Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
Google released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting its OS. Google has released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting the kernel of the Android OS of certain devices. The vulnerability is ranked as critical and can be exploited by rooting applications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
The Danish intelligence agency FE (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste) plans to start its Danish hacker academy to fight threat actors in the cyberspace. Denmark’s FE (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste), the country’s intelligence agency, announced last week plans to create a government ‘hacker academy’ in response to the need to improve country cyber security. The Danish hacker academy is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
Last week at the CeBIT the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Last week at the CeBIT conference held in Hanover, the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Unfortunately, many security professionals provided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
A group of researchers found an iOS zero-day that would let a skilled attacker decrypt photos and videos that were sent as secure instant messages. The bad news is that Matthew Green, a professor at Johns Hopkins University revealed that a zero-day vulnerability in iOS encryption allows skilled attackers to decrypt intercepted iMessages, the good […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
The online editions of principal Swedish newspapers were knocked out for several hours by a cyber attack during the weekend. The websites if a Swedish were shut down in the weekend due to an “extremely dangerous and serious” cyber attack. The websites hit by the hackers are the Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Aftonbladet, Dagens Industri, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
Trend Micro discovered a Business Email Compromise Campaign leveraging on the Olympic Vision keylogger that targets Middle East and Asia Pacific Companies. A new malware-based campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the US, Middle East and Asia. The attackers are using malware in a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Swiss Peopleâs Party confirmed that they have been the target of hackers who have stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. A group of hackers, which calls itself NSHC, claims to have hacked the Switzerlandâs largest party, the conservative Swiss Peopleâs Party (SVP), and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. The cracked archive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Anonymous Hacker collective claims to publish Donald Trumpâs personal information, including Social Security Number and addresses. Alleged members of the Anonymous collective have leaked Donald Trumpâs already public âprivateâ phone numbers and other information online. The hackers have leaked also addresses, including the one of the Palm Beach residence in Florida, and social security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Ukranian power blackout has demonstrated the worrying effects of the SCADA hacking, other countries like UK fear similar attacks. All the warnings from security experts throughout the years have unfortunately been disregarded, when it comes to the hackersâ threats in strategical spots, such as that of power generation. As a result, hackers have acted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Chris Vickery has discovered online the database of the Kinoptic iOS app, which was abandoned by developers, with details of over 198,000 users. The security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered a database belonging to an abandoned iOS app, the Kinoptic iOS app, that is exposing on the Internet personal details of over 198,000 users. The Kinoptic iOS app allowed […]
