Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2015
The penetration tester Thiebauld Weksteen has published an interesting analysis to explaine the importance of robots.txt for the hacking activities. Thiebauld Weksteen, a penetration tester from Melbourne is advising system administrators that robots.txt can give precious details to hackers, when it comes to attacks, because robots.txt as the capability to tell search engines which directories […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
The UK Government is giving GCHQ, Intelligence services and law enforcement full hacking powers. People are scared by a law that gives GCHQ the immunity. New legislation exempting police, GCHQ and other officers from intelligence department from prosecution in a connection to mobile and computer hacking by the said government guns, has been passed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
The Anonymous collective continues the wave of cyber attacks against the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition, the last victim in order of time is the Best Union. Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015Â Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
A team of researchers explains that million of lives potentially depends on the resilience to cyber attacks of a new generation of “artificial pancreas.” Medical devices are open to cyber attacks, many studies have demonstrated that a large number of medical systems could be affected by security flaws that could be exploited by hackers. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2015
Russian hackers have developed a Sony PS4 crack which is used by Brazil retailers to break console security and sell pirated games to their customers. A group of Russian crackers has discovered a method to hack the popular Sony PS4 and bypass its security measures. The group is offering it hack on the Brazilian market, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2015
Pro-Isis Hackers belonging to Cyber Caliphate hacking team threaten âElectronic Warâ on US and Europe. Which are ISIS cyber capabilities? Is the Islamic State group able to engage a cyber war against Western countries? According to prominent hackers affiliated with the terrorist, the ISIS hackers have the abilities to hit computer systems in US and Europe. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Hiring hackers, how much is it? US SOCOM and The Special Forces to Scrutinize Social media Skynet, the US top-secret program to track terrorists PHP hash comparison flaw is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2015
The Penn State suffered a high sophisticated cyber attack that that seems to be originated from China and that exposed data belonging to 18K people. The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering confirmed that it has been targeted by two “highly sophisticated” cyber attacks over the last two years. “Today (May 15), University leadership announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2015
The computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that he obtained the control of at least one commercial flight causing it to âclimbâ. A new search warrant filed in a federal court in New York state published Friday by the Canadian website APTN revealed that the aviation computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2015
Security researchers at Security Explorations firm have published PoCs code for some of security issues in the Google App Engine. The Polish firm Security Explorations has published online the technical details and a proof-of-concept code for security flaws affecting the Google App Engine (GAE) for Java. “Security Explorations decided to release technical details as well as […]
