Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2016
G.Razvan Eugen is a 24 year-old Romanian that claims to be the founder of the collective Team GhostShell that hacked numerous entities worldwide. Do you remember the notorious Team GhostShell hacking crew? GhostShell is a group of hacktivists most active in 2012 that targeted systems worldwide, the list of victims is long and includes the FBI, NASA, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2016
The patch for the critical Java CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability released by Oracle in 2013 is ineffective and can be easily bypassed. Bad news for Java users, in 2013 Oracle released a patch to fix the CVE-2013-5838 vulnerability, but security experts discovered that it could be easily bypassed to compromise the latest versions of the software. This means […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2016
Investigators suspect the attackers behind the Bangladesh central bank ‘s hack have used a malware to gather information for the Fed’s heist. One of most intriguing stories this week is the hack of the Bangladesh account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Bangladesh’s Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith accused the U.S. Federal Reserve of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2016
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a new project dubbed Improv that aims to develop new techniques to hack into everyday technology. The IoT paradigm is enlarging as never before our surface of attack, it is obvious that cyber criminals and nation-state hackers are looking at it with an increasing interest. The US Military Defense […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2016
The Russian security tester Timur Yunusov has discovered critical flaw affecting routers and 3G and 4G mobile modems from Huawei, ZTE, Gemtek, and Quanta. The Russian security tester Timur Yunusov has discovered critical vulnerabilities affecting routers and 3G and 4G mobile modems from Huawei, ZTE, Gemtek, and Quanta. The security holes could be exploited by remote attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2016
Two Computer Science researchers developed a technique to hack a phone’s fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of inkjet printer and conductive ink The Computer Science researchers Kai Cao and Anil K Jain have developed a new technique for hacking a mobile device’s fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2016
A security researcher has devised a new technique to track users by analyzing the mouse movements, even when surfing on the Tor network. While we surf on the Internet we leave an impressive amount of traces that could be used to track our profile and also reveal our identity even we are visiting resources in the darknet. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2016
Unknown hackers have stolen more than $100 million from the Bangladesh Bank account at the US Federal Reserve Bank. According to Bloomberg, the Bangladesh’s Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is accusing the U.S. Federal Reserve for the theft of at least $100 million stolen from the Bangladesh’s account. Bangladesh is threatening the US for a legal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2016
A large percentage of Android devices is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a Root Access. According to experts at TrendMicro a large percentage of Android devices in use today is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a root access. The attack allows an ill-intentioned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2016
A group of security researchers from the Edinburgh Napier University elaborated a new DDoS amplification technique relying on the TFTP protocol. A group of security experts from the Edinburgh Napier University (Boris Sieklik, Richard Macfarlane and Prof. William Buchanan) have discovered a new vector for DDoS amplification attacks. Recently the security community has discovered several ways […]
