Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2013
Samsung Knox Android-based solution contains a serious flaw

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs has discovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Samsung Knox is affected by a serious flaw, the discovery was made by an Israeli security researcher, Mordechai Guri, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs. Samsung Knox is […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2013
Bitcoin case – How cybercriminals exploit typosquatting

How cyber criminals could exploit typosquatting? The case of MtGox proposed by MalwareBytes, a fake domain used to serve malicious codes. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a common form of hacking which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when typing the website address into the address bar of their browser. Should a user […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2013
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report consecrates Turkey as malware paradise

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report states the malware encounter rate in Turkey is far greater than that of any other country in the entire world. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is a periodic study of the threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware. It is based on data from Internet services and over 600 million […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2013
Apple iOS 7 Untethered Jailbreak is available

The evad3rs team has released the untethered jailbreak for different Apple devices running running iOS version from 7.0 to 7.0.4. The evad3rs team has released the untethered jailbreak for numerous Apple devices running running iOS version from 7.0 to 7.0.4 including iPhone (4/5/5S/5C), iPad, and iPod. Device jailbreak allows removal of the limitations designed by manufacturer, the procedure […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2013
Hackers have compromised a misconfigured cloud server in less than 4hh

CloudPassage organized an exercise to demonstrated how it is simple the live server exploitation of cloud environments poorly configured. Cloud computing is considerable one of the paradigms with highest penetration level with mobile and social networking, for this reason we discussed many times on security level offere by those infrastructures that are even more targets […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2013
Cybercriminal threatens to sell 3.7M Customers data Israeli Banks

A group of hackers has threatened Israeli banks to disclose stolen data belonging 3.7 million customers unless the organizations pay up. The Israel Hayom news revealed that at least three Israeli banks report extortion attempt by hacker demanding payoff in Bitcoin, the criminal threatens the financial institutions to reveal sensitive information of banking customers. The cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2013
Breaking 4096-bit RSA with an Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack

Israeli Security researchers explained how to break 4096-bit RSA analyzing CPU sound emitted during decryption (Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack). Israeli Security Researchers at Tel Aviv University recently published an interesting paper titled “RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis” to explain how they have successfully broken 4096-bit RSA analyzing Computer’s CPU Sound emitted during execution of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2013
New cyber attack against The Washington Post

Security experts at Mandiant have discovered that hackers break into Washington Post servers stealing employee users credentials hashes. Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I’m writing it is still not clear […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013
54 Million Turkish Citizens data stoled by Russian Hackers

Researchers from KONDA Security firm have discovered that the Russian hackers have stolen personal information of 54 Million Turkish Citizens. Unknown Russian hackers have reportedly stolen Personal details of nearly 54 million Turkish citizens, the data breach is clamorous if we consider that the figure represents nearly 70% of the whole Turkish population. The Hurriyet daily news […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013
Adallom discovered an important Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability

Adallom demonstrated that exploiting an Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability an attacker can steal organisations SharePoint credentials. Adallom chief software architect Noam Liran published a very interesting post on a severe Office 365 Token Disclosure Vulnerability, the researcher demonstrated how an attacker can steal Microsoft Office 365 credentials if victims host a Word document on their […]