Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2017
Selena Gomez Instagram hacked! Hackers post Bieber nude photos

Selena Gomez Instagram account has reportedly been hacked. Nude photos of singer Justin Bieber have been published by hackers. Unknown hackers have compromised the Instagram account owned by Selena Gomez and posted nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The hack doesn’t seem to be associated with the recent Fappening 2017 hack or previous Fappening cases that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2017
Onliner Spambot – More than 711 Million email addresses open and accessible online

An archive containing more than 630 million email addresses used by the spambot server dubbed ‘Onliner Spambot’  has been published online. The Onliner Spambot dump is the biggest one of its kind, it was discovered by the security researcher who goes online with the handle Benkow. The database was hosted on an “open and accessible” server in Netherlands containing a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2017
Experts found an undocumented Kill Switch in Intel Management Engine

Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disables the Intel Management Engine. Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disables the CPU control mechanism Intel Management Engine 11. The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, in conjunction […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2017
Hacking SAP POS systems with a $25 Raspberry Pi

A $25 Raspberry Pi or similar tiny PCs could be used to hack SAP POS systems due to a critical vulnerability. SAP POS is client-server technology that belongs to the SAP for Retail line-up, it is widely adopted, it has been estimated that it is used by 80 per cent of the retailers in the Forbes […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2017
India and Pakistan hit by state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign

The security firm Symantec has discovered another cyber espionage campaign against India and Pakistan which is likely to be state-sponsored. Security experts at Symantec have uncovered a sustained cyber spying campaign against Indian and Pakistani entities involved in regional security issues. The nature of the targets and the threat actors’ techniques suggest it is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2017
Chinese APT17 group leverages fake Game of Thrones leaks as lures

Researchers at Proofpoint spotted a cyber espionage campaign leveraging recent Game of Thrones episode leaks and attribute it to Chinese APT17 group. Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign leveraging recent Game of Thrones episode leaks to trick victims into opening malicious documents sent via email. Experts have observed during the past week, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2017
Google mistake is the root cause of Internet Outage in Japan

A widespread internet disruption occurred in Japan on Friday, Google error it the main cause of the Internet outage that caused the panic in the country. Google error it the root cause of a widespread Internet outage in Japan that lasted for about an hour on Friday, August 25. The incident was caused by a BGM […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2017
Zimperium researcher released an iOS Kernel Exploit PoC

Zimperium Researcher Adam Donenfeld released an iOS Kernel Exploit PoC that can be used to gain full control of iOS mobile devices. Researcher Adam Donenfeld of mobile security firm Zimperium published a Proof-of-concept (PoC) for recently patched iOS vulnerabilities that can be chained to gain full control of iOS mobile devices. The expert called the PoC […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2017
Tor relay of a Brazilian University was banned after harvesting .onions

The Tor relay of a Brazilian University was banned by the Tor administrators because it was spotted collecting the .onion addresses of visitors. A team of researchers from a Brazilian University of Campinas in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, has had its Tor relay node banned because it was spotted collecting the .onion addresses of visitors. Marcus Rodrigues, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2017
More than 1,700 valid Telnet credentials for IoT devices leaked online

Security researchers are warning of the availability online of a list of IoT devices and associated telnet credentials. The list has been available on Pastebin since June, but last week it was also shared via Twitter by the researcher Ankit Anubhav becoming rapidly viral. The original list was posted by someone who has previously published […]