Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2013
Hackers have compromised a misconfigured cloud server in less than 4hh

CloudPassage organized an exercise to demonstrated how it is simple the live server exploitation of cloud environments poorly configured. Cloud computing is considerable one of the paradigms with highest penetration level with mobile and social networking, for this reason we discussed many times on security level offere by those infrastructures that are even more targets […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2013
Cybercriminal threatens to sell 3.7M Customers data Israeli Banks

A group of hackers has threatened Israeli banks to disclose stolen data belonging 3.7 million customers unless the organizations pay up. The Israel Hayom news revealed that at least three Israeli banks report extortion attempt by hacker demanding payoff in Bitcoin, the criminal threatens the financial institutions to reveal sensitive information of banking customers. The cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2013
Breaking 4096-bit RSA with an Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack

Israeli Security researchers explained how to break 4096-bit RSA analyzing CPU sound emitted during decryption (Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack). Israeli Security Researchers at Tel Aviv University recently published an interesting paper titled “RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis” to explain how they have successfully broken 4096-bit RSA analyzing Computer’s CPU Sound emitted during execution of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2013
New cyber attack against The Washington Post

Security experts at Mandiant have discovered that hackers break into Washington Post servers stealing employee users credentials hashes. Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I’m writing it is still not clear […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013
54 Million Turkish Citizens data stoled by Russian Hackers

Researchers from KONDA Security firm have discovered that the Russian hackers have stolen personal information of 54 Million Turkish Citizens. Unknown Russian hackers have reportedly stolen Personal details of nearly 54 million Turkish citizens, the data breach is clamorous if we consider that the figure represents nearly 70% of the whole Turkish population. The Hurriyet daily news […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013
Adallom discovered an important Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability

Adallom demonstrated that exploiting an Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability an attacker can steal organisations SharePoint credentials. Adallom chief software architect Noam Liran published a very interesting post on a severe Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability, the researcher demonstrated how an attacker can steal Microsoft Office 365 credentials if victims host a Word document on their […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2013
NSA – A bios malware can remotely destroy any US system

During a CBS Interview show “60 Minutes”, The NSA Director General Alexander and the Information Assurance Director Plunkett  claimed a foreign government has developed a BIOS based malware that can remotely destroy any computer. Senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials have revealed to CBS American television newsmagazine “60 Minutes” that a foreign government has tried […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013
Safari browser stores in plaintext previous secure session data

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Apple’s Safari browser stores session information including authentication credentials used in previous HTTPS sessions to implement the feature “Reopen All Windows from Last Session”. Safari stores in a plain text XML file called  Property list, or plist, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
German researcher found remote code execution flaw on EBay subdomain

The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the Ebay website that allows an attacker a remote code execution. The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the official Ebay website in particular in its sub domain http://sea.ebay.com that allows an attacker a remote code execution. It’s not the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
Google Vulnerabilities out of bounty program, how is it possible?

Experts at Hacker Online Club published a post on Google vulnerabilities that are currently not under bug bounty program of the company. Today I desire to propose the information on Un-patched Google Vulnerabilities  published on the web site Hackers Online Club trying to understand a hacker how could exploit them. The first Google Vulnerability is a […]