Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015
Hacking Apple Pay to steal credit card data

Experts at Wandera discovered that hackers can set up a bogus access point spoofing Apple Pay and fool users into provide their credit card data. Experts at the mobile security company Wandera have reported a security flaw in Apple iOS that could be exploited to fool a user into provides his credit card data and personal […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015
How to easily hack a WhatsApp Account?

TheHackerNews has reported a simple trick that allows to hijack a WhatsApp account easily on every mobile platform by knowing the victim’s phone number. The popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is vulnerable to hijacking exposing hundreds of Millions of users vulnerable to attack. It could be quite easy to take over a WhatsApp account when the attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015
Harvesting clients’ information from the utility company

A security expert explained how it is possible to hack the service provided by a utility company raising serious security and privacy issues. In the most recent post of atxsec.com the owner of the blog talks about a flaw that he discovered after trying to pay his utility bill. To pay his utility bill he decided […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015
Chinese hackers had access to millions records of US workers

US Government announced that a major data breach likely backed by Chinese hackers caused the exposure of data belonging to millions of government workers. Once again a data breach interested systems of the US government, the Obama administration on Thursday confirmed to have been the victim of a major cyber attack. According to the US […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2015
Thamar Reservoir – Iranian hackers target entities in Middle East

Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2015
Sending a message brings Skype into an endless crash loop

The eight-character string “http://:” brings Skype into Endless Crash Loop, and once they’re in the user’s chat history, the app can’t start again. A few days ago we discussed about a problem occurred to iPhone and iPad users, their mobile devices were crashing after the reception of a specifically crafted text message, now a similar problem […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2015
Bundestag, the Government confirmed a data breach and data leaks

The German Government confirmed that hackers that attacked the Bundestag two weeks ago have had access to data of the German Parliament. The German Government has confirmed that hackers who breached the Bundestag systems a couple of weeks ago have also stolen data from targeted network. A spokeswoman for the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirmed that unknown […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2015
Mac zero-day makes rootkit infection very easy

A security researcher discovered a zero-day vulnerability in many Mac firmware that could allow an easy installation of an EFI rootkits. The cyber security expert Pedro Vilaça has discovered a low-level zero-day vulnerability in Apple Mac systems that could be exploited by privileged users to more install an EFI rootkits. Vilaça explained that the attack is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2015
Over 50 security glitches found in D-Link’s NVR and NAS devices

D-Link NAS and NVR products discovered with serious security bugs, users are advised to apply the patches immediately, if they have any available to them. A Hungry based security test company specializing in embedded systems, named SEARCH-LAB, has found D-Link’s NAS (Network Attached Storage) and NVR (Network Video Recorder) products having over 50 vulnerabilities. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2015
How to hack a Parking Management System and why?

The security researcher Jose Guasch revealed that dozens of “smart” parking management systems worldwide could be easily hacked. Everything is always online is inevitably exposed to the risk of cyber attacks, the security researcher Jose Guasch at the hacking conference Hack In The Box has explained that dozens of “smart” Parking Management System worldwide could be easily hacked. Guasch explained that […]