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Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Who are best European Security Blogs? Why they Excluded Security Affairs?

Today I was contacted by many friends and followers because they are disappointed regarding a voting proposed by the Infosecurity Europe. http://blogs.infosecurityeurope.com/europes-most-popular-security-blogs-vote-now/ You know my daily effort spent in cyber security, I have thousand people that everyday reads my posts and share them, but evidently it is not enough because I’m out of their business. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
eBay promptly fixed a reflected file download vulnerability

EBay has recently fixed a reflected file download vulnerability discovered by the security researcher David Sopas at WebSegura. Ebay is among the web services most targeted by cyber criminals and phishers, over the years, security experts have spotted an impressive amount of attack exploiting techniques more or less sophisticated. Almost every attack relies on social engineering, attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Android Factory reset fails to wipe sensitive user data, million devices at risk

Two security researchers demonstrated that the Android Factory Reset process fails to wipe private data from Android mobile devices. Researchers at Cambridge University, Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson, revealed that more than half a billion Android devices could have data recovered due to flaws in the default wiping process. The experts have analyzed Android 21 devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
Criminals are using SVG Files to serve malware

Security experts at AppRiver firm have discovered a malicious campaign that is distributing a strain of ransomware via SVG files. Researchers at the AppRiver security firm have uncovered a malicious campaign that is distributing a strain of ransomware by exploiting SVG files. The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
The ISIS advances in the DeepWeb among Bitcoin and darknets

While members of the ISIS are continuing to explore the Deep Web for various activities, the US Intelligence plans activities to track them. The Dark Web is a privileged environment for cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers due to the anonymity offered by its services. Unfortunately, another category of threat actors is exploiting the deep web, the terrorists, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
Thieves are using commercial drones for burglaries

Law enforcement warns thieves are using the mini-helicopters and commercial drones to carry out reconnaissance on homes to burgle. Security and privacy issued related to the use of drones must be carefully addressed in order to avoid dangerous effects due to their diffusion, there are several ways to abuse of such complex and powerful machines […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
Ransomware Removal Kit available online for free

A security researcher has compiled the Ransomware Removal kit that could be used in the process of responding to ransomware infections. CryptoLocker, CoinVault, and TeslaCrypt are the names of some of the most dreaded ransomware that infected million of users worldwide. The extortion is a very common practice in the cyber criminal underground and ransomware are […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
IRRITANT HORN – NSA plan to Hijack Google Play Store to serve spyware

A new top-secret document leaked by Snowden revealed how the NSA and its allies planned to target Android platforms under the project IRRITANT HORN. New top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its allies of the Five Eyes group (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) planned to hijack […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
Malicious version of PuTTY is spreading in the wild

Bad actors have released a malicious version of the popular open source tool PuTTY to steal access credentials of computers worldwide. Be careful, there is an unofficial version of Putty in the wild and it seals information. This version was compiled from the legitimate source, but isn’t hosted on the official website project, instead, attackers redirect […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
CareFirst data breach affects about 1.1M people

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield fall victim of a major data breach, personal information belonging more than one million individuals could have been exposed. Health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is notifying more than one million individuals that it was the victim of a data breach which may have exposed personal information used by attackers to gain limited, […]