Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2016
The security expert David Levin was arrested and charged after discovering serious security flaws on a couple of election websites in Florida. The security researcher David Levin, the owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, was arrested and charged after discovering serious security flaws on a couple of elections websites in Florida. In December Levin discovered that the elections website […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2016
A study conducted by Recorded Future on PoC exploits shared online over the last year shows that social media is the main distribution channel. Security experts at the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future have conducted an interesting study on the proof-of-concept exploits shared online (e.g. On Twitter, on forum linking to personal blogs, GitHub, or Pastebin) last year. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2016
Hackers demonstrated to the Tech Insider how to break into any office by purchasing from Amazon and eBay $700 worth of electronic parts to clone access cards. Breaking into a company could be very easy and cheap for hackers, it could be sufficient to buy from Amazon and eBay $700 worth of parts. “We watched a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
This is the first of a series of “Hacker Interviews” that will aim to help us get a better understanding of the motivations and techniques of the hackers. The information security industry spends time and effort not only to stop hackers but also to understand and simulate them. Vulnerability assessments and penetration tests are specially […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Hackers have disrupted a Locky campaign after they compromised one of the cybercriminal servers used by the threat actors. According to the security expert Sven Carlsen from Avira, hackers have dismantled a Locky campaign by hacking the command and control server. Carlsen explained that threat actors behind the Locky campaign spread the threat via spam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
One out of every three websites were involved in transmitting malware to their users, which was found attached to their digital content. Suppose, there is a movie, released last month. You didn’t have the time to watch it in the theatre and you also want to save some money. What would you do? Go to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Three German security researchers have presented a PLC-based worm with Proof-of-Concept based on the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC. Three German security researchers have presented a PLC-based worm at Black Hat Asia. The proof of concept is based on the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC which reminds us all two well of an earlier PLC attacking worm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Lenovo fixed the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware causing major security problems for users. Lenovo has fixed a security vulnerability in the Lenovo Solution Center (LSC) support tool that could be exploited by attackers to execute code with system privileges and take over the machine. Lenovo Solution Center […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
The Swiss Defense Department was recently victim of a cyber attack, the offensive has come after a presentation on cyber espionage to the FIS. The Swiss Defense Department was recently a victim of a cyber attack, the offensive has come after a presentation on cyber espionage to the Federal Intelligence Service. The cyber attack was announced by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
This is a novelty in the cyber criminal underground, crooks behind the new born CyptMix ransomware promise to donate the fee to charity. No doubts, a very creative idea to extort money to the victims enticing them to pay for a good cause and telling them to think to have the opportunity to help the children. […]
