Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
Security experts from SCADA StrangeLove group disclosed SCADAPASS, a list of default credentials for ICS and SCADA systems. Recently I wrote about the SCADA StrangeLove research team reporting their study on the level of cyber security implemented in modern railroad systems . Now the SCADA StrangeLove group has published a list of default credentials, dubbed âSCADAPASS,â associated with industrial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2016
The zero-day exploit broker Zerodium is offering up to $100,000 to security experts who can provide an exploit for bypassing the Flash heap isolation. Once again, the zero-day exploit trader Zerodium is in the headlines, this time the company is offering $100,000 for the Flash Exploit Mitigation bypass. Adobe announced in December the introduction of several Recently Adobe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
Hackers cause power outage with the BlackEnergy malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act? Cyber security of ICS e SCADA systems in the critical infrastructure is essential, these components are a privileged target of cyber criminals and state sponsor hackers. The most popular SCADA attack in the history is the one conducted against control systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2016
After many years, Microsoft admitted that Chinese authorities hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to Chinaâs Tibetan and Uighur minorities. After many years, Microsoft finally concluded that Chinese authorities indeed hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to Chinaâs Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, but at the time did not warn the users, allowing the victims to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2016
According to data provided by the CVE Details Apple Mac OS X is the software with the highest number of vulnerabilities in 2015. Which is the software with the greatest number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? You will be surprised to know that the software with the major number of vulnerabilities is the Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2016
Alleged Turkish hackers have taken over the Russian Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforovâs Instagram account. Events in the cyberspace are strictly correlated with facts in the real life, in many cases, disputes between countries are associated with numerous cyber events that could be analyzed by intelligence analysts. The recent crisis in Crimea between Russia and Ukraine is just […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2016
@FFD8FFDB is a Twitter bot that spies on poorly configured cameras tweeting the images captured by the connected devices. There is an air of mystery when you first notice @FFD8FFDB. However, the next thing you will see is that really gets on to you. There is a strange Twitter account, @FFD8FFDB, that every few minute tweets pictures taken […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2016
A group of hackers named “New World Hackers” claims the DDoS attack on BBC’s website. They launched it to test their attack capabilities. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2016
The hacking crew dubbed Fail0verflow has managed to hack PlayStation 4 (PS4) to run a Linux kernel-based operating system. The PlayStation 4 is considered by the experts a fortress so the hacking community is always interested in any news regarding its hack. Recently a hacker who calls himself CTurt claimed to develop a fully jailbroken version of the PlayStation 4 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2016
A team of researchers has evaluated the level of cyber security implemented in modern railroad systems and discovered several vulnerabilities. A team of experts composed of Sergey Gordeychik, Alexander Timorin and Gleb Gritsai of SCADA StrangeLove, recently disclosed their findings at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) in Germany. Railroads belong to the critical infrastructure of a […]
