Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2015
Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that following the SIGA data breach, confidential data belonging to US military personnel were exposed. A bad news for the US military, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that, following a the data breach of the German telecom company SIGA Telecom and an AAFES contractor occurred on March 5, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2015
According to a security advisory published by Microsoft all supported versions of Windows are affected by the recently discovered FREAK vulnerability FREAKÂ is major security SSL/TLS vulnerability recently discovered that for more than a decade left users of Apple and Google devices vulnerable to hacking when they visited millions of legitimate and secure websites. The critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2015
The Singapore-based company AdNear is using a fleet of commercial drones to determine users’ location and deliver hyper-targeted ads. Drones that spy on unaware people, a nightmare come true, apparently nothing new considering that it is a common practice of law enforcement and Intelligence agency. The bad news is that also a few advertising companies are also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2015
FREAK, a new major security flaw that left users of Apple and Google devices exposed to MITM attack while visiting supposedly secure Websites. IT industry is facing with a new major security SSL/TLS vulnerability that for more than a decade left users of Apple and Google devices vulnerable to hacking when they visited millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2015
D-Link routers contain a vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to get root access remotely and run several attacks. Once again security experts have found security vulnerabilities in home routers, these devices are a privileged target of cyber criminals that exploit the flaws in the software they run for several purposes. This time the flawed routers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
A British hacker has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks that could be run to infect machines, a technique that remind the method used by the Equation Group. Security expert Stephen Tomkinson from NCC Group has discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in the software used to play Blu-ray discs. The exploitation of the flaw could be used to implant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
A cyber resilience approach: the need to become cyber resilient is very essential because eliminating risks completely is impossible. Hacking emerged as a geeky, tech-oriented culture that was a little mischievous, but ultimately was about programming and finding faults or bugs in the code. It has evolved over time to become a criminal activity. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2015
 A security expert discovered a Remote Code Execution zero-day vulnerability in Seagate Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. A critical zero-day vulnerability affects Network Attached Storage (NAS) device software produced by the Seagate firm. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher OJ Reeves on October 7 and reported to Seagate that still hasn’t fixed the zero-day. The Seagate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
Experts at Proofpoint uncovered a pharming attack that uses phishing to exploit router vulnerabilities and carry out malicious activities. Security firm Proofpoint revealed that its experts recently detected a spam campaign targeting organizations and primarily Brazilian Internet users. The spam campaign implements a very effective technique to spy on a victimâs Web traffic. The particularity of this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
Akamai firm discovered numerous attacks exploiting a known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin to run Joomla Reflection DDoS attacks against enterprises. Experts from Akamai Technologies’ Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert) have discovered a vulnerability allows attackers to turn Joomla servers using the Google Maps plugin into a DDoS hacking tool. The worrying aspect […]
