Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2015
The Spanish security researcher Eduardo Novella has disclosed details of two critical vulnerabilities affecting a specific ADB Pirelli home wireless router. The security researcher at Dutch security audit firm Fox-IT, Eduardo Novella, has discovered two critical vulnerabilities affecting a model of ADB Pirelli home wireless router. Novella decided to publicly disclose the vulnerabilities because the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2015
The website of the popular Notepad++ editor was hacked and defaced by hacktivists protesting against the recently released “Je suis Charlie” edition. Members of the Tunisian hacking crew named “Hackers of the Fallaga Team” have compromised and defaced a large number of French websites following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Hundreds of French websites have been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
Security researcher Samy Kamkar has designed a USB wall charger dubbed KeySweeper, which secretly logs keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards nearby. Security researcher Samy Kamkar has designed a cheap USB wall charger that can eavesdrop on almost any Microsoft wireless keyboard. The stealthy Arduino-based device, dubbed “KeySweeper“, works like a generic USB mobile charger, but he has the capability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
ISIS supporters have hacked the YouTube and Twitter accounts belonging to the US CENTCOM leaking online internal documents stolen from mobile devices. While Anonymous started the #OpCharlieHebdo campaign against jihadist websites to avenge the attack against the Charlie Hebdo, hackers of the CyberCaliphate group, claiming to support the terrorist group ISIS, have compromised the official […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
Security experts collected further evidences of the link between the CosmicDuke, Miniduke and OnioDuke Advanced Persistent Threat campaigns. Researchers at F-Secure firm are constantly monitoring the cyber espionage campaigns MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke and provided an interesting update on the hacking operation. Below a short description of the campaigns: MiniDuke: Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, or CrySyS, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2015
The Anonymous collective published a video message online promising to avenge the Charlie Hebdo massacre by razing jihadist websites. A few hours ago the two brothers believed to be members of the terrorist commando that has attacked on Wednesday the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed. The manhunt is over with another […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2015
Several ASUS routers include a service that listens on UDP broadcast port 9999 on the LAN interface and contains an unauthenticated command execution flaw. The Security researchers Joshua Drake discovered a serious vulnerability in the firmware running on several ASUS routers that allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary command on the device. According to the expert, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2015
Hackers hit ATM systems forcing them to dispense the cash stored in their money cases relying on certain commands sent through a smartphone. Cybercriminals can hack ATM systems and force it to dispense the cash using a smartphone, in the specific case a Samsung Galaxy 4 phone. The model of smartphone is not important, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2015
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT/CC warned about the presence of serious vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The CERT/CC has issued three different advisories for security flaws identified in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (pronounced as an initialism U-E-F-I or like “unify” without the n) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2015
Apple has patched the iCloud flaw exploited by iDict tool, the news was confirmed by the author of the hacking application via Twitter. Last week the iDict hacking tool has been released by a hacker known as Pr0x13, the expert posted the code of iDict on GitHub explaining that it is very easy to use and exploits a […]
