Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2016
According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet? Is it possible? Our society heavily depends on technology and the Internet is the privileged vector of the information today. Blocking the Internet could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2016
Security firm Sucuri published a detailed study, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, on compromised websites on the Internet. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year. Sucuri has published a report, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, related compromised websites on the web. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
The hosting company OVH was the victim of a 1 Tbps DDoS attack that hit its servers, this is the largest one ever seen on the Internet. The hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack last week, likely the largest offensive ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
The Police in the Australian State of Victoria issued a warning to the local population of malware-laden USB drives left in letterboxes. USB drives are a privileged vector of attack, security experts have demonstrated that it is possible to hide malicious code in memory stick that could compromise almost every computer. We are aware that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
In what could be another serious celebrity hack, 3,000 photos have been stolen from Pippa Middleton ’s account and they are being offered for sale. The UK Police is investigating the Pippa Middleton iCloud hack and consequent theft of private photos. According to The Sun newspaper the stolen photos were offered for sale, it seems that someone had […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2016
Today we will speak with Anonrising freesec, a hacker that is very active online and that is also fighting online terrorism. You are a talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about you. Sure, I’ve been working with OPDdosISIS mainly against ISIS, taking sites down (2013-2015) also Im […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2016
Kaspersky Lab presented an investigation on the future of ATM Biometric Skimmers and how cybercriminals could exploit them. A recent investigation by Kaspersky Labs reports that a number of underground sellers are offering skimmers, which have the capability of stealing users biometric data such as fingerprints. A number of others are researching iris scanning and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2016
Experts from Elcomsoft discovered a new vector of attack to access password-protected local backups produced by iOS 10 devices. According to security experts from the computer forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple has weakened the backup security protection of its recently-issued iOS 10 skipping certain security checks. This means that hackers could easily crack password protection used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2016
A US investigation into the leak of the NSA hacking tools used by the Agency is focusing on a theory that it was caused by a staffer mistake. The hack of the NSA-linked group Equation Group and the leakage of the NSA hacking tools in its arsenal it probably one the most disconcerting events of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2016
The popular hacker Luca Todesco (aka @qwertyoruiopz) has announced the existence of the iPhone 7 jailbreak for devices running iOS 10. Only a few hours, this is the time spent by the popular hacker Luca Todesco (aka @qwertyoruiopz) to jailbreak the new and secure iPhone 7. The iPhone 7 was launched by Apple a few days ago and of […]
