Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2015
A number of vulnerabilities affect IP Enabled AirLive Cameras

A number of AirLive Cameras are affected by command injection vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to decode user credentials and control the devices. A number of IP-enabled AirLive cameras manufactured by OvisLink Corp are affected by command injection vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to decode user credentials and completely control the devices. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2015
Surveillance firm Hacking Team hacked [Updated]

Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance firm that develops spyware and hacking software has been hacked by attackers that exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The Italian security firm Hacking Team has allegedly been hacked, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data. The company has often been at the center of heated debate because of surveillance […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 16 – 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. US Healthcare companies are the most targeted by Stegoloader Popular travel websites warn Customers of Phishing scam Ransomware slinging exploit kit targets Flash remote code execution Experts found Government […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2015
Cisco Unified CDM platform open to cyber attacks

Cisco Unified CDM software contains a privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed, by using it an attacker can control the platform. A default privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed affect the  Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (Cisco Unified CDM) opening the platform for remote attacks. The Cisco […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2015
Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30 Million records

Anonymous India hacked the BSNL Telecommunications Journal website and claims to have compromised more than 30 million records. The website of the BSNL Telecommunications Journal has been hacked by the hacktivists of the Indian Anonymous arm named AnonOpsIndia. Anonymous India the BSNL journal website to protest against the surveillance programs operated by the Indian Government. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2015
Lordfenix: 20-year-old Brazilian has written 100 banking trojan

Trend Micro has identified Lordfenix, a student that created more than 100 different banking Trojans and other malicious tools, since April 2013. Security experts at Trend Micro have identified a 20-year-old Brazilian student which has developed and distributed more than 100 Banking malware. The young cyber criminal, which used the pseudonym of ‘Lordfenix’, ‘Hacker’s Son’ and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
ProxyHam, a killer application to protect online anonymity

ProxyHam is a hardware device designed by a group of researchers to allow anonymous connections to Wi-Fi from about 2.5 Miles away. Security researcher Benjamin Caudill has designed a device that allows to keep anonymous users online experience, an amazing system for the anonymity of whistleblowers, journalists and dissidents. Caudill named his device ProxyHam, it’s a “hardware […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
Unknowns are cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites

Founder of the ahmia.fi project reported that someone is cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites and is re-writing some of the content. The “ahmia.fi” project census Dark Web websites, aka hidden services, by providing search engine functionalities by indexing the content present on the Tor network. Nurmi noticed an anomalous number of clones of hundreds […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
Flaw in 802.11n opens wireless networks to remote attacks

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the 802.11n wireless networking standard that could be exploited by a remote attacker to target wireless networks. According to researchers from the Expertise Centre for Digital Media at the Hasselt University in Belgium, the frame aggregation mechanism implemented by the 802.11n wireless networking standard is affected by a security a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2015
Apple issues a fix for Masque Attacks, but apps are still open to hack

Although Apple has fixed the Masque Attack there are still other attack scenarios that an attacker can exploit in the installation process on iOS. A team of researchers at FireEye has revealed that the last update issued by Apple only partially fixed the two vulnerabilities exploited in the Masque Attack (CVE-2015-3722/3725, and CVE-2015-3725). The two exploits […]