Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The Tor officially announced to launch the Tor Bug Bounty Program in the next year, a great news for the Tor community. The non-profit organization that is maintaining the TOR project plans to launch very soon a Tor Bug Bounty Program for researchers who find vulnerabilities in the popular anonymizing platform. This is a great for all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2015
If you login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account you have to know that your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key. New Windows computers implement a built-in disk encryption feature that is turned on by default to protect user data in case the device is lost or stolen. Be aware, this device encryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2015
Adobe has released security patches for Adobe Flash Player to fix critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take control of the affected system. Adobe released an emergency patch for Flash Zero-Day (CVE-2015-8651) that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks. The out-of-band security update issued on Monday fix a number of security vulnerabilities that could be exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a misconfigured archive exposes the personal details of 191 million U.S. voters. A misconfigured database is the root cause of the exposure of around 191 Million voter records. The records include voters’ full names, unique voter IDs, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
Experts at Symantec discovered that hackers quickly take advantage of CVE-2015-8562 remote code execution to compromise Joomla servers. Joomla recently patched the CVE-2015-8562 vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers for remote code execution. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, hundreds of attacks are now taking place. âWhat is very concerning is that this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
Which are the main events observed in the darkweb during the 2015 and what to expect in the next 12 months? The DarkWeb is a set of publicly accessible content that are hosted on websites whose IP address is hidden, but to which anyone can access it as long as it knows the address. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2015
Two German security experts have exposed a number of serious flaws in credit card payment systems that put users at risk. The duo of German security experts, Karsten Nohl  and Fabian Braunlein, found a new vulnerability in payment terminals that could be exploited by hackers to steal money. Differently from past attacks, this time, the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2015
The Tel Aviv-based Rayzone Group is offering for sale a gadget called InterApp that can intercept and exfiltrate information from nearby smartphones. InterApp is a device designed by the Israeli Rayzone Group that can spy on any smartphone. “InterApp system enables to get intimate information of any phone user, which is in the systemâs ,proximity. The collected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2015
As a result of a configuration change a security issue allowed some Steam users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. Bad news for the popular community of Steam gamers, some of the users are facing serious security issues. Several users online reported to be able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2015
The Phantom Squad started the attacks on the PlayStation Network and the EA (Electronic Arts) as announced a few days ago. Last year hackers belonging to the hacking group of the Lizard Squad tool down at Christmas the online networks of both Microsoft Xbox Live and PlayStation network (PSN) highlighting security issues affecting the services of Sony […]
