Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
A Russian researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in YouTube that could have been exploited by a hacker to delete any video from the website. The Russian security researcher Kamil Hismatullin has discovered a critical flaw in YouTube that could be exploited by attackers to delete any video the popular video sharing service. The bug hunter is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
A security researcher discovered a couple of security issues on GitHub platform explaining how it is possible to exploit them in real attack scenarios. The researcher David Sopas (@dsopas) from Websegura discovered a couple of security issues in the coding website GitHub that were ranked by the company as minor, but that could expose users to cyber attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
Volatile Cedar APT group is a new hacking team, apparently from Lebanon, that compromised systems worldwide, most of those in Israel Security experts from Check Point Software Technologies have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed Volatile Cedar, that targeted hundreds of entities from at least ten countries (Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, the UK, Japan, the US, etc.). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2015
Anonymous has posted a video message threatening Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspaceâ on next April 7. Once again the group of  hacktivits Anonymous has threatened Israel with âthe electronic holocaustâ which would âerase it from cyberspace.â The massive cyber attack announced by Anonymous is planned on April 7 for âcrimes in the Palestinian territories.â […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2015
Modern maritime ships are considered a privileged target for hackers and pirates that are increasing their pressure on the Maritime Shipping Industry. Hackers target Cyber Attack on Ships: Maritime Shipping Industry at Risk Modern maritime ships are often monitored and controlled remotely from shore-based facilities thousands of miles away to ensure efficiency. This creates a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2015
Syrian Electronic Army hacked BlueHost, Hostgator, Justhost, FastDomain and HostMonstor companies because they hosted websites managed by terrorists. Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is an unstoppable cyber brigade that once again gained the attention of the principal media for a clamorous hack. SEA is a popular group of hacked aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2015
The New York Times reported that a group of hackers is interfering with the activities made through social media by members of the ISIS group. According to The New York Times hackers are targeting accounts used by ISIS members for propaganda and recruit new sympathizers. A group of hackers using the pseudonyms of TouchMyTweets, The Doctor and IS Hunting are targeting suspected ISIS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
Iran is improving its cyber capabilities faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’ and increased cyber-security spending 12-fold since2013. The British Business Insider published an interesting post on the Iranian cyber capabilities, according the experts the Government of Teheran is improving expertise in the cyber domain faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’. Iran is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
Security experts at Minded Security firm have recently discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS X AFNetworking. The researchers Simone Bovi and Mauro Gentile at the security firm Minded Security discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS XÂ AFNetworking. The researchers found the flaw while were […]
