Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2013
IE8 zero-day exploit targets U.S. nuke researchers

Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working  on nuclear weapons research. Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working  on nuclear weapons research, the concerning discovery has been confirmed by principal security firms that revealed that the flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2013
QinetiQ breached by long Chinese cyber espionage campaign

Bloomberg published a report on QinetiQ data breach, the company has been compromised from 2007 to 2012 by Chinese hackers. The UK-based defense contractor QinetiQ is vulnerable to cyber attacks, the news is sensational and has created a lot of noise on the Internet, due the critical role of the company as primary providers for U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2013
Adobe Reader vulnerability reveals where a PDF is opened

The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened. The McAfee security firm found an Adobe Reader vulnerability that reveals where a PDF document is opened, once again Adobe products are the center of attention of security experts after the numerous attacks that have exploited flaws in its products for cyber espionage campaigns. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2013
LivingSocial data breach exposed 50M customer records

LivingSocial data breach exposed 50 million customer records, the news is shocking and is circulating on the Internet since last Friday. On The internet is circulating the news of the LivingSocial data breach, an incident that menace the privacy of million of users and that rekindling the debate on the level of security provided by major service companies […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2013
Yahoo! Blind SQL Injection could lead to data leakage

Yahoo! Blind SQL Injection could allow attackers can inject own SQL commands A Yahoo! Blind SQL Injection has been discovered by an Egyptian information security advisor … What could be the problems arising? Data leakages are the nightmares of every administration of databases, a growing number of services are exposed on the Internet with related data, Billion of customers’ record […]

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 […]