Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
A US magistrate ordered Apple to help unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, be aware it is demanding a tool to bypass the security mechanism. We discussed very often of the difficulties of the law enforcement in conducting investigations when suspects used devices that make use of encryption, the case that we are going to analyze is emblematic. Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
A group of researchers discovered that roughly 1,000 brain wallets have been drained by cyber criminals that have stolen $103,000 The term brainwallet refers to the concept of storing Bitcoins in one’s own mind by memorization of a passphrase. The phrase is converted into a 256-bit private key with a hashing or key derivation algorithm (example: SHA256). That […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2016
Cisco disclosed a DoS vulnerability affecting the IOS software running on the industrial switches belonging to the Industrial Ethernet 2000 Series. Last week I wrote about a vulnerability affecting CISCO Universal Small Cell kits that allows unauthenticated remote users to retrieve devices’ firmware, now another vulnerability is worrying the customers of the IT Giants. The flaw coded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2016
What happened to some of the APT groups behind clamorous cyber attacks? Why they don’t go dark anymore after being outed, a behavior completely different from the past. I’m sure everyone remembers the Sony attack occurred in 2014, when the US Government blamed the North Korean Government for the attack, materially executed by a hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2016
Cyber criminals demanded $3.6M after a ransomware-based attack takes offline the systems at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. In the “2016 Cyber Security Predictions: From Extortion to Nation-state Attacks” I published at the end of 2015 I have predicted the criminal practices of the extortion will reach levels never seen before. “Cyber criminals will use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2016
A team of Illinois-based scientists have conducted a research to improve the Bitcoin mining process by 30 percent. Bitcoin mining is becoming a process even more costly in terms of computational resources, but a team of Illinois-based researchers have conducted a study to speed up this process. The group of scientists led by Indian Scientist […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2016
A new malware dubbed Mazar Bot is threatening Android users and has the ability to gain root access to the mobile device and completely wipe it. A new threat is threatening Android users, its name is Mazar BOT and has the ability to gain root access to the mobile device and completely wipe its storage. Mazar BOT could be used by threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2016
Another embarrassing problem for Apple iOS mobile devices (iPhone and iPad),  setting the date of the devices to January 1st, 1970 will brick them. Don’t Try it! Another embarrassing problem for Apple iOS mobile devices, a software flaw could be exploited to permanently kill your iPhone, iPad or iPod. The issue affects the Apple iOS date and time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2016
A flaw affecting the Cisco Universal Small Cell devices allows unauthenticated remote users to retrieve devices’ firmware, so Cisco urges patching these systems. Other problems for the IT giant Cisco, the company is asking service providers using its Universal Small Cell solutions to update their systems and install a patch to solve a serious security issue. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2016
A security expert discovered a misconfigured MongoDB installation behind a Microsoft’s career portal that exposed visitors to attacks. The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new misconfigured MongoDB installation used by a Microsoft’s career portal. The misconfigured MongoDB installation exposed some information and enabled read/write access to the website. The database also included information on other […]
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