Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
A new report published by the popular investigator Brian Krebs show how cyber criminals have compromised chip-and-PIN technology. Recently chip-and-PIN technology started to be adopted in the US because it would improve the security for the customers, merchants and financial institutions. This is true, but the problem is that when the market pushes in one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
The Turkish security researchers Utku Sen has published the first open source ransomware  for educational purposes that anyone can use. Ransomware is now open Source and available in GitHub. Ransomware is one of most dangerous cyber threats for end-users, in the recent months the number of ransomware in the wild is increased as never before. Criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
By Exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol hackers can access every conversation and text message mobile users send from everywhere in the world. Hackers can spy on every mobile phone user wherever it is. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has revealed the existence of a security hole in modern telecommunication systems that could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2015
Kaspersky sustains the Reuters’s story on Antivirus false positives is based on information provided by anonymous former KL employees which are not reliable Some days ago, Reuters published a story about Kaspersky revealing that the Russian company was creating malicious codes to give them an upper hand against their direct competitors. Eugene Kaspersky in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 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. ZigBee-sniffing drone used to map online Internet of Things RollJam, a $30 device to unlock the majority of car doors Tesla tech top dog downs slug of Scotch, increases […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2015
A Study that will be presented at the USENIX Security Symposium shows that principal Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day. We all remind the operation Onymous and the seizure of several black markets operated by law enforcement last year, despite the enormous effort spent every day by the authorities the illicit activities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2015
According to two former employees the Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky has faked malware to harm competitors and cause false positive in their solutions. Two former employees, who requested anonymity, revealed that Kaspersky Lab tried to trick antivirus solutions of its competitors into flagging more false positives. Two anonymous former Kaspersky Lab employees told Reuters that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2015
US authorities have identified and arrested members of an international ring of hackers and stock traders specialized in the theft of trading info. The Department of Justice charged a group of nine hackers and stock traders in a criminal conspiracy with making more than $30 million in illegal trades based on exfiltrated data. At the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2015
Cisco is warning enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid admin credentials on IOS devices to install bogus ROMMON images. Be aware network administrators, Cisco released a new Security Activity Bulletin referring a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid credentials on IOS devices to log in as administrators […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2015
Carphone Warehouse disclosed a sophisticated attack that may have impacted more than 2.4 million customers. Attackers covered the breach with DDoS attacks. On Saturday Carphone Warehouse (CW) was reportedly swamped by hackers than may have accessed personal and financial details of around 2.4 million customers according to the mobile retailer. The data breach affects customers […]
