Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2013
Hacktivists hacked Twitter account of Associated Press to post fake news

Recently hackers have intensified the number of attacks against corporate social media accounts, the Twitter account is most targeted ones due the high interest of businesses in this comfortable communication channel. Various the companies that have recently been hacked on Twitter including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours and a Denver news affiliate, The New York Times, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2013
Anonymous #OpIsrael, use of botnets & hypothesis on attackers

We all remember the debated attacks of Anonymous collective against Israeli government that targeted various websites of the country last April 7th. The data on the cyber attacks reported by Israel government are really different from the one provided by the group of hacktivists in the damage report for #OpIsrael that account for a Total […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2013
Hijacking plane’s navigation system with Android, reality or unnecessary alarm?

The news is sensational, to take control of a plane is not necessary a group of terrorists, a hacker with limited resource could take control on the entire control system, including plane navigation and cockpit systems according the researcher Hugo Teso. Teso is a security consultant at  N.runs AG, Germany, with a passion for flying in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2013
WordPress sites under massive brute-force attack

Any owner of WordPress site is shaking causes of the threat that someone could steal its credentials, everybody would do well to ask themselves if their passwords are really strong and to make sure to don’t use as username the word “admin.” The reports published by CloudFlare and HostGator revealed a massive attack being launched against WordPress blogs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2013
You play I hack you … ReVuln online poker security

One of the most interesting company in security landscape is ReVuln, its researchers specialize in the security assessment and are the authors or various interesting studies on large scale applications and SCADA systems, few weeks ago I presented their work on vulnerability assessment on Gaming platforms. This time I desire to present another excellent analysis […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2013
Anonymous provides damage report for #Opisrael

The #OpIsrael is destined to make the history, for the first time a collective decided to conduct a large-scale cyber attack against a state, despite the campaign started a few months ago it has reached its peak on 7th April when various organizations of hacktivists targeted Israele Web sites with powerful DDoS attacks and in some cases defacing them […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2013
How cybercrime uses a compromised Skype account

In various articles I wrote on the large diffusion of botnets and the capabilities of malicious agents to use as spread channel the social media platforms or popular applications. The diffusion and management of a botnet architecture has never been so easy, the underground offer covers every need and provides advanced customization services. Security expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2013
#OpIsrael, 7 APRIL Anonymous plans a massive attack against Israel

The day is near, the group of hackers belonging to the collective of Anonymous declared in a unanimous way, war on the state of Israel, promising a sensational action on April 7th. The popular group of hacktivists started in the last months a campaign dubbed #OpIsrael  to  protest against Israeli bombing of Palestinian territory, the hackers have […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2013
The role of hacktivism in cyber warfare scenario between 2 Koreas

It’s not a surprise South Korean security experts suggest that the North Korea military is training an elite force of “cyber warriors” to involve in cyber attacks against South institutions and companies. The South intelligence revelations follow continuous menaces of North Korea against U.S. Forces located in the Far East, the dictator Kim Jong-UN enhances […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2013
Hacktive Security discoveries flaw in Ruzzle protocol that menaces user’s privacy

Researchers at Hacktive Security, an independent security consulting company, have demonstrated how much insidious could be a so a simple and crimeless large scale application. We are in the digital era, everything is connected to the large networks and applications benefit of even more complex devices that deeply interact with the owner, in this scenario […]