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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2015
A security bug in the WordPress plugin WP-Slimstat could be exploited by attackers to discover a âsecretâ key and use it to run blind SQL Injections. More than one million WordPress sites are potentially vulnerable to SQL injection attacks due to the presence of a critical flaw in the popular plugin WP-Slimstat. WP-Slimstat is an analytics plugin for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2015
The Ramnit botnet has been shut down in a joint effort by the Europol and the security firms Symantec, Microsoft, and Anubis Networks. Another success For the Europol and its allies Microsoft, Symantec, and Anubis Networks. The organizations in a joint effort have shut down command and control servers of the popular Ramnit botnet. The Joint Cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2015
Alleged Hacker belonging to the hacking crew Lizard Squad run a DNS hajacking attack against the Google Vietnam domain. A nasty surprise for Internet users who visited the Google Vietnam website that was presented with a picture of a man taking a selfie, along with a message that claimed the website site was hacked by the […]
