Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2015
Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance firm that develops spyware and hacking software has been hacked by attackers that exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The Italian security firm Hacking Team has allegedly been hacked, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The company has often been at the center of heated debate because of surveillance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2015
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. US Healthcare companies are the most targeted by Stegoloader Popular travel websites warn Customers of Phishing scam Ransomware slinging exploit kit targets Flash remote code execution Experts found Government […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2015
Cisco Unified CDM software contains a privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed, by using it an attacker can control the platform. A default privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed affect the  Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (Cisco Unified CDM) opening the platform for remote attacks. The Cisco […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2015
Anonymous India hacked the BSNL Telecommunications Journal website and claims to have compromised more than 30 million records. The website of the BSNL Telecommunications Journal has been hacked by the hacktivists of the Indian Anonymous arm named AnonOpsIndia. Anonymous India the BSNL journal website to protest against the surveillance programs operated by the Indian Government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Trend Micro has identified Lordfenix, a student that created more than 100 different banking Trojans and other malicious tools, since April 2013. Security experts at Trend Micro have identified a 20-year-old Brazilian student which has developed and distributed more than 100 Banking malware. The young cyber criminal, which used the pseudonym of ‘Lordfenix’, ‘Hacker’s Son’ and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
The former Secretary of Defense William Cohen revealed that the US power grid is vulnerable to terror attacks, a major cyber attack was a matter time. Security experts and US politicians are aware that the power grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack. Nation’s power grid is a privileged target for terrorists as explained by the former […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2015
Security researcher discovered a strain of the Kovter trojan that has been updating  Flash Player and Internet Explorer to prevent further infections. The French security expert Kafeine have discovered a new strain of the Kovter malware noticing that the instance of the malicious code he was analyzing was attempting to download the latest version of the Flash […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
 IPv4 Exhaustion: The North America ran out of IPv4 addresses and according to the ARIN it has officially exhausted its supply of IPv4 addresses. The news of the day is that North America ran out of IPv4 addresses and according to The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) it has officially exhausted its supply of IPv4 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
Wikileaks reveals an extended economic espionage activity conducted by the NSA in Germany, the spies were particularly interested in the Greek debt crisis. Recently we spoke about the last collection of data disclosed by Wikileaks on NSA massive surveillance, highlighting the cyber espionage operations of the US intelligence against principal security firms and the France politicians, today we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2015
Every 18 seconds a new mobile Android malware is discovered in the wild as reported in the G DATA Malware Report Mobile for Q1 2015. Security firm GDATAÂ has published a report on mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2015. The researchers discovered 440,267 new strains of Android malware, a new malware strain for […]
