Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2014
Google Chrome bug allows sites to listen users private conversations

Web developers Tal Ater discovered a Google Chrome Bug that allows websites to listen to user private conversations. Google still hasn’t patched it! Google Chrome is one of the most diffused browsers, it has an excellent reputation in terms of security, usability and performance but it is wrong to consider it as perfect. As any […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2014
South Korea, 20 Million credit card data has been leaked

Financial Supervisory Service confirmed that Stolen credit card data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked. While US are facing with a series of clamorous data breached against principal retailers, in South Korea an employee of personal credit ratings firm Korea Credit Bureau (KCB) has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2014
TeamBerserk announced a leaked of document data from DHS Fusion Center

Hackers from the group TeamBerserk announced to have leaked numerous sensitive documents from systems of some DHS Intelligence Fusion Centers. The Group of hackers known as TeamBerserk claim to have stolen 54mb of compressed documents from the systems of some US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence Fusion Centers. The group announced it with a Tweet: […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2014
VPN vulnerability in Android devices allows intercept communications

Israeli Security researchers discovered an Android security flaw to bypass active VPN configurations and intercept secure communications. A new alleged flaw in Android mobile could harm user’s privacy over VPN. Israeli security researchers from the Ben Gurion University (BGU), the same that discovered a few weeks ago a vulnerability in the Samsung Knox platform, have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2014
10 million Starbucks customers at risk for official iOS app flaw

Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2014
Black hat search-engine operation on hit hotel listing on Google

A Black hat search-engine operation on a large-scale has made possible the hijacking of thousands of hotel listing on Google Maps A Black hat search-engine operation on a large-scale has made possible the hijacking of thousands of hotel listing on Google Maps and Google+, users visiting victims accommodations were redirected to other booking sites. Hijacking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2014
TP-LINK TD-W8951ND Routers provided by Algerie Telecom are vulnerable

Algerie Telecom TP-LINK TD-W8951ND Routers are vulnerable, they contain a critical vulnerability exploitable to gain unauthorized access and reveal user’s password. Also TP-LINK routers are vulnerable, this is the latest chapter in the saga of the vulnerabilities present in our routers after that a security researcher discovered serious flaw in CISCO, Linksys and Netgear, meanwhile […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2014
Internet of Things and principal cyber threats

Internet of Things, a business growing at a compound annual rate of 7,9%, which are the principal cyber threats to the popular paradigm? Another week is starting and this morning the topic that I’ve found everywhere is Internet of Things (IoT), it is a growing paradigm that will influence our life in the next future, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2014
ASUS Routers setting could expose users data on Internet

A default setting in Asus Routers allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage connected to the devices. Swedish users reported an alleged vulnerability in Asus Routers that allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage directly connected to the devices. Asus and many routers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2014
Cisco confirmed that a Backdoor affects small business devices

Cisco confirmed the presence of a Backdoor that affects small business devices. The flaw was discovered by the French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken weeks ago. Cisco has recently disclosed (Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20140110-sbd) the presence of a backdoor in different small business networking devices, it is an undocumented Test Interface that could be exploited by attackers to […]