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Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016

Millions of Android smartphones exposed to new Drammer Android attack

A new method of attack dubbed DRAMMER could be exploited to gain ‘root’ access to millions of Android smartphones and take control of affected devices. Earlier last year, security researchers from Google’s Project Zero outlined a way to hijack the computers running Linux by abusing a design flaw in the memory and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016

Hacking GSM A5 crypto algorithm by using commodity hardware

Researchers demonstrated how to crack GSM A5/1 Stream Cipher using a general-purpose graphics processing unit computer with 3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX690 cards. A group of security researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), demonstrated that the crypto scheme used in the GSM mobile phone data can be easily hacked within seconds. Actually, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2016

24 hours in the life of my home router by Francisco J. Rodriguez

Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a world where all devices are exposed to cyber attacks?” That is how I opened my presentation in QurtubaCON16 – cyber security event at Córdoba City (Spain) […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2016

Hackers offered an loT botnet for $7,500. The recent attack may be just a test

The security firm RSA revealed to have discovered in early October, hackers advertising access to a huge IoT botnet on an underground criminal forum. Last week, a massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS), caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of internet users was not able to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2016

InTheCyber discovered a serious flaw in messaging systems

Researchers at InTheCyber firm have discovered a new easy exploitable and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. InTheCyber – Intelligence & Defense Advisors (www.inthecyber.com), a leader in offensive & Defensive Cyber Security, has discovered in its R&D Labs a new easy and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. Voicemail caller-id spoofing it’s a quite old flaw. When the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2016

American hacker The Jester defaced a Russian Government website

The popular American hacker The Jester defaced a Russian Government website in retaliation for the recent attacks against US targets. We are in the middle of a battle in the cyberspace, with the advent of Presidential elections experts observed an intensification of the hacking attacks. While hackers target parties and personnel involved in the Presidential campaigns, the US Government threatens Russia is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2016

NewWorldHackers and Anonymous behind massive DDoS attack on Dyn DNS service

NewWorldHackers & Anonymous powered the massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service that caused a serious Internet outage for many netizens. The cyber attacks against the Dyn DNS service that affected a huge portion of Internet users in the US is monopolizing the media. IT security experts have no doubts, hackers powered the massive DDoS attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2016

Massive DDoS attack against Dyn DNS service, how and why

A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users was not able […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2016

Chinese hackers targeted officials visiting the USS Ronald Reagan vessel

Experts from the cyber security firm FireEye discovered a spear phishing campaign launched against visitors to the Ronald Reagan vessel in South China Sea. Chinese hackers targeted foreign government personnel who visited a US aircraft carrier the day before a contentious international court ruling on the South China Sea, According to the FireEye cyber security firm, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2016

US users were not able to reach Twitter and other sites due to DDoS on Dyn DNS Service

A severe distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) it targeting the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn. A severe distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) it targeting the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn. Many users of major websites are not able to reach web services such as Twitter, GitHub, The list of affected websites […]

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Millions of Android smartphones exposed to new Drammer Android attack

Hacking GSM A5 crypto algorithm by using commodity hardware

24 hours in the life of my home router by Francisco J. Rodriguez

Hackers offered an loT botnet for $7,500. The recent attack may be just a test

InTheCyber discovered a serious flaw in messaging systems

American hacker The Jester defaced a Russian Government website

NewWorldHackers and Anonymous behind massive DDoS attack on Dyn DNS service

Massive DDoS attack against Dyn DNS service, how and why

Chinese hackers targeted officials visiting the USS Ronald Reagan vessel

US users were not able to reach Twitter and other sites due to DDoS on Dyn DNS Service

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