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Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
Some Uber ride data is publicly accessible through Google

Some Uber trip information is publicly accessible through simple Google queries, the set includes trip and user info, and home and work addresses. Rapid diffusion of technology makes easy phenomena of accidental data leakage, the last one is related to the popular car service Uber. Dozens of trips of Uber customers have been cached by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
Barclays creates its own red team to attack its systems to find flaws

Barclays has created a red team to hack its own computer systems to discover and exploit security vulnerabilities before external attacker do. For someone working in the security area, it’s known that many companies have red teams to attack their own system, but this information is never recognized by the company. Barclays did exactly the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
Match com, millions online daters at risk due to a malvertising campaign

Malwarebytes has uncovered a new malvertising campaign targeting the Match.com ‘s ad network which has been breached by a malware campaign. Are you a UK single looking for love and passion? Be aware another threat is menacing dating communities, this time the popular dating web site Match.com and its  5.5 million British users suffered a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
New singular Android Ransomware relies on the XMPP protocol

A new variant of Android ransomware relies on the instant messaging protocol XMPP to establish a communication with C&C servers. According to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies a new Android ransomware disguised as a video player app implements a method of communication different from any other similar threat. This Android ransomware is different from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Critical OS X flaw could be exploited to steal data from Keychain

Security researchers at MalwareBytes have discovered a new variant of an adware installer that is leveraging an old trick to access the Keychain on MAC OS X In July, researchers at Malwarebytes have identified a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system. The experts discovered that the flaw in OS X was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Dark Web intelligence pro and cons

Dark Web Intelligence could help law enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather information on potential attacks. Which are the risks? The increased number of cyber attacks against government entities and the hypothesis that the U.S. government should take an offensive strike against hackers who hit the countries raised the discussion on the problem of the attribution. Prevention, mitigation and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Company’s data at risk due to the use of mobile gambling apps

Veracode has conducted a research on the security of several mobile gambling apps and discovered a number of flaws that expose enterprises to serious risks. If you belong to a global corporation, the most probably think you will find out is that some of your colleagues have installed mobile apps that don’t belong to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Hacking Baby Monitors is dramatically easy

Security researchers from Rapid7 security firm discovered a number of security vulnerabilities affecting several Video Baby Monitors. Researchers find major security flaws in popular networked video baby monitor products that could allow attackers to snoop on babies and businesses. Rapid7 analyzed baby monitors from six vendors, ranging in price from $55 to $260 in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
Once again Chinese smartphones infected with pre-installed malware

Security experts at G-Data security firm have discovered new cases of Chinese Android mobile devices infected by pre-installed malware. Security researchers from G DATA have discovered more than two dozen Android mobile phones from different manufacturers already infected by pre-installed malware. The kits analyzed by the company are commercialized by many manufacturers including Huawei, Lenovo […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2015
Shifu, a dangerous Banking Trojan is Attacking Japanese Banks

The Shifu Banking Trojan is a new sophisticated malware that has been used to target the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Shifu is the name of a new banking trojan that has been around since at least April targeting Japanese banks and a number of European e-banking platforms. “Shifu currently targets 14 […]