Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 11 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. The Phantom Menace, who targeted the oil tankers? Hi-tech car thieves use ÂŁ30 jamming devices in car parks Researcher who exploits bug in Starbucks gift cards gets rebuke, not […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2015
Yemen Cyber Army will release 1M of records per week to stop Saudi Attacks

Hackers of the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) had dumped another 1,000,000 records obtained by violating systems at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The hacking crew known as the Yemen Cyber Army is continuing its campaign against the Government of Saudi Arabia. The Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) has released other data from the stolen archived belonging to the Saudi […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2015
Stegosploit hides malicious code in images, this is the future of online attacks

Stegosploit is the technique developed by the security researcher Saumil Shah that allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an image. The security researcher Saumil Shah from Net Square security has presented at Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam his Stegosploit project which allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2015
1 in 20 Android apps open to attack due to a flaw in the Apache Cordova API Framework

Security researchers at Trend Micro Security firm discovered that 1 in 20 Android apps open to attack due to a flaw in the Apache Cordova API Framework. Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2015-1835) in the Apache Cordova  mobile API framework, that could be exploited by remotely by attackers to modify the behavior […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2015
Oracle PeopleSoft admin credentials open to hackers

SAP Security experts discovered a number of unpatched vulnerabilities and weaknesses in Oracle PeopleSoft that could be exploited to obtain admin passwords. The SAP security experts, Alexander Polyakov and Alexey Tyurin, revealed that Oracle PeopleSoft contains unpatched vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by attackers to obtain admin passwords. The impact of such vulnerabilities […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2015
Marauder’s Map allows Tracking Facebook Friends with a Chrome extension

Marauder’s Map is the name of a Chrome extension developed by Aran Khanna to simply track Facebook users using Facebook Messanger data. A student from Cambridge, Aran Khanna, has developed a Chrome extension that allows tracking Facebook friends on map. The developer named the extension Marauder’s Map as the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveals all of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2015
Linux-based Moose worm turns routers into social network bots

Linux/Moose is a malware family that targets Linux-based consumer routers turning them into social network bots to use for illegal activities. ESET released a study about a new malware known as Moose worm that is compromising devices that have a weak or default credentials. The principal target of the Moose worm are the linux-based routers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2015
A new iOS Bug Crashing iPhones by receiving a specific text message

A bug affecting the Messages app allows a string of characters sent to a person via iMessage or SMS to crash an iPhone and cause the Messages app to crash A bug in the Apple iOS can cause the Messages app crash and iPhones automatically reboot when they receive a specific crafted text message. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2015
Iran has foiled a cyber attack against the oil ministry

Iran – The Cyber Attacks Emergency Center in FATA has thwarted a major cyber attack  originated from US against the Oil Ministry. The Iranian Government announced that on Tuesday it had foiled a cyber-attack on the Islamic republic’s Oil Ministry. According to the Fars news agency, the Brigadier General Kamal Hadianfar, head of the cyber police, confirmed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2015
A student hired hackers to attack schools of the West Ada school district

An Eagle High School student may be charged with a felony after being accused of a cyber attack on the West Ada school district. I have decided to write about this story because it is the demonstration of the interference of cybercrime with the teenager’s life, a 17-year old high school student might be accused […]