Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2015
Anonymous hit numerous Israeli websites as promised in a video message posted a few days ago, which was threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â As promised hackers belonging to the Anonymous collective have hit Israeli websites. Last week Anonymous hacktivists published a video online threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaust.â The voice in the video […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
Million of WordPress websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks due to a critical vulnerability affecting the WP-Super-Cache plugin. Million of WordPress websites using the WP-Super-Cache are exposed to the risk of cyber attack due to a critical vulnerability affecting the popular plugin. The WP-Super-Cache plugin, is normally used to improve the performance of the WordPress website because it generates static HTML […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
A vulnerability in Schneider Electric VAMPSET Software allows attackers to penetrate the system and trigger arbitrary code execution. According to the recent advisories issued by Schneider Electric and ICS â CERT, there is a vulnerability (CVE-2014-8390) that can allow hackers to penetrate the system and trigger arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability was identified and made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
A security expert has discovered a severe vulnerability in BitTorrent Sync that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine. The security expert Andrea Micalizzi, also known as ârgod,â, has discovered a serious vulnerability in BitTorrent Sync (CVE-2015-2846) can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2015
The organization Linux Australia revealed that one of its servers was hacked. The personal data of conference attendees might have been exposed. Linux Australia revealed a data breach occurred on March 22, according to the organization attackers may have accessed personal details of conference attendees. Linux Australia is an organization that represents nearly 5,000 Australian users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
A group of hackers linked to Anonymous published a list of websites alleged supporting propaganda activities of the Islamic State (ISIS). In the last weeks, hacktivists linked to the Anonymous collective declared war to members of the ISIS and announced a large-scale campaign against the websites used by the terrorists for propaganda. According to The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2015
Motherboard published an interesting report on an espionage campaign led by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against the opponents of the Syrian Government. Today I decided to present a very interesting story published by Lorenzo Francesco Bicchierai on Motherboard. It is a story about intelligence activities and how hacking supported them. Let’s start from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2015
The international criminal police organisation Interpol and private researchers discovered a severe flaw in block chain used by virtual currencies. INTERPOL cyber threat researchers, including members of the Kaspersky Lab, have identified a serious vulnerability in the virtual currencies schema. The flaw resides in the âblock chain’ related to virtual transactions and it could be exploited to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2015
A severe vulnerability  in Tor network was exploited by attackers to run denial of service attacks against two underground black markets. An operator of an underground black market hosted on the Tor network revealed that hit site suffered a DoS attack that exploited a flaw in Tor architecture. The event is not isolated, a similar […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2015
A security researcher discovered that the improper configuration of some multicast DNS (mDNS) implementations could be used to amplify DDoS attacks. The multicast Domain Name System, also known as mDNS,  is a multiplatform service designed to resolve host names to IP addresses within small networks that doesn’t have a local name server. The mDNS can work in a […]
