Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Facebook’s domain

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar. Syrian Electronic Army hit again, 2014 has started with the exploits of the popular group hackers that hit the giants of IT industry. Microsoft, PayPal, Ebay and also the CNN were hacked in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2014
Screenlogging malware can log swipe gestures on your mobile

Security researcher Neal Hindocha has developed a Screenlogging malware that logs finger swipes on smart devices in combination with taking screenshots. Pattern lock are not enough to protect our Smartphone because  hackers are able to log swipe gestures with a malware. The news was reported by Forbes, Neal Hindocha, a senior security consultant for Trustwave, has designed a Screenlogging malware that can […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2014
Orange hacked, 800,000 customer records have been stolen

  The official Orange website was breached by unknown hackers who have stolen 800,000 customer records including names, email addresses and phone numbers. Orange, the world’s largest mobile operator, suffered a data breach. Another clamorous case, after the one occurred to Vodafone in Iceland, according first information, data of more than 800,000 customers of giant has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Critical vulnerabilities in Oracle servers in the wild

Researcher Dana Taylor is warning on the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in Oracle servers in the wild since a long time. Two serious vulnerabilities affect Oracle’s older database packages, allowing an attacker to remotely access a server bypassing authentication mechanism. Exploiting the flaws the attackers can browse the filesystem of the server accessing any files. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army hacked Ebay and Paypal websites

  Ebay and PayPal hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, “For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products” said SEA. The group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has monopolized the attention of the media, the hacking team has practically hit every possible target within government organizations, big enterprises and media agencies. The list of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2014
Yahoo Mail hacked,attackers gain unauthorized access to its accounts

  The company has issued a security advisory to warn users that Yahoo Mail Service was hacked, hackers have stolen credentials of its email customers. Yahoo Mail! is considered one of the largest email service providers, millions of people use is every day, it’s clear that it represents an attractive target for cyber criminals. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2014
Lack of auth in 3G/4G USB modems exposes control panels to hackers

Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G/4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers for spear phishing attacks.  The researcher Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G and 4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers to steal user’s credential. The expert has found a Cross Site […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2014
Exploring the Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Q&A

Interviewed with Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at Securelogix to better understand the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). I briefly interviewed Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at SecureLogix (Www.securelogix.com) on the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). Mark just completed the Hacking Exposed: UC and VoIP book, which covers […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2014
Discovered a serious vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird

A serious vulnerability inside Mozilla Thunderbird Gecko engine allows hackers to insert malicious code into Emails to exploit recipient browser. A critical vulnerability affects the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.6, the popular application has a validation and filter bypass vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to bypass the filter that prevents HTML tags from being used in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2014
Hackers used Spear Phishing attack to hack CNN Blogs

Security analysts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler published the details of the investigation on recent attack against CNN Blogs and social media accounts. Recently a few social media accounts belonging to CNN and blogs were compromised, including CNN’s main Facebook account, CNN Politics’ Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN’s Security Clearance. At the […]