Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 10 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Chinese hackers hit Penn State University, 18K people impacted ISIS – Cyber Caliphate hackers are threatening Electronic War Use privacy software if you want to be safe from Facebook, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2015
The Phantom Menace, who targeted the oil tankers?

Panda Security firm released a report regarding a hacking campaign dubbed “Operation Oil Tanker: The Phantom Menace” that targeted oil tankers. Security researchers at Panda Security have released a report on a hacking campaign dubbed “Operation Oil Tanker: The Phantom Menace” that targeted oil tankers. According to Panda Security the attacks on oil cargos began in August […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Adult FriendFinder dating site hack exposes million users

Cyber criminals have hacked the popular online dating websites Adult FriendFinder leaking the highly sensitive sexual information on a forum in the dark web. The popular dating website Adult FriendFinder was hacked, it suffered a massive data breach that potentially exposed personal details of nearly 4 Million users. According to Channel 4 News, the information was offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Who are best European Security Blogs? Why they Excluded Security Affairs?

Today I was contacted by many friends and followers because they are disappointed regarding a voting proposed by the Infosecurity Europe. http://blogs.infosecurityeurope.com/europes-most-popular-security-blogs-vote-now/ You know my daily effort spent in cyber security, I have thousand people that everyday reads my posts and share them, but evidently it is not enough because I’m out of their business. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
eBay promptly fixed a reflected file download vulnerability

EBay has recently fixed a reflected file download vulnerability discovered by the security researcher David Sopas at WebSegura. Ebay is among the web services most targeted by cyber criminals and phishers, over the years, security experts have spotted an impressive amount of attack exploiting techniques more or less sophisticated. Almost every attack relies on social engineering, attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Android Factory reset fails to wipe sensitive user data, million devices at risk

Two security researchers demonstrated that the Android Factory Reset process fails to wipe private data from Android mobile devices. Researchers at Cambridge University, Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson, revealed that more than half a billion Android devices could have data recovered due to flaws in the default wiping process. The experts have analyzed Android 21 devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
CareFirst data breach affects about 1.1M people

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield fall victim of a major data breach, personal information belonging more than one million individuals could have been exposed. Health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is notifying more than one million individuals that it was the victim of a data breach which may have exposed personal information used by attackers to gain limited, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
A large number of websites and web services affected by the LogJam TLS flaw

Researchers have discovered a new  TLS vulnerability dubbed LogJam that open a large number of online services to cyber attacks. Logjam is the name assigned to a new vulnerability that affects the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol putting a large number of online services at risk. Logjam vulnerability can be triggered through man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Millions of Routers open to attack due to a NetUSB flaw

A simple vulnerability has been uncovered in the NetUSB component, millions of modern routers and other IoT devices are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks The security expert Stefan Viehbock from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab has reported a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-3036) that potentially affects millions of routers and Internet of Things devices using the KCodes […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2015
Unknown Hackers hit systems at Bundestag

The Bundestag has become the target of a significant cyber attack, hackers tried to compromise the internal network of the German Parliament. The German parliament Bundestag has officially confirmed media reports about a hacking attack that hit the Institution last week. “There has been an attack on the IT systems of the Bundestag,” spokesman Ernst […]