Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2015
SAP products make use of a proprietary implementation of LZC and LZH compression algorithms that could be exploited by attackers in several ways. For the second time in a week, we are speaking about security vulnerabilities affecting SAP systems, recently I wrote about a study published by the Onapsis firm that revealed over 95% of SAP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2015
The Chinese threat actor known as APT17 and DeputyDog has been using profile pages and forum threads on Microsoftâs TechNet web portal to host IP addresses for command and control (C&C) servers. Security experts at FireEye and the colleagues at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center have published a report on the activities of the Chinese group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2015
According to a report published by the experts at root9B the hacking crew APT28 is planning to attack several financial institutions worldwide. In October 2014, security expert at FireEye published a report on the activities conducted by a group of Russian hackers, dubbed APT28, the hacking crew is behind long-running cyber espionage campaigns that targeted US defense contractors, European security organizations and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2015
Maritime industry heavily depends on technology, a cyber attack against its infrastructure and systems could have dramatic consequences on our society. In a recent post, I talked about attacks targeting SCADA systems will increase, and our ports are among critical infrastructure that makes large use of such systems. Let’s consider that “almost 90% of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2015
Hackers steal money from Starbucks mobile customers using linked credit cards, nearly 16 million customers who use the company app are at risk. Starbucks is the last victim of scammers, cyber criminals are syphoning money from the credit or debit card linked to the customers’ Starbucks accounts. The attack is quite simple for fraudsters, the criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Security Researcher at CrowdStrike claims VENOM vulnerability leaves millions of virtual machines vulnerable to cyber attacks. A new security vulnerability dubbed VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) is threatening the security industry. The CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher Jason Geffner who discovered the vulnerability explained that the flaw could be exploited by an attacker to compromise any machine is a data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Adobe issued an update to fix 52 flaws in Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat products, that fortunately aren’t being publicly exploited in the wild. Adobe has released significant updates for its products Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat. The update was issued by the company to patch 52 vulnerabilities that according to Adobe aren’t being publicly exploited in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020 will be exposed to an increasing number of cyber threats. Until the end of 2020, experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices on the planet will be connected to the internet, and counting that the Internet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2015
Several dozen Imperva Incapsula customers were targeted by a DDoS botnet comprised of tens of thousands of hijacked SOHO routers. Security experts at Incapsula firm spotted a DDoS botnet composed of tens of thousands of malware-infected Small Office / Home Office SOHO routers engaged in application layer HTTP flood attacks. The SOHO routers were infected with a strain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2015
British Law enforcement has published a collection of pictures showing the use of pinhole cameras and iPods to steal card details at ATM machines. Law enforcement has shared a collection of images showing a last trend in the criminal underground, the use of pinhole cameras and iPods to steal card details at ATM machines. These […]
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