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Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2013

Potentially Unwanted Programs secretly serve Bitcoin miner

Security experts at Malwarebytes discovered Potentially Unwanted Programs like Toolbars and Search Agents that installed Bitcoin miners on user’s PC The value of the Bitcoin for a few days has passed the psychological threshold of one thousand dollars, confirming its growth trend, the attention in the virtual currency scheme is at the highest levels and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2013

MS Windows XP CVE-2013-5065 Eleventh zero-day flaw found by FireEye

FireEye Security Experts discovered Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 privilege escalation zero-day exploit Security experts at FireEye have discovered a new zero-day, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It’s is the eleventh vulnerability discovered by FireEye this year, really a great job for the researchers of the young company. The last zero-day flaw is coded […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2013

Google Nexus vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack

Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, discovered that Google Nexus phones are vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack. The popular family of Smartphones Google Nexus is vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack that could cause the handset freeze and other anomalous behaviors. Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2013

Vodafone Iceland data breach exposed 70000 user personal information

Today the official Vodafone Iceland was breached by group of hackers Maxn3y, left defaced and a heap of data leaked from its servers. Vodafone Iceland was hacked by the group of hackers Maxn3y (@AgentCoOfficial) who in the past has stolen data from airports’ systems, electronic giants and fast food company. The hackers announced via Twitter […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2013

Ruby on Rails CookieStore flaw exposes thousand of websites

A security issue inside cookie-based storage mechanism of Ruby on Rails could expose thousand websites to cyber attacks. Ruby on Rails, “hit an open source web application framework to compromise a wide audience”, this is the thought of attackers that desire who want to hack the highest number of web sites. A security issue inside […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2013

Report on commodities value in the cyber criminal underground market

Security experts Stewart from Dell SecureWorks and independent researcher David Shearhave explored online underground marketplace for stolen data. Digital identity is one of the most attractive goods sold in the underground, to a growing demand coincided with a more structured supply that will satisfy even the most complex requirements. Cybercrime pays and in the majority […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2013

Hacking Google Gmail accounts exploiting password reset system flaw

Security researcher Oren Hafif demonstrated how to hack a Google Gmail account exploiting a serious flaw in the password reset process. A serious vulnerability in the password reset process of Google account allows an attacker to hijack any account, this is the sensational discovery made by security researchers Oren Hafif. “that password recovery is often in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2013

Jboss Application Server flaw exploit allows web shell code injection

Imperva experts detected a surge in the exploitation of Jboss Application Server as result of the public disclosure of an exploit code. The cybercrime no stops and this time the alarm is related to a vulnerability in JBoss Application Servers that enable an attacker to remotely get a shell on a vulnerable web server. The concerning […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2013

British blogger discovered LG Smart TV spying on users

British blogger revealed that his LG Smart TV collects and sends details about the owners’ viewing habits even if the users have activated a privacy setting. Exactly one year ago we discussed about the possibility to exploit a vulnerability in Samsung Smart TV to penetrate our domestic network to spy on us or to serve a malware. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2013

MS Silverlight 5 flaw exposes 40M Netflix users to security risk

Users of Netflix, the provider of on-demand Internet streaming media, must beware of Silverlight exploit that could allow attackers to hack their systems. A vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight 5 exposes to the risk of cyber attacks nearly 40 million Netflix streamers, the flaw is being exploited to execute arbitrary code on victim’s systems without any […]

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Potentially Unwanted Programs secretly serve Bitcoin miner

MS Windows XP CVE-2013-5065 Eleventh zero-day flaw found by FireEye

Google Nexus vulnerable to SMS-based DOS attack

Vodafone Iceland data breach exposed 70000 user personal information

Ruby on Rails CookieStore flaw exposes thousand of websites

Report on commodities value in the cyber criminal underground market

Hacking Google Gmail accounts exploiting password reset system flaw

Jboss Application Server flaw exploit allows web shell code injection

British blogger discovered LG Smart TV spying on users

MS Silverlight 5 flaw exposes 40M Netflix users to security risk

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