Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2015
Oracle warned that a dozen of new Java security vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without login. Once again Java vulnerabilities are worrying the security community, a series of vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without authentication. Every application running on any of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2015
An Egyptian Researcher discovered a flaw that allowed him to duplicate/copy any YouTube comments from any video to another video without user-interaction. The Egyptian colleague Ahmed Aboul-Ela has discovered a vulnerability in YouTube that could be exploited by attackers to move comments from any video to another without any user-interaction. Now imagine that you move the YouTube comment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2015
A report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the FAA faces some serious cyber security issues for modern flights. Security experts for a long time suspected that in-flight Wi-fi could create an entry door for hackers and a new report issued by The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the dungeon of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2015
WikiLeaks on Thursday published a searchable database of more than 30,000 documents that were obtained by hackers in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures. WikiLeaks organization has leaked online a collection of documents stolen in the  Sony Pictures data breach, more than 30,000 files showing the inner workings of a “secretive” firm. WikiLeaks  published the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2015
Security experts worldwide have discovered that threat actors are exploiting the Microsoft Zero-Day vulnerability MS15-034 in cyber attacks. Security researchers at SANS Internet Storm Center revealed that the critical remote code execution vulnerability MS15-034 affecting the Windows HTTP protocol stack is being actively exploited in the wild. The experts explained that the MS15-034 flaw affects […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2015
The elite cyber crime group Hellsing strikes back after attack by the rival APT crew known as Naikon. This is the first documented case of APT-on-APT attack. What happens when an APT group running a cyber espionage campaign target a second distinct APT group? The events occurred last year, when a group involved in a cyber espionage campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2015
A recent report published by Dell revealed a 100 percent increase in the number of attacks on industrial control (SCADA) systems. The new Dell Annual Threat Report revealed that the number of attacks against supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems doubled in 2014 respect the previous year. Unfortunately, the majority of incidents occurred in SCADA systems is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2015
A researcher discovered that Belkin implements a vulnerable procedure to generate WPS PINs. Just knowing MAC and the serial number he can calculate it. A security researcher who goes by the name of Craig has discovered a critical flaw affecting Belkin network devices. that could be exploited by attackers to calculate the WPS PINs. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2015
A group of Turkish hackers shut down the official website of the Vatican City to protest against Pope Francescoâ statements on the Armenian Genocide. Turkish hackers have taken down the Vatican City official website for revenge against the recent statements by Pope Francesco on the Armenian genocide. The hacking group named Herakles (@THTHerakles) announced that he will continue the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2015
The Redirect to SMB vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows and could be exploited to steal usersâ credentials for various services. Experts at Cylance have discovered a new credential hijacking vulnerability dubbed Redirect to SMB that affects all versions of Windows OSs, including the upcoming Windows 10. The Redirect to SMB could be exploited by an attacker […]
