Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
The OurMine group also hacked the Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account

The Saudi-based group of hackers known as OurMine has another illustrious victim, after Mark Zuckerberg they have also hacked the Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account. OurMine is a hacking collective that is scaring IT giants, the list of victims is very long and include names like Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, David Guetta Daniel Ek, former […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Lenovo fixed two high severity flaws in Lenovo Solution Center

Lenovo fixed two flaws (CVE-2016-5249, CVE-2016-5248) in the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware. Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-5249, and CVE-2016-5248, in its Lenovo Solution Center that could be exploited by hackers to gain access to vulnerable machines and to kill any process running on them.  The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Cesar Cerrudo

Today I propose you an interview with Cesar Cerrudo, CTO at IOActive Labs, famous for his research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. Cesar Cerrudo is CTO at IOActive Labs, leading the team in producing ongoing cutting edge research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. But Cesar, first of all, has chosen the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
Facebook logic flaw allowed an expert to delete any video

Facebook has fixed a serious logic flaw that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video uploaded in comments on someone’s Facebook post. Facebook has fixed a serious security vulnerability in the Facebook’s platform that could have been exploited by hackers to delete any video uploaded in comments on someone’s Facebook post. The security […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Rahul Sasi (@fb1h2s)

Today I propose you an interview with Rahul Sasi, the Founder of Machine learning based cloud security company CloudSek. Rahul Sasi (@fb1h2s) is the Founder of Machine learning based cloud security company CloudSek. He was an Admin member for Garage4hackers.com. He is ePrior to founding CloudSek he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix where he held […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2016
PayPal fixed a flaw that allowed attackers to deliver malicious images

PayPal has fixed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by attackers to deliver malicious images through the payment pages of the website. The Security researcher Aditya K Sood discovered a vulnerability that could have been exploited by attackers to deliver malicious image through the payment pages of the PayPal website. The expert noticed that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Fansmitter – exfiltrating data from Air-Gapped devices via fan noises

Fansmitter is a new acoustic data exfiltration method devised by a group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We all know that air-gapped networks aren’t totally secure, in the past, many research groups have devised methods to steal data from computers disconnected from the Internet. It is possible, for example, to exfiltrate data […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Severe Swagger Remote Code Execution flaw compromises NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, Java

This disclosure of an unpatched Remote Code Exec flaw in the Swagger API framework compromises NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, and Java. Swagger is a representation of RESTful API that allows developers to get interactive documentation, client SDK generation and discoverability. The Swagger generators are privileged tools for organisations to offer developers easy access to their APIs. Currently, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2016
Hacking Uber – Experts found dozen flaws in its services and app

Researchers discovered more than a dozen flaws in Uber app and websites, many of them allow hackers to access driver and passenger info. Security experts from the Integrity firm have found more than a dozen flaws in the Uber website that could be exploited by hackers to access driver and passenger data. The researchers discovered a total […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2016
WordPress 4.5.3 fixed several security vulnerabilities

WordPress has recently issued the version 4.5.3 that patches more than two dozen vulnerabilities, including 17 bugs introduced in the last three releases. WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems for this reason is a privileged target of hackers. It is quite easy to scan the web searching for websites running old version affected […]