encrypt data transfers. The problem is that the […]
