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Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Top Secret US Army and NSA documents left exposed on Amazon S3 bucket

The experts from the security firm UpGuard have discovered another S3 bucket containing documents from INSCOM, that is a joint US Army and NSA agency. A couple of weeks ago sensitive data from the US Army’s CENTCOM and PACOM divisions was exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, experts from the security firm UpGuard found terabytes of US military social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Google detects Android Tizi Spyware that spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram

Google identified a new family of Android malware dubbed Tizi spyware by using Google Play Protect, it spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. In May, Google introduced the defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the Android devices, it implements a machine learning and app usage analysis to identify any malicious activity on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Hackers can easily target container ships by hacking load plans due to its vulnerable messaging system

Ship loading and container load plans are vulnerable to hack because are created without using a secure messaging system. Transportation is not immune from hacking attacks, aircraft and vessels can be compromised by cyber criminals and nations state actors exactly like any other system. Today let’s speak about ship loading and container load plans that are […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Bulletproof 360 website was hacked. Personal and financial data exposed

The website of the coffee vendor Bulletproof 360 was infected with a malware that stole customers’ financial and personal data. The firm Bulletproof 360, Inc. manufactures coffee and tea products, and dietary supplements for upgrading mind and body. It serves customers online, as well as through stores in the United States and internationally. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Op In Our Sites – Europol and other agencies seize over 20,500 domains for selling counterfeit products

An joint operation conducted by Europol and other law enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of more than 20,520 domains for selling counterfeit products. The operation, dubbed “In Our Sites (Project TransAtlantic VIII),” allowed to seize domains that were offering for sale any kind of counterfeit product, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
US indicts Chinese hackers belonging to APT3 for espionage on Siemens and Moody’s

US authorities have filed official charges against three Chinese hackers part of the elite cyber-espionage unit APT3. US authorities charged three China-based hackers for stealing sensitive information from US based companies, including Siemens AG, and accessing a high-profile email account at Moody’s. The three Chinese citizens, Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, work for the Chinese cybersecurity company […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
The energy used to mine Bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of almost 160 countries

According to PowerCompare.co.uk, the electricity used to mine Bitcoin this year is bigger than the annual usage of almost 160 countries. While the price of cryptocurrencies such as the Bitcoin continues to increase the interest of investors and crooks in this new industry is demonstrated by disconcerting data that I’m going to share with you. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
Researcher found a vulnerability in Facebook polls that allowed removal of any photo

The Iran-based security researcher Pouya Darabi discovered a method to delete any photo from Facebook exploiting a flaw in the polling feature. The Iran-based security researcher Pouya Darabi received a $10,000 bounty from Facebook after reporting a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to delete any photo from the social network. Early this month, the social network […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
Unix mailer Exim is affected by RCE, DoS vulnerabilities. Apply the workaround asap

The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
A Verge specific node wallets hacked, crooks stole $655,000 from CoinPouch XVG Verge wallets

CoinPouch publicly disclosed the hack of a Verge specific node wallets and the theft if $655,000 from its XVG Verge wallets. A mystery surrounds the recent hack of CoinPouch wallet app, users lost over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, the maintainers of the CoinPouch multi-currency wallet app  published a statement that disclosed a security breach […]