Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2016
The firmware used by the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was leaked online by one of its resellers, the McSira Professional Solutions. Do you know Cellebrite? It is an Israeli firm that designs digital forensics tools that are used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to examine mobile devices in investigations. It became famous when […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2016
Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG may lead to arbitrary code execution, a boobytrapped JPEG could compromise your iPhone. Upgrade to iOS 10.1 Even a simple action such as looking a JPEG image or opening a PDF document could cause serious problems, an attacker, in fact, could hijack your Apple mobile device (iPhone, iPad, and iPod). Yes, it’s correct! […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2016
A new method of attack dubbed DRAMMER could be exploited to gain ‘root’ access to millions of Android smartphones and take control of affected devices. Earlier last year, security researchers from Google’s Project Zero outlined a way to hijack the computers running Linux by abusing a design flaw in the memory and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint and you may think that nobody can unlock it without the code, right? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2016
Experts discovered a new variant of the Android Acecard banking trojan that asks victims to take a selfie while they are holding an ID card. The inventiveness of the criminals is a never ending pit. Recently, a number of organizations announced a new authentication method based on the selfies. For example, HSBC customers can open […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2016
The WiFox mobile app was designed as a huge container of network names and passwords for Wi-Fi airports networks worldwide. Do you travel a lot? Probably you have already read about WiFox, it is a legitimate Android/iOS mobile app that includes indications of thousands of airport Wi-Fi networks and their passwords. We have spoken several times about the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale the system called CatchApp that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications. The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale a system that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications from mobile devices within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. The news has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
Every time you type a number to start an iMessage conversation on your iPhone, Apple logs your message contacts and other metadata. In January 2015, experts claimed that Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages, but reported that the company but it is still able to access data in the backups. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
In what could be another serious celebrity hack, 3,000 photos have been stolen from Pippa Middleton âs account and they are being offered for sale. The UK Police is investigating the Pippa Middleton iCloud hack and consequent theft of private photos. According to The Sun newspaper the stolen photos were offered for sale, it seems that someone had […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2016
Experts from Elcomsoft discovered a new vector of attack to access password-protected local backups produced by iOS 10 devices. According to security experts from the computer forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple has weakened the backup security protection of its recently-issued iOS 10 skipping certain security checks. This means that hackers could easily crack password protection used […]
