Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2015
PHP applications and WordPress CMS might be affected by the GHOST vulnerability that could be exploit to compromise the hosting servers. The critical GHOST vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235) in the GNU C library (glibc)Â may have a greater impact than imagined, security experts have discovered that PHP applications, including the popular WordPress Content Management System (CMS), could also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
The 17-year-old security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan discovered two security flaws in the newborn WhatsApp Web client which menace user privacy. Just a week after the presentation of WhatsApp Web, the desktop version of the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, a 17-year-old security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan discovered two security flaws. Bhuyan is already known to the IT security community because […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
Critical DNS hijacking flaw affects D-Link DSL router, the flaw affects the ZynOS firmware that is used also by other vendors, including TP-Link and ZTE. A security vulnerability affects DSL router model from D-Link, the flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to change device DNS settings and hijack users’ traffic. The Bulgarian security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” This ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report (ETL 2014) was prepared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone. The diffusion of drones is alerting government and authorities, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used more frequently in different sectors. The security of drones in both military and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Computer programmer Dani Grant revealed that short codes from AT&T are easy to spoof and expose customers to phishing scams. AT&T customers are exposed phishing attacks due to proprietary AT&T’s text protocols. Computer programmer Dani Grant discovered that is quite easy to spoof text messages from AT&T. In this variant of “Phishing” attacks, crooks attempt to trick victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2015
Topface, the Russian-based dating site, has been hacked, User names and e-mail addresses of 20 million visitors are offered for sale online. Nearly 20 Million User names and e-mail addresses of visitors to the Russian-based dating website Topface have been available for sale online, the news first reported by Bloomberg. According to Daniel Ingevaldson, chief technology […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2015
Rumors on the Internet reveals that the PlayStation 4 Jailbreak hack allegedly made by the Lizard Squad would be soon available. It is difficult to understand right now how true the news, but according to rumors circulating in the Internet the popular hacking collective Lizard Squad, responsible for the attacks against Sony PSN, XBox live and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2015
Security Expert Brett Buerhaus has discovered a critical flaw  on admin.google.com, which could be exploited by to Hijack an account and disable 2FA Authentication. Even the giants have their Achilles heel, the Google Apps administrator console is affected by a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to force a Google Apps admins […]
