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Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2016

Misconfigured MongoDB exposed 93 million Mexican voter records

A security expert discovered a misconfigured MongoDB installation behind a Microsoft’s career portal that exposed visitors to attacks. The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new misconfigured MongoDB installation used by a Microsoft’s career portal. The misconfigured MongoDB installation exposed some information and enabled read/write access to the website. The database also included information on other […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2016

Man charged of Laundering $19.6 Million earned with PBX system hacking

Pakistani citizen Muhammad Sohail Qasmani admits laundering Millions from massive computer hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme. A Pakistani citizen, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani (47) admitted laundering millions of dollars as part of a massive international computer hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme. The man worked for a hacking crew that targeted US companies by hacking into their PBX […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2016

Iranian hackers compromised former IDF chief’s computer

According to Israel’s Channel 10 Iranian hackers succeeded in gaining access last year to the computer database of a retired Israeli army chief of staff. Many reports published by security firms warn of the increasing threat represented by Iranian hackers. US and Israeli organizations represent a privileged target for these hackers, last year they used stolen private pictures of IDF’s women […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2016

The IPT ruled that GCHQ spies can legally hack any electronic devices

The British Intelligence Agency GCHQ has a license to hack computers and devices, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled. This means that the UK Government is giving full power to its intelligence agency to spy on Britons as well as people living abroad. The verdict was issued on Friday after Privacy International and seven ISPs […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2016

BlackEnergy infected also Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems

Experts at Trend Micro discovered strains of BlackEnergy malware involved in the recent attacks against Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems. BlackEnergy was in the headlines when the security industry examined the power outage occurred in Ukraine in December 2015. The BlackEnergy malware is a threat improved to target SCADA systems, the latest variant includes the KillDisk component developed to wipe […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2016

UK police arrested teenage hacker who allegedly hacked CIA and FBI officials

UK Police and FBI have arrested a teenager suspected to be Cracka, the hacker who hacked the CIA Director John Brennan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British law enforcement have identified and arrested a teenage hacker alleged member of the hacking crew “Cracka with Attitude.” The Cracka with Attitude is the group of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2016

The FBI requests $38 Million to counter the threat of Going Dark

The FBI requests $38 Million to counter the threat of Going Dark, in particular asking more economic resources to break encryption when needed. The FBI Director James Comey has highlighted in different occasions the difficulties faced by law enforcement when dealing with encryption during their investigations. Now, the FBI is making its request for budget […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2016

A replica of AlphaBay market used to steal login credentials

Fraudsters operating on the AlphaBay darknet market have deployed a replica of the popular marketplace to steal login credentials from peers. Paul Mutton, security experts at Netcraft, discovered a fake version of the Alphabay Market (pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion), one of the most popular black markets hosted in the dark web. Paul Mutton speculates that fraudsters have deployed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016

Once again identity thieves use stolen SSNs in IRS attack

The IRS detected roughly unauthorized attempts using 464,000 unique SSNs, and 101,000 attempts allowed crooks in generating PINs. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently confirmed that cyber criminals abused the Electronic Filing PIN application. The Electronic Filing PIN application is running on irs.gov and allows taxpayers to generate a PIN that they can use to file tax […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016

Million CISCO ASA Firewalls potentially vulnerable to attacks

A flaw in Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code. It’s a bad period for IT manufacturers, recently the security community has discovered serious and anomalous vulnerabilities affecting popular products like Juniper equipment and Fortinet Forti OS firewalls. Now, it is now the […]

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Misconfigured MongoDB exposed 93 million Mexican voter records

Man charged of Laundering $19.6 Million earned with PBX system hacking

Iranian hackers compromised former IDF chief’s computer

The IPT ruled that GCHQ spies can legally hack any electronic devices

BlackEnergy infected also Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems

UK police arrested teenage hacker who allegedly hacked CIA and FBI officials

The FBI requests $38 Million to counter the threat of Going Dark

A replica of AlphaBay market used to steal login credentials

Once again identity thieves use stolen SSNs in IRS attack

Million CISCO ASA Firewalls potentially vulnerable to attacks

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