Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
A quick tour in the Black Markets, the places on the web where it is possible to acquire or rent “malicious” services and illegal products. Black Markets are places on the web where it is possible to acquire or rent “malicious” services and products, these markets are growing fast and are becoming very popular in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Yemen Cyber Army will release 1M of records per week to stop Saudi Attacks The Importance of Operational Security and User Education CIA Chief: Ending NSA Spying Would Boost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
The silent war between black markets in the deep web, Mr Nice Guy hired a blackmailer to hit TheRealDeal and its competitors. TheRealDeal hacked back. Today I desire to tell you a story of ordinary war among operators behind principal black markets. A few weeks ago I have published a detailed analysis of a new black market […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
Experts at Wandera discovered that hackers can set up a bogus access point spoofing Apple Pay and fool users into provide their credit card data. Experts at the mobile security company Wandera have reported a security flaw in Apple iOS that could be exploited to fool a user into provides his credit card data and personal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
TheHackerNews has reported a simple trick that allows to hijack a WhatsApp account easily on every mobile platform by knowing the victim’s phone number. The popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is vulnerable to hijacking exposing hundreds of Millions of users vulnerable to attack. It could be quite easy to take over a WhatsApp account when the attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
A security expert explained how it is possible to hack the service provided by a utility company raising serious security and privacy issues. In the most recent post of atxsec.com the owner of the blog talks about a flaw that he discovered after trying to pay his utility bill. To pay his utility bill he decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
US Government announced that a major data breach likely backed by Chinese hackers caused the exposure of data belonging to millions of government workers. Once again a data breach interested systems of the US government, the Obama administration on Thursday confirmed to have been the victim of a major cyber attack. According to the US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
The eight-character string “http://:” brings Skype into Endless Crash Loop, and once they’re in the user’s chat history, the app can’t start again. A few days ago we discussed about a problem occurred to iPhone and iPad users, their mobile devices were crashing after the reception of a specifically crafted text message, now a similar problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
The German Government confirmed that hackers that attacked the Bundestag two weeks ago have had access to data of the German Parliament. The German Government has confirmed that hackers who breached the Bundestag systems a couple of weeks ago have also stolen data from targeted network. A spokeswoman for the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, confirmed that unknown […]
