Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2017
Microsoft has announced that the SMBv1 SMBloris bug described at DEF CON won’t be patched because it could be fixed simply blocking incoming connections. Recently security researchers at RiskSense have identified a 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability they called SMBloris (a nod to the Slowloris DoS attack.), they presented their findings at the recent DEF CON hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2017
Hackers attending Def Con hacking conference were invited to hack into voting machines used in US past elections to assess their level of security. DEF CON 2017 –  Are voting systems secure? In August 2016, the FBI issued a “flash” alert to election officials across the country confirming that foreign hackers have compromised state election systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2017
The hacker ‘Plore’ demonstrated that it possible to bypass security measures implemented by German manufacturer Armatix for its smart gun. The story I’m going to tell you demonstrates how fragile could be smart objects, some times cheap and off-the-shelf devices could be used to compromise them. This is the case of certain models of smart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2017
A security researcher demonstrated how to use a pocket-sized microcomputer BBC’s Micro:bit to take control of a quadcopter drone. In a talk at the at year’s DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, Damien Cauquil, a security researcher at Econocom Digital Security, demonstrated how to use a pocket-sized microcomputer such BBC’s Micro:bit to sniff out keystrokes from a wireless keyboard or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2017
A team of security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent has once again demonstrated how to remotely hack a Tesla Model vehicle. Security researchers from Chinese firm Tencent have once again demonstrated how to remotely hack a Tesla Model vehicle. Once the experts reported the flaws to the car makers it promptly patched them. In a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2017
BlackHat 2017 – Security expert at Positive Technologies claims ApplePay vulnerable to two distinct attacks. At the Black Hat USA hacking conference,  security researchers from Positive Technologies announced to have devised two distinct attacks against ApplePay exploiting weaknesses in the mobile payment method. ApplePay is considered today one of the most secure payment systems, but Positive Technologies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
Experts discovered flaws in widely deployed Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs) that could be triggered to raise false alarms and worse. This week at Black Hat in Las Vegas, researchers at information security firm IO Active, disclosed their findings on radiation monitoring devices from Ludum, Mirion, and Digi that were found to contain multiple unpatched vulnerabilities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
BLACK HAT USA – Experts show how hackers can cause physical damage to vehicles and injure drivers by remotely hacking a connected car washing machines. What about hacking into Internet-connected car wash machines? It is a scarring scenario, hackers from anywhere in the world could transform car washing machines into death traps. In a talk at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2017
Wikileaks published another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak, it includes details of the Imperial project. Today another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak was published by Wikileaks. The documents are related to a CIA project codenamed ‘Imperial,’ they include details of three CIA hacking tools and implants that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2017
Security researchers at RiskSense have identified a 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability they are calling SMBloris, a DEF CON Talk Will Expose it. Server Message Block (SMB) has been a foundational piece of Microsoft Windows’ networking all the way back to the LAN Manager days, facilitating “shared access to files, printers and serial ports.” It is […]
