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Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015

Data breaches, stolen data and their sale in the Dark Web

Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015

OPM stolen data includes 5.6 Million Fingerprints

According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015

China spies on airline passengers with IMSI-catchers

The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015

Targeted attacks on 4Chan and 8Chan exploited bot code in Imgur

Recently a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Imgur service that allowed the injection of malicious code into an image link on the popular website. Is your website popular? Great you are a privileged target for crooks, just yesterday I reported the last malvertising campaign that hit Forbes and today I decide to present a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015

Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode on iOS 9 devices

A hacker has found a way to access images and contacts stored on Apple iOS 9 devices even if they are protected with a passcode or Touch ID. A few hours ago I have posted the news on the decision of the Security firm Zerodium to pay a 1 Million Dollars prize for zero-day exploits and jailbreak […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015

Find a zero-day exploit to hack IOS 9 and win a $1m prize

Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds zero-day flaws in iOS 9, and you can imagine the motivation. Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds unknown, unpatched bug in iOS 9 with the main purpose to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015

Korean Govt child monitoring app is full of bugs exposing minors at risks

Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015

3 flaws in StarBucks websites open its users to attacks

The Egyptian security researcher Mohamed M. Fouad has spotted three critical vulnerabilities in the StarBucks website that open users to cyber attacks. If you are one of the millions StarBucks users don’t waste time and change your password as soon as possible. StarBucks users who have registered an account and linked their credit card to it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2015

A string could be used to crash Google Chrome

It seems incredible, but as already happened for Skype it is possible to crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL. The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. “Recently I reported a crash bug in Google Chrome (issue #533361). This issue reminded […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2015

Discovered a Reflected Filename Download flaw in LinkedIn

The Security researcher David Sopas at WebSegura discovered a Reflected Filename Download vulnerability in the popular professional social network LinkedIn. He was analyzing another website when he discovered the following XHR request on Google Inspector on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url=http://www.site_i_was_in.pt It seems a simple request to make by websites to count how many shares their site have on […]

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Data breaches, stolen data and their sale in the Dark Web

OPM stolen data includes 5.6 Million Fingerprints

China spies on airline passengers with IMSI-catchers

Targeted attacks on 4Chan and 8Chan exploited bot code in Imgur

Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode on iOS 9 devices

Find a zero-day exploit to hack IOS 9 and win a $1m prize

Korean Govt child monitoring app is full of bugs exposing minors at risks

3 flaws in StarBucks websites open its users to attacks

A string could be used to crash Google Chrome

Discovered a Reflected Filename Download flaw in LinkedIn

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