Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2016
Leakedsource breach notification service reported two Bitcoin Data Breaches

Now LeakedSource disclosed details from two Bitcoin data breaches that affected the bitcoin exchange BTC-E.com and the discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. The data breach notification service LeakedSource is becoming familiar to my readers, recently it reported the data breach suffered by many IT services, including Last.fm and DropBox, both occurred in 2012. Now LeakedSource disclosed details from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2016
Hacker Interviews – The Riddler, the founder of the BinarySec Group

Today I present you the Riddler, aka Binary, the founder of the BinarySec group, a hacker collective focused in the fight against the ISIS propaganda online. Enjoy the Interview. You are a popular talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about. Could you tell me which his […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2016
The notorious Hacker Guccifer sentenced 52 months in US prison

The notorious Romanian hacker Guccifer has been sentenced to 52 months in prison by a US court for aggravated identity theft and hacking. The notorious Romanian hacker Guccifer has been sentenced to prison by a US court. Marcel Lehel Lazar (44), this is the real name of Guccifer, has been sentenced to 52 months in prison […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2016
Apple issued fixes for Pegasus spyware bugs in OS X, Safari. Apply it now!

Apple issued security fixes for Mac OS X and Safari to patch zero-day flaws exploited by Pegasus spyware to spy on mobile users. A few days ago, we reported a detailed analysis of the Trident exploit that triggers three vulnerabilities in order to remotely hack Apple mobile devices through the installation of the Pegasus spyware. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2016
Roughly 43 Million Last.fm accounts were stolen in a 2012 security breach

According to the breach notification service LeakedSource roughly 43 million Last.fm accounts were compromised in a 2012 incident. In June 2012, the online music service Last.fm was compromised by hackers, in response the company notified the incident to its users inviting them to change their passwords. Some experts speculated the security breach took place several […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Speaking with Lorenzo MartĂ­nez

Today I have the pleasure to share with you the interview with one of the most popular Spanish cyber security experts, Lorenzo Martinez. Enjoy it! Lorenzo Martinez is the CTO of Securizame, a Spanish security company fully oriented to consultancy, ethical hacking, forensics and security trainings. He is also one of the four editors and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms

In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
USBee exfiltrates data from air-Gapped networks via electromagnetic emission from USB

A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. Mordechai Guri, head of  R&D at Ben-Gurion’s Cyber Security Center and the chief scientist officer at Morphisec Endpoint Security, and his team have devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
Hacker Interviews – NorthScripts from P0werfulGreakArmy

NorthScripts is one of the members of the PøwerfulGreəkArmy hacker group, a young team that conducted several hacking campaigns against multiple targets. Enjoy the interview! Could you tell me more about you? Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking?  I started hacking in 2013, but got better in 2015 when I […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
Dropbox Data Breach, more than 68 Million account details leaked online

A DropBox data breach occurred in 2012 is forcing the company to reset login passwords for users included in a data dump leaked online. Another clamorous data breach is in the headlines, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Earlier this week, Dropbox […]