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Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017

Hacker Interview – Jonturk 75 – JRB

Today I have the pleasure to interview Jonturk 75 one of the hackers that hit high profile targets, including the notorious hacker group OurMine. Jonturk 75 and the hacker group he takes part in have recently made the headlines news with a series of attacks against high profile targets. Following CNN and Reuters hacks they’ve recently defaced […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017

DolphinAttack – Hackers control Siri, Google Now, Alexa voice assistants with ultrasound

The DolphinAttack technique allows hackers to control Siri, Google Now, Alexa and other voice assistants with commands in ultrasonic frequencies. A team of researchers from the Chinese Zhejiang University has demonstrated how to control several popular speech recognition systems using ultrasound. The attack technique was dubbed ‘DolphinAttack’, it was successfully tested against Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Now, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017

PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting lack of security

The European biggest hacker collective Chaos Computer Club demonstrated that PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. According to a study conducted by the hacker collective Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. The experts have found several vulnerabilities in the voting software adopted by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2017

Dragonfly 2.0: the sophisticated attack group is back with destructive purposes

While the first Dragonfly campaigns appear to have been a more reconnaissance phase, the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign seems to have destructive purposes. Symantec has spotted a new wave of cyber attacks against firms in the energy sector powered by the notorious Dragonfly group. The Dragonfly group, also known as Energetic Bear, has been active since at […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017

Boffins found multiple flaws in Mobile Bootloaders using custom tool BootStomp

Boffins have discovered a series of code execution and denial of service flaws in the bootloaders of popular mobile platforms using custom tool BootStomp. A group of nine researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara researchers has discovered a number of code execution and denial of service flaw in the bootloaders of Android chipsets from six vendors. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017

ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month

The dreaded hacking group ShadowBrokers posted a new message, promising to deliver two data dumps a month as part its monthly dumps. The notorious group ShadowBrokers is back with announcing new interesting changes to their Dump Service. The hackers published a new message on the Steemit platform announcing new changed to their service. “Missing theshadowbrokers? If someone […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017

Another unsecured AWS S3 bucket exposed 4 million Time Warner Cable subscriber records

Experts reported that the AWS S3 storage containing subscriber data was left open by freelancers who handled web applications for the Time Warner Cable. A few days ago, researchers discovered of thousands of resumes of US Military and intel contractors left unsecured on an Amazon server, now roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017

Struts CVE-2017-9805 RCE flaw could be exploited to take over vulnerable servers

Critical vulnerability CVE-2017-9805 in Apache Struts could be exploited by attackers to take over affected web servers. Security researchers at LGTM (lgtm.com) have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache Struts that could be exploited by a remote attacker to run malicious code on the vulnerable servers. “Security researchers at lgtm.com have discovered a critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2017

Other 26,000 MongoDB servers hit in a new wave of ransom attacks

Security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers confirmed other 26,000 MongoDB servers were hit in a new wave of ransom attacks. Ransom attacks on MongoDB databases revamped over the weekend after an apparent pause. According to the security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers, three new groups appeared on the threat landscape and hijacked over 26,000 servers, one of them, in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2017

Taringa Data Breach, over 28 Million users affected

The data breach notification website LeakBase reported to the colleagues at THN the Taringa data breach, over 28 Million users’ data exposed. Taringa, also known as ‘The Latin American Reddit’, is a popular social network used by netizens in Latin America to create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics. The data breach notification […]

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Hacker Interview – Jonturk 75 – JRB

DolphinAttack – Hackers control Siri, Google Now, Alexa voice assistants with ultrasound

PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting lack of security

Dragonfly 2.0: the sophisticated attack group is back with destructive purposes

Boffins found multiple flaws in Mobile Bootloaders using custom tool BootStomp

ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month

Another unsecured AWS S3 bucket exposed 4 million Time Warner Cable subscriber records

Struts CVE-2017-9805 RCE flaw could be exploited to take over vulnerable servers

Other 26,000 MongoDB servers hit in a new wave of ransom attacks

Taringa Data Breach, over 28 Million users affected

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