Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
BlackNurse attack allows to power massive DDoS attacks that are able to knock large servers offline with limited resources. Researchers discovered a simple method, called BlackNurse attack, to power massive DDoS attacks that could allow lone attackers to knock large servers offline with limited resources. “This attack is not based on pure flooding of the internet connection, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
Earlier this week, Donald Trump won a stunning election victory that will put him in charge of the world’s most powerful mass surveillance infrastructure. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, Trump’s control over the NSA is now an indisputable fact, and we think it is worth taking a closer look […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2016
The Pawn Storm APT group exploited some zero-days vulnerabilities in targeted attacks across the world before they get patched. The Pawn Storm APT group, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, exploited some zero-days flaw in targeted attacks before they get patched. The threat actors powered spear phishing attacks between the discovery of the zero-days […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2016
At PwnFest 2016, hackers compromised Windows 10’s Microsoft Edge web browser in just 18 seconds and devised the first attack on VMware Workstation 12.5.1. This week, at the PwnFest 2016 contest held at the Power of Community security conference in Seoul, hackers compromised Microsoft Edge operating on Windows 10 Red Stone 1 and for the first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2016
Once again the hacker Kapustkiy breached an embassy and leaked data on Pastebin, this time the victim is the Paraguay Embassy of Taiwan. The security pentester who goes online with the moniker Kapustkiy breached the Paraguay Embassy of Taiwan (www.embapartwroc.com.tw). A few days ado the hacker and his friend Kasimierz (@Kasimierz_) hacked the Indian Embassies in Switzerland, Mali, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2016
The OpenSSL Project has released the OpenSSL 1.1.0c update that addresses several vulnerabilities, including a high-severity DoS flaw (CVE-2016-7054). The OpenSSL Project has released an update for the 1.1.0 branch (OpenSSL 1.1.0c) to fix a number of vulnerabilities. One of the issues solved with the update is the high severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw CVE-2016-7054 that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2016
The Legendary Blog of MalwareMustDie is closed for protest against NSA hacking trace of educational and public servers of harmless countries. The Shadow Brokers, the hacker group that hacked NSA hackers, who have previously released NSA hacking tools for anyone to download, published more files containing the IP address of 49 countries that have been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2016
Siemens released security updates and temporary fixes to fix a privilege escalation flaw, tracked CVE-2016-7165, that affects several industrial products. Siemens has released security updates and temporary fixes to address a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2016-7165, that affects several industrial products. The flaw could be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges if the flawed products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2016
The effects of cyber-attacks against SCADA/ICS are well known, however, there is a great confusion when dealing with mitigation techniques. The Majority are aware of the impact cyber-attacks can have on Industrial Control Systems however, the reality in terms of mitigation techniques are shrouded with confusion and a reactive approach. Recent 0-day vulnerability dubbed as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2016
The residents in two apartment buildings Finland faced more that a week of serious problem due to a DDoS attack that targeted the building control systems. What does a DDoS with everyday life? The recent attack against the Dyn DNS service powered by an IoT botnet demonstrated the weakness of modern society to cyber threats. Anyway, to better explain […]
