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Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2015

Twitter warns victims of state-sponsored attacks

Twitter has notified some of its users that they may have been targeted in an attack by state-sponsored hackers. Twitter is warning users of state-sponsored cyber attacks, a small number of users, including a few connected to security and privacy advocacy, have been notified that their accounts were targeted by nation-state hackers. The Twitter users received the notifications […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2015

Hacker claims Sony PlayStation 4 Jailbreak

The dream comes true for many Sony PlayStation 4 users, a hacker has developed a Jailbreak for the popular armored console. The Sony PlayStation 4 is considered one of the most protected platform, since now it was impossible to run pirated games, but a hacker who calls himself CTurt claimed to develop a fully jailbroken version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2015

European Space Agency domains hacked by Anonymous

The collective Anonymous has compromised the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal information of thousands of subscribers and officials. The hacking collective Anonymous seems to be very active in this period, its last victim is the European Space Agency. Members of Anonymous have breached a number of subdomains of the European Space […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2015

Is Vuvuzela the most secure SMS text messaging system?

A group of computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed the most secure SMS text messaging system. A group of computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new SMS text messaging system, dubbed Vuvuzela, that is untraceable and could allow truly anonymous communications. The researchers explained that their SMS text […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2015

Anonymous declared war against Donald Trump

Donald Trump called for a sweeping ban on Muslims entering the United States soil and Anonymous declared war against him. After the recent campaign #OpParis against the ISIS militants, the popular collective of hackers Anonymous now turned its effort against the billionaire Donald Trump which is a US presidential candidate. Donald Trump’s call for a sweeping […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2015

UK Gov could hack children’s smart toys to Spy on suspects

The British Government as part of the Investigatory Powers Bill is planning to hack children’s smart toys to snoop on suspects. We discussed several times the possibility to spy on people through smart device, including smart toys. A couple of weeks ago, the security expert Matt Jakubowski explained that the new Wi-Fi-Enabled Hello Barbie can be hacked to extract […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2015

Censys, the new search engine for the Internet’s secrets

Censys is a new Search Engine for devices exposed on the Internet, it could be used by experts to assess the security they implement. Now the hackers and experts have a new powerful tool for their analysis, it is Censys, a search engine quite similar to the most popular Shodan. Censys is a free search engine that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2015

A well-funded cyber criminal group targets Asian organizations

Trend Micro announced that the Asian market are being targeted more than ever by well-funded cyber criminal group that appears very organized. The attacks rely on the Bifrose code to develop their backdoor, a malware that has been around since 2008. In 2014 it was reported that a new version of Bifrose appeared in the wild. Among the improvements observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2015

Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilizers remotely hackable

A New Zealander expert has found hundred of thousands of vulnerable engine immobilizers are remotely hackable due to a flaw. The New Zealander Lachlan Temple (@skooooch) has discovered hundred of thousands of vulnerable engine immobilizers are remotely hackable. The expert discovered a flaw in a popular cheap car tracking and immobilizer gadget that can allow remote attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2015

AVG, McAfee, and Kaspersky antivirus were vulnerable to critical flaw

Experts at enSilo have found a critical security vulnerability in various antivirus (AV) software that could be exploited by attackers to turn the AntiVirus to an attack-enabler tool. Some of the most important security firms have had an ugly surprise, the security software they offer to their clints have been compromised by a serious vulnerability flaw […]

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Twitter warns victims of state-sponsored attacks

Hacker claims Sony PlayStation 4 Jailbreak

European Space Agency domains hacked by Anonymous

Is Vuvuzela the most secure SMS text messaging system?

Anonymous declared war against Donald Trump

UK Gov could hack children’s smart toys to Spy on suspects

Censys, the new search engine for the Internet’s secrets

A well-funded cyber criminal group targets Asian organizations

Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilizers remotely hackable

AVG, McAfee, and Kaspersky antivirus were vulnerable to critical flaw

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