Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2015
According to a new report the popular Naikon APT group is actually backed by China’s PLA Unit 78020, a firm traced it through online activity. Ge Xing, also known as âGreenSky27,â is the name of an alleged member of the Peopleâs Liberation Army unit 78020, a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The man was identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
Rumors on the Internet are linking the attack based in XcodeGhost to operations conducted by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A few days ago principal security firm reported the first major cyber attack on the official Apple App Store, thousands of legitimate applications were infected by the XCodeGhost Malware. Apple announced it is cleaning up the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2015
The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2015
Recently a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Imgur service that allowed the injection of malicious code into an image link on the popular website. Is your website popular? Great you are a privileged target for crooks, just yesterday I reported the last malvertising campaign that hit Forbes and today I decide to present a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2015
A hacker has found a way to access images and contacts stored on Apple iOS 9 devices even if they are protected with a passcode or Touch ID. A few hours ago I have posted the news on the decision of the Security firm Zerodium to pay a 1 Million Dollars prize for zero-day exploits and jailbreak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2015
Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds zero-day flaws in iOS 9, and you can imagine the motivation. Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds unknown, unpatched bug in iOS 9 with the main purpose to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2015
Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2015
The Egyptian security researcher Mohamed M. Fouad has spotted three critical vulnerabilities in the StarBucks website that open users to cyber attacks. If you are one of the millions StarBucks users don’t waste time and change your password as soon as possible. StarBucks users who have registered an account and linked their credit card to it […]
