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Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
Safari cookie access vulnerability affects a billion iThings

A Safari iOS/OS X/Windows cookie access vulnerability (CVE-2015-1126) potentially affects a billion iThings devices, patch it as soon as possible. The security researcher Jouko Pynnönen at Finnish firm Klikki Oy, has discovered a since patched bug (CVE-2015-1126) that could potentially affect a billion Apple iDevices. The cross-domain vulnerability affects Safari’s file transfer URL schemes and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
Java – New vulnerabilities affects million applications

Oracle warned that a dozen of new Java security vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without login. Once again Java vulnerabilities are worrying the security community, a series of vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without authentication. Every application running on any of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
How to move YouTube comments from any video to another

An Egyptian Researcher discovered a flaw that allowed him to duplicate/copy any YouTube comments from any video to another video without user-interaction. The Egyptian colleague Ahmed Aboul-Ela has discovered a vulnerability in YouTube that could be exploited by attackers to move comments from any video to another without any user-interaction. Now imagine that you move the YouTube comment […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
In-flight Wi-Fi can be an open door for hackers

A report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the FAA faces some serious cyber security issues for modern flights. Security experts for a long time suspected that in-flight Wi-fi could create an entry door for hackers and a new report issued by The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the dungeon of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
Wikileaks released documents from Sony hack, the company condemned it

WikiLeaks on Thursday published a searchable database of more than 30,000 documents that were obtained by hackers in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures. WikiLeaks organization has leaked online a collection of documents stolen in the  Sony Pictures data breach, more than 30,000 files showing the inner workings of a “secretive” firm. WikiLeaks  published the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
MS15-034 flaw leaves over 70 million sites vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security experts worldwide have discovered that threat actors are exploiting the Microsoft Zero-Day vulnerability MS15-034 in cyber attacks. Security researchers at SANS Internet Storm Center revealed that the critical remote code execution vulnerability MS15-034 affecting the Windows HTTP protocol stack is being actively exploited in the wild. The experts explained that the MS15-034 flaw affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2015
Is the US cyber command ready for Information Warfare?

A Government spokesman confirmed the US Government is supporting the growth for its cyber command but it is not yet ready to repel any cyber attacks. The US are among the most advanced countries in Information Warfare, Obama administration considers strategic the dominance of the country in the cyber space. The US Government established in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2015
Lawyer Finds Hard Drive Sent Over by Police to Be Infected with Trojan for Spying

A lawyer who has been dealing with a whistleblower case has claimed that a hard drive used as evidence and sent by the police has infected with spying Trojan. A lawyer from Arkansas is now representing three police officers from Fort Smith at a case of whistleblowers and has now found himself in the middle […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2015
France Televisions hacked and 100,000 contacts stolen

A group of cyber criminals hacked systems the systems of the France Televisions and have stolen data on 100,000 contacts stored by the French state TV. Another cyber attack hit a French TV, this time the hackers compromised the computers at the network of the broadcaster stealing  personal data belonging 100,000 contacts. According to an […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2015
Chrome starts pushing Java off the Web by deprecating NPAPI

Google Launches Chrome 42 that deprecates the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API)  due to the numerous problems it caused in the past. Google has released Chrome 42, a version that implements the important choice to exclude any plugin using the API called NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) to extend browser functionalities. The Netscape Plugin API is dated back 1990 […]