Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
The hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Holdings announced Tuesday that cyber criminals stole credit card information from some of its point-of-sale systems. The hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Holdings admitted that crooks stole credit card information from some of its PoS systems, but hasn’t provided detailed info on the extent of the data breach. The company Hilton Worldwide is warning its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
Today, we will replicate a technique which has been used by recent, sophisticated and hard to trace a Russian malware called Hammertoss. Today, we will replicate a technique which has been used by recent, sophisticated and hard to trace a Russian malware called Hammertoss, the creators of this malware has abused multiple well-known sites like Twitter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
Pearson VUE, the world biggest learning, testing and certification company has announced that its Credential Manager system (PMC) has been breached. On their website, Pearson VUE gives us some details of what might have happened, even though they don’t share who is the responsible for this breach. “We recently were made aware that an unauthorized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
MagSpoof is a tiny device that can spoof/emulate any magnetic stripe or credit card. It can work wirelessly, even on standard magstripe/credit card readers. When dealing with hacking we cannot avoid mention the popular hacker Samy Kamkar (@SamyKamkar), one of the most prolific experts that periodically presents to the security community his astonishing creations, including the Combo Breaker, OpenSesame and KeySweeper. This time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
A new RAT dubbed GlassRAT was discovered by RSA, it targets mainly Chinese citizens working in multinational companies in and outside China. According to the experts at RSA a remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed GlassRAT managed to avoid detection by most antivirus software for several years. The researchers explained that GlassRAT was used by threat actors in highly targeted attacks, the threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
The hacker Shm00p claims he served as an FBI informant and helped the US law enforcement track down the hacker turned ISIS fighter Junaid Hussain. When dealing with ISIS and cyber capabilities, the first name that experts cite is Junaid Hussain, the hacker that was killed in a targeted US drone strike in August this year.Now new details on Junaid Hussain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
ModPOS is new POS malware discovered in systems of US retailers after the rush of Thanksgiving and experts speculate it is the most complex POS malware ever seen. A new POS malware was discovered in US retailers, after the rush of Thanksgiving, and it looks like millions of US bank cards were affected. The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate dubbed eDellRoot that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Dell is in the headlines for shipping PCs with a pre-installed trusted root certificate that opens users to a number of cyber attacks. Hackers could exploit it to compromise the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
Newly disclosed documents show that the NSA had found a way to continue spying on American citizens’ email traffic from overseas. The NSA continued to spy on the email messages of Americans, once again the US government has conducted a massive surveillance on the US soil. To curb internal law the US intelligence has is used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
A new security audit the TrueCrypt software confirmed that even if it is plagued by some vulnerabilities, the application is effective when it comes to protecting data. TrueCrypt, secure or insecure … that is the question. A group of Ten auditors from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology has conducted a six-month audit of TrueCrypt […]
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