Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2016
Researchers spotted a new espionage campaign relying on a number of RATs including the powerful Trochilus threat. Security experts have uncovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) named Trochilus that is able to evade sandbox analysis. The Trochilus malware was used to targeted attacks in multi-pronged cyber espionage operations. Experts at Arbor Networks uncovered a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2016
A review of all the products allowed Fortinet to discover the same SSH backdoor on some versions of its solutions. Recently security experts reported the presence of a SSHÂ backdoor in Fortinet firewalls, news of the day is that the company has found the same backdoor also in several new products, many of them running current […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2016
Experts from the security firm SEC Consult discovered a backdoor in the AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and the US Military. AMX is a company that supplies communications systems and building control equipment to the US military, the White House and many other security organizations in the States. The particularity of these systems is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2016
The Portuguese cyber security expert David Sopas has discovered a Reflected File Download (RFD) vulnerability affecting Google Finance. The researchers explained that different from other similar Reflected File Download he discovered in the past, this time, the attackers don’t need to create a page to force the download. “Found this vulnerability when auditing other client. With this RFD you don’t […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2016
HD Moore, the father of the popular Metasploit Framework, announced that he is leaving the Rapid7 security company to join a new venture capital firm. HD Moore, it is one of the most popular cyber security experts and hacker, he is the father of the popular penetration testing suite Metasploit Framework and the founder of the Metasploit Project. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2016
Apple has fixed a critical vulnerability in its iOS operating system that allowed hackers to impersonate end users. Apple has fixed a serious vulnerability in the iOS operating system that could be exploited by hackers to impersonate users who visit  websites that use unencrypted authentication cookies. The issue resides in the implementation of a cookie […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2016
SplashData has published its fifth annual report on most used passwords in 2015, including the list of the Worst passwords of the year. For the fifth time, experts from the SplashData security firm have published a report, titled “Worst Passwords of 2015”  that analyzes the use of passwords in 2015. The researchers compiled the annual report with data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2016
Security researchers at startup Perception Point discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728) affecting the Linux kernel. A Linux kernel vulnerability, coded as CVE-2016-0728, affecting versions 3.8 and higher will be fixed today. According to researchers at startup Perception Point who discovered the vulnerability, the flaw affects the Linux Kernel since 2012. The flaw has impacted more than tens […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
National Security Agency says the US Govt surveillance programme for collecting domestic telephone records rmeets security standards The United States government’s updated spying program for gathering native people’ phone records has passed the muster as far as civil and privacy principles, the NSA (National Security Agency) claims. The new structure, which was executed in November […]
