Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2013
It’s not a surprise South Korean security experts suggest that the North Korea military is training an elite force of “cyber warriors” to involve in cyber attacks against South institutions and companies. The South intelligence revelations follow continuous menaces of North Korea against U.S. Forces located in the Far East, the dictator Kim Jong-UN enhances […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2013
Researchers at Hacktive Security, an independent security consulting company, have demonstrated how much insidious could be a so a simple and crimeless large scale application. We are in the digital era, everything is connected to the large networks and applications benefit of even more complex devices that deeply interact with the owner, in this scenario […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2013
Israel is considered by various group of hacktivists an enemy state to fight, for this reason they decide a joint operation to start on April 7th as part of #OpIsrael. The attack started in 2012 against the protest against Israeli bombing of Palestinian territory, hacktivists are expressing full solidarity with the Palestinian people, the interest is high […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2013
Many times we discussed about large diffusion of mobile devices and of related cyber threats, around a months ago I presented the case of HTC mobile that revealed 18 million devices commercialized by Taiwanese company had security flaws that could exposes users to serious risks, in particular the bugs could allow the theft of information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2013
Sky is a brand names for satellite television providers and channels, owned or partially owned by News Corporation an American diversified multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City, United States. The IT specialist, Fabio Natalucci, published a blog post related a vulnerability on the Italian web site that allows an attacker to perform a brute force attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2013
The excellent researchers at ReVuln, Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante, presented at Black Hat Europe 2013 in Amsterdam a way to convert local bugs and features in remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities by using the popular EA Origin 3 platform as an attack vector against remote systems. EA Origin is one of the biggest gaming related digital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2013
As usual I was reading the news on The Hacker New security portal when a post attracted my attention, another security issue related to an IT giant, Google. The Indian penetration tester Ansuman Samantaray discovered a security flaw in Google drive that exposes millions of Google users to threat of phishing attacks. Too bad that Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2013
The news is curious as it is worrying, unknown hackers have violated the US government repository of standards based vulnerability management website, known as National Vulnerability Database (NVD), last week. The NVD website appears down since last Friday, fortunately while I’m writing is up again, the attackers have compromised at least two servers with a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2013
The Egyption hacker Virus_Hima hit again, he became famous in the latest months thanks the discovery of Adobe and Yahoo vulnerabilities. This hacker is an example, he supports the research and never tried to sell information on flaws discovered on the undergroud, he is a gray hat from which to learn, so it is for me! […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2013
Once again the security of large scale application and platform is challenged, today is the turn of Apple, in particular of its famous Apple store that according the Researchers Elie Bursztein was vulnerable for more than half year. The developer supported Apple to discovery and fix an important vulnerability that allowed to steal passwords and […]
