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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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 29, 2016

Chinese ISPs are redirecting users legitimate traffic to malicious sites/ads

Chinese ISPs (internet service providers) are redirecting users legitimate traffic to malicious websites serving malware and ads. China is know to be not very “ortodox” when talking about freedom on the internet, over the time, it developed numerous projects to monitor users’ activity. The Great Firewall Now three Israeli researchers uncovered that Chinese ISPs (China Telecom […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 29, 2016

A journalist has been hacked on a plane while writing an Apple-FBI story

The journalist Steven Petrow had his computer hacked while on a plane, it was a shocking experience that raises the discussion on privacy. Experts in the aviation industry are spending a significant effort in the attempt of improving cyber security. The news that I’m going to tell you has something of incredible. The American journalist […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2016

A DHS report confirms the use of BlackEnergy in the Ukrainian outage, still unknown its role

A report issued by the DHS CERT confirms that the outage in Ukraine was caused by a well-coordinated attack still unclear the BlackEnergy role. In December, a major outage hit a region in Ukraine, more than 225,000 customers were affected by the interruption of the electricity. Security experts speculate the involvement of Russian nation-state actors that have used the BlackEnergy to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2016

German authorities approve the use of home-made Federal Trojan

The German Interior Ministry has approved the use of a federal Trojan developed by the German Federal Criminal Police. The German Interior Ministry has approved the use a spyware developed by the German Federal Criminal Police, aka the ‘federal Trojan’ or Bundestrojaner, for the investigative purpose. “Soon the state could re-enter the computer of suspicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2016

Securing Hospitals from hackers that can put lives in dangers

Securing Hospitals is a report issued by Independent Security Evaluators that demonstrates how hackers can hack hospitals putting lives in danger. A group of experts from the Independent Security Evaluators research team have tested the security of hospital networks, demonstrating how it is possible to gain access to critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2016

Gemalto Breach Level Index report 2015, what are hackers looking for?

2015 Gemalto Breach Level Index report confirmed the increased interest of threat actors in Government and healthcare data. As per the security firm Gemalto, Government and healthcare have overwhelmed the retail area as most-focused for information breaks. An aggregate of 1,673 information ruptures prompted 707 million information records being traded off worldwide amid 2015, as […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2016

Discover how many ways there were to hack your Apple TV

Apple has patched more than 60 vulnerabilities affecting the Apple TV, including flaws that can lead to arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. IoT devices are enlarging our attack surface, we are surrounded by devices that manage a huge quantity of information and that could be abused by hackers. Apple has patched more than 60 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2016

Cisco fixes Command Injection vulnerability in CISCO ACE 4710 products

Cisco has released security updates for the products CISCO ACE 4710 appliance to fix a high severity command injection vulnerability. This week CISCO published a security advisory related a Command Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2016-1297) affecting its product Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine Command. The vulnerability was reported to the company by Jan Kadijk, an expert at Warpnet BV. The […]

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

Using the Microsoft EMET security tool to hack itself

Chinese ISPs are redirecting users legitimate traffic to malicious sites/ads

A journalist has been hacked on a plane while writing an Apple-FBI story

A DHS report confirms the use of BlackEnergy in the Ukrainian outage, still unknown its role

German authorities approve the use of home-made Federal Trojan

Securing Hospitals from hackers that can put lives in dangers

Gemalto Breach Level Index report 2015, what are hackers looking for?

Discover how many ways there were to hack your Apple TV

Cisco fixes Command Injection vulnerability in CISCO ACE 4710 products

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