Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Experts at ElevenPaths, a Telefonica’s cyber security unit, provided further details on political cyberattacks leveraging on advanced malicious codes. On 19 July at 11pm Ankara time, Wikileaks published the first emails that were grabbed from the Turkish AKP. The organization led by Julian Assange, being in line with its policy on publication of secret information, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint and you may think that nobody can unlock it without the code, right? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Banks and financial institution in the UK are reportedly failing to disclose the full extent security breaches they are experiencing. UK banks are reportedly failing to disclose the full extent of the number and nature of security incidents they are experiencing due to a fear of financial punishment and negative publicity. Banking execs and security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Experts from the White Fir Design discovered cybe rcriminals exploited a zero-day flaw in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress to upload a backdoor. According to the experts from the firm White Fir Design, crooks exploited a zero-day flaw in an e-commerce plugin for WordPress to upload backdoors to affected websites. The plugin is WP Marketplace, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
“VeraCrypt is much safer after this audit, and the fixes applied to the software mean that the world is safer when using this software.” The security researcher Jean-Baptiste Bédrune from Quarkslab and the cryptographer Marion Videau have discovered a number of security vulnerabilities in the popular encryption platform VeraCrypt. A new audit of the disk-encryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
The group calling itself The Shadow Brokers who hacked the NSA-linked Equation Group announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign for the stolen arsenal. This summer the hacker group Shadow Brokers hacked the NSA-linked group known as the Equation Group and leaked 300 Mb of hacking tools, exploits, and implants. The Shadow Brokers launched an all-pay auction for the full archive containing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2016
NRSC hack – A platform used by the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the donations was hacked and donors’ financial data have been exposed. Other rumors around the Presidential Election, once again, it’s a hacking story in the headlines, the NRSC hack. Donations sent to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) between March 16 and October 5, 2016 on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Symantec observed a significant increase in the number of email-based attacks using malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachments. Experts from Symantec are observing a significant increase in the number of email-based attacks leveraging malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachments. Over the past three months, threat actors have adopted the tactic in the wild, mostly criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
The US Government is thinking of a possible cyber strike against the Kremlin in response to the alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election. A few days ago the US Government has formally accused the Russian Government of trying to interfere in the 2016 Political Election. Washington is officially accusing Russia trying to interfere the 2016 US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2016
Hackers have leaked online over 58 million customer records from data storage firm Modern Business Systems, but the situation could be more severe. 58 million customer records have been leaked online by hackers, the huge trove of data seems to come from a data storage firm. The records include personal information such as names, dates of […]
