Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2014
Researchers at the last Black Hat Europe have presented the results of their research on DTM/FDT components, demonstrating the presence of serious flaws. The researchers Alexander Bolshev and Gleb Cherbov at Digital Security, have discovered several serious vulnerabilities in industrial components designed to implement the management interface industrial control systems (ICS). The experts have analyzed the implementation of Field Device Tool / […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2014
A researcher presented a new attack method dubbed Same Origin Method Execution which could be exploited to impersonate the targeted user on many websites. Same Origin Method Execution (SOME) is a new technique of attack against website presented by Ben Hayak, researcher at Trustwave, at Black Hat Europe in Amsterdam. The Same Origin Method Execution (SOME) attack method is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2014
Principal security firms united in a joint effort dubbed Operation SMN against the cyber espionage group known as Hidden Lynx and its arsenal. The Hidden Lynx APT is a China-based group of hackers that conducted numerous cyber espionage campaign against U.S. defense contractors and other foreign organizations. The name Hidden Lynx was assigned to the APT by experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2014
The security expert Federico Fazzi has disclosed a serious vulnerability in the Addthis.com service that allows attackers to take control of any account. The Italian security expert Federico Fazzi has discovered a serious vulnerability in the Addthis.com service that allows attackers to take control of any Addthis account. AddThis is the world’s largest content sharing and social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2014
Researchers at Akamai firm have issued a report on reflection and amplification DDoS attacks exploiting vulnerable UPnP devices worldwide. Researchers at Akamai firm have observed an increase of new reflection and amplification DDoS attacks exploiting Internet of Things devices (e.g. SOHO devices, routers, media servers, web cams, smart TVs and printers), which that misuses communications protocols. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2014
A security expert defined a new attack technique dubbed Reflected File Download that allows to serve a ‘Zero-Day’ Worm without possibility of defense. The security expert Oren Hafif has invented a new attack technique dubbed Reflected File Download (RFD) that could be adopted to hack victim’s computer when he tries and logs in to popular and trusted website like Google and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2014
FireEye CEO David DeWalt explained that threat actors are targeting IT giants for source code and highlighted the importance to adopt new security model. Phishing is a common practice in the hacking community, despite the level of awareness of the threat is high, the efficiency of the attacks is still significant. As highlighted in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2014
Experts at Radware DDoS protection solution provider recently have discovered a new form of DDoS attack they dubbed “Tsunami SYN Flood Attack.” Radware DDoS protection solution provider recently discovered a new category of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according the experts of the company it is a type of SYN flood dubbed “Tsunami SYN Flood Attack.” In just 48-hour period […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
A man has published on PasteBin a fake dump of the database of the popular website KrebOnSecurity managed by the expert Brian Krebs. A few hours ago I received a tweet from the account Narcochaos (@N4rCochaos ) , which informed me and other illustrious colleagues that he has hacked the website of the popular security investigator Brian Krebs (http://krebsonsecurity.com/). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2014
The Snappening, hundreds of thousands of unaware users have had their personal Snapchat photos and videos public disclosed by hackers. The Fappening is considered my mass media one of most interesting case of privacy violation, four archives containing a numerous celebrities nude photos have been released in the last weeks … and many experts sustain that the […]
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