Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2015
The VLC open-source media player is affected by two security vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. Some versions of the popular VLC open-source media player are affected by two memory corruption vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. The couple of vulnerabilities was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2015
GreatFire revealed that the popular Microsoft Outlook emailing service was subjected to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack in China. This time the popular Outlook email service was allegedly hacked by Chinese authorities. The Outlook email service was not reachable in China over the weekend and according the to experts at the GreatFire organization, Chinese Government run a man-in-the-middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2015
Security expert discovered a critical flaw in Verizon’s FiOS mobile app that could be exploited to access the email account of any Verizon customer. A new critical vulnerability in exposing million accounts to cyber threats, this time the flaw affects the Verizon FiOS mobile app and could be exploited by attackers to access the email account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2015
FBI seems to consider seriously the list of IP addresses involved in the hack of US CENTCOM social media accounts and provided by members of Anonymous. The FBI is investigating on IP addresses released by the Anonymous collective in a wake of the hijacking of the US CENTCOM social media accounts. Anonymous members have collected the IP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2015
The Spanish security researcher Eduardo Novella has disclosed details of two critical vulnerabilities affecting a specific ADB Pirelli home wireless router. The security researcher at Dutch security audit firm Fox-IT, Eduardo Novella, has discovered two critical vulnerabilities affecting a model of ADB Pirelli home wireless router. Novella decided to publicly disclose the vulnerabilities because the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2015
The website of the popular Notepad++ editor was hacked and defaced by hacktivists protesting against the recently released “Je suis Charlie” edition. Members of the Tunisian hacking crew named “Hackers of the Fallaga Team” have compromised and defaced a large number of French websites following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Hundreds of French websites have been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
Security researcher Samy Kamkar has designed a USB wall charger dubbed KeySweeper, which secretly logs keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards nearby. Security researcher Samy Kamkar has designed a cheap USB wall charger that can eavesdrop on almost any Microsoft wireless keyboard. The stealthy Arduino-based device, dubbed “KeySweeper“, works like a generic USB mobile charger, but he has the capability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
ISIS supporters have hacked the YouTube and Twitter accounts belonging to the US CENTCOM leaking online internal documents stolen from mobile devices. While Anonymous started the #OpCharlieHebdo campaign against jihadist websites to avenge the attack against the Charlie Hebdo, hackers of the CyberCaliphate group, claiming to support the terrorist group ISIS, have compromised the official […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2015
Security experts collected further evidences of the link between the CosmicDuke, Miniduke and OnioDuke Advanced Persistent Threat campaigns. Researchers at F-Secure firm are constantly monitoring the cyber espionage campaigns MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke and provided an interesting update on the hacking operation. Below a short description of the campaigns: MiniDuke: Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, or CrySyS, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2015
The Anonymous collective published a video message online promising to avenge the Charlie Hebdo massacre by razing jihadist websites. A few hours ago the two brothers believed to be members of the terrorist commando that has attacked on Wednesday the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed. The manhunt is over with another […]
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