Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2015
Security experts from Trend Micro have set up a number of honeypot to study the cyber attacks on vulnerable gas tanks and worldwide. Security researchers at Trend Micro, Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt have discovered a number of cyber attacks attempting to hack and shut down gas tanks. The researchers have set up honeypots to study […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2015
Security experts from FireEye demonstrated that Hacking Team leveraged iOS vulnerability to install fake messaging apps implementing a Masque Attack. Another news related with the leak of the Hacking Team‘s hack, this time it was discovered that Hacking Team was capable of compromising IOS devices, even if they werenât jailbroken. To accomplish this, Hacking Team […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2015
Tesla Motors Inc admitted to have sent an update to patch security vulnerabilities discovered by a couple of cyber security experts. Tesla Motors Inc has announced that it has distributed a software update to fix security vulnerabilities in the Tesla Model S sedan. According to the company an attacker by exploiting the flaw could take […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
NBC News reported Russian hackers have compromised computers at the Pentagon, an unclassified email system has been shut down  in response of the attack. According to the NBC news, US officials have reported that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system. The unclassified email system has been shut down […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
A group of researchers has presented at the Black Hat conference Funtenna, a hacking technique to steal data from air-gapped network based on sound waves. Imagine, If a remote hacker could steal classified information from a targeted computer without having to physically and Internet access to it. A team of security researchers has demonstrated how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
The ICANN has issued a warning to inform who registered with ICANN.org that their profile accounts were accessed by an âunauthorized person.â The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued another security warning after login credentials of the ICANN.org website have been compromised. A new incident occurred to the ICANN (Internet Corporation for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
The Panda Emissary group extensively uses long-running strategic web compromises and relies on whitelists to syphon defence aerospace projects from victims. An alleged Chinese APT group dubbed Panda Emissary (also known as TG-3390) is targeting high-profile governments and organisations searching for defense aerospace projects. Researchers at Dell discovered that the Panda Emissary group used Watering hole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
Popular cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox can be abused by hackers running Man-in-the-Cloud (MITC) attacks. The recently issued Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative report on Man-in-the-Cloud (MITC) attacks details how threat actors abuse popular cloud storage services for illegal activities. The experts have analyzed a number of cloud storage services including Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and Microsoft OneDrive. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
Trend Micro revealed that Android users are threatened by another vulnerability coded as CVE-2015-3823 which traps mobile phones in endless reboots. Still problems for Android users! A few days ago security experts at Trend Micro discovered a serious flaw in Android OS that can be exploited to crash mobile devices, just before it was announced the Stagefright […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
A Chinese-language Virtual Private Network service provider dubbed Terracotta VPN offers a network of compromised servers as a stealth hacking platform. According RSA Security, a China-based virtual private network (VPN) service provider offers hacking crews a network of compromised servers which can be used to carry out stealth cyber attacks. The attacks appear to be […]
