Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2014
A new study conducted by security researchers at the University of Michigan demonstrated that it is easy to hack traffic light systems. Hacking Traffic lights is a serious menace for the population, many individuals believe that it is possible only in the movies, but unfortunately is a scaring reality. In May I anticipated you an interesting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2014
Hackers have compromised with a malware the system at 51 UPS Stores across the United States, customers’ credit card data may have been exposed. UPS is the last clamorous victim of a gang of cybercriminals from Eastern Europe, the bad actors behind the cyber attack has compromised 51 UPS Stores across the United States. The investigators […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2014
A CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability affects the Fiverr.com website, millions users are potentially at risk. The Egyptian Information Security Evangelist, Mohamed Abdelbaset, reported to the colleagues of The Hacker News a serious CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability on the popular Fiverr website. The Fiverr.com website is a marketplace where people offers their services for five dollars per […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2014
New revelation on British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries. In the last years the British GCHQ has conducted numerous hacking operation against systems in 27 countries, through a massive port scanning the intelligence agency was searching for vulnerability to exploit in cyber attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2014
Researchers at BlackHat discovered a Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software EnergyWise. Researchers from ERNW GMBH revealed that misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in Cisco’s EnergyWise suite could be exploited by attackers to cause huge blackouts. The team has presented the results of their study during the last Black Hat  conference […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2014
Internal network of USIS was compromised by a cyber attack which has exposed Government Employees’ Data. Investigators speculate on a state-sponsored attack The USIS (U.S. Investigations Services), which provides background checks for the US government was recently hacked. This is the second data breach in a few months that threaten US government. The USISÂ recently acknowledged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2014
A security researcher claimed to have rooted the super secure Smartphone Blackphone in just five minutes. Is it true? What’s happened? Recently we read about the Blackphone, a super secure smartphone designed by SGP Technologies, a joint venture between Silent Circle and Spanish Geekphone, which is able to avoid surveillance of the NSA. The designer of Blackphone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2014
Researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit discovered a theft of Bitcoin made hijacking networks of at least 19 Internet service providers. With the rise of Bitcon value has increased the interest of cybercrime, since now we have read of botnet able to mine virtual currency with victim’s resources and malicious codes able to steal Bitcoin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2014
A Hacker claims to have hacked the network of Gamma International firm and he has leaked docs related to the malware-for-government FinFisher. Earlier this week the British company Gamma International appears to have been hacked and a collection of files from its systems have been leaked on the Internet. The security firm is popular because it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2014
The popular expert Nir Goldshlager has discovered an XMLRPC vulnerability which affects millions WordPress and Drupal websites exposing them to DoS Attack. If your website is based a WordPress or Drupal CMS you need to urgently update it to the last version released due to the presence of a critical vulnerability in the implementation of […]
