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Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2014
DNS Protocol affected by a serious flaw, Internet users are at risk

Technion students Find a security vulnerability in the Internet DNS protocol which allows the attackers to redirect users to a  website they control. A significant new security vulnerability has been found in the DNS protocol by a group of Israeli students from the Technion’s Department of Computer Sciences. After the Heartbleed case and the assumptions […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2014
Using lnk file to deceive users in phishing attacks

Expert at Trustwave explained the tactics adopted by cyber criminals how to serve malware in phishing attacks exploiting  .lnk files. Phil Hay, expert at Trustwave SpiderLab, explained how cyber criminals  are using .lnk files to serve malware via email. I have chosen to detail this tactic to demonstrate how much creative is the criminal ecosystem, even if it […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2014
Understanding Hit and Run DDoS attacks

Hit and Run DDoS attacks are composed by a series of short bursts of high volume attacks, having a limited duration, and are arranged periodically, and … Incapsula firm has recently published a blog post to explain the efficiency of hit and run DDoS attacks, as remarked by the experts attackers don’t need to arrange large scale […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2014
Vishing is still alive and a malicious campaign is scaring banking

Security Experts at PhishLabs revealed that a vishing campaign targeted banking industry to harvest credit/debit card data from customers. The security firm PhishLabs revealed that numerous US banks are victims of a recent Vishing (VoIP-based phishing) campaign that is targeting the payment card information of up to 250 Americans per day. Assuming that the withdrawal limits on ATM […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2014
Facebook scammers exploit your intention to hack friends’ account

Security Experts at Symantec discovered scammers are exploiting Facebook users’ intention to hack friends’ account to compromise their profile. Symantec has discovered a new insidious scam against Facebook users, scammers targeted the social media users proposing a bogus Facebook hacking tool that promises to give the access to their friends’ accounts … unfortunately the unique account hacked is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2014
Hacking Traffic lights and other control systems is not so hard

Security experts Cesar Cerrudo conducted a study on the security of components within control traffic lights and similar electronic systems. The hacking of control systems for traffic lights or cyber grids is a prerogative of sci-fi series and movies, hackers could be able to target them causing serious problems. Cesar Cerrudo, CTO at IOActive, has conducted a study to investigate […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2014
AOL suffered a massive Data Breach

AOL Inc. confirms security breach, email accounts of a significant number users may have been exposed, no financial data has been stolen. AOL Inc. last Monday has confirmed with an official  blog post that the company suffered a massive data breach which may have compromised the email accounts of a significant number users, for this reason it is suggested to the clients of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2014
Skype stores all application data in a local database in plain text

Romanian Researcher discovered that Skype application store sensitive User Data Unencrypted on a local database. A Romanian programmer at Hackyard Security Group, Dragoş Gaftoneanu, revealed through a  blog post that the popular VOIP application Skype leaves its local database unencrypted. Unfortunately the problem is very common, many applications, especially mobile apps, don’t encrypt application data exposing user’s information to serious risks for their privacy.  According Gaftoneanu, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2014
Adobe zero-day used in watering hole attack against Syrian dissidents

Adobe has just released a security updates for Flash Player to fix critical vulnerabilities that are being exploited by hackers to track Syrian dissidents. Adobe has just released security updates for Flash Player to fix critical vulnerabilities that are being exploited in a series of cyber attacks targeting Syrian dissidents complaining about the government. Early April experts at […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2014
Evolution of the Russian underground offer

TrendMicro has published an excellent study on the evolution of the Russian underground, detailing products, services and related prices. Max Goncharov has published a new interesting study on the Russian Underground, titled Russian Underground Revisited, one year after the previous report “Russian Underground 101”. Trend Micro report continues its analysis of the services and products offered by cyber criminals in […]

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