Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2015
Hijacking Satellite Communications with a $1,000 Device

A security researcher demonstrated how to hack a satellite tracking technology with a $1,000 device made of off the shelf components. Colby Moore, a security expert from security firm Synack, will present in a talk at the next Black Hat Conference how to hack satellite tracking technology by using a $1,000 device made of off […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 20 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. HORNET, the High-Speed Tor-Like encrypted anonymous network Anonymous’s team GhostSec thwarts Isis terror plots Drone Firing Semi-Automatic Handgun, what’s next? Advertising hijacking made by Invisible rogue mobile apps are […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2015
Hacking Industrial Ethernet Switches to take over nuclear plants

Hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities affecting Industrial Ethernet Switches and take control over Nuclear Power Plants and other critical infrastructure. The increasing number of incidents occurred in these years demonstrated that a cyber attack could cause serious damage to industrial processes. It is enough that hackers find and exploit a simple vulnerabilities in one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2015
Bitdefender Hacked, customer data being sold In the underground

Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. Hackers requested a $15,000 ransomware. Hackers are raising the bar, one of the most popular Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. The data breach highlighted serious security issues in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2015
MIT researchers identify Tor hidden services with 88 percent accuracy

Researchers have successfully carried out a traffic correlation attack against the Tor Network identifying hidden services with 88 percent accuracy. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a vulnerability in Tor which lead the identification of hidden services with up to 88 percent accuracy. The team of experts composed of researchers from […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2015
A new flaw in BIND is threatening the Internet’ core

A new vulnerability affects Bind, the open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. BIND is used by servers for translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses. This vulnerability could be exploited by a  lone hacker to bring down swaths of the Internet. The problem affects all the major versions […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2015
Hack your General Motors Car with $100 Ownstar

The popular hacker Samy Kamkar has presented a new gadget that could be exploited to hacks GM Cars. The tool allows to locate, Unlock, and Start Them. Do you have a General Motors car? Do you have $100 to spare? Do you want to hack your car? If the reply to my questions is yes, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2015
APT 29 use Twitter to control its Hammertoss data stealer

Experts at FireEye discovered a new APT group dubbed APT 29 that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. Experts at FireEye uncovered a group of alleged Russian hackers, dubbed APT 29, that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. The hackers belonging to the APT 29 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2015
Hackers can disable high-tech sniper rifles and change the target

A couple of married researchers demonstrated hot to disable high-tech sniper rifles and change their targets with unpredictable consequences. Hacking, hacking, always hacking … this time we will discuss remote hacking of High-tech Sniper Rifles. Hackers can compromise High-tech Sniper Rifles and causing problems pointing to the target. Hackers can gain access to the $13,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2015
Trend Micro revealed a new Android vulnerability renders Android Devices inoperable

Researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new critical vulnerability in the Android mobile OS that can be exploited to crash mobile devices. Experts from Trend Micro discovered a new vulnerability, an integer overflow bug in the Android mediaserver service, that affects versions of Android starting with 4.3 Jelly Bean and up to 5.1.1 Lollipop. The flaw […]