Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2016
Ops … also Zuckerberg covers the webcam with tapes

Like the FBI Director Comey also Zuckerberg use tapes to cover the webcam of his laptop, evidently he fear that someone could spy on him. A Facebook post published by Mark Zuckerberg to celebrate more than 500 million people now use Instagram is attracting the attention of IT experts. In the image that is included in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2016
Tech coalition asked to roll back changes to Rule 41 that allows FBI mass hacking

A coalition of tech groups asked the Congress to roll back changes to Rule 41 that allowed law enforcement to do mass hacking. Congress should block the changes to the rules for the regulation of US law enforcement investigations. The rules allow law enforcement agencies hacking in computers worldwide for its investigation. In April, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2016
BadTunnel attack could have the widest impact in the history of Windows

A Chinese security researcher has discovered a Windows design flaw dubbed BadTunnel that affects all versions of Windows. The Chinese researcher Yang Yu, director of Xuanwu Lab of Tencent has discovered a design flaw in Microsoft Windows that affects all versions of the popular operating system. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack a target organization’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2016
Apple patched a mysterious flaw in Apple AirPort devices

Apple issued a security update to fix a nine-month-old DNS parsing flaw affecting Apple AirPort routers but avoided providing further info on the issue. Apple has issued a security update to fix a nine-month-old DNS parsing vulnerability affecting its AirPort routers. Apple has released a firmware update 7.6.7 and 7.7.7 that runs on  AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2016
Hardened Tor Browser implements the Selfrando feature to defeat exploits

Earlier June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser that implements a feature dubbed Selfrando to defeat exploits. Early June the Tor Project announced a hardened version of the popular Tor Browser, the Tor Browser 6.5a1-hardened. “A new hardened Tor Browser release is available. It can be found in the 6.5a1-hardened […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2016
Student hacks Pentagon websites and gets thanked

David Dworken is the name of the student that hacked into the Pentagon US military’s website between classes at Maret High School and that the Government thanked. Recently we have reported the first results of the “Hack the Pentagon” program that allowed the discovery of numerous flaws in the computers of the US Government. News […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2016
Hacker breached the Canadian Quebec Liberal Party’s video conferencing software

An unnamed hacker hacked the video conferencing software used by the Quebec Liberal Party and shared the news with the media. Politicians are a privileged target of hackers, in many cases they totally ignore the risk of a cyber attack and their staff is not aware of ongoing espionage activities. We read about hackers that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2016
GoToMyPC reset all customer passwords

A number of users are experiencing problems during logging into GoToMyPC because Citrix reset account passwords after hackers reportedly attacked it. It’s official, the GoToMyPC service operated by Citrix is the last victim of the hackers. GoToMyPC is remote desktop software that allows users to access and control their computers remotely by using a simple web browser. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2016
Adobe patches Flash Zero-Day exploited by ScarCruft APT

Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.192 release fixes the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) exploited by the APT group dubbed ScarCruft. Adobe has issued the Flash Player 22.0.0.192, a release that fixes the Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) exploited by the APT group dubbed ScarCruft in attacks on high-profile targets. The Flash Player flaw CVE-2016-4171 affects versions 21.0.0.242 and earlier for […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2016
Be careful, a new phishing tactic targets PayPal users

The security expert and malware researcher @dvk01uk reported a very unusual phishing attack on PayPal leveraging on Javascript. The phishing is still a very profitable technique for crooks, phishers try to improve old tactic in a new fashion in order to steal victims’ information. One of the most common suggestions to mitigate phishing attacks is […]