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Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2016

Real pirates used hacking techniques to raid a shipping company

Real pirates have hacked into a shipping company to locate valuable cargo before hijacking vessels in targeted attacks. Technology meets Piracy. The technology is enlarging our surface of attack in a dramatic way, every company in every industry is potentially a target. Let’s discuss today of a singular case that demonstrates it, pirates have hacked into […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2016

A day attack with DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage

According to a study conducted by the experts at Arbor’s ASERT Team a day attack with a DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage. We have discussed several times about the concept of cybercrime-as-a-service, today I’ll show you a case related the offer for rent of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for less than US$60 per day. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2016

Which are most used passwords in opportunistic criminal attacks?

Which are the usernames and passwords used by hackers when they scan the internet indiscriminately? Give a look to the Rapid7′ report Recently the firm Splashdata revealed in its annual report on the worst 2015 passwords (“123456” and “password”), today I desire to present you a new interesting study on passwords conducted by Rapid7. The experts used Heisenberg, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2016

$17 smartwatch includes a backdoor in the pairing app

A group of researchers that analyzed security of a number of smart watches discovered a $17 smartwatch is sold with a backdoor in the pairing app. Be careful of cheap smartwatch offered on the web, security researchers at Mobile Iron have found that the U8 Smartwatch available on eBay for sale is offered with an Android or iOS app […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2016

RSA Conference Badge Scanning App has a default password hardcoded

Researchers at Bluebox Security discovered that the badge scanning application used at the RSA Conference 2016 includes a hardcoded default password. This year participants at the 2016 RSA Conference will have an ugly surprise, many vendors were provided with Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones that run a special Android app, available on the Google Play, that allows them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2016

US DoD invites a restricted number of hackers to Hack the Pentagon

Hack the Pentagon – DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. Which is the best way to discover security vulnerabilities affecting a computer system? Ask a group of hackers to test it. This is the concept behind a bounty program, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2016

33 percent of all HTTPS websites open to DROWN attack

Security experts presented the DROWN attack that exploits a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL. Security experts have discovered a new critical security vulnerability affecting the OpenSSL, it has been estimated that more than 11 Million websites and e-mail services are open to cyber attacks. The new attack, dubbed DROWN (stands for Decrypting RSA with […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

Waiting for a court ruling, a New York Judge rejected FBI request to unlock an iPhone

The federal magistrate Judge James Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, rejecting the FBI request to unlock an iPhone. In the last weeks, we have followed the dispute between Apple and FBI regarding the possibility to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI required Apple to modify the iOS operating system running […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2016

New HackingTeam OS X RCS spyware in the wild, who is behind the threat?

A new OS X sample of the Hacking Team RCS has been detected in the wild, who is managing it? Is the HackingTeam back? A group of malware researchers has discovered a new strain of Mac malware undetected my most security firm, but more intriguing is the speculation that the malicious code may have been […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 29, 2016

Using the Microsoft EMET security tool to hack itself

The security researchers at FireEye Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have found a way to exploit Microsoft EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) to hack itself. The security researchers at FireEye security Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have found a way to exploit the Microsoft security tool Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit to hack itself. The Enhanced Mitigation […]

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Real pirates used hacking techniques to raid a shipping company

A day attack with DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage

Which are most used passwords in opportunistic criminal attacks?

$17 smartwatch includes a backdoor in the pairing app

RSA Conference Badge Scanning App has a default password hardcoded

US DoD invites a restricted number of hackers to Hack the Pentagon

33 percent of all HTTPS websites open to DROWN attack

Waiting for a court ruling, a New York Judge rejected FBI request to unlock an iPhone

New HackingTeam OS X RCS spyware in the wild, who is behind the threat?

Using the Microsoft EMET security tool to hack itself

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