Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017
The case of flying saucer – Highway to the Danger Drone

One of the most discussed topics these days are the various nefarious uses that a Drone can be put to or just flown where they shouldn’t be. 2016 has been an eventful year bagged with mixed sentiments around the US presidential election, Brexit and Global terrorism striking the World’s news outlets. Simultaneously not far behind […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017
Kaspersky fixing a serious problem with inspection digital certificates

Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a serious flaw that affects the Kaspersky antivirus software and the way it manages inspection digital certificates. Experts from Kaspersky are solving a problem that disabled certificate validation for 400 million users. The problem was spotted by the notorious Google hacker Tavis Ormandy, the vulnerability affects the Kaspersky antivirus software […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2017
Hacker held open MongoDB databases for ransom

A mysterious hacker is breaking into unprotected MongoDB databases, stealing their content, and asking for a ransom to return the data. Co-founder of the GDI Foundation Victor Gevers is warning of poor security for MongoDB installations in the wild. The security expert has discovered 196 instances of MongoDB that were wiped by crooks and being held for […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2017
Critical RCE vulnerabilities affect SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail

The security expert Dawid Golunski from Legal Hackers has reported critical RCE flaws in the popular PHP libraries SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail. Recently the security expert Dawid Golunski from Legal Hackers has reported a critical RCE vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-10033, in one of the popular open source PHP library, the PHPMailer. The critical vulnerability in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2017
#33C3- Changing travelers flight bookings is really too easy for hackers

Changing travelers flight bookings is too easy. Absolutely astounding the Karsten Nohl research on the insecurity of traveler flight information. The current travel booking systems is deeply insecure, it lacks of cyber security by design and the notorious hackers Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic have demonstrated it at the 33rd Chaos Communications Congress held in Hamburg […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2017
Hacker Interviews – @Docksing

Today I interview the notorious black hat hacker @Docksing, he is an authentic star of the hacking underground. Enjoy it! You are a popular talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about. It wouldn’t be smart to answer that, but if I were to participate, I wouldn’t put […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2017
Trump will soon reveal the truth about the alleged Russian hacking

President Donald J. Trump is expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of the Russian hacking and will provide more information very soon. The executive order issued by President Obama in retaliation of the alleged Russian interference on Presidential Election is raising a heated debate on the on the measures adopted by the US Government and its ability […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2017
A new iPhone bug will crash the Messages app with a single text

A researcher discovered that a single text message could be exploited to crash the Messages app by MMS on iOS due to a recently discovered bug A single text message could be exploited to disable the Messages app on any iPhone due to a recently discovered bug. The bug flaw makes the Apple Message app inoperable, making it […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2016
Alleged Russian operation has compromised a laptop at a Vermont utility

The code associated with Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration infected a laptop at a Vermont utility. Russian hackers are again in the headlines because according to US officials, they hacked a Vermont utility, raising concerns about the security of the electrical grid of the country. Researchers discovered on a laptop a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2016
#OpSingleGateway – Gh0s7 hacked Thai Government website in response to the recent arrests

#OpSingleGateway – The hacker Gh0s7 hacked the Thailand’s National Statistical Office (http://nso.go.th) in response to the recent arrests operated by the Government. The hacker Gh0s7 broke into the database of the Thailand’s National Statistical Office (http://nso.go.th ) and leaked data through the Mega service at the following URL https://mega.nz/#!F8o0kCLb!8C30-rqQip7cvKhf-af3xwNX6PXO6KGN9wDEon5XqEs The hacker acted alone, he decides to hack into a […]