Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
On Tuesday evening Github became aware of unauthorized attempts to access a large number of its accounts, in response the company has reset their passwords. GitHub announced it has reset the passwords of a number of accounts after the company noticed unauthorized access. The hackers used credentials leaked online after the numerous data breaches suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
The FBI disclosed the data related Business e-mail compromise (BEC) crimes, hackers sought to steal over $3 billion through this illegal practice. Business e-mail compromise – BEC crimes are a serious problem for companies, hackers have sought to steal more than $3.1 billion from businesses exploiting this practice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently warned. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
The Democratic National Committee’s network was hacked by Russian hackers belonging to nation-state groups that have had access to the group’s communications and databases. Yesterday, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrikeâs incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers âsome […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited the zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. According to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, an APT group dubbed ScarCruft exploited a zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) in Adobe Flash Player. The group launched a series of attacks against high-profile targets against entities in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
In February Verticalscope platform was hacked and more than 45 Million passwords from  1,000 websites running on it have been leaked online. Data breaches, a never ending saga! Recently we reported a number of clamorous data breaches, hundred thousand million credentials were offered for sale in dark web. LinkedIn, mySpace, VKontakte, and Twitter are some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Cyber criminals are offering for sale a hi-tech gadget named Contactless Infusion X5t to scan nearby contactless payment cards and clone them. The British Daily Mail published an interesting article on a new gadget used by crooks to clone up to 15 contactless bank cards a second from victims, and it can do it by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Security researchers have found a vulnerability that could allow attackers to send massive messages on Telegram bypassing its limitations. Security researchers have devised a method to send massive messages on Telegram. The experts have found a flaw that allows them so send messages of any size as showed in the proof-of-concept provided by the researchers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
The âheterogony of endâ is a famous expression formulated in 1886 by the German philosopher Wihelm Wundt, what about the Hacking Team case? After the hack of the controversial government spying and hacking tool vendor Hacking Team by an outside attacker, a large  numbers of media headlines worldwide reported the events. [1,2,3] The hacker announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2016
Is Two-factor authentication the solution for any kind of hacks? A text message could be used to take over your Google Account. Following the recent data breaches suffered by IT giants (e.g. MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter) security experts are inviting users to avoid sharing login credentials on multiple websites and to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) when it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2016
Experts from Cisco Talos team have improved their decryptor tool to allow the recovery of files encrypted by all the Teslacrypt Ransomware variants In May, criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware leaked online the master encryption key that allowed security experts to develop a decryption tool for the last variant of the threat. âIn surprising end to TeslaCrypt, […]
