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Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016

Hacking a Facebook profile with a fake passport

Hacking a Facebook profile -An unidentified hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack that involved a fake passport Today I desire to discuss with an interesting case, a hacker successfully took over a Facebook account with a social engineering attack. The hacker demonstrated that it is possible to bypass any […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016

Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites

Two security experts have conducted a study that allowed them to spot over 100 snooping Tor HSDir Nodes spying on Dark Web Sites. The attempts of snooping traffic from Tor nodes are not a novelty, in the past, we have reported the activity of threat actors that set up malicious exit nodes to de-anonymize users. Early 2014, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2016

Breaking Android Full-Disk Encryption, not so hard on Qualcomm devices

The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, hundreds of millions of Android mobile are at risk. Bad news for Android users that want to protect their data by enabling full-disk encryption (FDE) on their mobile devices. The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2016

LizardStresser botnet is using IoT in recent 400Gbps DDoS Attack

The Lizardsquad’s botnet known as LizardStresser is now leveraging on Internet of Things devices, latest waves of DDoS attack reached 400Gbps. The Lizardstresser DDoS botnet has been increasing in popularity throughout 2016 and is being used increasingly to target the Internet of Things. Arbor Networks reported in their blog, a marked increase since the start […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2016

Two flaws in Siemens SICAM PAS impact the energy industry

Researchers discovered two flaws in the Siemens SICAM PAS widely used in the energy industry. One of the vulnerabilities is still unpatched. Security experts from Positive Technologies that have reviewed the Siemens SICAM PAS (Power Automation System) solution have discovered two information disclosure vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-5848 and CVE-2016-5849) that can be exploited by a local attacker. The experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016

CISCO fixed severe vulnerabilities in Network Management and Security Products

Cisco released security patches for some of its products that fix critical and high severity flaw that could be remotely exploited by hackers. Cisco has released security patches for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities in the CISCO Management and other security products. One of the flaws, a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (CVE-2016-1416), […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016

The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by hackers

According to the 2015 version of the ‘Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan’ the transportation industry is increasingly exposed to cyber threats. The transportation industry is considered part of the critical infrastructure of a country, and according to the IBM’s X-Force security team is it a privileged target for hackers. The report, Security Trends in the Transportation […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016

The global terror database World-Check was leaked online

The Thomson Reuters terrorist database World-Check used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide was leaked online, 2.2 million records exposed. There is a terrorist database used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide, it is called World-Check and unfortunately, it was leaked online. The leaked database is dated back 2014 and contains some 2.2 million records. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016

For the second time Hard Rock Las Vegas suffered a data breach

On Monday the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed for the second time a data breach that compromised customers’ payment card data. It has happened again, earlier this week the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed a data breach, it is the second time the casino suffered a cyber attack. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016

Pawn Storm APT group targets thousands Google Accounts

Russian cyber spies belonging to the Pawn Storm APT group have targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals worldwide. The Pawn Storm APT group is once again in the headlines, this time the hackers targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, former Soviet Union countries, the United States, Europe. […]

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Hacking a Facebook profile with a fake passport

Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites

Breaking Android Full-Disk Encryption, not so hard on Qualcomm devices

LizardStresser botnet is using IoT in recent 400Gbps DDoS Attack

Two flaws in Siemens SICAM PAS impact the energy industry

CISCO fixed severe vulnerabilities in Network Management and Security Products

The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by hackers

The global terror database World-Check was leaked online

For the second time Hard Rock Las Vegas suffered a data breach

Pawn Storm APT group targets thousands Google Accounts

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