Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2015
The Us Justice Department’s proposal to grant FBI Rule 41 specific hacking rights is under high scrutiny. While the amendment is being reviewed, the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules will consider public objections, including a letter from Google. The amendment to the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 (Rule 41) would expand jurisdiction for judges to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
A new report published by Verisign provides useful data related to the recent evolution of DDoS attacks and the services that offer them. DDoS attacks are even more dangerous for every organization that exposes its resources and services on the Internet, recent attacks against Sony PSN network and XBox live service demonstrate it. DDoS attacks despite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
Onion.City the new search engine specialized for the black markets in the Deep Web simply accessible from a common browser. We have described several times the not indexed portion of the web known as the Deep Web, an impressive amount of content that the majority of netzens totally ignore. Deep Web is also known for the anonymity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2015
Security researchers at AVG have discovered a new Android malware dubbed PowerOffHijack, which spies on users even when mobile is switched off. Security researchers at AVG have discovered a new strain of Android malware which is able to spy on mobile users even when their mobile is off. The malware could be used to control victim’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
A young hacker disclosed the details of an attack that by exploiting a couple of flaws in Facebook allowed him to delete any comment on the social network. The 19-year-old hacker Joe Balhis has discovered the way to delete any comment on Facebook by leveraging a session validation flaw and a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. The expert highlighted that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The Lenovo computer company knowingly shipped laptops with pre-installed Superfish malware. And ‘controversy on the web, users are outraged. Lenovo is in the storm one again, security experts discovered that the company is shipping laptops with Superfish malware , a malware that allows to steal web traffic using man-in-the-middle attacks. SuperFish is considered by many antivirus companies as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology revealed that more than 25 billion cyberattacks hit systems in Japan during 2014. I decided to write this post to highlight the importance of a cybersecurity posture for any government. When the majority of people thinks to cybersecurity, has no idea of principal cyber threats and their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
A Spanish researcher discovered that some Android versions of the Gmail app are affected by a flaw that can be exploited to crash the mobile app. According to the security researcher Hector Marco some versions of the Gmail app for Android are affected by a vulnerability (CVE-2015-1574) that can be exploited by attackers to cause the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
Bio hacking – technology and humans have never been so close, they complement each other. But what are the security and privacy risks? IS BIOHACKING A SECURITY RISK? Imagine a world where our day to day activities like door locking, supermarket purchases, credit card swipes and smartphone usage are replaced by just one chip embedded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
A Chinese hacking crew dubbed Yanbian Gang has siphoned data from mobile banking customers in South Korea during the past two years, according to a new report. According to researchers at Trend Micro, the cybercriminals used fake banking apps having the same appearance (i.e. icons and user interface) of the legitimate mobile apps, to trick users. […]
