Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
iPhone Apps you granted camera access can secretly take photos and record video

A serious privacy issue in iPhone that could be exploited by iOS app developers to silently take your photos and record your live video by enabling cameras. Do you use an iPhone? If yes, there is probably something that you need to know about it! The Austrian developer and Google engineer, Felix Krause, has discovered a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
New Dutch legal framework could cause Mozilla to take off the Dutch CA from its trust list.

Mozilla would remove the Dutch CA, the CA of the Staat de Nederlanden, from its trust list due to the new national legal framework. The Dutch Information and Security Services Act will come into force in January 2018 and one of the main effects of the new legal framework is that country’s certificate authority, CA of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
Industrial Products of many vendors still vulnerable to KRACK attack

Many industrial networking devices from various vendors are still vulnerable to the recently disclosed KRACK attack (Key Reinstallation Attack). Many industrial networking devices are vulnerable to the recently disclosed KRACK attack (Key Reinstallation Attack), including products from major vendors such as Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Sierra Wireless. A few weeks ago, researchers discovered several key management flaws […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
Hashcat 4.0.0 now can crack passwords and salts up to length 256

The new version of the tool, Hashcat 4.0.0 release is now available and includes the support to crack passwords and salts up to length 256. Hashcat is likely the world’s fastest password recovery tool that is released as free software. It is available for Windows, Linux and OS X, and it is distributed as CPU-based […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2017
Mysterious hack allows attackers stealing Windows login credentials without user interaction

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal Windows login credentials without any user interaction. Microsoft fixed a serious vulnerability that could allow attackers to steal Windows NTLM password hashes without any user interaction. The tech giant patched the issues only for recent versions Windows (Windows 10 and Server 2016), to trigger the flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2017
Bad Rabbit Ransomware leverages the NSA Exploit for lateral movements

Malware researchers at Cisco Talos team discovered the Bad Rabbit Ransomware leverages EternalRomance to propagate in the network. New precious details emerge from the analysis of malware researchers at Cisco Talos and F-Secure who respectively discovered and confirmed the presence an NSA exploit in the Bad Rabbit ransomware. On October 24, hundreds of organizations worldwide were hit by the Bad Rabbit […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Microsoft releases the open-source scanning tool Sonar

Microsoft announced the availability of Sonar, an open source linting and website scanning tool that was developed by the Microsoft Edge team. The open source tool was designed to allow developers to identify and solve performance and security issues, it is available on GitHub. The Microsoft Edge team donated Sonar to the JS Foundation, the tech giant will […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Hackers broke into the celeb London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic

The celeb London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic confirmed in a statement that it has been the victim of a cyber attack. The story I’m going to tell you shows the risks of cyber attacks to users’ privacy, a plastic surgery clinic frequented by celebrities suffered a security data breach. The clinic is the London Bridge Plastic […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Krebs reported that Dell lost Control of dellbackupandrecoverycloudstorage Domain in June 2017

The popular investigator Brian Krebs reported that the tech giant Dell lost the control of dellbackupandrecoverycloudstorage domain in June 2017. It is really embarrassing, Dell forgot to renew the domain www.dellbackupandrecoverycloudstorage.com name that was used by the tech giant to install operating systems on the PC it has sold. The incident was discovered by a third-party […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2017
Kaspersky: Hackers used backdoored MS Office key-gen to steal NSA exploits

According to Kaspersky, the PC was hacked after the NSA employee installed a backdoored key generator for a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. More details emerge from the story of the hack of the Kaspersky antivirus that allowed Russian intelligence to stole secret exploits from the personal PC of the NSA staffer. The PC was […]