Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2014
Who is abusing of forged SSL certificates in MITM attacks worldwide? A team of researchers implemented a new detection technique to detect the abuses. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and engineers at Facebook have designed a detection technique for man-in-the-middle attacks over SSL on a large-scale. They analyzed the data extracting useful information, including the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2014
Security researcher Mohammed Saeed has Identified Multiple Security Misconfiguration in Juniper Online Serviceâs Lead to Expose Sensitive data and much more. Security researcher Mohammed Osman Saeed has Identified Multiple Security Misconfiguration in Juniper Online Service’s Lead to Expose Sensitive data & Lead to Control four Juniper Load-Balancer been accessed From Remote. He also disclosed Multiple XSS in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2014
Security researcher Robert Graham published the results of recent global scan searching for Heartbleed vulnerable systems. 300k systems are still vulnerable Heartbleed flaw is a bug disclosed more than a month ago, which affected OpenSSL library with serious repercussion on most common encryption services we daily use. Encrypted communications, mobile platforms, VPN and Tor networks are just a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2014
Alleged members of the hacking Team Digi7al were arrested by NCIS and charged for Hacking more than 30 government and private sites. The US attorney’s Office in Tulsa charged two men for involvement in anti government conspiracy, they are accused to have violated the computer systems of dozens of government and commercial organizations, including the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2014
Experts at Imperva have illustrated how to exploit NTLM flaws to conduct a Windows folder Poisoning Attack and steal access rights within corporate networks. Security vendor Imperva revealed that attackers can exploit specifically crafted shortcut icons to hack Windows machines and force them into sharing their network-access rights with a hacked PC. The experts at Imperva  have discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2014
FAA confirmed that its air traffic system experienced problems while processing a flight plan filed for a U-2 spy plane that operates in Southern California. In the past, we had a long discussed on new cyber warfare scenarios, the conflicts in the cyberspace have many faces, we saw sophisticated hacking platforms like the NSA FOXACID […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2014
Discover how it is possible to apply steganography to hide secret messages in common tweets (or any text) with steg.js-of-the-dump. In the past we have discussed many times on the adoption of steganography to hide messages within images and video, a technique exploited also by authors of malware to hide configuration file and command sent by the C&C […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2014
Technion students Find a security vulnerability in the Internet DNS protocol which allows the attackers to redirect users to a  website they control. A significant new security vulnerability has been found in the DNS protocol by a group of Israeli students from the Technionâs Department of Computer Sciences. After the Heartbleed case and the assumptions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2014
Expert at Trustwave explained the tactics adopted by cyber criminals how to serve malware in phishing attacks exploiting  .lnk files. Phil Hay, expert at Trustwave SpiderLab, explained how cyber criminals  are using .lnk files to serve malware via email. I have chosen to detail this tactic to demonstrate how much creative is the criminal ecosystem, even if it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2014
Hit and Run DDoS attacks are composed by a series of short bursts of high volume attacks, having a limited duration, and are arranged periodically, and … Incapsula firm has recently published a blog post to explain the efficiency of hit and run DDoS attacks, as remarked by the experts attackers donât need to arrange large scale […]
