Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2016
Brussels explosions, dozens dead after blasts at Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro, it is a terror attack. Panic and chaos in the city. The IS claims the responsibility for the attack. This morning the Europe has fallen again in terror, just months after the Paris attacks a new wave of attacks hit the West. This morning a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2016
According to the recent Verizon breach digest for March 2016 hackers breached a water utility and manipulated systems for water treatment and flow control. The story that I’m telling you is very disturbing, according to the Verizon breach digest for March 2016 a group of hackers breached a water utility and manipulated systems for water treatment and flow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
Tor Project revealed how the organization has conducted a three-year long work to improve its ability to detect fraudulent software. The experts at the Tor Project are working to improve the resilience of the anonymizing network to cyber attacks, in particular, they aim to quickly detect any surveillance activity conducted by tempering the Tor system. The researchers fear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
The US authorities announced on Monday they may have found a way to unlock the San Bernardino shooters iPhone without the Apple’s help. The FBI says it may have discovered a method to bypass Apple security measures and unlock access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, and a today scheduled court hearing in the […]
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 […]
