Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS attacks on its customers. According the Akamai firm, the criminal crews known as DD4BC has carried out at least 114 DDoS attacks with an average peak bandwidth of around 13.34 Gbps on its customers since April […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015
Another computer system at the Pentagon has been hacked

Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
North Korea exploits a 0-day in the South Korea’s principal Word processor

FireEye suspects that the North Korea is responsible for a number of attacks against the South Korea relying a 0day in the South most popular Word processor. Security experts from FireEye speculate that The North Korea has carried out cyber attacks against entities of the South Korea by exploiting a zero-day ( CVE-2015-6585) in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Healthcare – Breaching a medical training mannequin raises new cyber security concerns

Cyber attacks against healthcare systems are likely to increase and students investigated the feasibility of breaching a medical training mannequin. Let me start with the scene from a popular TV series titled Homeland, it is a pacemaker hack. Security experts are warning the medical industry about the hacking of any medical equipment implanted in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Microsoft fixed the Windows Media Center Hacking Team bug with the Patch Tuesday

This month’s Patch Tuesday features 12 updates including a fix for a Windows Media Center Hacking Team exploits reported to Microsoft by Trend Micro. In June, the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a dramatic data breach, attackers leaked internal data of the company, including email messages and source code of the zero-day exploits used […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015
Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab published a report on the Turla APT revealing the use Satellite links to control its botnet. According to a new analysis published by the experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that the popular Turla APT group exploited poorly secured satellite infrastructure to hide command-and-control operations. Turla APT was active in the last decade, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2015
Hacking driveless-cars using a simple Laser and a Raspberry Pi

The security researcher and scientist Jonathan Petit claims to be able to hack a driveless-cars by using a simple Laser and a Raspberry Pi. Driverless-cars are the final goal of the principal car manufacturers that are working on several projects to introduce this new revolution in the automotive. Lexus, Mercedes and Audi are just some […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2015
Many HTTPs sites at risk of revealing their private keys because of a critical bug

A number of recent discoveries suggest as more HTTPs websites, chat applicationss, and other services online are actualizing perfect forward secrecy. As per a Red Hat (a Linux distributor) security specialist, system equipment sold by few makers neglected to appropriately execute a broadly utilized cryptographic standard, an information releasing weakness that can permit spammers to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015
vCard flaw exposes up to 200 million of WhatsApp Web users

Security experts at Check Point security discovered a flaw in WhatsApp Web that could be exploited by attackers to compromise hundreds of millions users, According to the security firm Check Point a vulnerability in the popular messaging service WhatsApp Web exposes up to 200 million of its users at risk of cyber attack. WhatsApp Web allows […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015
Tough weekend for Kaspersky patching a buffer overflow vulnerability

Last week, Kaspersky Lab was informed about a buffer overflow flaw that affects its antivirus products version 2015 and 2016 and released a patch within 24 hours. Last week, Kaspersky Lab was informed about a buffer overflow flaw that affects its antivirus products version 2015 and 2016 by one of information security engineers working in […]