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Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2015
Hackers can disable high-tech sniper rifles and change the target

A couple of married researchers demonstrated hot to disable high-tech sniper rifles and change their targets with unpredictable consequences. Hacking, hacking, always hacking … this time we will discuss remote hacking of High-tech Sniper Rifles. Hackers can compromise High-tech Sniper Rifles and causing problems pointing to the target. Hackers can gain access to the $13,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
Trend Micro revealed a new Android vulnerability renders Android Devices inoperable

Researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new critical vulnerability in the Android mobile OS that can be exploited to crash mobile devices. Experts from Trend Micro discovered a new vulnerability, an integer overflow bug in the Android mediaserver service, that affects versions of Android starting with 4.3 Jelly Bean and up to 5.1.1 Lollipop. The flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
BLEkey – How to Clone RFID cards with a $10 device

Accuvant researchers will be releasing an open source piece of hardware dubbed BLEkey that can be used to circumvent these RFID card readers. Do you require to pass a card into a device to enter in your company’s office?  Most probably you are using a card based on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to grant the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
United Airlines reportedly hacked by same APT that breached OPM, Anthem

United Airlines reportedly hacked by same APT that breached OPM, Anthem. Let’s try to understand why and which are the risks for the US citizens. A Chinese APT group  believed to be responsible for a series of high-profile data breaches that affected the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Anthem, and more recently the United Airlines. According the media […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
A part of an unclassified Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity

Part of a Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity, the US authorities are investigating on the alleged intrusion. New problems for the White House emerges from the cyberspace, a portion of the Department of Defence’s email network has been taken down over suspicious activity. According to Pentagon spokeswoman, the unclassified email network used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2015
Bitphone, the “untraceable” voIP service

Let’s explain what makes the new Bitphone VoIP service, a perfect tool to perform some social engineering calls. Bitphone is a new VoIP service, a perfect tool to perform some social engineering calls, but why? Bitphone is like a Payphone, the only difference is that in this case you need to pay it with bitcoins […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2015
Malvertising campaign hits 10 million users in 10 days

Security Firm Cyphort Labs reported that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days by a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. Nick Bilogorskiy, a security researcher at Cyphort  revealed that 10 million users may have been infected in ten days due to a malvertising and exploit kit campaign. According to the expert threat actors […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2015
Disclosed critical vulnerabilities affecting the PHP file Manager

PHP File Manager was affected by several critical vulnerabilities for nearly 5 years, according to the security consultant Sijmen Ruwhof. In July 2010 Ruwhof was looking for a web base file manager that he could use in his own web server when he came across with PHP file Manager. At the time, he found out […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2015
Experts discovered a new Google Drive phishing campaign

Experts discovered a new Google Drive phishing campaign in which the threat actors deployed phishing web pages on Google Drive. Once again phishers exploited Google’s reputation running a phishing campaign aimed to steal user Google credentials and access to the multitude services offered by the company. The new phishing campaign was discovered by the security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2015
NSA will lose access to its surveillance metadata in Nov. 29

Metadata acquired due to the NSA surveillance programs was ruled illegal by a court in May 2015. The NSA will lose access to its metadata in Nov. 29. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the NSA will destroy millions of US phone records collected during its investigation. The process will […]