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 “rgod,”, 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 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. Uber logins available for sale in the Deep Web Thousands of WordPress sites hacked by exploiting a flaw in RevSlider plugin British Airways Executive Club members accounts compromised Sheep […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2015
Motherboard published an interesting report on an espionage campaign led by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against the opponents of the Syrian Government. Today I decided to present a very interesting story published by Lorenzo Francesco Bicchierai on Motherboard. It is a story about intelligence activities and how hacking supported them. Let’s start from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2015
Gmail and Google Apps have noticed on Saturday that the Google Internet Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate. On Saturday April 4, the Google Internet Certificate Authority G2 has become untrusted due to an expired digital certificate in the chain of trust. The Google Internet Authority G2 is an essential component of the Google PKI […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2015
Android presented its Security State of the Union 2014 and confirmed that the number of infections have been halved in a year due to Google’s improvements. Google confirmed that malware infections have been halved in a year due to security upgrades for the Android mobile platform. Android security engineer Adrian Ludwig explained in a blog post that […]
