Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
Flaws in BMW ConnectedDrive Infotainment System allow remote hack

A research discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities residing in the official BMW web domain and ConnectedDrive portal that allow remote hack. Once again IoT devices are affected by a serious flaw that could be exploited by hackers to compromise them, this time we speak of Car Hacking. Almost any modern connected vehicle uses a drive-by-wire system that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
A flaw in the D-LINK WI-FI camera affects more than 120 products

A vulnerability in the firmware running on many D-Link products allows attackers to take over cameras and other 120 products. A month ago, the Senrio research team discovered and exploited a remote code execution vulnerability in the latest firmware of the D-Link DCS-930L Network Cloud Camera. The vulnerability allows code injection which lets the attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2016
Hacker found a flaw in the UK Defence Gateway that exposes army data

The security researcher from Government Lab Mohammed Adel has found a vulnerability in the UK Defence Gateway that exposes army data. The security researcher from Government Lab Mohammed Adel has found a vulnerability in the UK Defence Gateway, an application only for the staff use, that could be exploited by attackers to gain access to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Billy Rios

Billy Rios is one of the most skilled hackers that revealed us how is vulnerable to hacking attacks our society. Are you interested in the hacking of critical infrastructure? Are you worried about the security of medical devices? Billy Rios is one of the most skilled hackers that could provide you the answers to your questions. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
ThinkPwn UEFI Zero-Day flaw allows hackers to disable security features

The researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk published details of ThinkPwn flaw, a UEFI zero-day that could be exploited by hackers to disable security features. Once again the IT giant Lenovo is in the headlines, some products of the company and some others from other PC vendors, are affected by a UEFI vulnerability, dubbed ThinkPwn, that can be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Karsten Nohl

For the cyber security experts, Karsten Nohl doesn’t need to be introduced, he is volcanic, a shining professional. Karsten Nohl is one of the most famous hackers in the world, laymen know him as the hacker that revealed to the world how to spy on anyone through the vulnerability in the SS7 protocol. Karsten Nohl […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
Hacking a Facebook profile with a fake passport

Hacking a Facebook profile -An unidentified hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport Today I desire to discuss with an interesting case, a hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack. The hacker demonstrated that it is possible to bypass any […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites

Two security experts have conducted a study that allowed them to spot over 100 snooping Tor HSDir Nodes spying on Dark Web Sites. The attempts of snooping traffic from Tor nodes are not a novelty, in the past, we have reported the activity of threat actors that set up malicious exit nodes to de-anonymize users. Early 2014, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2016
Breaking Android Full-Disk Encryption, not so hard on Qualcomm devices

The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, hundreds of millions of Android mobile are at risk. Bad news for Android users that want to protect their data by enabling full-disk encryption (FDE) on their mobile devices. The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2016
LizardStresser botnet is using IoT in recent 400Gbps DDoS Attack

The Lizardsquad’s botnet known as LizardStresser is now leveraging on Internet of Things devices, latest waves of DDoS attack reached 400Gbps. The Lizardstresser DDoS botnet has been increasing in popularity throughout 2016 and is being used increasingly to target the Internet of Things. Arbor Networks reported in their blog, a marked increase since the start […]