Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2014
Two 14-year-old students, Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon, have hacked an ATM machine of the Bank of Montreal using a manual discovered on the Internet. Two 14-year-old students, Matthew Hewlett and Caleb Turon, have hacked an ATM machine of the Bank of Montreal to test its level of security. The two students have discovered online an old […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2014
A major cyber attack might have compromised the personal information of 16000 current and former workers employed by the American command in South Korea. US officials have revealed that military database in South Korea has suffered a major cyber attack which caused a data breach. Data related to personnel employed by the United States military […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2014
FireEye Labs recently identified several new Molerats attacks based on Xtreme RAT targeting US financial institutions and European government organizations. FireEye experts between 29 April and 27 May have identified several new Molerats attacks targeting organizations across the globe. European government organizations, at least one U.S. financial institution and other private entities were hit by cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2014
A new series of vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel allows an attacker to lead DoS and privilege escalation attack, Debian urges upgrades for Linux users. Numerous security flaws have been discovered and fixed in the Linux kernel, patch management for these vulnerabilities is critical to avoid that attackers could have led to a denial of service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2014
The OpenSSL Foundation has fixed a series of new vulnerabilities, two of them considered critical. Organizations are invited to apply patches asap. The Open SSL has provided a collection of updates for its libraries to fix a series of new vulnerabilities recently reported. The exact number of vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL is 6 and two of them are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2014
Experts at security firm Codenomicon discovered a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the GnuTLS software. GnuTLS, a free software implementation of SSL/TLS/DTLS protocols, it offers a set of application programming interface (API) to enable secure communication over their network transport layer. News of the day is that the widely used cryptographic library is vulnerable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2014
A new alarm on car hacking issued by the security community, the white hat Jonathan Brossard warns cars can be hacked on the road remotely. Car hacking is possible, I have proposed different works presented by security experts that demonstrate how to compromise modern vehicles with cheap environment. Modern cars have a huge quantity of components connected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2014
A Portuguese security expert has uncovered the Cupid attack, a new Heartbleed attack vector which can impact Android devices, enterprise wireless networks and other connected devices. Cupid is the name of the new Heartbleed attack method recently proposed by Portuguese security researcher Luis Grangeia, unlike the original version of the attack, which took place on TLS connections over TCP, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2014
Security Experts discovered a new attack method to defeat Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) can be circumvented on around half of PCs that use it, security researcher Corey Kallenberg from nonprofit research organization Mitre has demonstrated it at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2014
Sporting events are an excellent scenario for hacktivists, protest against the World Cup in Brazil are increasing and hackers announced a major cyber attack. The football World Cup in Brazil 2014 is coming soon, the infrastructure used for the event are a prime target for each category of bad actors, state-sponsored hackers intent on cyber espionage, cyber criminals […]
