Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2015
Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2015
The decision of Fiat Chrysler for providing a software update via Mailed USB is considered disconcerting for the security industry. Do you remember the hack of the Fiat Chrysler Jeep? In response to the disclosure of the details of the successful attack, the company recalled nearly 1.4 vehicles in the US in order to update the firmware running […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2015
Security experts at BitDefender have discovered a PayPal stored XSS vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers run various attacks on PayPal users. Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a PayPal stored XSS vulnerability in the e-payment service that could be exploited by attackers to upload specifically crafted files to hack registered users. The PayPal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2015
Mozilla said that data stolen from its bug tracking system was used to attack Firefox users in the wild, but attackers probably have had access since 2013. A threat actor that stole sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla’s Bugzilla bug tracking system last year has likely used it to target Firefox users. Mozilla explained that it did […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2015
Barclays has created a red team to hack its own computer systems to discover and exploit security vulnerabilities before external attacker do. For someone working in the security area, it’s known that many companies have red teams to attack their own system, but this information is never recognized by the company. Barclays did exactly the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Security researchers at MalwareBytes have discovered a new variant of an adware installer that is leveraging an old trick to access the Keychain on MAC OS X In July, researchers at Malwarebytes have identified a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Mac OS X operating system. The experts discovered that the flaw in OS X was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Veracode has conducted a research on the security of several mobile gambling apps and discovered a number of flaws that expose enterprises to serious risks. If you belong to a global corporation, the most probably think you will find out is that some of your colleagues have installed mobile apps that donât belong to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Security researchers from Rapid7 security firm discovered a number of security vulnerabilities affecting several Video Baby Monitors. Researchers find major security flaws in popular networked video baby monitor products that could allow attackers to snoop on babies and businesses. Rapid7Â analyzed baby monitors from six vendors, ranging in price from $55 to $260 in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
Security experts at G-Data security firm have discovered new cases of Chinese Android mobile devices infected by pre-installed malware. Security researchers from G DATA have discovered more than two dozen Android mobile phones from different manufacturers already infected by pre-installed malware. The kits analyzed by the company are commercialized by many manufacturers including Huawei, Lenovo […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
ClearSky detected new activity from the Rocket kitten APT group against 550 targets, most of which are located in the Middle East. Cyber espionage nowadays plays an important role in politics, it helps governments to decide their “friends” as well their “enemies”, and the more dependent we are of technology the more Cyber espionage will […]
