Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2016
Security researchers at the MIT designed an Artificial Intelligence system called AI2 that is able to detect 85 percent of attacks. While the number of cyber attacks continues to increase it is becoming even more difficult to detect and mitigate them in order to avoid serious consequences. A group of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2016
Security experts eavesdropped and geographic tracked a US Congressman only using his phone number by abusing the SS7 protocol. Hackers eavesdropped and geographic tracked a US Congressman only using his phone number. Security experts will be no surprised, I wrote many articles on the topic explaining that security flaws in the SS7 protocol could be exploited by an attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2016
Experts analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious RTF documents created using the same Four Element Sword builder. Security experts at Arbor Networksâ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have spotted a tool used in advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks against organizations in East Asia. The researchers have analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious Rich […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2016
IBM Security has warned the WordPress community about a spike in the number of attacks leveraging a specific variant of the PHP C99 Webshell. Security experts at IBM reported a spike in the number of cyber attacks pushing a variant of the popular C99 webshell in February and March, a 45 percent increase compared to the previous period. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2016
A group of experts at VoidSec used a Grey Box approach to assess the security posture of some important aspects of Avactis PHP Shopping Cart. Avactis is an open source ecommerce Shopping Cart platform most used in US and UK. Security experts from VoidSec analyzed the e-commerce software discovered an impressive number of vulnerabilities. The group of experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2016
The hacker PhineasFisher published a detailed explanation of how he has hacked the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team. In July 2015, the surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a serious security breach, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data (including emails, internal documents, and exploit source code), but since now no news regarding the attack was disclosed. Now the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2016
New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discovered hacking the mechanism of the extraction in order to predict the winning tickets. According to new details revealed by The Des Moines Register, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2016
The Italian law enforcement corp Carabinieri and the Europol have dismantled an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming. Last Week, the Italian law enforcement corp Carabinieri, in a joint operation with the Europol, has dismantled an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming, forgery of documents and money laundering. The operation was codenamed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2016
Two security researchers from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way exposing sensitive data. The security researchers Vitaly Shmatikov and Martin Georgiev from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way, and this could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. The duo analyzed the most popular URL shorteners, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2016
Apple abandons the support for the Windows version of quicktime, everyone should follow Appleâs guidance to uninstall it to avoid attacks. It is official, Apple will no longer provide security updates for the Windows version of the popular QuickTime. It is important to uninstall the product that remains vulnerable to cyber attacks, recently experts discovered […]
