Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2014
Security experts at Incapsula are observing a surge in the used of fake Googlebots to launch and carry out application-layer DDoS. Googlebots crawl websites are the software used to index and rank the content of websites for the popular search engine. It’s not a mystery that the visits of Googlebots are not considered a possible indicator […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2014
Security experts at Sucuri form have observed a surge of cyber attacks against WordPress website which are using not updated version of MailPoet plugin. A large scale attack has hit more than 50,000 websites, the attacker exploited a recently patched vulnerability in a popular plugin for the WordPress CMS. Early July, experts at security firm Sucuri discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2014
A researchers at the Exodus Intelligence firm has discovered a series of zero day vulnerabilities in the popular Tails Linux-based distribution. A researcher at Exodus Intelligence has discovered critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the popular Tails live operating system. Tails is considered by security experts an indispensable tool to preserve the privacy and security of users that intend to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2014
Indexeus is a new search engine that indexes user account information acquired from data breaches, including hackers’ accounts stolen in the underground. A new search engine for underground hacking dubbed Indexeus has been launched, it retrieves all the available information on user account acquired from hundreds recently data data breaches. The data collected includes information on malicious hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2014
Apple has worked hard to make iOS devices reasonably secure but hidden services could be exploited to steal every user’s data in a stealthy way. Have you tried to enumerate the functionalities and services in your Apple iOS? You’d be surprised to find that numerous hidden features and services are not documented, some of them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
The BigBoss app repository, the default package store for Cydia application, has been hacked by a group of hackers which named itself “Kim Jong-Cracks”. The BigBoss repository, one of the biggest and most popular repositories for jailbreak tweaks in Cydia, has suffered a major data breach. Cydia is an application very popular within the community of iOS Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
The ICS-CERT has issued a security advisory related to the existence of OpenSSL vulnerabilities affecting different Siemens industrial products. Several Siemens industrial products are affected by four vulnerabilities in their OpenSSL implementation which could be remotely exploited to run a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack or to cause the crash of web servers of the products. Critical infrastructure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2014
Hackers pro Hamas claim to have hacked programming on Israeli TV Channel 10 and inserted an unscheduled transmission calling for an end to Israeli airstrikes. The effects of the conflict between Israel and Palestin are evident also in the cyberspace, group of hacktivists, including Anonymous, are targeting Israeli Government websites to protest against recent strikes that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2014
Russian hackers hit Nasdaq critical systems with with a malware-based attack with the primary intent to sabotage the U.S. financial world. It was October 2010 when the FBI started an investigation on alleged malware-based cyber attacks against on Nasdaq, probably related to the operation of a state-sponsored group of hackers. After more than 12 months in which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2014
Multiple Cisco Wireless Residential Gateway products are affected by a critical flaw that could allow a remote attacker to hijack the devices. A security vulnerability affects multiple Cisco wireless residential Gateway products, the flaw resides on the web server an could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack the network appliance. The flaw, ranked […]
