Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2014
The United States has filed criminal charges against five Chinese military PLA officials for cyber espionage and hacking against several US companies. The United States early this week charged five Chinese military PLA officers and accused them of hacking into computers of American companies. US authorities accused the China’s People’s Liberation Army officers of hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2014
Security researcher Ebrahim Hegazy has identified a remote code injection vulnerability affecting several subdomains of Microsoft, Yahoo, Orange and others. Fortunately, the security Vulnerability has been fixed. While participating in the Yahoo Bug Bounty program, Hegazy has found a “Unauthorized Admin Access” Vulnerability in one of Yahoo domains “mx.horoscopo.yahoo.net.”, that vulnerability led him to find […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2014
Researchers at Rapid7 disclosed a series of vulnerabilities in many devices that allow data disclosure from the SNMP community string. Researchers at Rapid7 have discovered problems in SNMP on embedded devices which can can cause the exposure of critical information. As explained in the official blog post during the analysis the experts discovered devices which expose information that would […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2014
Criminals are exploiting news tactics to steal user’s PIN from ATMs, capturing them over wireless network instead risky tampering of the banking machine. Cyber criminals are adopting even more creative and sophisticated methods to collect user’s personal information, of course banking data is very attractive for hackers that could decide to directly use it for cyber frauds, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2014
Experts at Symantec have discovered that behind the Elderwood Platform there is a still active group which is providing Zero-Day exploit used recently. Do you remember the Elderwood  project? It was September 2012 when Symantec security firm published an analysis that demonstrate the link between a series of cyber attacks against more than 30 companies and the cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2014
Recorded Future published a report to show that members of Al-Qaeda are developing a series of new encryption software in response to NSA surveillance. The revelation based on the document leaked by Edward Snowden on the NSA surveillance programs have had also a serious impact on the methods of terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda. The information revealed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2014
Security Experts at Incapsula have recently detected a powerful DNS DDoS attack organized by attackers abusing DDoS Protection Services servers. Experts at Incapsula have detected early this month a powerful DNS DDoS attack that was launched from high-capacity servers, but the alarming news is that the attackers have abused resources of two separate DDoS protection service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2014
Mark Litchfield, Security expert at Securatary, has published a proof of concept on the way it is possible to hack PayPal Manager Admin Account. Mark Litchfield, security expert at Securatary has published an interesting post on PayPal Manager Admin Account Hijack, let’s remember that PayPal Manager is used to manage user’s Payflow account. The attack method against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2014
Security experts at Bitdefender discovered a new ingenious phishing scheme that is being used by hackers to steal Google Account credentials. Security experts at Bitdefender have discovered a news phishing scheme adopted by hackers to steal Google Account passwords. The new phishing attack is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, it mainly affects Google Chrome and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2014
Journalist Glenn Greenwald published the last revelation of NSA surveillance, the agency tampers with US-made internet routers destined for foreign markets. A new collection of documents leaked by Edward Snowden claims the NSA intercepted US-made routers bound for export and to implant backdoor in their circuits. The allegations have been published by the journalist Glenn Greenwald, […]
