Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2013
Internet of Things, new opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals

Internet of Things, a business growing at a compound annual rate of 7,9% that is a privileged target for hackers and cyber criminals. The Internet of Things refers all objects in daily life equipped with identifiers that allow their automatic inventory. Tagging of the Internet of Things could be achieved with various technologies such as the RFID, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2013
How NSA tries to compromise Tor anonymity. Tor Stinks document

Top-secret presentation Tor Stinks leaked by Snowden shows the techniques implemented by the NSA to overwhelm Tor Anonymity with manual analysis. Tor anonymity has been debated many times, according to majority security experts it was one of the most secure ways to stay online being far from prying eyes avoiding government surveillance. Recently a series of events have completely changed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2013
Adobe security breach,hackers steal 2.9M accounts and source code

Adobe reveals customer data stolen in security breach, hackers have accessed sensitive information for 2.9 million users and to the source code of many products. Adobe Systems Inc has warned that customer data stolen in a security breach. According an official advisory, 2.9 million customers might have had their information stolen due a cyber attack that hit […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2013
Android Firefox browser app flaw allows data stealing from SD card

Vulnerability In Android Firefox browser app allows hackers to steal user’s files from the SD Card And Firefox’s Privately Stored Data. Androidpolice blog reported that security researcher Sebastián Guerrero discovered an Android Firefox browser app vulnerability that allows hackers to access both the contents of the SD card and the browser’s private data. Once again mobile security is under discussion, the number of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2013
New TouchID hack by Iranian team works also on iOS 7_0_2

  The Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner  which allows them to hack TouchID with multiple Fingerprints also on iOS 7_0_2 . An Iranian group of iPhone Geeks managing the blog i-Phone.ir defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2013
Iran hacked US Navy Computers

US officials revealed that Iran hacked unclassified Navy computers in recent weeks in an escalation of cyber attacks against US infrastructures. The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran hacked unclassified US Navy computers, the allegations were made by US officials that consider the attacks of most serious intrusion within Government Network made by foreign states. “The U.S. officials said the attacks were carried out by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2013
Criminals hacked illegal service exposing Americans to Identity theft

An identity theft service that sells personal information on millions of US citizens has been hacked. Millions of US citizens exposed to Id Theft. Around 5 Millions of Americans are exposed to the concrete risk of identity theft, this is one of most clamorous and grotesque case of data breach, hackers stolen data on US citizens that were stored in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2013
Icefog – Kaspersky discovered the group of cyber mercenaries

Kaspersky Lab discovered the emerging group of cyber-mercenaries Icefog available for hire to perform surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sustain to have identifies a group of cyber mercenaries called Icefog that is responsible for a huge cyber espionage campaign, occurred in 2011, against Japanese parliament and dozens of government agencies and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2013
Thousands of hacked WordPress sites used in global scale attacks

Thousands of WordPress based websites have been hacked to compose a global scale botnet that is performing powerful DDOS attacks. I start the post with recommendations, if you are a blogger using WordPress don’t waste time and update it and all installed plugins to the latest versions! Have you done it? OK, now I can explain you what it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2013
FireEye revealed APT Operation DeputyDog against Japanes entities

Security experts at FireEye discovered the Operation DeputyDog against Japanese entities that exploits Zero-Day (CVE-2013-3893) recently announced by Microsoft. FireEye announced the discovery of the cyberespionage Operation DeputyDog leveraging the recently announced zero-day CVE-2013-3893. FireEye and Kaspersky are the companies most active in the analysis of large espionage campaign that governments and hackers are conducting against strategic targets.  According the analysis based on FireEye […]