Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2015
US Ports are still vulnerable to cyber attacks that release dangerous chemicals, cybersecurity in the maritime industry is crucial for Homeland security. Critical infrastructure across the world are vulnerable to cyber attacks, this is not novelty, but it is interesting to explore how many infrastructure is open to hacking assaults. US ports are also vulnerable to cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2015
Apple has removed mobile apps from the iOS Apple store that are installing root CA certificates that enable traffic to be intercepted. Apple has pulled several apps out from the official iOS App Store over SSL/TLS security concerns, this means that the security issues could allow threat actors to compromise encrypted connections between the servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Bogus PayPal App used to spread a banking Trojan Who is the unknown buyer that bought Adblock Extension IT Security in SMEs: Guidelines published by UNICRI Hacking drones by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
For the first time, hackers have been arrested in China by law enforcement at the behest of the US government. Is it true cooperation? It is probably the first time that Chinese authorities have arrested hackers in China following a request of the US Government. Two weeks, before the visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
Cyber Threat Summit 2015 – Study on criminal activities in the dark web.  “The Dark web – Why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous?” Also, this year I have participated as a speaker to the Cyber Threat Summit 2015 held in Dublid, an event aimed at senior CISO level delegates and senior executives […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2015
The Dow Jones firm confirmed to have suffered a data breach, payment card and contact info for less than 3,500 users have been exposed. At the end of the last week, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co disclosed a data breach affecting 3,500 people in a letter to customers. Dow Jones is a media company owned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2015
A group of researchers has demonstrated that the cost of breaking the SHA-1 hash algorithm is lower than previously estimated. The SHA-1 is still one of the most used cryptographic hash algorithm, but bad news for its supporters, a New Collision Attack Lowers Cost of Breaking it. The news is worrying, the cost and time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2015
A security researcher has discovered a serious vulnerability in Netgear router that could be exploited by attackers to change the DNS settings. Once again the NetGear Routers are in the headlines for a serious security issue, nearly 500o devices are exposed to DNS Monitoring. The security researcher Joe Giron has discovered a serious vulnerability in Netgear router […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2015
After acknowledging the problem that allowed the purchase of the google.com domain for $12, Google rewarded Sanmay Ved with an unknown amount of cash, but the generous man donated it. A few days ago I wrote about an incredible story of a man that bought the google.com and remained its owned for a few minutes. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2015
Security experts at Sucuri have uncovered threat actors abusing an XML-RPC method to run Brute-Force amplification attacks on WordPress websites. According to the experts at security firm Sucuri, threat actors are exploiting the XML-RPC protocol implemented by WordPress and other popular content management systems to run brute-force amplification attacks. The XML-RPC protocol allows users to […]
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