Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2014
Microsoft hacked by Syrian Electronic Army for second time in 2014

Microsoft hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army for a second time in 2014, MSFTNews Twitter account hijacked, sends out SEA messages. Again Syrian Electronic Army, the popular group of Hackers this time hacked the Microsoft News Twitter account — @MSFTNews. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has compromised early 2014 the Skype‘s Twitter account and blog to protest […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2014
VSAT terminals are opened for targeted cyber attacks

Security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company, discovered that VSAT terminals are opened for targeted cyber attacks. VSAT terminals (very-small-aperture terminal) used for satellite communications are vulnerable to external cyber attacks, the discovery was made by security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company. The VSAT vulnerability appears serious and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2014
openSUSE Forum hacked. Pakistani hacker compromised internal database

A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE accessing to the database. A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE. The new shocking hack is shaking the IT security community, a few days after the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2014
Staysure – stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers

The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach,  stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach,  the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2014
Drug overdose has Killed Barnaby Jack according the autopsy

Barnaby Jack is dead of an accidental drug overdose according the results provided by the San Francisco’s medical examiner’s office. Who or what killed Barnaby Jack? The answer is overdosing on drugs according to the results of the autopsy conducted by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday. Barnaby Jack was a famous hacker, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2014
Netgear, Linksys and many other Wireless Routers have a backdoor

The French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken discovered the presence of a backdoor in principal models of routers including Netgear, Linksys and Cisco. The presence of a backdoor in the commercial routers it is no more a surprise, we found flawed firmware in the popular D-Link in the past and now it seem that a similar problem […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2014
Symantec on Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks

Security researchers at Symantec have spotted a series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks during the Christmas Holidays. DDoS attacks are very simple methods of offence that could cause serious problems to targeted systems, behind the word DDoS there are numerous techniques that could be exploited by attackers to reach their goals. Last […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2014
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2014
Skype’s blog and Twitter account compromised by Syrian Electronic Army

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have compromised Skype ‘s Twitter account and blog to protest against the support provided to NSA surveillance programme. Syrian Electronic Army has conducted first hack of 2014 hitting Skype,  the group of hackers want to remind us that nothing is secure and that netizens will never accept the monitoring of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2014
DROPOUTJEEP – How NSA completely controls your iPhone

Leaked documents shared by Der Spiegel show how NSA spyware codenamed DROPOUTJEEP can spy on every Apple iPhone. Apple denies any claim. Users buy the iPhone, NSA controls them. This is not a slogan for the last Apple advertising, it is the uncomfortable truth revealed by another set of NSA documents leaked by Snowden and […]