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Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Find a zero-day exploit to hack IOS 9 and win a $1m prize

Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds zero-day flaws in iOS 9, and you can imagine the motivation. Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds unknown, unpatched bug in iOS 9 with the main purpose to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Korean Govt child monitoring app is full of bugs exposing minors at risks

Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Adobe fixes dozens critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player

Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that patches 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. Update your version asap. Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that fixes 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. According to the security bulletin issued by Adobe, Version 18.0.0.231 and earlier of the Flash Player for Windows and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
Apple App Store suffers its first large-scale attack

Researchers have spotted the first large-scale attack on Apple Store, attackers used XcodeGhost designed to inject malicious code into iOS and OS X apps. Apple announced yesterday it is cleaning up the official iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad applications, the company confirmed that this is the first large-scale attack on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
New updates on Cyber Conflict Agenda 2016 and what’s new in ‘Cyber power’

The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, what’s new? The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
New attacks on critical communications infrastructure in the US

Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Someone continues to target critical communications infrastructure in a region of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
3 flaws in StarBucks websites open its users to attacks

The Egyptian security researcher Mohamed M. Fouad has spotted three critical vulnerabilities in the StarBucks website that open users to cyber attacks. If you are one of the millions StarBucks users don’t waste time and change your password as soon as possible. StarBucks users who have registered an account and linked their credit card to it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 27 – Best of the week from best sources

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. Lockerpin, the first known Android lock-screen ransomware How did jihadists hack into top UK ministerial emails if no security breach took place? Vodafone Australia has hacked a Fairfax journalist’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015
A string could be used to crash Google Chrome

It seems incredible, but as already happened for Skype it is possible to crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL. The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. “Recently I reported a crash bug in Google Chrome (issue #533361). This issue reminded […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015
AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties

The Antivirus maker AVG has announced its privacy policy in which the company informs users that it will collect and sell users’ personal data to advertisers. If you think that there is something really free on the Internet you are probably wrong. Someone ask you to pay for their products and services, others use their […]