Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
Step by step the HTML5 language is replacing the flawed Flash that hackers have exploited in an impressive number of cyber attacks in the wild. It may help the fact that Facebook is leaving Flash behind and it is adopting HTML5 (YouTube has done in the a recent past). “We recently switched to HTML5 from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs LATENTBOT, one the highly obfuscated backdoor in the wild Torrent websites infected 12 million Internet users per month Iranian Government says Daesh doesn’t pose a threat to Iran Gift cards and return merchandise fraud scheme Is Vuvuzela […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
At tonight’s Democratic national debate Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton calls tech companies to work on a new Manhattan Project for Encryption. At tonight’s Democratic national debate Hillary Clinton calls tech companies cooperate to create “a Manhattan-like project.” The US Government is expressing its concerns about the possible misuses of encryption that today represents a serious obstacle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
The hacking crew Phantom Squad announced a severe attack on PSN and Xbox Live networks, but SkidNP group defaced its website. A few days ago a group of hackers dubbed Phantom Squad announced that it will take down the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network platforms during the upcoming Christmas holidays, emulating the clamorous attack conducted last year […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
The FBI is investigating on the unauthorized code found in the operating system running on firewalls sold by Juniper Networks. The FBI confirmed that is investigating on the alleged breach of Juniper Networks VPN software that resulted in the introduction of unauthorized code in the OS running on Juniper firewalls. Juniper Networks makes communications equipment for enterprises […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2015
Basically all Dutch citizens who own a mobile phone are at risk of attack due to poor security practices at the Phone House. The freelance IT security consultant Sijmen Ruwhof discovered that personal info of more than 12 million Dutch mobile phone are open to cyber attacks. Ruwhof detailed all the security issues he noticed in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2015
The popular expert and Shodan creator John Matherly found over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on the Internet by vulnerable databases. Last week my old hosting provider GoDaddy created me a lot of problems so I had no opportunity to write about this interesting story, now I passed to a better provider and I […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2015
The researcher who hacked Instagram claims he was threatened by Facebook after he responsibly reported a series of security issues. Every platform is potentially hackable, even the armored Facebook and Instagram and the independent security researcher Wesley Weinberg has demonstrated it. Of course, if the hackers ethically report the flaw to the company usually nothing happen, but the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2015
A group of hackers known as VandaSec claims three ISIS Twitter accounts trace back to computers belonging to the UK government. According to the revelation of a group of hackers known as VandaSec, at least three Islamic State Twitter social media accounts are run from IP addresses linked to the British government’s Department for Work and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2015
Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that could allow remote code execution if the victim opens a specially crafted Office doc. Microsoft recently fixed a number of critical bugs with the last “Patch Tuesday” issued on December 8, including an update to the Microsoft Office suite to fix a number of security issues. One of the […]
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