Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
ISIS offers hackers up to $10,000 to hack govt websites

The ISIS radical group is trying to infiltrate the Indian hacking community by offering money to hack government websites. 30,000 people on social media have been already contacted by the group. Members of the ISIS are willing to pay Indian hackers to hack into government websites and gain access to sensitive documents. The radical organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
Caution, Hackers targeted the cPanel Database

The cPanel Inc. company that manages the popular web hosting account management tool is warning customers about a possible data breach occurred over the weekend. According to the cPanel firm customers’ account information may have been compromised, hackers tried to access a database containing users’ data, including names, salted passwords, and contact information. cPanel Inc. added that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
ENISA Threat Landscape 2015, a must reading

ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security I’m very happy to announce the publication of the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 (ETL 2015), this is the fifth report issued by the European Agency. The ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 summarizes top cyber threats, experts have identified […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Israeli Public Utility Authority hit by a severe cyber attack

The Israeli Public Utility Authority is suffering one of the largest cyber attack that the country has experienced, Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday. The Israel’s Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water, Yuval Steinitz, told CyberTech 2016 attendees in Tel Aviv that the Israeli Public Utility Authority suffered a severe cyber attack. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Government Agencies probed over use of backdoored Juniper equipment

The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing US Government Agencies over use of backdoored Juniper equipment. A number of US Government Agencies are concerned about the use of Juniper firewalls affected by the recently uncovered backdoor. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent letters to dozens of government agencies and departments asking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
A new wave of attacks linked to the Codoso ATP Group

According to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 the Chinese APT group Codoso has been targeting organizations in various industries in a new wave of cyber attacks. The group of experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have uncovered a new cyber espionage operation conducted by the Chinese AT Codoso  (aka C0d0so0 or Sunshop Group). The Codoso hacking crew has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Be careful, opening crashsafari.com your mobile will crash

It is the joke of these hours,users are sharing a link to crashsafari.com on social media platform that could crash friends’ iPhone and iPad. Do not open any a link to crashsafari.com on your iPhone, iPad or even Macs, visiting the website will cause the Safari application to crash and Apple device to restart. Obviously, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Lenovo SHAREit affected by hard-coded password and many other flaws

Security experts at Core Security’s CoreLabs have discovered a hard-coded password and other vulnerabilities in the Lenovo SHAREit File-Sharing App. Lenovo today has patched several security issues related to the presence of a hard-coded password the file-sharing application Lenovo ShareIT application for Android and Windows that is available for free. The application was designed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]