Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2015
Playstation network and Xbox Live risk to be taken down on Christmas by an anonymous group of hackers known as the Phantom Squad. If you remember, last Christmas, both PlayStation network and Xbox Live were took down by hackers belonging to the group of hackers known as Lizard Squad. It looks like this year this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2015
The researchers Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll have found that the Grub2 authentication could be easily defeated by hitting backspace 28 times. A couple of researchers from the University of Valencia’s Cybersecurity research group, Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll, have found that the Grub2Â bootloader is plagued by a serious vulnerability that can be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2015
The British intelligence agency GCHQ has released the Gaffer database as an open source project. Gaffer is sort of database written in Java that makes it “easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches.”, its code is available for download on the code-sharing website Github. “Gaffer is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2015
The websites based on the popular Joomla CMS need to be updated as soon as possible due to a critical remote code execution vulnerability. The websites based on the popular Joomla CMS need to be updated as soon as possible, Joomla has just released a security patch to fix a critical eight-year-old remote code execution vulnerability. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2015
Security experts at the Google Project Zero team have discovered a critical flaw in FireEye appliances that could be exploited via email. A remote code execution vulnerability dubbed â666â affect FireEye Appliances, hackers can exploit the flaw simply by sending an email or tricking users into clicking on a link. The 666 vulnerability resided in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2015
Twitter has notified some of its users that they may have been targeted in an attack by state-sponsored hackers. Twitter is warning users of state-sponsored cyber attacks, a small number of users, including a few connected to security and privacy advocacy, have been notified that their accounts were targeted by nation-state hackers. The Twitter users received the notifications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2015
The dream comes true for many Sony PlayStation 4 users, a hacker has developed a Jailbreak for the popular armored console. The Sony PlayStation 4 is considered one of the most protected platform, since now it was impossible to run pirated games, but a hacker who calls himself CTurt claimed to develop a fully jailbroken version of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2015
The collective Anonymous has compromised the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal information of thousands of subscribers and officials. The hacking collective Anonymous seems to be very active in this period, its last victim is the European Space Agency. Members of Anonymous have breached a number of subdomains of the European Space […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2015
A group of computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed the most secure SMS text messaging system. A group of computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new SMS text messaging system, dubbed Vuvuzela, that is untraceable and could allow truly anonymous communications. The researchers explained that their SMS text […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2015
Donald Trump called for a sweeping ban on Muslims entering the United States soil and Anonymous declared war against him. After the recent campaign #OpParis against the ISIS militants, the popular collective of hackers Anonymous now turned its effort against the billionaire Donald Trump which is a US presidential candidate. Donald Trumpâs call for a sweeping […]
