Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2015
Cyber attacks against healthcare systems are likely to increase and students investigated the feasibility of breaching a medical training mannequin. Let me start with the scene from a popular TV series titled Homeland, it is a pacemaker hack. Security experts are warning the medical industry about the hacking of any medical equipment implanted in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2015
This month’s Patch Tuesday features 12 updates including a fix for a Windows Media Center Hacking Team exploits reported to Microsoft by Trend Micro. In June, the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a dramatic data breach, attackers leaked internal data of the company, including email messages and source code of the zero-day exploits used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab published a report on the Turla APT revealing the use Satellite links to control its botnet. According to a new analysis published by the experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that the popular Turla APT group exploited poorly secured satellite infrastructure to hide command-and-control operations. Turla APT was active in the last decade, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2015
According to a recent report issued by the Mehr news agency, more than 10,000 cyber attacks are detected by Iran every day, mostly from Israel. According to a recent report, more than 10,000 Internet security attacks are detected by cyber security experts in Iran every day, a country that is spending a significant effort to improve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2015
The security researcher and scientist Jonathan Petit claims to be able to hack a driveless-cars by using a simple Laser and a Raspberry Pi. Driverless-cars are the final goal of the principal car manufacturers that are working on several projects to introduce this new revolution in the automotive. Lexus, Mercedes and Audi are just some […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2015
Security experts at Paloalto Networks have uncovered a multiyear espionage campaign dubbed Musical Chairs Involving New Variant of Gh0st RAT Malware. The Gh0st RAT malware is a popular remote administration tool (RAT) created in China in the early 2000s that was used in a number of cyber espionage operations. Targeted espionage operations on Tibetan activists, including the Operation Night Dragon and the GhostNet attacks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2015
A number of recent discoveries suggest as more HTTPs websites, chat applicationss, and other services online are actualizing perfect forward secrecy. As per a Red Hat (a Linux distributor) security specialist, system equipment sold by few makers neglected to appropriately execute a broadly utilized cryptographic standard, an information releasing weakness that can permit spammers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2015
Security experts at Check Point security discovered a flaw in WhatsApp Web that could be exploited by attackers to compromise hundreds of millions users, According to the security firm Check Point a vulnerability in the popular messaging service WhatsApp Web exposes up to 200 million of its users at risk of cyber attack. WhatsApp Web allows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2015
Security firm Zscaler spotted Adult Player, a new malicious pornography-focused ransomware that takes secret photos of victims to blackmail. Security firm Zscaler spotted a new malicious Android app used in a classic extortion scheme to request a ransom to the victims. The malicious app dubbed Adult Player appeared offers pornographic content to its users, but in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2015
Heimdal Security published an interesting post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve ransomware. Heimdal Security recently published an interesting blog post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve malware. The attackers compromise websites running […]
