Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2015
Thousands Britons have been exposed in massive new data hack, their personal and financial data are easy to access online with a simple query on Shodan. Thousands of Britons are exposed to cyber crime after the content of their PC was exposed on the Internet by Shodan, a website dubbed the “Google for hackers.” The leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2015
Security experts at FireEye uncovered a cyber espionage campaign that targeted organizations in India and the Tibetan activists. Security firm FireEye revealed an intense activity of hackers based in China particularly interested in entities and organization linked to the Indian Government as well as in information on Tibetan activists. Also in this case we are dealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 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. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2015
At the last the Chaos Communication Camp, held in Zehdenick, Germany experts demonstrated how to hack the Iridium network and eavesdrop its pager traffic. At the last edition of the Chaos Communication Camp held in Germany the organizers distributed 4500 rad1o badges, powerful devices running a software that could be used to intercept satellite traffic from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2015
The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website have released another dump of 20 GB and experts are publishing their analysis on it. The recent hack of the adultery website Ashley Madison is attracting the attention of the media, after the disclosure of a second dump of data the security experts started their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2015
A security researcher revealed that BMW was aware of the mobile app vulnerability that allows hackers to run the Ownstar attack. At the recent DEF CON conference the popular security researcher Samy Kamkar presented Ownstar, a $100 gadget that allows to hacks GM Cars. The Ownstar tool allows to locate, unlock, and start a car who […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2015
Experts discovered that the sandbox vulnerability affects all apps that use the managed app configuration setting in devices that run older versions. Kevin Watkins, a security researcher from Appthority, argues that users without iOS 8.4.1 are affected by the sandbox vulnerability, CVE-2015-3269. The flaw affects all apps that use the managed app configuration settings, meaning that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2015
Researchers Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, revealed that popular cars, including Ferrari and Porsche,which use Megamos Crypto transponders can be easily stolen. The level of interest on Car hacking is maximum following the recent hack of the Fiat Chrysler Jeep, news of the day is that a team or experts since 2012 is aware of the presence of security flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
A new report published by the popular investigator Brian Krebs show how cyber criminals have compromised chip-and-PIN technology. Recently chip-and-PIN technology started to be adopted in the US because it would improve the security for the customers, merchants and financial institutions. This is true, but the problem is that when the market pushes in one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
CVE-2015-3842 is a new flaw affecting the Android mediaserver, which can be exploited to perform attacks involving arbitrary code execution. The problems for Android users continue, a long serie of vulnerabilities has been discovered by the experts in the last weeks, Stagefright, zero-day zero-day deserialization, and Certifi-Gate are the names of some of the flaw recently […]
