Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2015
Anonymous collective threatens Israel with electronic-holocaust

Anonymous has posted a video message threatening Israel with “the electronic holocaust” which would “erase it from cyberspace” on next April 7. Once again the group of  hacktivits Anonymous has threatened Israel with “the electronic holocaust” which would “erase it from cyberspace.” The massive cyber attack announced by Anonymous is planned on April 7 for “crimes in the Palestinian territories.” […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2015
Hacking Ships: Maritime Shipping Industry at Risk

Modern maritime ships are considered a privileged target for hackers and pirates that are increasing their pressure on the Maritime Shipping Industry. Hackers target Cyber Attack on Ships: Maritime Shipping Industry at Risk  Modern maritime ships are often monitored and controlled remotely from shore-based facilities thousands of miles away to ensure efficiency. This creates a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2015
Syrian Electronic Army hacks hosting companies to fight the IS

Syrian Electronic Army hacked BlueHost, Hostgator, Justhost, FastDomain and HostMonstor companies because they hosted websites managed by terrorists. Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is an unstoppable cyber brigade that once again gained the attention of the principal media for a clamorous hack. SEA is a popular group of hacked aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is the past […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2015
Anonymous vigilantes are fighting against the ISIS propaganda

The New York Times reported that a group of hackers is interfering with the activities made through social media by members of the ISIS group. According to The New York Times hackers are targeting accounts used by ISIS members for propaganda and recruit new sympathizers. A group of hackers using the pseudonyms of TouchMyTweets, The Doctor and IS Hunting are targeting suspected ISIS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2015
Iran increased cyber-security spending 12-fold since 2013

Iran is improving its cyber capabilities faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’ and increased cyber-security spending 12-fold since2013. The British Business Insider published an interesting post on the Iranian cyber capabilities, according the experts the Government of Teheran is improving expertise in the cyber domain faster than experts ‘would have ever imagined’. Iran is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2015
Is China responsible for Massive DDoS Attack against GitHub?

The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2015
A critical MiTM flaw in AFNetworking iOS, OS X framework was fixed

Security experts at Minded Security firm have recently discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS X AFNetworking. The researchers Simone Bovi and Mauro Gentile at the security firm Minded Security discovered a flaw in the popular networking library for iOS and OS X AFNetworking. The researchers found the flaw while were […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2015
Reading the Secunia Vulnerability Review 2015

Secunia firm issued its annual report on vulnerabilities exploited in 2014 in most popular software, a document which includes key figures and facts. Secunia has recently released its annual study of trends in software vulnerabilities, an interesting report that highlights the impact of the presence of flaws in common software and provide useful details on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2015
Bar Mitzvah attack exploits the Invariance Weakness in RC4

Bar Mitzvah is the name of a new attack on RC4-Based SSL/TLS encryption that allows disclosure of sensitive data by exploiting  a 13-Year-Old Vulnerability. Both Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocols rely on the Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) algorithm to encrypt data transfers. The problem is that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015
Slides reveal Canadian CSE secret hacking capabilities

The last collection of top-secret slides leaked by Snowden and disclosed by media agencies reveal the hacking capabilities and platforms of Canadian CSE. The last collection of top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, and published by The Intercept  and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,  leaked documents reveal the Canadians are a dab hand at cyber-stuff, […]