Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2015
Kaspersky Lab discovered another APT group dubbed CozyDuke which is believed to have hacked the US Department of State and the White House. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) dubbed CozyDuke that targeted several high-profile organizations in the second half of 2014. Kaspersky experts have published an interesting blog post that includes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2015
At RSA conference 2015 a researcher demonstrated that Avaya’s Ethernet office phones can be compromised with just a simple text editor. At the RSA conference 2015 in San Francisco, Dr Ang Cui from Columbia University PhD and Red Ballon Security cofounder announced that Avaya’s Ethernet office phones can be compromised with just a simple text […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2015
Four security researchers at the Columbia University have developed a new technique dubbed Spy in the sandbox attack to spy on victims’ online activity. Four security researchers at the Columbia University (Yossef Oren, Vasileios Kemerlis, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Angelos Keromytis) have developed a new technique to hack computer using a Javascript that allow them to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2015
Pushdo botnet continues to infect a large number of users worldwide, mainly in India, Indonesia, Turkey and Vietnam. Security experts at the Fidelis Cybersecurity firm have discovered a new variant of the Pushdo spamming botnet, which infected machines in more than 50 countries worldwide. The botnet is able to send out around 7.7 billion spam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2015
Google is improving its services, last decision it related to the Ads, the company takes a step towards by deployeng “HTTPS Everywhere”. Another good step, coming from google involving encryption. As you may remember Google started to encrypt back in 2008, when Gmail started to use HTTPS. Since 2008, Google has done a remarkable work […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2015
The well-known hacker Stefan Esser, also known as iOn1c, first published a concept video of the jailbreak iOS 8.4 beta 1 running on iPhone 6. Apple has just released the iOS 8.4 beta version for its mobile devices and the popular hacker Stefan Esser, also known as i0n1c, has already released a jailbreak to the community of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2015
Cyber security expert Cesar Cerrudo once again is warning the IT security community on the risks related to deployment of flawed Smart city systems. My readers know very well the cyber security expert Cesar Cerrudo that is author of several interesting studies on smart city systems, in August 2014 he presented a research on vulnerabilities affecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2015
Operation Pawn Storm allegedly run by hackers backed by the Russian Government still advancing their infrastructure a great deal, the group is believed to using advanced tactics to hit the targets. Trend Micro revealed that the group have introduced all new infrastructure and is “Zeroing in” onto the targets that include NATO (North Atlantic Treaty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2015
Security researcher Marcus Murray discovered a method to exploit a malicious JPEG to compromise modern Windows servers inside corporate networks. Security expert and penetration tester Marcus Murray discovered a way to use a malicious JPEG to compromise modern Windows servers and elevate privileges over targeted networks. The researcher has demonstrated the attack a few days […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2015
The Interpol has recently announced the creation of its own cryptocurrency with the intent to understand the abuses and fight virtual currency crime. According to Dr. Madan Mohan Oberoi, Director of Cyber Innovation and Outreach in the INTERPOL Global Complex for innovation (IGCI) being set up in Singapore, the Interpol is working to design of a Cryptocurrency. […]
