Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2017
Signal, the most secure instant messaging app, introduced the Video call feature in public beta release. You can test is now! Signal is considered the most secure instant messaging app, searching for it on the Internet it is possible to read the Edward Snowdenâ testimony: âUse anything by Open Whisper Systemsâ Snowden says. The Cryptographer and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2017
According to the Russian forensic firm Elcomsoft the Apple iCloud saved deleted Safari browsing history over the years open the door to surveillance. According to digital forensics firm Elcomsof, Apple iCloud maintained deleted internet Safari browsing history over the years. The experts at Elcomsof discovered the issue while trying to extract records from iCloud accounts, they were able to retrieve supposedly deleted Safari browser […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2017
Every website that uses jQuery Mobile, and has any open redirect anywhere is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery Foundationâs jQuery Mobile project is an HTML5-based framework that allows users to design a single responsive web site or application that will work on all popular mobile devices and desktop systems. According to the foundation, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2017
A study conducted on iOS mobile apps revealed that many of them are affected by security vulnerabilities that expose users to man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. A new study confirms that dozens of iOS apps are affected by vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers to run man-in-the-middle (MitM) and intercept data from connections even if protected by TLS. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2017
The hacker that breached the systems of the mobile forensics company Cellebrite leaked online some tools and announced further releases. In January the Israeli mobile phone data extraction company Cellebrite was hacked, the company went in the headlines in the dispute between Apple and the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooterâs iPhone. The main […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2017
Last year, the HummingBad Android malware infected as many as 85 million devices, now it has returned under the new name of HummingWhale. CERT-EU and other sources corroborated Check Point researchersâ findings which recently confirmed a new variant of the ad-fraud-big-money-making, HummingBad, is spreading rapidly on the Android marketplace Google Play. HummingBad was first seen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2017
Security researchers at Symantec believed that Shamoon 2 attacks leveraged credentials stolen by hackers of the Greenbug group. A few days ago security experts at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new strain of the Shamoon 2 malware that was targeting virtualization products. In December malware researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Symantec discovered a new variant of Shamoon, so-called […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2017
A simple sequence of three character-long text message containing Emoji can cause the block and the reboot os iPhones and iPads running iOS 10.1 or below. A new Apple’s iOS bug was discovered in the community of mobile tech experts, it can be exploited to crash iPhone or iPad devices by just sending an Emoji […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2017
A security issue can be used to intercept and read encrypted messages. Is this a WhatsApp backdoor? Which are potential risks? Is the popular messaging service Whatsapp affected by a backdoor? According to a blog post published by The Guardian, the application was affected by a vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to intercept and read messages. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
My friends at CyberBlog decided to analyze the GM Bot Android Malware as exercise aiming to receive feedback sand suggestions from the security community. The sample explored is confirmed as a variant of the GM Bot Android malware â whoâs source was released publicly in early 2016. The code appears to have been forked by a second […]
