Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2015
According to officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), hackers earlier this year targeted the Agency network with a malware. It’s official, the network of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was targeted early 2015 by unknown hackers. According to FAA officials, the threat actors used a malware to compromise the infrastructure of the agency. “In early February, the FAA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2015
Anonymous hit numerous Israeli websites as promised in a video message posted a few days ago, which was threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â As promised hackers belonging to the Anonymous collective have hit Israeli websites. Last week Anonymous hacktivists published a video online threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â The voice in the video […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
Million of WordPress websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks due to a critical vulnerability affecting the WP-Super-Cache plugin. Million of WordPress websites using the WP-Super-Cache are exposed to the risk of cyber attack due to a critical vulnerability affecting the popular plugin. The WP-Super-Cache plugin, is normally used to improve the performance of the WordPress website because it generates static HTML […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
A vulnerability in Schneider Electric VAMPSET Software allows attackers to penetrate the system and trigger arbitrary code execution. According to the recent advisories issued by Schneider Electric and ICS â CERT, there is a vulnerability (CVE-2014-8390) that can allow hackers to penetrate the system and trigger arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability was identified and made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
A security expert has discovered a severe vulnerability in BitTorrent Sync that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine. The security expert Andrea Micalizzi, also known as ârgod,â, has discovered a serious vulnerability in BitTorrent Sync (CVE-2015-2846) can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
The organization Linux Australia revealed that one of its servers was hacked. The personal data of conference attendees might have been exposed. Linux Australia revealed a data breach occurred on March 22, according to the organization attackers may have accessed personal details of conference attendees. Linux Australia is an organization that represents nearly 5,000 Australian users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
The Turkish Government has blocked the access to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in the country over Istanbul prosecutor siege images. Once again, I’m writing about online censorship, once again the protagonist is the Turkish Government that this time has blocked the access to popular social media sites, including Twitter and YouTube. The ban follows a court ruling […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
British law enforcement is in difficulty facing the cybercrime, just one computer hacker a month convicted of cyber crime out of 100,000 incidents a year. Cybercrime is becoming very attractive for ordinary crime, high earnings, limited risks than other criminal activities and poor perception of crime are among the elements that are facilitating the rapid spread of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
A new phishing scam is targeting Yahoo users worldwide, this campaign could be ineffective if we share awareness about bad actors’ TTPs. A new large-scale scam is trying to deceive Yahoo users that are receiving a phishing email that asks for “Yahoo Account Confirmation.” The phishing email claims to be sent by Yahoo, it requests […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
A group of hackers linked to Anonymous published a list of websites alleged supporting propaganda activities of the Islamic State (ISIS). In the last weeks, hacktivists linked to the Anonymous collective declared war to members of the ISIS and announced a large-scale campaign against the websites used by the terrorists for propaganda. According to The […]
